MILAN is the 7th most popular boys name [shock]

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[squeaver]

Does it mean something different over there?

[Anna8888]

What is wrong with Milan exactly?

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[Anna8888]

Yes, it's a very traditional name in its own right - you are quite wrong to think that people are being inspired by the city .

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[filthymindedvixen]

well I suppose it's easier in a european sense (rathe than a dutch sense) for other people to pronounce and spell than say,

Thijmen
Faas
Aad
Jaap
Matthijs

etc


I can see people with British relatives thinking 'The MIL is going to bust my ass if I call him Gijs , so maybe I'll just call him Milan....''

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[zippitippitoes]

interesting that tim is number two

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[mrsruffallo]

So what? Just another excuse for MN snobbery?
Why do you care whther they named after the city or whether the parents have any connection with it?
I think names are much more interesting now than they used to be.
This sneering is so unbecoming

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[mrsruffallo]

You don't have to like anything but you don't have to sneer

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[LadySanders]

my ds2 was nearly called milan. we happen to have czech family and ds1 has a czech name too. but chose the names cos we like them, just like everyone else does

[Anna8888]

I just don't see that Milan is anything but a traditional sort of name. I have known several Milans (I think they were all Czech) in my life and it has never struck me as remotely off the radar screen.

[Boulders]

Milan is also a popular name amoungst south asians, it's a traditional name in it's own right. This is only a problem for the narrow minded mn brigade.

[TheNaughtiestGirlIsaMonitor]

Yes, Tim and Lisa in the #2 and #7 positions more surprising.

[TheNaughtiestGirlIsaMonitor]

Milan sounds pretty to my ear. It sounds like a girl. I'#d probably only have to know one boy called Milan for me to lose that gut feeling though.

[3andnomore]

just checked the site and looked at the meaning...and of what I can see it seems a slavic/yugoslavic name....are there many ex-yugoslavians living in Netherlands?

Tbh, it's not actually a very poffending name or anything...also, surely every country will have different top 20...because every country will have diffrent history with names....

a german name site top 25

different areas different top whatever..

ms name is on rank 19. wohoo....

[1dilemma]

Actually I think historically it is very common in Holland to 'use other countries names' so to speak. French names were in the top list a while ago. (I know a Dutch family where all the daughters have 'French' names, the daughters children are called Caitlin and Robin!!)

[3andnomore]

Germany is similar (probably becasue names like Heinz, Guenther, Gertrude, Gunda....just aren't nice sounding names )