Well, “Shlomi” or “שלומי” in Hebrew (see its wikipedia entry) means “my Shalom” in Hebrew, or perhaps “Shalom-ful” (= having the property of Shalom) or “Shalom-Jehovah”. “Shalom” is an ancient Hebrew word, that is derived from proto-Semitic origins meaning something like “completeness”: “well-being”, “welfare”, "harmony", "wholeness", even "prosperity" (but probably not really “excitement”) - not only “peace”/tranquility. It is an ambiguous noun as the nouns of some ancient Semitic languages were. See also what I wrote about it on my blog (and some of the comments I received).

True to my name, I often feel that I have "more luck than brains" (as hard as it is to believe given many smart people consider me very smart) and while enduring some hardships (including physical ones!) was often at the right place at the right time. That was including on a certain Internet/television/etc. forum or resource and came up on top. Moreover, my body remained complete.

Moreover, just like king Solomon [“Shlomo”] in the bible, I wanted to be kind, good hearted, and benevolent as a child by inspiration from fairy tales I read or listened to.

The reason why it is “Shlomi” or “Shelomi” instead of “Shalomi” is due to a certain pronunciation transformation in Hebrew, where certain vowels are shortened into a Shwa when they are distanced too much from the Stress of the word. Quite a few non-Hebrew speakers have issues with pronouncing Hebrew words that start with several Shwas in succession (as this scene from a screenplay I wrote indicates).

Now, most Israelis pronounce this name with the stress on the “lo”. I, however, prefer it to be pronounced with the stress on the “mi”, albeit I also answer to people who pronounce it the other way. My version is the correct Biblical pronunciation. You can hear me pronounce it in Hebrew (Ogg, mp3) and in English (Ogg, mp3).

Please spell the name as starting with “Sh”, similar to the common spelling in English — not with “Sch” (the German spelling).

My last name - “Fish” (“פיש” in the Hebrew alphabet) - naturally means the aquatic organisms in English or (with a different spelling) in German. It was the last name of my late grandfather who was a Polish-born Jew, and I’m still carrying it.

“Fish” is an uncommon name in Israel, but there are also some variations such as “Fisher”, “Fishman”, “Fischer”, “Fishlov”, “Fishelson”, etc.

Note that the last name “Fish” is not meaningful in Hebrew. In fact, in Ancient Hebrew, the only possible pronunciation would be “Pish” (which means “pee” or “urine” in Modern Israeli Hebrew slang). That is because it uses the same letter - פ for both the "P" and the "F" sounds, and it would be "P" in the beginning of the word.

I had not given my last name a lot of thought until relatively recently (= 2022-08-25), but now think it may imply:

1. “Plenty of fish in the sea” - pluralism, open-mindedness and tolerance.

2. Progressing carefully, but steadily, possibly despite feeling some fear, like a timid little fish exploring the ocean.

3. “Fishy” - weird/strange.

4. A contraction of “finish” and I like to bring projects and tasks to a usable state, and move on (while possibly revisiting them later): Perfection is in imperfection.

5. “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime” - I invest time in learning useful technologies, and have little patience for helping people who wish to remain wilfully ignorant of knowledge which I consider essential. ( References: Selling for smart people. )

6. “Goldfish memory” - I tend-to-have a selective memory, which I dislike overloading with unnecessary details, data, and knowledge.