It could be explained as a contraction of Malachiah, messenger of Yahweh "; but the Septuagint is probably right in not regarding it as a proper name (" by the hand of His messenger ").
His proper name was Tommaso 1 de Vio, but he adopted that of Cajetan from his birthplace.
His proper name was Bruno; the family to which he belonged was of noble rank, and through his father he was related to the emperor Conrad II.
The use of "Adam" (וחוה) as a proper name is an early error.
Into the question whether the original story did not give a proper name which was afterwards modified into "Adam" - important as this question is - we cannot here enter.
