Jesus was crucified at Golgotha what does this name mean?

Answer 1

The name Golgotha means skull-pan (the top part of the skull that looks like a frying pan turned upside down). In Greek the work Kranium is used, (Cranium - The upper part of the head of a person where the brain cavity exists. Calvary comes from the latin word, Calvariae (Cranium).

To see a picture of where Golgotha is, and how it looks like a skull-pan, refer to the link below.

Parallel comparisons of Matt 27,33:
And when they were come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the place of Calvary.
και ελθοντες εις τοπον λεγομενον γολγοθα ο εστιν λεγομενος κρανιου τοπος
et venerunt in locum qui dicitur Golgotha quod est Calvariae locus

In the very early writing, Four Books Against Marcion, Book II 258

A spot there is called Golgotha,-of old the fathers' earlier tongue thus called its name, "The skull-pan of a head:"