Journee

People with the name Shane have a deep inner desire for a stable, loving family or community, and a need to work with others and to be appreciated.

People with the name Adesola have a deep inner desire for order and physical creativity, and want to be involved in conventional, safe activities.

From a surname that was originally derived from a place name meaning “clearing on a bank” in Old English. Two famous bearers of the surname were Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a romantic poet whose works include Adonais and Ozymandias, and Mary Shelley (1797-1851), his wife, the author of the horror story Frankenstein. As a feminine given name, it came into general use after the 1940s.

Derived from Greek εὔλαλος (eulalos) meaning “sweetly-speaking”, itself from εὖ (eu) meaning “good” and λαλέω (laleo) meaning “to talk”. This was the name of an early 4th-century saint and martyr from Merida in Spain. She is a patron saint of Barcelona.

Icelandic form of Leif.