If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

Depends on the name. We live in a migratory world. Names travel. Every name you think of as "American" or belonging to the English-speaking world is likely derived from another place and language. Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, old French, German, or English.

Of the names you've mentioned, Isabella has made the leap to English speakers and will no longer make people assume you're Italian. Luca is borderline -- you'd be fine in cities but it will sound foreign in some parts of the US. Gianna looks and sounds Italian to Americans, if you use it, people will probably think it's weird you don't have Italian heritage.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What culture do you think Isabella comes from? If you look, historically, it's used all over the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_(given_name)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

Depends on the name. We live in a migratory world. Names travel. Every name you think of as "American" or belonging to the English-speaking world is likely derived from another place and language. Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, old French, German, or English.

Of the names you've mentioned, Isabella has made the leap to English speakers and will no longer make people assume you're Italian. Luca is borderline -- you'd be fine in cities but it will sound foreign in some parts of the US. Gianna looks and sounds Italian to Americans, if you use it, people will probably think it's weird you don't have Italian heritage.

Agreed I don't think of Isabelle/a as that ethnic anymore. All "american" names originated somewhere else (or are derived from something that did)

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Belly is a No.

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It’s bad if they are overweight.

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We're a mixed American/Mexican family, and Isabel is a perfect name for our daughter. We use the Mexican pronunciation, but the name works well in both Spanish- and English-speaking circles. She doesn't really like Isa, and goes by her full name.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What are the American names?

+1

I have an older Noah early on when the name was exploding and when he was 1 I had an older lady admonish me for picking it because it's a Jewish name

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What are the American names?

Tom, Dick, and Harry?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What are the American names?

Isabel/Jane-Joan-Joanna/Lucas

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What culture do you think Isabella comes from? If you look, historically, it's used all over the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_(given_name)

You just sound a little silly as an English-only speaking American who names their child this. Sorry not sorry. Isabel is plenty if you want to be more exotic than Elizabeth.

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I read DCUM a lot, and remember a post at one point about a woman who ask if it would be weird to name her kid Belly because her toddler called the unborn baby that. Everyone was like "my god just name her Isabelle"

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Anonymous wrote:I personally only know Isas (ee-sahs, or Lisa without the L), from Spanish or Latin backgrounds or not, and I find Bella really grating.

I think it’s because every 20 something guy I knew before I was married had a lab named Bella. So when I hear a HS-aged girl named that, I think “chubby black lab who knows clever party tricks”. One of them could open the beer fridge!

Bella is totally a dog name at this point. There are soooo many. I tend to see more "little white thing with eye booger stains" than labs though.

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How about Jezebel?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What an idiotic take.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a good time to mention that naming your kid Isabella/Gianna/Luca/any foreign name when you are not from that culture is cringey?

What are the American names?

+1

I have an older Noah early on when the name was exploding and when he was 1 I had an older lady admonish me for picking it because it's a Jewish name

I have a fairly unusual name that now people seem to think is Jewish/Hebrew. When I was growing up, if you looked up the name's origin it came up as Old Greek, and it's from an opera. Now it's Hebrew.

OT, I know, but just reminded me.