Anonymous
10/16/2025 20:49
Subject: If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
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.
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.
Yes. I can’t believe someone went up to a mother and tried to claim Noah was for Jewish people only.
My family going back to the early 1900s, French Canadian, it was common to have the first name Marie or Mary. But they used their middle names in every day life. For example Marie Elizabeth was called Elizabeth or Liz, never Marie.
In doing ancestry the names can be interesting and sometimes tell a story.
Anonymous
10/16/2025 16:34
Subject: If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel
Anonymous wrote:would she ever want to go by Belly? I'm watching The Summer I Turned Pretty and just can't imagine going by Belly past about age four.
It's a forced made up meme nickname created just for that show. It's memorable and helps create buzz.
Anonymous
10/16/2025 16:16
Subject: If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel
Anonymous wrote: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 an idiotic take.
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).
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.
Fair enough. Now do Luca.