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international names

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annielemongrass · 25/02/2022 19:42

What are your favourite international baby names for boys and girls. Love love love Maria but it's the most used name globally and that's put me off a bit.

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glowingpink · 26/02/2022 17:33

Clara
Sofia
Leila

Caramelcap · 26/02/2022 17:34

@MaizeAmaze I suggested that but husband didn't like it

BlueFlavour · 26/02/2022 17:35

Alexandra

Gabriel

Caramelcap · 26/02/2022 17:36

@Helenluvsrob Nah Idris Alba plus we know someone called Ibra ... too similar IMO

timoteigirl · 26/02/2022 17:50

Can you narrow down from international? After Maria, Anna is the most common name for girls. Hannah or Hanna is easy, too. Emma Olivia Matilda Sofia, Variations of Elizabeth: Elisabeth, Elise, Isabel, Elsie, Bella, Belle, Elisa, Eliza, Isabella, Isobel, the Scottish Ailsa, the Icelandic Ellisif, or the Hungarian Erzsebet.
Alexandra, Alessia, Alejandra

Paloma? Carmen? Anja?

Carl/ Karl/ Charles/ Kaarlo for a boy.
Marcus.
Kai also in Scandinavia, China or Hawaii.
Boris (sorry)
John, Johan, Jack, Johannes
Niko, Nikos, Nicholas, Nicholaus

www.momjunction.com/articles/baby-names-from-around-the-world_00395995/

clpsmum · 26/02/2022 19:14

I love
Hakim
Ping
Luca

Latifah
Layman
Iman

Hellodaahling · 26/02/2022 20:16

Mia
Mila
Sofia
Camilla

Adam for boys

Luredbyapomegranate · 26/02/2022 22:06

[quote fallfallfall]@YupNameChangeAgain i just double checked to not offend anyone but also variations of patrick in russian chech and polish plus more options.

paul has even more international variations[/quote]
Well Patrick is a saint so would be all over the Christian world in some form I’d imagine.

Anna, Alexandra… boys are harder? But I guess Peter and Leo are in a lot of places in some form.

Unless you are in a very RC bit of the world OP I wouldn’t think Maria was that overused?

Luluuuuuuuuuu85 · 27/02/2022 08:20

Saskia?

Luluuuuuuuuuu85 · 27/02/2022 08:21

And Ivan for a boy!

YupNameChangeAgain · 27/02/2022 08:49

Am intrigued by people’s ideas of what constitutes “international”

Are we saying Christian names in a western language … even if it can have multiple variations that make them unrecognisable , one from the other ?

Let’s take George for example -
Turns into Jorge in Spain
Georgio in Italy
Jorn for scandi
Yorgi or Gorgi further east

Are these names really the same amd internationally known ?

I am guessing asia and Africa don’t count

KirstenBlest · 27/02/2022 13:29

@YupNameChangeAgainn - it's Giorgio in italian, Giorgos in Greek: Arabic: Girgis; Basque: Gorka; Bulgarian: Georgi; French: Georges; German: Georg, Jörg, Jürgen, Jörgen; Georgian: გიორგი (Giorgi); Danish: Jørgen; Estonian: Spanish and Portuguese: Jorge; Italian: Giorgio; Catalan: Jordi; Lithuanian: Jurgis; Norwegian: Jørgen, Georg; Dutch: Joris, Sjors; Hungarian: György; Polish: Jerzy; Portuguese: Jorge, (Yury), Yegor; Slovak: Juraj; Swedish: Göran, Jörgen, Örjan, Georg; Czech: Jiří; Finnish: Jyrki, Yrjö.

Many languages don't have the J sound so would struggle with George, so it's not really international

Something like Andreas would work in a lot of european countries

babyjellyfish · 27/02/2022 13:38

Hugo is used in most European languages.

YupNameChangeAgain · 27/02/2022 15:33

Internationally accepted is now any name that’s Christian even if it’s widely different country to country within Europe ?

KirstenBlest · 27/02/2022 20:09

@YupNameChangeAgain, I wouldn't say so. I suggested Andreas because it is phonetic, so shouldn't cause much problems

Something like Adam is fairly 'international' as it is muslim, jewish and christian.

timoteigirl · 27/02/2022 20:44

@YupNameChangeAgain, I wouldn't think Christian/ biblical names are truly international although widespread. For example there are countries where name Adam is not common. And many African countries use a wider range of Biblical names than here, for instance.

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