What does your name mean?

 It's a lovely sounding name ... No great secret to mine lol

There is never a single answer to "Do parents...............................?"  Parents are all unique and neither I  nor anyone else here can tell you how parents name their kids.  I can tell you how I chose the names for my kids but it's personal and I won't share it here.

Thriftymaid means frugal servant.

"Nevan" is Gaelic in origin and means "saintly, little saint, little holy one". 

I don't think my parents really considered the meaning; they just liked the sound and the uniqueness of it. I do like the meaning, though :)

Some made up nonsense.

A - alien L - life F - form   (but it's just a nickname Willie gave me) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 3, 2016 12:54 AM MDT

We gave it a lot of thoughts before picking up the names for our children. We did like them too, but wouldn't have take. Them if we didn't like the meaning of them.

I weigh the same as a duck.

And the Mrs actually is one, so I thought I'd take her name for a change.

I don't think my parents cared so much about the meaning. They just liked the name and my mother wanted a name that can be androgynous to avoid sexism or something along those lines.