John Lloyd Stephens Research Paper

There are many last names in the world. In fact, there are over 150,000 of them! Stephens just happened to be mine. My surname originated in England in the 10th century; then quickly spread to Siberia, Poland, and to ten popes. Stephens is from the greek name Stephanos, meaning “crown”. It is a biblical name from the deacon Saint Stephen. I like my last name a lot because it has a pretty cool history behind it. A man by the name of John Lloyd Stephens was an explorer, writer and a diplomat. Another man named Alexander Hamilton Stephens served as the Vice President of the Confederate States of America and was an ally of Abraham Lincoln. In the U.S. right now, there are a little over 165,000 people with the last name Stephens.

The name Lauren is originally a masculine name until the actress Betty Jean Perske used Lauren as her stage name. Lauren was introduced in Rome, Italy in the 7th century. This name can be interrupted as the English version of the Irish name: Fierce. My parents picked this to be my middle name because I had an older sister before Emili and her name was Lauren. She died due to a miscarriage, so they named me after her. My middle name

It originally started out in England in the early 1600’s. My name came from the Hebrew Samuel, which means ‘God has heard’. The meaning of my name is from the suffix antha, which means anthos in Greek, which means flower. It came to America in the 18th century, but became popular in the 1900’s from the tv show ‘Bewitched’. My mom wasn’t so sure that she liked the name Samantha, but my dad loves it for a girl so he persuaded my mom to like it as well. My dad claims that he named me Samantha because of the show ‘Bewitched’, since her stage name on TV is Samantha Stephens. The actor on ‘Bewitched’ is a positive which that makes good use of her spells. I don’t believe that that’s why he named me my name, but that is what he