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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really dislike the Greek and Roman mythology names. I’ve met two kids named Apollo and one named Atlas.

The oddest name I’ve personally encountered is Fenix.[/quote]

There is a Greek community in my area; I know elementary school kids named Artemis and Electra (different families) and my son went to school with a Demosthenes.  I guess those names don’t sound unusual to native Greek speakers.  [/quote]

If they’re native Greek speakers or have significant heritage, then it would make sense to me. I knew an Athena growing up, and it wasn’t odd to me because her parents were born in Greece. The kids I know now with these names are 0% Greek. [/quote]

I love the Greek female names. I just posted that I know an Iphigenia and Andromeda. Two different families, but I don't know if they're Greek. Greek mythology is so pervasive across the world in naming conventions that I think it's acceptable for Americans without Greek heritage it to use them. [/quote]

Yeah, there's a difference between a name from Greek or Roman mythology, which is considered classical literature and part of the cultural inheritance of the entire Western world, and popular contemporary Greek name like Konstantin or Nikolaos. I view pretty much any name from Greek or Roman mythology to be fair game for pretty much anyone. I personally would be cautious about using many of the female Greek names because [b]some of those myths are absolutely brutal for women[/b], but the idea that they are off limits unless you are literally Greek is weird.  I mean, Sophia, Theodore, and Olivia are all from the Greek.[/quote]

NP. To your bolded point, both Iphigenia and Andromeda's parents try to sacrifice them.[/quote]

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