Whats in a name!

I have a habit of asking the meaning of someone's name if I find it interesting/obscure/amusing. While I keep wondering what is the best response I can give if somebody asks me the meaning of my name. If you google for Siddharth one of the hits shows some interesting statistics. "The name Siddharth, is the 37945th most popular baby name at mybabyname.com placing it in the top 53% of names by popularity.". I think that's some achievement. In school we had at a maximum 3 Siddharths in my class or my grade. In my college, there was only I AFAIK. Thats not a lot of Siddharths compared to Amits or Rahuls but nevertheless it has become one of the most common-place name.

The earliest known usage of the name is by the great Gautama Buddha. Many fail to realize that he was Siddharth"a" before he became the great buddha. Ironically Siddharth means he who has achieved his wishes or he who knows the meaning of life. If that was true Buddha would have stayed put within his palace walls knowing that he has achieved all but he didn't. Instead he went out in the search of the very answers his name claimed he already knew and boy, did he achieve greatness.