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| The main idea behind my name is essentially a memorable, flexible, and self-contained trademark.
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| North was intended to be unisex and easy to convey as it's a generic, one-syllable word. It carries a positive connotation to "continue forwards". Though I suppose something like Sky or Skyler would have also worked equally as well. This concept also allows me to self-reference myself when stylising my last name as '''ha1vorsen''', where the L is exchanged for a northwards facing arrow.
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| My initials also spell out two prominent symbols for me, being KH (Kingdom Hearts) and NH (Nintendo Homebrew).
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| Truncating parts of my name also spells out HALKEN, [[wikipedia:HAL_Laboratory|which happens to be the same name as the original developers of Super Smash Bros. and Kirby]]. I've capitalised on this by developing [https://halken.co my first personal website] using the first three letters of my last and first names, respectively. If I wanted to, I could extend this to Norsen or Kensen as well.
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| I can self-reference anything denoting myself as Northern.
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| The possibilities were insane to not confirm this as my identity. Flexibility is one of my most favored traits regarding any topic.
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| == North ==
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| And still, there are other reasons as well for the name.
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| It doesn't come with presumptions about character, like something like Karen or Kyle would in the modern day - unless you would like to believe I am a child of Ye and Kim Kardashian.
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| I did underestimate the fact that people misinterpret the name as Morris, Marth, or Mark over the phone. But I don't otherwise anticipate many regrets stemming from North. I've seen people without the capacity for original jokes attempt to achieve humor by referring to me as any of the other three cardinal directions, and some people parallel the name to [[wikipedia:Kanye_West|Ye's]] child. It's simple, it's to the point, and it works. It can even seen as an immutable reminder to continue looking ahead, or looking up, to the north. After all, I even style my hair upwards to convey this exact concept.
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| At first, I wanted something that would transliterate into a Japanese word. An equivalent for North would be 北 (Kita). I don't mind Kita, given that Keaton is a name I considered at one point, so I am already pleased with the phonetics.
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| Where do names originate? Words. Words from languages past, normally, but words nonetheless. Where is the requirement that said name must have roots in an archaic language?
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| * Alexander. It's a compound Greek word of ἀλέξειν/alexein [to defend], and andἀνδρός/''andrós'' [man] which originally was spelled as Aléxandros.
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| * Vincent. It stems from Latin's ''vincere'' which means to conquer. The name Victor should also ring a bell... It then became ''Vincentius'' in Rome before being truncated to its current form.
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| * Jordan. It was originally ירדן, or Yarden, a normally word meaning "to descend" in Hebrew.
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| *John. This means to be graced by God. <code>Yo-</code> appearing at the beginning on names indicates God, or "Y<s>a</s>hw<s>e</s>h/YHWH"/J<s>e</s>h<s>o</s>v<s>a</s>h as known by Jewish people. This prefix is often transcribed and pronounced with both a J as well as a Y, interchangeably, with or without vowels. For example, the term hallelujah is a biblical term[https://books.google.com/books?id=goq0VWw9rGIC&pg=PA355&dq=hallelujah+Hebrew&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=hallelujah%20Hebrew&f=false] which means "Praise 'Jah'", yet is pronounced as "yah" phonetically. In other languages, it has become Giovanni, Jean, Juan, Jan, and even Hans. <br />Originally scribed as יְהוֹחָנָן, it transcribes to ''Yehochanan.'' This stems from <code>Yeho-</code> + <code>-hanan</code>, meaning "God" and "gracious" respectively. Over time, it has been truncated to ''Johannes,'' one of the forms of the name from medieval Latin. The angelicised version of ''Johannes'' is John.<br /> <br />Jonathan stems from ''<code>Yo-</code>'' + ''<code>-natan</code>'', meaning "God" and "given" respectively, meaning that it is a different name based on the same root. Jonathan means "God has given".
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| This is to say, names have always had origins from normal words from local languages. There is no reason that names have to be based on archaic spellings of modern words; modern English words used as names is nothing out of the ordinary, unless you look at all of the Aprils, Summers, Ambers, or Marks with the same scorn.
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| I've also considered Tidus (tee-duss), Ventus, (ven-tuhs), Xi (shi), some variation of K (kei/kay/k). I'm still not against them.
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| But in the end, it was important that the name I use was malleable, flexible, easy to convey, gender-neutral, and short.
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| == Halvorsen ==
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| This was based off of my family's pet name. My dog's name was inspired by the Hilton Hotels franchise, so I thought it to be fitting to have my surname inspired from my dog as well. Conrad Hilton's father was named Augustus Halvorsen Hilton, and so I merely took the middle name directly and made it my surname. Being strongly European in origin, Halvorsen also tends to look more exotic and desirable at first glance than other common surnames in America, so it helps avoid negative prejudice.
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| However, it wasn't nearly the only reason. The sheer flexibility of this name also led to it being chosen as a surname.
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| Using the first three letters of both my given and surname, it forms the handle Halken. HALKEN is the former company name of [[wikipedia:HAL_Laboratory|HAL Laboratory]], former developer of franchises such as [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]] and Kirby. It was also fun to see that my initials were KH, which resembled Kingdom Hearts, a game franchise that brought fame to Hikaru Utada's vocal work overseas.
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| It can also combine with my middle name to form Norsen, offering flexibility in that sense as well.
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| I intended to pair this surname with a European-esque middle name, Tidus (Tee-dus). While Tidus Halvorsen has a cool ring to it, I wanted the other functional benefits listed of the names that I did choose.
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