I’m watching this crazy game show called “Oh Sit!” and the guy’s name is Crizam.
I probably would never use it, but it sounds really cool.
Does anyone have any information on this name?
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Well I found another Crizam, but so far no luck on name info. [name]Plenty[/name] of facebook and linkedin profiles though, so it has to be a name!
Bump, hoping someone knows. I’m wonder if it’s Spanish? Or maybe another foreign name?
I know one Crizam, a few years older than me…but I have no idea where it came from…
That football player was Brazilian, so that’s an option.
I found a website of a young woman wearing the name, whose last name name sounded like it was in some sort of indigenous South American language.
Another man wearing the name was [name]Cristian[/name] [name]Zamora[/name], so I think it’s a nn (first three of first, first three of last).
A Turkish website also came up but it wouldn’t load well.
In Spanish (I don’t know about Portuguese), S and Z are sometimes used interchangeably, so I tried Crisam.
This got lots more Spanish and Portuguese hits, as well as a few Turkish ones.
However, no Turkish sites turned it up that I saw.
In some languages, m and n get varied with each other. I also know that in a lot of Spanish words that use n, the Portuguese uses m.
Crisan is clearly a Romanian place name.
Crisanto and [name]Crisanta[/name] are known Spanish names relating to Chrysanthemums.
Crizanto is a known variant:
My going theory is that its some sort of Portuguese variant/connection to Crisanto.
But that could easily be wrong.
That is so interesting! I wonder why it’s such a hard name to find information on…
[name]Glad[/name] you liked it!
I think it’s just really, really rare?
And English has some of the best developed babyname sites out there (I speak Spanish and [name]German[/name] and look sometimes). So if it’s both rare and not familiar to English naming traditions, it gets hard to find fast. [name]Crisanta[/name] has made it onto NB, but not Crisanto, for example.
I know Chrism (which sounds the same) is the holy oil used for baptism and other sacraments in the catholic church. Maybe this name is a religious name?
Awesome research! This is really interesting. Have you thought about submitting Crizam to Appellation Mountain? She’s the master name detective.