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"Your name isn't English"
Me, who only has a Chinese name: Hmm interesting I didn't know that

"Dad why is my sister's name Rose?"
"Because your mother loves roses"
"Thanks Dad"
"No problem Æðelðryð"

"Your name isn't English!"
"No, it's Patrick!"

Oh god not a betterhelp sponsor Rob😭😭😭

If Rob Words was left speechless by something, he’d be Rob Words Robbed of Words.

6:54 Dick being a nickname for Richard is even funnier now knowing hard means hard.

Batman's Alfred is Infact an "Elf like counsel" to Bruce. Look at that.

"Your name isn't English"
Me, a Greek named Helen: "Hmm Idk, let's see what's this all about"

I'm thinking a 2 hour podcast on this topic would keep me intrigued.

"Fruit that looks like a grape but couldn't taste any less like one."

I shall treasure this forever.

That's right. My name is Brian. I've never met a single bloke named "English" in my life.

Because I'm just as sad, here are some names that derive from Welsh:

* Lloyd and Floyd are Anglicized forms of the Welsh word Llwyd /ɬuːɨ̯d/ meaning grey. This was never used as a personal name, but did become an epithet, which later became a surname after welsh Patronyms fell out of common use in the 17thC (Welsh patronyms worked like the Scottish Mac, I.e. 'Son of'. In fact, the Welsh equivalent of Mac is Mab, but was often shortened to Ap, hence Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Rhun ap Iorwerth).

* Rhys, Reese, Rees(e), Rice, comes from Welsh Rhys, meaning 'Bold', 'brave'.

* Meredith comes from Meredydd, which in Welsh is a masculine name. Means something like Sea (Môr) Lord/Prince (Udd). (Dd = /ð/)

* Dylan, from Dy (to) + Lan (Llanw, tide). Pronounced Dull-ann.

*Gareth, from Gwaredd (gentle).

* Owen/Owyn, from Owain (pronounced Oh wine), means Desired One.

*Trevor, from Trefor, Tre (town)+ mawr (big)

* Gwynneth/Gwyneth comes from the name of the former kingdom and county Gwynedd.

* Gwendoline/Gwendolyn comes from Gwendolen, which comes from White/blessed (Gwen) and Dolen (ring, lock of hair).

* Guinevere (etc) comes from Gwenhwyfar, meaning Blessed Spirit. We also get Jennifer from this.

* Gladys comes from Gwladus/Gwladus, meaning 'Of the country'.

*Rihanna/Rhiannon, comes from Rhian (Cognate with Regina, means Queen).

* Glenda, either from Glân (clean, pure) + Da (good) or Glyn (valley) + da

* Enid, from Enaid (Soul).

* Rhonda, from Rhon (pike) + da.

* Tegan, Teagan, from Tegan, meaning fair-thing, toy.

Also interesting to note that the Rich in Richard comes from the same PIE root as the Ri in Rhodri, and Latin Rex.
Also, also, as you'd expect, most natively Welsh names from Proto-Celtic, I.e. the language spoken all over Britain before and after the Romans appeared and left. So we have native, modern evolutions of names held by Celts named by the Romans:
*Boudīka > Buddug (Bountiful, treasure). English Boudicca.
*Karatākos > Caradog (Friendly one). Caratacus.
*Kunibelinos > Cynfelyn (Yellow hound). Cymbeline.
*Katuwelauni > Cadwallon

Etc.

hearing rob drop multiple "help"s in his speech talking about therapy before he revealed the sponsor had me getting gradually more anxious about him having taken a betterhelp sponsor and then its like NOOOOO ROB U GOTTA RESEARCH YOUR SPONSORS

Betterhelp ad in 2026? That's low

Jason is Greek, from Iɑσóv Iasón, meaning "healer," likely referring to the legend of Jason's quest with the Argonauts to obtain the Golden Fleece, having healing powers.

My wife is Meranda (variant spelling), which like Amanda comes from Latin. The -anda conjugation is similar to our -able suffix. So Miranda is from miro "look at" (giving us the words mirage and mirror) making it mean something like "beautiful" or more literally "fit to be looked at"

Amanda follows the same pattern with amo "love", so the name means "lovable"

11:45 I think you'll find it's "A-A-ron"

In my high school French class a kid named Evan learned that his name was a variant of John and his immediate response was to realize that his parents just named him the same as his older brother, John. It didn't make him feel any better about living in his brother's shadow.

Two seconds in and I cannot stop laughing at the fact that you are wearing a name badge...

As a Joshua, I was surprised that name wasn't mentioned when the focus shifted to Old Testament names, of which Joshua was a prominent figure. The sixth book is literally called The Book of Joshua.