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« on: April 09, 2023, 10:41:07 PM »

I was talking with my mom about this and even though I won’t have kids (I’m an atlas poster and a mess) I wouldn’t give a Hindu or Indian name to my kids.

Anyway - here is what I’d name my kids:

Girl - Taylor, Margaret, Ava, Jo
Boy - George, Nick, Neil, Drew
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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2023, 11:08:10 PM »

Chick: Tabitha, Tammy, Tina, Teresa

Dude:  Whatever my hypothetical wife/partner's first initial is, might have to dig into her nationality too if there isn't a sufficient starter in normal American.

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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2023, 11:11:23 PM »

Girl - Saoirse, Rachel, Heather, Chelsea, Esther
Boy - Robert, John, Andrew
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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2023, 02:30:47 AM »

Son - ?

Daughter - I have some names picked out. Prefer not to say, but some are European-origin names and some are West/South Asia-origin names, depending on the ethnicity of the babymama.
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2023, 03:40:47 AM »

I occasionally think about this and I have settled on a first preference for Maria or Angela for a girl and Ettore or Lorenzo for a boy.
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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2023, 08:02:57 AM »

I have a list of names in my phone and have always thought about this even when I was little. Currently, I'm stuck on Brandon Archer for a boy or Eden Eileen for a girl. Eileen is my grandmother's name.
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« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2023, 08:37:27 AM »

I have a couple letter combinations that have always appealed to me for whatever reason. All go across both boy names and girl names, but I've always spent more time thinking about girls' names, and I'd imagine I'd let my future wife probably pick a son's name.

NT names: Natalie, Nathan, Nat, Natasha, etc.
EV names: Eva, Evelyn, Devon, Evan, Eve, etc.
RX names: Roxanne, Roxy, Trixie, etc.

If anyone has random obscure additions that could fit into one of these lists, I'm all ears.
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« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2023, 09:14:07 AM »

Æthelflæd and Shemp.
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« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2023, 09:15:05 AM »

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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2023, 09:16:46 AM »

I probably shouldn't say my son and daughter's respective names here...

My son's first name is my first name, but he goes by his middle name. Maybe this was a stupid idea. But we both like the full name and the middle name-nickname he goes by. I hope it doesn't make things unnecessarily tricky for him, but he could always throw the initial on the front with a period.

Daughter has a pretty classical looking name. Nothing crazy, another variation is more popular now. But we think it's nice.

We might be done at two kids, but if we aren't we may have trouble deciding on another name. For a girl it may end up being one of Terese/Teresa/Therese/Theresa. For a boy, I really have no idea. We like the name Rory, but we aren't sure it would really fit. My wife also likes the name Alec, but I'm not the hugest fan.
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« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2023, 01:37:55 PM »

I thought of naming a daughter after either of the female historical figures I am obsessed with (if Savita from Ireland counts).

But I will likely give them a normal Portuguese name, as I will likely have forgotten them by the time I have kids (early 2030s)
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« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2023, 01:51:35 PM »
« Edited: April 10, 2023, 01:56:57 PM by President Johnson »

I'd chose some of the names used my novel:

Boys: Clark, Gordon, Neville, Sean, Joe (not Joseph though)

Girls: Cherisse (my overall favorite name), Amanda, Joy, Stephanie, Abigail, Anna, Isabel, Ines/Inez


Personally I prefer English, French, Spanish or Greek names to a majority of German names.
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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2023, 01:56:08 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2023, 02:13:32 PM »

Olawakandi, Santander, John Dule
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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2023, 02:17:41 PM »

Random question for non-Anglosphere posters: is there a similar phenomenon in your country of parents giving their children names with deliberately convoluted spellings or constructions for the sake of uniqueness? Thinking of names like Rayeleighanne, Pynnelopeigh, X Æ A-12, etc.
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« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2023, 02:33:11 PM »

Bengali Muslims, as a rule, give their children Persian or Arabic names. (Sometimes girls will receive Russian names if they sound sufficiently Indian.) Any children that I were to have would also have names like this. I am not particularly concerned about comprehensibility; I have never had an issue with my name, and any Persian or Arabic name that sounds fine rendered in Bengali will also sound fine in English.

