If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel
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Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
+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
Tom, Dick, and Harry? |
Anonymous
Isabel/Jane-Joan-Joanna/Lucas |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| 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" |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| How about Jezebel? |
Anonymous
What an idiotic take. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
Most names originate from the oldest places on Earth and that does not include America. Most of our names originate from Greek, Hebrew, Latin, the Bible, Arabic. The trend in the US started in the early 1990s where parents started using Isabella instead the formerly common Isabel. |
Anonymous
You're not even pronouncing it correctly if you have no connection. It is weird to name your kid an Italian name and then say it as an English only speaker. I mean if you went to Italy and met a Brandon whose parents had nothing to do with the US, it might be a little weird. Given that people seem to think it sounds exotic or something, it goes from weird to cringe. I am not talking about people who name the kid after the Italian grandmother or something (most people using these names do not fall into that category). |
Anonymous
| I will admit I call my somewhat pudgy cat named Bella Belly sometimes. Would never do this to a human, though. |
Anonymous
DP. It's a name that's been used by English speakers for centuries. There has been at least one English born queens of England with the name Isabella (the wife of King John in the 13th century), and another (Scottish born) was very nearly Queen of Scotland. Isabella Whitney was an influential poet in the 16th century. I think these arguments are usually silly, but this is an especially silly example. |
Anonymous
Biblical names were very common in New England going back to the colonies. i.e. Noah Webster It's just more palatable to modern tastes than Jedidiah. |