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”.

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.

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.

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

Why, and why did you read it?

Thanks, everyone!

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

Exactly.

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

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

This is a really stupid topic, OP.

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?