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The Meaning of Lost Names 

''Every single name on the show has purpose and meaning." --Damon Lindelof.
  

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Meaning: (Hebrew) little lamb, an ewe, one with purity; Biblically, Rachel, unable to bear children, offered her handmaiden to her husband. God promises her, in return, that the exiled Israelis will be allowed to return one day

Character: Rachel, Claire's friend

Rachel Brennan, Tom Brennan's wife

Rachael Carlson, Juliet's sister

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - RAISED BY ANOTHER

Flashback Cast & Summary - BORN TO RUN

Flashback Cast & Summary - NOT IN PORTLAND

Name Meanings - Brennan

Name Meanings - Carlson



Meaning: (Polish) a place name; Edvard Radzinsky is an author who has written on Stalin, and the Tsars

Character: Radzinsky, Kelvin's hatchmate before Desmond

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE
Meaning: (Hebrew) God has healed

Character: Emmanuel Rafael Ortiz, redshirt who died in the crash. Memorialized during the fuselage funeral.

See also: Crash Vicitms' Memorial

Name Meanings - Ortiz 

Name Meanings - Emmanuel

Meaning: rag is a scrap piece of cloth; Raggs is the nickname of Matt Ragghianti, a former writer's assistant on Lost

Character: Raggs, fellow officer with Ana-Lucia

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - COLLISION



Meaning: (Anglo-Saxon) Wolf with a shield

Character: Randy Nations, Locke's boss, Hurley's boss (later employee)

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - WALKABOUT

Name Meanings - Nations

Meaning: (French) kingly

Character: Ray Mullen, the farmer that Kate stays with
 
Ray, doctor on the freighter

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - TABULA RASA

Name Meanings - Mullen

Name Meanings - Reyes
Meaning: (English) A reed, or red-haired

Character: Matthew Reed, Psychiatrist that evaluates Ana-Lucia

Detective Reed, investigator in Peter Talbot's death

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - COLLISION
Flashback Cast & Summary - THE MAN FROM TALLAHASSEE

Name Meanings - Matthew
 
Regina

Meaning: (Latin) Queenly

Character: Regina, member of the freighter crew

See also: Name Meanings - Gina

Meaning: (Spanish) kings

Character: Hugo "Hurley" Reyes

Carmen Reyes, Hurley's mother

Diego Reyes, Hurley's brother

Tito Reyes, Hurley's grandfather

Lisa Reyes, Hurley's sister-in-law, Diego's wife

David Reyes, Hurley's father

See also: Name Meanings - Hugo

Name Meanings - Hurley

Name Meanings - Carmen

Name Meanings - Diego

Name Meanings - Tito

Name Meanings - Lisa

Name Meanings - David

Name Meanings - Ray
Meaning: (Old German, Old English) powerful ruler; brave one

Character: Richard Malkin, Claire's psychic
 
Richard, Fuselage survivor 
 
Richard Alpert, Mittelos recruiter
 
See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - RAISED BY ANOTHER
 
Flashback Cast & Summary - NOT IN PORTLAND
 
Name Meanings - Malkin
 
Name Meanings - Burke
 
Name Meanings - Rick

Meaning: (Old German, Old English)Nickname for Richard; powerful ruler; brave one

Character: Rick Lapidus, actor in "Expose"

See also: Name Meanings - Richard

Name Meanings - Lapidus

Meaning: (Old English) bright, famous

Character: Robbie Hewett, CIA agent working on Sayid's case

Robert, Danielle Rousseau's husband
 
Rob Hamil, New Chief of Surgery at St. Sebastian's

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - SOLITARY

Flashback Cast & Summary - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Name Meanings - Hewett

Name Meanings - Hamil

Name Meanings - Bobby
Meaning: (Germanic) Powerful, rich or famous

Character: Roderick, a member of Driveshaft

See also:

 
Meaning: (Germanic) famous with the spear

Character: Roger Linus, Ben's father

See also: Flashback Cast and Summary - THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Name Meanings - Linus
 

Meaning: (Germanic) Shortened version of the original name - a conjunction of renown + wolf

Character: Rolf, Fuselage survivor

See also:

Meaning: "Rom" is singular for a member of the Romany (commonly called "Gypsies") which also means "person or man" in the Romany language. ROM is also an acronym for Read-Only Memory. Additionally, Ethan Rom is an anagram for "Other Man"

Character: Ethan Rom, (Other Man) abducted Claire and Charlie

See also: Name Meanings - Ethan
Meaning: (Latin) A flower; a compass rose is a figure that displays the orientation of the cardinal directions

Character: Rose Henderson Nadler, fuselage survivor

See also: Flashback Cast and Summary - S.O.S.
 
Name Meanings - Henderson
 
Name Meanings - Nadler 
Meaning: (French) red; Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an Enlightenment philosopher who wrote The Social Contract: "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

Character: Danielle Rousseau, shipwrecked French woman

Alex Rousseau, daughter of Danielle

See also: Philosophy & Historical References - Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Name Meanings - Danielle

Name Meanings - Alex

 
Meaning: (Hebrew) Friend; Biblically, Ruth was a Moabite woman who remained with her Israeli mother-in-law, Naomi after her husband died. Ruth married one of Naomi's relatives, and gave birth to Obed, who is the grandfather of David.

Character: Ruth, Desmond's ex-fiance

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - CATCH-22

Meaning: (Welch) Ruthr, rushing, swift, and fford, a ford or way.

Character: Shannon Rutherford

Adam Rutherford, Shannon's father

Sabrina Rutherford, Shannon's step-mother, Adam Rutherford's wife

See also: Flashback Cast & Summary - MAN OF SCIENCE, MAN OF FAITH

Name Meanings - Shannon

Name Meanings - Adam

Name Meanings - Sabrina


Meaning: (Gaelic) Little king

Character: Maggie Ryan, one of Kate's aliases

Ryan Pryce, an Other

See also: Name Meanings - Maggie

Name Meanings - Kate

Name Meanings - Austen

Name Meanings - Pryce
 
 
This list is updated after each episode.

 

 

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