Favorite names from different origins?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't like Japanese or Indian names. They all sound too alike to my sad untrained ears.

Greek names to me are 50/50. They can be amazing or awful.

I like Vietnamese names. Some of them are pretty amazing and unique.

What are your children's names?

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This is a really stupid topic, OP.

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I really like names that have multiple consonants next to each other that we wouldn’t do in English. Zdenek, Nkosinathi, Vyacheslav, Ndikko, I am pretty sure people would find them all weird for my kid with no Slavic or Southern African heritage so my kids have names that do fit my heritage. Also, I had to take into account my DH’s opinions and his taste is pretty conventional.

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Anonymous wrote:Apollonia

When I was in college, my boyfriend's brother was dating a woman with a daughter named Apollonia. She was about 3 or 4 and adorable! I think she'd be about 30 years old now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like Japanese or Indian names. They all sound too alike to my sad untrained ears.

Greek names to me are 50/50. They can be amazing or awful.

I like Vietnamese names. Some of them are pretty amazing and unique.

Examples of Greek and Vietnamese names you like?

I love Japanese names. My favorites are Aiko and Mariko but there are many, many beautiful names in Japanese. I also love a lot of Korean names, though admittedly my favorite is Hana, in part because it's in so many languages and cultures. But it sounds beautiful with a Korean accent.

Ophelia and Daphne of course. Thalia, Penelope.

For vietnamese: Chien, Duc, Tam, Van, Quan.

Mariko is beautiful. I agree.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really like names that have multiple consonants next to each other that we wouldn’t do in English. Zdenek, Nkosinathi, Vyacheslav, Ndikko, I am pretty sure people would find them all weird for my kid with no Slavic or Southern African heritage so my kids have names that do fit my heritage. Also, I had to take into account my DH’s opinions and his taste is pretty conventional.

These are neat. I like umlaats.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really like names that have multiple consonants next to each other that we wouldn’t do in English. Zdenek, Nkosinathi, Vyacheslav, Ndikko, I am pretty sure people would find them all weird for my kid with no Slavic or Southern African heritage so my kids have names that do fit my heritage. Also, I had to take into account my DH’s opinions and his taste is pretty conventional.

These are neat. I like umlaats.

Umlauts? Like Jürgen or Brünnhilde?

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An Israeli friend of mine just named her daughter Meytal. I think that's just beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I think OP meant names from cultures other than your own and is not planning on naming their child Greek Smith.

Exactly.

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Thanks, everyone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a really stupid topic, OP.

Why, and why did you read it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An Israeli friend of mine just named her daughter Meytal. I think that's just beautiful.

Read a book with a character named Maysant. Love it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like Japanese or Indian names. They all sound too alike to my sad untrained ears.

Greek names to me are 50/50. They can be amazing or awful.

I like Vietnamese names. Some of them are pretty amazing and unique.

Examples of Greek and Vietnamese names you like?

I love Japanese names. My favorites are Aiko and Mariko but there are many, many beautiful names in Japanese. I also love a lot of Korean names, though admittedly my favorite is Hana, in part because it's in so many languages and cultures. But it sounds beautiful with a Korean accent.

Ophelia and Daphne of course. Thalia, Penelope.

For vietnamese: Chien, Duc, Tam, Van, Quan.

Mariko is beautiful. I agree.

Love all of these. I didn’t even realize Daphne or Thalia were Greek, but they are lovely. I love the simplicity of those Vietnamese names. My best friend from grad school was Vietnamese-Irish-American and I loved all her family names. She and her sister have Western names though. I think it was hard for immigrant families in our generation to commit to using names from their homeland. And might still be challenging— I see the comments on DCUM and can see how judgmental people are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like Japanese or Indian names. They all sound too alike to my sad untrained ears.

Greek names to me are 50/50. They can be amazing or awful.

I like Vietnamese names. Some of them are pretty amazing and unique.

Examples of Greek and Vietnamese names you like?

I love Japanese names. My favorites are Aiko and Mariko but there are many, many beautiful names in Japanese. I also love a lot of Korean names, though admittedly my favorite is Hana, in part because it's in so many languages and cultures. But it sounds beautiful with a Korean accent.

Ophelia and Daphne of course. Thalia, Penelope.

For vietnamese: Chien, Duc, Tam, Van, Quan.

Mariko is beautiful. I agree.

I LOVE Mariko too.

Also love Turkish names because they are like poetry, e.g. Yakamoz “moonlight shimmering on water”.