your opinion on raetoromanic names (swiss)

[jaabaar]

Hi,

Just wanted to know your opinions as non-raetoromanic to the following names:

Ladina
Luzia
Livia
Imelda

Thanks

[Sarimillie]

Livia is lovely. Not wild about the others, although Luzia is fine.

[frakkinpannikin]

Livia I like. Imelda is also really nice and unusual. Luzia I guess would depend on the pronunciation (and she'll proabably always have to spell it).

Ladina I'm really not keen on though.

[bluebump]

I like Livia.

[MrsVik]

I like them all! Livia was on our list for a while (love the nn Liv) but with our harsh sounding German surname, it sounded too much. Luzia is very close to the name we have chosen!

[bellissima]

Like Livia (deliciously ruthless Livias in Roman dramas - fraid that greatly appeals!). Not sure about the rest (much prefer Lucy to Luzia/Lucia but then I'm just being parochial). Imelda would always get asked about her shoe collection.

[TwoPersephone]

Ladina sounds like a comedy ladette name, not a wise choice.

Others are lovely

[MrsBadger]

Livia much the best IMO

[Feierabend]

Definitely not Ladina. The other ones are fine although Livia would work best in an English speaking environment I think.

[BonsoirAnna]

Agree with others that Livia is a lovely name.

[FatFree]

Gonna buck the trend and go with Luzia

[phdlife]

sorry to be so thick but what's raetoromanic?

[MrsVik]

A language spoken in Switzerland alongside German, French and Italian.

Those Swiss, they think they're so clever....

:P

[phdlife]

oh that's interesting - I saw a paper once on swiss tv that went on and on about the three languages, never mentioned that... or did it? [hates-sleep-deprived-memory-loss emoticon]

[TwoIfBySea]

Quite like Luzia too, unusual but lovely.

[jaabaar]

Thank you for all the messages! CAn really be an eye opener!!
Imelda is my mum's name and since she went through a lot of things to raise me and provide for me and I am only daughter I thought I would use her name as my daughter's name.

However I might now use it as second name!

Raetormanic is the 4th language spoken in Switzerland! And this langauge is again split in 4 different grammars! Only about 40,000 people speak Sursilvan which is my raetoromanic! So I must make sure at least I use a raetoromanic name and teach the langauge!

Thanks to all appreciate!

[edam]

Love Livia, Imelda's fine, Ladina and Luzia woudln't be my choices personally but if they suit your baby then who am I to criticise?

Am all in favour of keeping smaller languages alive, btw. As the daughter and DIL of Welsh men I made sure ds had a Welsh name. (Not that I can actually speak Welsh, unfortunately.)

[edam]

Don't think any of the names would be too tricky for people in England to handle, btw. Yes, the last two are unusual, but there are lots of names from different cultures around these days.

[dogofpoints]

didn't it used to be called romany? That's what we were told at school

[BonsoirAnna]

I thought it was Romanche.

[thisisyesterday]

i like Livia and Imelda

in fact, just yesterday i was waiting outside marks and spencer for someone and i suddenly thought "Imelda, that's a good name"

i have NO idea what prompted it. i am not pregnant, nor do i know anyone who is. i have only sons.

maybe it's an omen

[jaabaar]

ROMANY!!!??? No nooo dont confuse with romanian!

Romanch is also one way my language is called. Or raeto-romanic.

Thanks again for all the comments!

Really appreciate!

Engrazia (thanks!)

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Oooh, I like unusual languages. Teach me some more! Like all of your names except Imelda (I had an evil nanny called Imelda) and Ladina (which sounds too much like Ladino - a Sephardic Jewish language!).

[pranma]

I like Imelda and Livia

[NadiaWadia]

Luzia sounds nice. Is that the equivalent of Lucy in your language.

Livia also very nice (but there is the association with the poisoning wife of Emperor Augustus of course)

Ladina - not so good.

Imelda - Marcos. Corruption and massive shoes collection. Not a good association maybe?