What My Name Means To Me

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In this essay I would describe what my name means to me, why I have that name, of I would change my name, also I would tell you experiences with my name how some people misspell my name.

My name comes From Ioseph, the Latin form of Greek Ιωσηφ (Ioseph), which was from the Hebrew name יוֹסֵף (Yosef) meaning "he will add". This name comes from my father and his from his father, to me this names means powerful, strong, fortified, heavy. It means all this thing because jose sounds like to strong with power. I got that name, because of my father, my father name is Jose and his grandfather was named Jose. I really don't like this name , because is to common and all my life i been called from my middle name, so if someone ask me if I would change

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