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Lauren vs Murray - What's the difference?

lauren | murray |

As a proper noun lauren

is ; a variant of laura or a modern feminine form of lawrence popular in the 1990s and the 2000s.

lauren

English

Alternative forms

* Loren

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • ; a variant of Laura or a modern feminine form of Lawrence. Popular in the 1990s and the 2000s.
  • , a rare spelling variant of Loren.

    • Quotations

    * 2004 , Runaway:Stories , Knopf 2004, page 214 ("Trespasses") *: "I don't like my name," said Delphine. "Nobody likes their own name." *: "I don't like mine." *: "Lauren' s nice. They picked a nice name for you." * 2007 Marcel Danesi, Why It Sells:Decoding the Meanings of Brand Names , Rowman&Littlefield 2007, page 59 *: For example, the new York designer Ralph Lifshitz chose to change his "unpleasant-sounding" name to Ralph Lauren , creating a multi-billion-dollar clothing enterprise as a result.

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    murray

    English

    (wikipedia Murray)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
  • Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
  • * :Scene 1:
    • Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray , Angus, and Menteith.
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , The End of the Pier , page 151:
    • Murray' was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. '''Murray''' : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. ' Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".

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