Behind the Name: Comments for the name Don

Comments for DON:

In an early edition of the New Oxford English Dictionary, the word "don" is listed as an Old English word meaning "gift." To this day, "don" means "gift" in the French language.

-- Anonymous User 1/27/2006

Don Vito is Bam Margera's uncle.

-- dani_08 3/5/2006

Don Stark plays Bob on "That's 70's Show."

-- Tudor 6/14/2006

FBI agent Don Eppes, from "NUMB3RS."

-- Anonymous User 7/9/2006

A famous bearer is Don Knotts, the actor best-known for having starred as Barney Fife in 'The Andy Griffith Show.'

-- Anonymous User 7/25/2006

Don is actually a Celtic Queen of the heavens and ruler of the dead, which means that the name was originally feminine.

-- audreyhubley 8/29/2006

Don is a title, as in Don Quixote.

-- Anonymous User 8/30/2006

Don Moen is a Christian music artist.

-- Anonymous User 11/11/2006

Don is pronounced as it is spelt, DON, as in gone.

-- Anonymous User 12/26/2006

You're wrong. You need to use this site's pronunciation guide. By the guide, it would not be pronounced DON unless it rhymes with cone or bone.

-- Anonymous User 12/29/2006

Yes but I am pronouncing it like the Phon in Phonetics. Not to ryhme with Dawn. I am not pronouncing it with an American accent.

-- Anonymous User 1/23/2007

Your accent doesn't matter. Do you know how to use a pronunciation key? When you see the letters AH in a pronunciation you have to go to the key to find out what sound they represent. If you do this you find that AH represents the sound in pot and con, which is the same as the sound in phonetics and Don. The O is used to represent an entirely different sound!

-- Anonymous User 1/23/2007

To the person who said they weren't pronouncing it with an American accent, there is no such thing. I have been all over the country and every sounds extremely different. It is pronounced, Dahn like when you say Ahh, not Dawn as in awe.

-- YMPvt 3/8/2007

I think it's a beautiful name. Short, powerful. Really a strong name for a boy.

-- Anonymous User 4/13/2007

It means "genius" in Spanish. (Not genius like a person, but I mean the quality of being a genius. As in "his genius allowed him to design a new rocket launcher in two weeks.") (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

-- Anonymous User 8/26/2007

Don Adams is the name of a famous actor who played Maxwell Smart in the show Get Smart and voiced Inspector Gadget. :]

-- not_another_Jessica 10/23/2008

This is a rather bland name, and it makes me think of the ghastly radio show host Don Imus.

-- bananarama 9/9/2009

Major Donald "Don" West is the pilot of the Jupiter 2 mission in Lost In Space.

-- Whitewolf513 2/28/2012

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