"Every single name on the show has purpose and meaning"
- Sayid Jarrah
- Sa'id: Arabic for 'happy' or 'lucky'
Jarrah: 1: The Australian Jarrah tree: When fresh, Jarrah is quite workable but when seasoned it becomes so hard that conventional wood-working tools are useless.
2: General Al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah (700 A.D.): In 730 a Khazar army led by Barjik invaded northeastern Persia. At the Battle of Marj Ardebil in 730 al-Djarrah was defeated and killed by the Khazars, who thereafter captured the city of Ardebil. Al-Djarrah's head was mounted on Barjik's throne, a tactical error which enraged the Arabs at the subsequent Battle of Mosul (731) and contributed to their victory there, and Barjik's death. - Claire Littleton
- Clare: Medieval name derived from Latin clarus "clear, bright, famous".
Littleton: My guess, 'little town' - Dr. Jack Sheppard
- Jack: Derived from Jackin (earlier Jankin), a medieval pet form of John
- John: English form of Johannes, which was the Latin form of the Greek name Ioannes, itself derived from the Hebrew name Yochanan meaning "YAHWEH is gracious".
- Sheppard: One who tends a flock
- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
- Hugo: Latinized form of Hugh.
- Hugh: From Germanic hug, meaning "heart, mind, or spirit".
- Reyes: From the Old French "rey," meaning king, Reyes was often bestowed as a nickname for a man who carried himself in a regal, or kingly, fashion. Alternative meanings include "one who plays the part of a king in a pageant" or "someone who works in the king's house."
- Shannon Rutherford
- Shannon: Gaelic: old or wise river
Rutherford: Derived from the Welsh Ruthr, rushing, swift, and fford, a ford or way. - Boone Carlisle
- Boon: A benefit bestowed, especially one bestowed in response to a request.
- Carlisle: The curse of Carlisle was first invoked by Archbishop Dunbar of Glasgow in 1525 against cross-border families, known as the Border Reivers, who lived by stealing cattle, rape and pillage. For the millennium celebrations, the local council commissioned a 14-tonne granite artwork inscribed with all 1,069 words of the curse.
- James "Sawyer" Ford
- James: English form of the Late Latin Jacomus which was derived from Iakobos, the New Testament Greek form of Ya'aqov (Jacob)
- Jacob: From the Latin Jacobus, which was from the Greek Iakobos, which was from the Hebrew name Ya'aqov which meant "holder of the heel" or "supplanter". The biblical Jacob (later called Israel) was born holding his twin brother Esau's heel. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Sawyer: 1: One who saws wood 2: A river snag
- Ford: One who lived near a ford or river crossing, from the Old English ford, meaning "pass or crossing."
- James Ford was an American civic leader and business owner in southern Illinois at the turn of the 19th century. Despite his clean public image, he was also secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that would come to be known as "Ford's Ferry Gang". His gang was the river equivalent of highway robbers; they would hijack ferries and flatboats with tradable goods from local farms coming down the Ohio River. At one point, they used the "Cave-in-Rock" as their headquarters, on the Illinois side of the lower Ohio River, which is about 85 miles below Evansville, Indiana.
- Walt Lloyd
- Walter: From a Germanic name meaning "ruler of the army", composed of the elements wald "rule" and heri "army". LLoyd: From a surname derived from Welsh llwyd meaning "grey".
- Jin Dynasty (265-420)
- Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) (Jinn)
- Jin, a state in China during the Spring and Autumn Period
- Later Jin Dynasty, founded in 1616 by Nurhaci
- Jin, a ruler of the Xia dynasty
- The Jin state of late Bronze Age Korea
- Jěn, an abbreviation for Shanxi province in the People's Republic of China
- Giant Korean gorilla like monster
- The traditional Chinese unit of weight, defined in the twentieth century as half of a kilogram
- Jin or Jin-yu, a subdivision of spoken Chinese, spoken over most of Shanxi province of China, as well as adjourning areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.
- The mythological creature jinn, see genie.
- Sun Kwon
- I Got Nothing
- 1:Hekateros was the GOD of rustic dancing, and skillful hands. Hekateros also means each of two, or with both hands.
- 2:Hecate-Greek goddess of witchcraft, tombs, demons, and the underworld Goddess of the Moon, protector of sailors
- Short form of Augustine: Early Christian church father and philosopher who served (396-430) as the bishop of Hippo (in present-day Algeria). Through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions (397) and the voluminous City of God (413-426), he profoundly influenced Christianity, arguing against Manicheanism and Donatism and helping to establish the doctrine of original sin. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace.
- Another Saint Augustine was the Italian missionary sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons in the 6th century.
- Charlie Pace
- Charles: From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". However, an alternative theory states that the name is derived from the common Germanic element heri meaning "army, warrior". Pace: Step or Peace
- John Locke
- John: See Jack Sheppard
- John Locke: (August 29, 1632 - October 28, 1704) was a 17th-century English philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology. Locke's notions of a "government with the consent of the governed" and people's natural rights (life, liberty, and property) had an enormous influence on the development of political philosophy. His ideas, which formed the basis for the concepts used in American law and government, allowing the colonists to justify revolution, are often contrasted with his practice of investing in the English slave-trade. Locke's epistemology and philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the Enlightenment period. Locke has been placed in a group called the British Empiricists, which includes David Hume and George Berkeley. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with Thomas Hobbes.
- Michael Dawson
- Michael: From the Hebrew name Miyka'el which meant "who is like God?". This is the name of one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers
- Dawson: Son of David.
- David: Hebrew for 'Beloved'. King of Israel
- Ana-Lucia Cortez
- Anna: Latinate form of HANNAH. It appears briefly in the New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah.
- Lucia: Feminine form of LUCIUS. Saint Lucia was a 4th-century martyr from Syracuse who had her eyes gouged out.
- Lucius: Roman praenomen, or given name, which was derived from Latin lux "light". Two Etruscan kings of early Rome had this name as well as several prominent later Romans, including Lucius Annaeus Seneca (known simply as Seneca), a famous statesman, philosopher, orator and tragedian.
- Cortez: Hernando Cortés conquered Mexico for Spain.
- Vincent
- From the Roman name Vincentius, which was from Latin vincere "to conquer".
- Rose
- In part it means simply "rose" from the word for the fragrant flower (derived from Latin rosa). However, it may have originally been a short form of names beginning with the Germanic element hros meaning "horse".
- Dannielle Rousseau
- Dannielle: French feminine form of DANIEL
- Daniel: From the Hebrew name Daniyel meaning "God is my judge". Daniel was a Hebrew prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. He lived during the Jewish captivity in Babylon, where he served in the court of the king, rising to prominence by interpreting the king's dreams. The book also presents Daniel's four visions of the end of the world.
- Rousseau: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. Rousseau's political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of communist and socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. His legacy as a radical and revolutionary is perhaps best demonstrated by his most famous line, from his most important work, The Social Contract: "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains."
- Desmond
- Old Irish language name which roughly translates to "mystically handsome". It is drawn from a Celtic tale of a dark haired mystical man who used to visit rural villages and seduce local women. The tale goes that the man drew power from the Blarney Stone found in the Desmond County. His conversation was considered intoxicating and hypnotic leaving women powerless.
Jin Kwon
- Jin:
Kate Austen
- Katherine:
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