Last week, while doing nothing in the office I suddenly typed and searched in Google the etymology of my name “mannix”. Why do I did this? I don’t know either, maybe because my subconscious thought is searching for an answer. Often times a lot of people have been asking me “Where the heck did your name came from?” and my instant reply was this “My dad got my name from his favorite detective character ‘Joe Mannix’, a police detective show in the late 70’s”. But you know what? That is just my Father’s understanding of it. For me I have a different explanation. Read on. First when you try to deduced my name into two (“man” and “nix”) you’ll got two words with totally different meanings. The first being “human” and the other one is “A quantity of no importance, null, nil and other not so good related words”. Now when you combine this two words my name will mean “A human with no importance”, it is so embarrassing. I’m not like that and I don’t believe that I am going to be like that. So in my disappointment I started to search for the meaning of my name. I believe that my name was derived from other ancient languages and to my surprise the name “mannix” is derived from an irish word “manach” or its anglican equivalent “mainchin” which means “monk”. I am very glad that my name is religious after all and with great importance. So what does it mean to me now? Well having discovered some meaningful sense about the origin of my name gave my inner psyche a profound answer that it is searching for.
