Why do names have meaning even though they’re never used conversationally for that meaning?

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Example: the name William apparently means [“resolute protector,”](http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/boy/william) but we never would say of someone who protects resolutely that he’s a william.

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Typically they are words from other languages, or from older versions of our language, so they had meaning in their original context but don’t in our time and place.

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