Ashton vs Daniel - What's the difference?
ashton | daniel |
A common place name in England.
derived from the place names.
transferred from the surname.
.
A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
* : Daniel 6: 16 :
* ~1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act IV, Scene I :
in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1989 , A Prayer for Owen Meany , Corgi Books, ISBN 0552135399, page 55:
(rare) .
A location in the state of Wyoming in the United States (Zip Code: 83115). (From the U.S. Census Bureau 1990)
As proper nouns the difference between ashton and daniel
is that ashton is a common place name in England while Daniel is a book in the Old Testament of the Bible.As a noun daniel is
the buttocks.ashton
English
Alternative forms
* (rare) Asheton * (rare) AsshetonProper noun
(en proper noun)References
* U. S. Census Bureau genealogy name search based on 1990 census indicates 0.005% of population had the name "Ashton" as a surname, none had it as a male name, and 0.004% had it as a female given name. * Pareles, J. (2003, August 12). ROCK REVIEW; Still Wildly Gyrating After All These Years. New York Times . Retrieved May 23, 2006.External links
* New York Times [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0D91031F931A2575BC0A9659C8B63] * U.S. Census Bureau [http://www.census.gov]daniel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel', and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto ' Daniel , Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
- A Daniel' come to judgment! yea, a ' Daniel ! / O wise young judge, how do I honour thee!
- "His name is Daniel' Needham," my mother said. Whew! With what relief - down came my grandmother's hands! Needham was a fine old name, a founding fathers sort of name, a name you could trace back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - if not exactly Gravesend itself. And '''Daniel''' was as '''Daniel''' as ' Daniel Webster, which was as good a name as a Wheelwright could wish for.
- "But he's called Dan," my mother added, bringing a slight frown to my grandmother's countenance.