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Reply to "If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote] 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.[/quote] 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)[/quote]
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