Well I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and she asked what my middle name was so I told her. My full name is Daniel Bischara Younes. She said it was really pretty and she liked it but she wanted to know what it ment. Got me thinking I have no clue what my middle or last name mean. So I started looking online tonight but had no luck because I do not know arabic I was kinda left stumped. BTW I discovered there is another Daniel Younes Racing in BMWCCA events in New Jersey kind of neat to know. the bad part is he is racing an S2000 Any ideas on where I could look?

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Actually I looked at a database of Arabic/Muslim/Middle Eastern baby names and meanings, and it was not listed. So I have no clue.

I remeber my parents looking at that kind of stuff when I was little the books would either not have our last name or it would be the wrong side of the name. (Long story some of the family became christians way way way back and others remained muslim) From what I understand thats why some of the Younes' spell the name Younis Kind of intreasting

Yeah, you never know if your family name is spelled the original way. A lot of people coming into the states had their names permanently changed when immigration agents couldn't spell them correctly. Immigrants didn't speak english well enough to correct them. A lot of names got spelled phonetically instead.

BTW, "Stefano" means "crowned one", if anyone's interested. It's originally Greek as "Stefanos".

I think it's spelled like it sounds in Arabic which is similiar to English. So... Baa, Shin, Alef, ra, ha. So.. Bishra, or Bashra?

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Benzoman, following Sflori and Kuan,

With the phonetic spelling theory then, perhaps the spelling could have been:

"Bishara is a syrian name"
"Bishara means good news in Arabic. Good news is the gospel, the way to be born again, in the New Testament. " Larry Wood: from the web site www.biblenews1.com

This is a quote and I do not know how accurate it is.

Hope that helps.

Bishara is a syrian name meaning "Mercedes-Benz owner who like to surf the forum"!

Those Syrians were quite saavy with forecasting future trends!

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Here it is, translation from a good source.

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When searching for last names ... there is something the Census and people like the Mormons ( the real pros on geneaology ) called " Soundex" this helps make it through such silly stuff as a stupid census taker a hundred years ago misspelling something...

Cool guys thanks. It's neat to know now I just would like to figure out how anyone in my family got a Syrian name. The Famliy history is kind of a mystery after my great aunt died she was the only one who actually knew the entire story. Back to the days of choosing christianity.
Well thanks at least I have a clue now

Soundex was a way of categorizing names phonetically by assigning a number code to similar sounding names using alternating letters of the name. This system was actually used because most people being interviewed were hard to understand due to their heavy accents, and were likely to be illiterate, so they could not even spell their own names. So, for example, Davis and Davidson would likely have the same, or at least similar of a soundex code as Davinski and Davitov.

The U. S. Census Bureau stopped using Soundex after the 1920 Census, and beginning with the 1930 Census, no longer uses it. The only tie to the Church of The Latter Day Saints is that they keep more accurate records on geneology than most other people, so they are used to using the U. S. Govt. Soundex coding system.

There's an old joke about a Chinese laundry in Chinatown called Olaf's Laundry. One day, someone asked what the owner's name was, and was told the owner was Hans Olaf. When the person asked to see the owner, an old Chinaman said that he was Hans Olaf. When asked how he came to be known as Hans Olaf, the Chinese gent replied that Hans Olaf was the name of the guy in front of him in line at the immigration office. When they came to his turn and asked him his name, he said "Sam Ting". . .

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