What's in a name?

Stolen out-right from the pages of Dotgirl

1. What does your first name mean?
Brian - I think it's Irish for "King" or something.

2. What does your middle name mean?
James - I think it means "We gave you your father's first-name to be your middle-name"

3. What does your last name mean?
Pierce - To cut through or penatrate in a jabbing or puncturing way

4. So what does your name mean when put together?
"I AM THE KING OF PUNCTURING MY FATHER!!!"

4b. Do you have a nickname?
I earned the name "Arnie" back in High School because I have the exact same measurements as Arnold Schwartzeneger... just in different places.

5. What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender?
Knowing my parents, probably something like "Ezmerelda" or "Gerta"

6. Any other name oddities?
All my parents ever had to say about my first name was that I was named after a "very special person they both knew" and that was all. Maybe I should follow up on that with them...