Name Decoder - TMI Special Edition

Last week I finished reading the City of Heavenly Fire, the last installment of The Mortal Instruments series and I still can't get over it. It was so angsty and sad and happy at the same time, it was dancing on my nerves all along. I'll never be the same... However, that's not what bugs me the most. It's that the series is over. It's gone and though there will be more (TDA, TWP, TLH) and I cannot wait to read them, it will not be the same and I have a hard time with letting go. (Proves it the few hundred fan-fitions I've read since last week.) Thus right now everything's revolving around TMI and CoHF in particular. And that's how I came up with this special TMI edition of Name Decoder. Some of the names have already been featured in the section, Clary's and Jace's and Raziel's so now I'll be concentrating on the less main characters whose names have not been mentioned yet. Hope you"ll like it!

Isabelle "Izzy" Sophia Lightwood



Isabelle as a girl's name has the meaning "God is my oath" and is a variant of Elizabeth (Hebrew): can also mean "God's promise", "God's satisfaction" or "God's perfection". Also a variant of Isabel (Hebrew): Spanish variant of Elizabeth.



Maxwell "Max" Joseph Lightwood


Maxwell as a boy's name is pronounced MAKS-wel. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Maxwell is "Mack's stream". Place name. Mack was probably based on the name Magnus (Latin) "great".


Magnus Bane



Magnus as a boy's name is pronounced MAG-ness. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Magnus is "great". A royal name in Norway and Denmark; also a saint's name.


Mark Blackthorn



Mark as a boy's name is pronounced mark. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Mark is "dedicated to Mars". Anglicized version of Marcus.


Helen Blackthorn



Helen as a girl's name is pronounced HEL-en. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Helen is "sun ray". Mythology: the abduction of Zeus's mortal daughter, Helen of Troy, resulted in the Trojan War. Hers was "the face that launched a thousand ships". There was a Saint Helena, mother to Constantine the Great, whose purity allowed her to discover the True Cross.


Julian "Jules" Blackthorn



Julian as a boy's name is pronounced JOO-lee-en. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Julian is "Jove's child". Variant of Julius, the family clan name of several of the most powerful Roman emperors.


Emma Carstairs



Emma as a girl's name is pronounced EM-ah. It is of Old French and Old German origin, and the meaning of Emma is "entire, universal". Originally a short form of compound names such as Ermintrude and Irma, from the word erm(en) or irm(en). A royal name in medieval England, it was introduced by the Normans, and made popular because it was borne by the mother of Edward the Confessor, who was also known as Aelgifu.