Meaning: Its source is a Hebrew expression meaning "No glory."

Narrative: This sad name belonged to a figure in the Jewish scriptures born when the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant, carrying off an important symbol of Israel's glory.

Americans remember a fictional bearer of this name every Halloween. In Washington Irving's 1819 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is a hapless schoolmaster haunted by the ghostly Headless Horseman.