What do you think of using names from a culture you have no connection to? Just musing on a Saturday afternoon, and looooove the name Malin but don't think I could get away with it. Me and DH are as English as possible, my great grandmother was Irish but that's as exotic as it gets
Just using Malin as an example, there are tons of other names I would use if I 'could' - cornish/welsh/scandi/greek mainly. But people would always follow it up with, 'oh, are you from xxx?', wouldn't they? But then other greek names, eg Zoe, I don't have the same feeling about, I guess cos they're so common here.
I did meet an Indian couple on a flight who called their kid Rhys, just cos they liked it, and I think that's great - I guess I worry too much about what people think of us, ha.
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Malin, not scandi
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BendydickCuminsnatch · 29/04/2017 16:22
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