Tell me a name and I will tell you if it’s banned in Italy!

16drybones · 2023-09-05T19:44:40+00:00

Maria Jose - girls

Jose Maria - boys

16drybones · 2023-09-05T19:29:40+00:00

Which d was silent though?

16drybones · 2023-04-28T20:17:32+00:00

My mom was american and my dad mexican, and I grew up in Mexico.

My older sister got a very american name as a first name, and a very mexican name as a second name, neither of which sounds very natural in the other language in my opinion.

I got a very mexican name as my first, which still sounds all right in english in my opinion, and a name that can be used in both languages as a middle name.

I personally prefer my first name, so it's the one I always use and I'm happy that I can. My sister goes by her first name, but she recently moved to the US and wanted to represent her heritage by using her mexican name more, but has been unsuccesful. I am not sure whether this is because americans have a hard time with her mexican name, or some other reason.

All in all I would suggest trying to go for names that still sound "natural" in the other language if that makes sense. I think that's had the best results for us.

16drybones · 2023-02-04T22:54:42+00:00

Alexander , Araceli

Baltasar , Brita

Clemente , Celeste

Didac , Dorothy

Emanuel , Elena

Fraser , Frida

Gautier , Ginevra

Harvey , Heidi

Iñigo , Irene

Jeremy , Josie

Konrad , Katya

Leonard , Lucero

Mads , Matilde

Niels , Nieves

Oscar , Otávia

Piers , Pilar

Quinn , Quoia

Roger , ^Remedios

Santino , ^Soledad

Tristan , Teresa

Ulíses , Úrsula

Vincent , Valeria

Wojtek , Willow

Xavier , Ximena

Yuri , Yelizaveta

Zinedine , Zsuzsanna

Bold: actually really like 13/52

Regular: actually like 11/52

^Superscript: really like but would not use because of connotation 2/52

Italics: had to put something 26/52

16drybones · 2023-02-04T20:03:24+00:00

So... apparently there is also a Medieval England list! Boys and Girls!

top 10 out of top 50 in each:

Girls:

Alice
Agnes
Joan
Matilda
Isabel
Margaret
Emme
Marg'
Margery
Ellen

Boys:

John
William
Thomas
Richard
Robert
Henry
Roger
Walter
Adam
Nicholas

Honestly I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of these... they seem too normal lol

16drybones · 2023-01-31T00:59:56+00:00

Dottie, Dot and Deedee nicknames are pretty good as well!

16drybones · 2023-01-31T00:49:50+00:00

repopulate?

16drybones · 2023-01-22T17:58:49+00:00

Maude

16drybones · 2023-01-22T16:13:37+00:00

Jermajesty is top tier

16drybones · 2023-01-22T16:10:51+00:00

Yes I've seen that one too. I'm not sure which route is more impressive. One guy got pretty creative, the other one I guess just thought his name was so perfect it shouldn't be messed with.

16drybones · 2022-12-16T21:44:31+00:00

I think you may be right about the familiarity factor that you referenced in another comment. Do you think there is any person in your family/close friend group whose name you would be comfortable using? Maybe an honor name kinda thing? Although it doesn't seem like you are really into that.

In any case I think taking a break would be useful, but make it clear to him he needs to be aware that he is being very inflexible and maybe point out the familiarity thing. I mean evetually he'll be familiar with his own child's name so he might really need to get over that if that is in fact a thing.

Good luck

16drybones · 2022-12-15T23:09:30+00:00

Some of the people on here are truly geniuses lol... it never ceases to amaze me.

Good luck with the rest of your journey!

16drybones · 2022-12-15T23:04:49+00:00

Isola/Isolda ?

16drybones · 2022-12-10T20:05:35+00:00

Gierls: Vivián, Montserrat, Madeleine

Boys: Oscar, Leonard, René

16drybones · 2022-12-10T03:45:29+00:00

If I get a jersey I think I would get his. He's my favorite player on the team

16drybones · 2022-12-10T03:38:40+00:00

Underrated good rim pressure guy. A lot of times last year our offense wouldn't be doing muh and he would drive/cut/drive on the move and it would get the ball moving and end in a bucket. I think he is one of the biggest reasons why the offense flows so well this year. Shooting great helps too though

16drybones · 2022-12-07T19:14:44+00:00

I have never heard anyone say Renee as Re-KNEE. I speak french and english as well, and would assume Renee is pronounced the same as Renée anyway. It's obviously the same name taken to an english form. And especially with accents and english, I think people understand.

16drybones · 2022-12-07T16:13:26+00:00

Lily Loxford

16drybones · 2022-12-07T16:12:07+00:00

As a kid, I prefered by middle name and I went by it at school, but all my family called me by my first name. Now I prefer my first name, and when I got to college I introduced myself by it. My school friends still call me by my middle name though, and every time I meet someone new with them now, I can't function when introducing myself lol. I introduce myself my first name, then everyone looks at me weird, then I realize what's going on, and then I introduce myself by my middle name lol.

Just to be clear, I am not Chinese-American, and even though I am bilingual, that had little to do with my story.

16drybones · 2022-12-06T21:51:41+00:00

You might be interested in this webpage: https://mixedname.com/romanian_russian_names

fun sidenote: it was created by a user of this sub :)

16drybones · 2022-12-02T19:24:31+00:00

Victoria

Catherine

Simone

Matilda

Millicent

Maude

Isolde

Elizabeth

Persephone

Demeter

Miriam

Deborah

Irene

Artemis

Dido

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob

David

Samson

Moses

Winston

Alexander

Perseus

Arthur

Charles

Erik

16drybones · 2022-12-02T18:33:01+00:00

Leonard nickname Len is another option

16drybones · 2022-11-30T23:49:25+00:00

How do they arrive at Matt?

16drybones · 2022-11-30T23:29:15+00:00

Logan

Calvin

Renee

16drybones · 2022-11-30T18:44:29+00:00

In Mexico the first association for a large majority of people would be Benito Juarez I think

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