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s/o name post
What are some "local" names you really like?
For boys:
Aitor (Basque)
Aingeru (Basque)
Ignacio/Nacho (Spanish) - I don't know why
For girls:
Sofia (Spanish)
Lucia (Spanish)
Re: s/o name post
I looooooooove the name Beate, though don't think I could ever use it because of pronunciation.
Does anybody care to take a stab at it, to see just how slaughtered it would be outside of Norway?
For a boy I like Terje (tar-yuh) but no way would that fly outside of the frozen north. Basically anything ending with an -e is off limits. Boo.
Success! Maybe I shouldn't write it off just yet.
I love Sofia and Lucia - both are on my list.
One of my coworkers in the US is named Beate, and I don't think it gets butchered too much. Don't write it off just yet!
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
(Edit: Sorry, this is in response to "Beate")
? Publius, I wonder if the girl you knew pronounced her name as she thought it would be better understood internationally because bay-AH-tuh is the German pronunciation of it.
Honestly, considering some of the crazy names used today (just visit the Baby Names board occasionally), I think Beate ranks rather low on the crazy-foreign-name scale. I personally don't like it, so I wouldn't use it, but I don't think you should discount it just because it could get mispronounced. On Baby Names just the other day there was a post about regular names that get butchered, and I was amazed at how names like Michael, Joyce, or Brandon could cause people so many problems.
I wouldn't write it off. I knew how to pronounce it because I know a Norwegian named Annette with the 'uh' sound at the end. It isn't too difficult to pronounce.
I like Astrid, but I find it uglier in English. Also, Beno?t, Catherine (pronounced with a hard 't' and not the 'th' sound), Jean-marc, Margaux and Ana?s
Remember, we're a specialized group here. You have to try to pronounce like the isolated, english-only Americans would (BEE-TEE?). That's how DH and I usually try out names (adding a nasal Wisconsin accent for good measure).
From here I really like the name Siya (Cee-ya), though it's a boy's name here. DH also likes the name Thando (Tahn-doh), which means gift.
Gotcha :-)
There are many French names I love- Mireille, Delphine and Maite (with an umlaut over the i that I can't make right now) are at the top of my list. DH is ok with them, but agrees with me that it would be weird to use any of them unless the next baby is either conceived in or born while we're living in France.
Our boy's name has been decided since 2000 and is non-negotiable. It's Santiago. Our runners up are Orlando and Rodrigo. I can't think of any French boy names I like better than these three.
When we were in Wales I loved Myfanwy and Angharad and Rhys (but not the American sounding pronunciation: reece), and now we're nearly in Scotland (and have a lot of Scots living south of the border), I like Alistair (Ali).
I know, I was so sad when I saw that since I love it so much, but I also don't want to use something too trendy unless it has special meaning to me.
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012