I have noticed that people roughly my age who grew up here tend to give their kids very overtly Islamic names of the sort that their parents did not use. My mother has a friend with a grandson named Musa and another with a grandson named Isa. I don't know any adults with those names. My mother is now very religious and wishes that she had given her sons religious names of that sort. I don't intend to.
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« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2023, 03:11:07 PM »

Female:

Meg (short for Mega Coattails)
Bella (short for Bellwether)
Polly (short for Politico/Morning Consult)
Ella (short for Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022)
Emma (short for Emerson)
May (short for Mail-In Voting)
Maude (short for Moderate Hero)
Dixie (short for Dixville Notch, NH)


Male:

Jerry (short for Gerrymandering)
Reed (short for Redistricting)
Quinn (short for Quinnipiac)
Terry (short for Tarrant County, Texas)
Mark (short for Marquette)
Turner (short for Turnout Is Down In WOW Suburbs Due To Rain)
Elliott (short for Elliott County, Kentucky)
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« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2023, 03:16:15 PM »

Female:

Meg (short for Mega Coattails)
Bella (short for Bellwether)
Polly (short for Politico/Morning Consult)
Ella (short for Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022)
Emma (short for Emerson)
May (short for Mail-In Voting)
Maude (short for Moderate Hero)
Dixie (short for Dixville Notch, NH)


Male:

Jerry (short for Gerrymandering)
Reed (short for Redistricting)
Quinn (short for Quinnipiac)
Terry (short for Tarrant County, Texas)
Mark (short for Marquette)
Turner (short for Turnout Is Down In WOW Suburbs Due To Rain)
Elliott (short for Elliott County, Kentucky)

BRB, just calling Child Protective Services real quick
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« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2023, 03:34:52 PM »

Random question for non-Anglosphere posters: is there a similar phenomenon in your country of parents giving their children names with deliberately convoluted spellings or constructions for the sake of uniqueness? Thinking of names like Rayeleighanne, Pynnelopeigh, X Æ A-12, etc.
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« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2023, 03:49:53 PM »
« Edited: April 11, 2023, 11:22:12 AM by LET'S GO BRANDON »

Bengali Muslims, as a rule, give their children Persian or Arabic names. (Sometimes girls will receive Russian names if they sound sufficiently Indian.)

Razib/Rajib/Rajiv is demonstrably of Indo-Aryan etymology, but yeah all of the Bangladeshi Americans, Pakistani Americans, and Muslim Indian Americans I know IRL have Arabic (usually Quranic) or Persian names. And growing up I remember meeting a handful of (female, India-origin) Nikitas.

Promises to name future children after college friends notwithstanding, it's plausible that me and my brother would coordinate baby names so that all our children have names starting with the same letter, since our first names start with the same letter.
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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2023, 03:53:11 PM »

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« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2023, 03:53:16 PM »

Random question for non-Anglosphere posters: is there a similar phenomenon in your country of parents giving their children names with deliberately convoluted spellings or constructions for the sake of uniqueness? Thinking of names like Rayeleighanne, Pynnelopeigh, X Æ A-12, etc.

This occasionally happens in Italy with certain names (I've known people named Kristian or Maicol) but not to the extent of the names you are offering as examples I'd say.
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« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2023, 04:28:09 PM »

Boy: Dmitri, Aleksandr, Gevorg, Raytheon, James Tiberius

Girl: Viktoria, Yekaterina (and derivatives), Angela (hard-g), Helga, Berlin
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« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2023, 04:30:02 PM »

Boy: Dmitri, Aleksandr, Gevorg, Raytheon, James Tiberius

Girl: Viktoria, Yekaterina (and derivatives), Angela (hard-g), Helga, Berlin
I'll take "Slavic names" for 500, Alex.
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« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2023, 04:32:45 PM »

Boy: Dmitri, Aleksandr, Gevorg, Raytheon, James Tiberius

Girl: Viktoria, Yekaterina (and derivatives), Angela (hard-g), Helga, Berlin
I'll take "Slavic names" for 500, Alex.

I have long admired the works of Raytheon Dostoyevskiy. (Also note the filtering-in of German and even Armenian)

I dare say Belgrade, Priština, and Tirana would also be great girls' names.
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