Meaning of Michelle
What is the meaning of your name?
I’ve read an article by Bo Sanchez about the meaning of name. The introduction line was “Your Name Is A Clue To Your Calling, Find The Meaning Of Your Name—And You May Find The Meaning Of Your Life.”
At first I was just curious to know the meaning of my name regardless of what it may mean to my life and so I searched it in the Google and here’s what i found.
Michelle – pronounced as (mee-shell), is of French and Hebrew origin, and its meaning is “who resembles God”, Close to God. Feminine form of Michael: Who is like God? Gift from God.
I love what I found about the meaning of Michelle, I used to think that my name is so common, sometimes they used to pronounce it as /mee-cel/. And in our family the name of my 3 siblings are all starting with letter R, Ronel, Racquel and and Rochelle because my father’s name starts with R as well, Rodrigo, they got the pattern in his name, except me the youngest. But I was baptized by the name Rio Michelle but in a reason that I cannot explain Rio have “vanished” in my birth certificate. By the way Rio means river in Spanish, and Jasmine or Center in Japanese.
Gift of God, close to God – huh! My name has so much weight on its meaning. And I hope I could live up to the meaning of my name, that is to be a gift of God not only to my family, but to be a “Gift of God” to all the people I would meet in my life. But more than anything else I would like to dwell on the the second meaning of Michelle – that is “Close to God”. (and I hope I would forever be…)
So, what is the meaning of your name?
May 15th, 2008 at 4:24 am
My name is Michael and I love my name .
June 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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