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gel who leads heaven’s armies. He is the patron saint of soldiers. 16) Linda (f.) represents the personality characteristics of hard worker careful, patient, independent, reliable, and practical and comes from Spanish or Italian, meaning ‘beautiful.’ 17) Diane (f.) represents the personality characteristics of cleaver, responsible, friendly, serious, reliable, and independent and cines from the French form of Diana, originally from the roman goddess of nature and fertility. 18) Barbara (f.) represents the personality characteristics of sensitive, artistic, unstable, and self-conscious and comes from the Greek, Barbaros, meaning ‘foreign’. Saint Barbara was a woman killed b her father who was then killed by a bolt is lightning. She is the patron of architects, geologists, stonemasons and artillerymen. 19) Carol (f. or m.) represents the personality characteristics of quiet, practical, clever, methodical, creative, inventive, analytical, studious, and moody and is an English feminine form of Carolus meaning ‘song’ or ‘hymn’ in English. Note that carol used to be a masculine name a well nit now it is for girls only. 20) Cindy (f.) represents the personality characteristics of idealistic, proactive, impressionable, receptive, candid, self-centered, sensitive, imaginative, visionary, and perfectionist. Cindy is a short form of Cynthi which comes from the Greek, ‘Kynthos’, the name of the Greek moon goddess Artemis who named after the mountain Kynthos on which she and her twin brother Apollo were presumably born. Conclusion As stated above, we can see that it is necessary for us to obtain an English name for communicating with other countries frequently, especially the English- speaking countries. However, in modern times, many people have no English name in business or foreign company. Thus, it is the right time for us to change this phenomenon. After the investigation of the students on campus and the people in the street, it is commonly believed that it is not impossible for us to get an Ideal English name. But, If we learn some English name culture, we can obtain an English name easily, even an ideal English name, in order to meet people’s needs, many useful methods and examples about obtaining an ideal English name involved in this thesis, such as: firstly, the exploration of English name’s root, it makes more people know the further meaning but not the surface meaning of English name. Secondly, general principle should be familiar when you are ready to obtain an English name, just as: meaning and origin, how to match family name and indicial name and so on. Thirdly, different people with different names, it mainly deals with that what kind of name should be named for the baby, student or worker. And finally, some examples supply to those people who would like to have a nice name, it includes the detail material that could meet the people’s needs. And so on. In a word, this is a dilemma that nobody likes to come across, when people reach out to shake hands, and he asks for the name, but a thought burst upon the mind and find that the English name would be hard for him to pronounce. So people should pause before replying, looking for an ideal English name—fashion, characteristic, simple, clear and pleasant to hear. Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to my tutor---Mr. Chen Shunjiang offers me academic and constructive advices on composing this paper. His patient help and timely