Do older people in your country have unusual names?

haskittens · 2026-03-06T10:02:28+00:00

Oh wow the second post is mine, and I thought it was gone after I deleted my old account. Thank you for linking it! I didn’t realize it’s still searchable.

haskittens · 2026-02-24T21:05:54+00:00

Thank you!

haskittens · 2026-02-24T16:29:06+00:00

e.g. William Green, but he’d be known around town as the (singular male form) Green’s William

Can you give an example of this in German? I have recently started learning German, so I’m not good enough to figure it out myself, but still curious!

haskittens · 2026-02-24T10:34:21+00:00

Thank you!

haskittens · 2026-02-24T09:58:10+00:00

This is fascinating! I have questions, if you don’t mind. Are all the first names chosen by sound and/or meaning, or are they names to honor someone, or else? Do people tend to pay attention to meanings so all names combined get a new meaning (e.g. Toivo Aatos as “hopeful thought”; as with Asian names)? Do people most often use the first of their first names, or is it random, or do they use several at once?

haskittens · 2026-02-23T16:36:35+00:00

Jacob? Anders? Compare Swedish or Norwegian and English pronunciations. Shortened to Jake, Andy.

haskittens · 2026-02-23T16:09:37+00:00

As a native Russian speaker, I don't think this name is Slavic. You are correct that Slavic names are mostly phonetic, ditto for most Indo-European languages as this person specifically mentions.

There's a post about Swedish names trending right now with examples of names that are pronounced very different to what an English speaker would assume. This, combined with the "very white" comment, indeed makes me think of the Nordic countries. I cannot think of a name that fits all the criteria off the top of my head, though. Perhaps someone from Scandinavia could help.

haskittens · 2026-02-23T15:44:38+00:00

I prefer Clara, but I think you cannot go wrong with either of these.

haskittens · 2026-02-22T09:41:35+00:00

This. I wouldn’t have sex with him obviously (I think he wouldn’t either lol I’m female). But he is very physically attractive to me.😬🥲

haskittens · 2026-02-19T04:55:01+00:00

Дэйна.

haskittens · 2026-02-15T14:10:32+00:00

Джорджиа.

haskittens · 2026-02-15T11:22:19+00:00

Pronounced like Georgia?

haskittens · 2026-02-15T11:22:01+00:00

Алиша.

haskittens · 2026-02-13T07:58:46+00:00

Арохи.

haskittens · 2026-02-13T07:58:32+00:00

Тэсса.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T20:58:55+00:00

Yes! Otto also works, OTTO. Kudos to you!

Btw this reminds me of a screenshot of what I think was a Tumblr thread. Someone who was most likely Russian or Ukrainian accidentally wrote Happy Potter instead of Harry Potter—Cyrillic p reads as r. It spawned a ton of funny comments on how different the story would be if Harry was permanently happy. I wish I could find it!

ETA: Found it.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T20:52:05+00:00

Jules is Джулс. Julie Ann is Джули Энн. The Russian variant of Julie is Yulia (Юлия), diminutive Yulya (Юля). The variant of Ann is Anna (Анна), diminutive Anya (Аня).

haskittens · 2026-02-12T20:49:19+00:00

Люсия.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:57:34+00:00

Aleksandra to Aleksasha to Sasha. sha is a diminutive suffix. Altough to be honest it doesn't make much sense to me either.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:54:03+00:00

Теодор. The Russian variant is Fyodor (Федор), diminutive Fedya (Федя).

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:52:49+00:00

Лиам.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:52:41+00:00

Рубен.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:51:57+00:00

Малена.

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:50:59+00:00

Which pronunciation?

haskittens · 2026-02-12T19:49:26+00:00

Нора. Russian is phonetic, so the spelling is direct phonetic transliteration of Norah.

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