Pria / Priya for white British baby girl

I know a white-passing but Asian Priya and she does get lots of annoying questions from stupid people. Up to you whether that puts you off.
Pia as an alternative maybe?

Ok possibly outing myself here...

My name is Priya. I am a white British female in her late 30s and honesty NO ONE has ever asked me about my name or where it has come from. My parents are white British.

I ended up working with another Priya who is of Indian decent and she never questioned it either! She was excited to have a 'name twin'.

Name your daughter the name YOU what, not what a bunch of strangers on the internet say you should/should not.

My eldest is in school with all sorts of names, Tai, Cass, Mackenzie and even a Zen... no one asks their parents at the school gate about their names!

My (Indian) husband says it’s fine and thinks the whole cultural appropriation thing is patronising and ridiculous anyway. He says it’s the kind of thing that actual Indians wouldn’t even think of, would just think it was lovely and a compliment that someone used an Indian name, whereas only someone from, say, the UK or USA with a very distant connection to India would claim ‘cultural appropriation’. In my experience of our friends, family and neighbours in India this does seem true.

(also, despite now being married into an indian family and living here for much of the year, the only Priya I’ve ever met was a white British girl when I was at uni!)

I think many people's definition of "cultural appropriation" is something like when you use a name, hairstyle or clothing from an "exotic" minority culture which you have no connection to, i.e. when you're borrowing the glamorous aspects of another culture to make yourself a bit interesting, whilst not being exposed to any of the drawbacks that affects the members of that group (because you're white). I think you will come across people who hold that belief and they may judge you because of it. Whether or not you care about that enough to change your mind is perhaps a different question!

It's a lovely name. Who cares? And in her generation, people will care even less. Go for it!

Cultural appropriation is a fine line, but given the history between Britain and India and the connection to colonialism, I do think that it would be wholly inappropriate. And as someone mentioned above, it's your daughter that would have to live with it, not you.

People will notice, I can’t think it’s going to offend anyone, but she will spend time explaining it… I wouldn’t, but I guess she can switch to Eve if she feels like it. Or how about Pippa?

It has no associations whatsoever for me - ignorant pig of a caucasian that I am! Call your chuld whatever you like. I have an Indian friend called Susan and no one's wandering about thinking it's odd.

If both the parents are white I would assume that the white dad is actually the step-dad and the biological dad is Indian.

Actually, why? There are many Anglo-Indian names around - Anita, Rita - off the top of my head. Many western names are popular in the east, so why not use an Asian name if you want to?

I don't think Priya is as obvious in its heritage as is being made out and can think of many white children of acquaintances with names of similar ilk - Maya, Alisha, Bina, Arun.

But plenty of people won't just wonder, they'll ask. All her life, probably. That's a lot of baggage attached to her name from the get go.

I have this with Mehdi. I absolutely love the name and would love to use it, but I worry people would think it was rude to ‘steal’ a name…

I am Indian and I think it's fine. I might wonder for a second about your connection to the sub continent but nothing more.

Priya is a beautiful name. It means Beloved

I wouldn't. Cultural appropriation is a divisive topic with what it is, if it's an issue and where the line between cultural appropriation and cultural sharing lies. But it is a problem for many people, and the name is your child's and not yours. At best people might think it's weird and at worst they might find the name offensive. But a name is someone's identity and one of the first pieces of information they give about themselves to strangers, and having that be culturally charged feels like doing your child a disservice.

Why not? Or Prisca (biblical)

Go with Eve ☺️
Eve and Orla ❤️❤️❤️

Eta - there isn't!

I love it. My daughter has a French name and in 15 years no one has ever asked if there is a French connection.

If u like the name priya call your baby priya who cares what other people think... it's a lovely name xx

Of course they didn't. It's not remotely the same thing

Nope. I'm Indian and you it be very odd to do that. You also don't want your child to spend her life explaining why that's her name. Tbh Priya might sound very unique but it's such a common name in the Indian culture. Like probably Mary or Bob.

I probably wouldn’t to be honest. Same as I wouldn’t call a little white British boy Seo-jun or a little white British girl Sukhvinder. It would just be a bit odd and I think would create an expectation/open questions.

Yoi don't have to ask anyones permission to call your child a particular name. There was an Indian girl at my school called Alison. Nobody batted an eyelid!!

I’d assume Asian heritage but white passing tbh, you may get a lot of questions about what your link to India is. But names do get adopted by other cultures over time, so I don’t think there’s anything actually wrong with doing it.
so….but weird but ok? ——-sits on fence——-