Do I tell her?

It's fine in itself, but it sounds rather close to diarrhoea, especially depending on the accent.

I think it's normally pronounced as DAH-ree-uh, but it's not the best-known name; so if people aren't familiar with it, they're likely to guess that it might rhyme with the far more common Maria.

I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying that I would not want my child to have a name that everybody would laugh at in the culture in which they were being brought up.

Establish yourself in Italy and then freely call your new DD Pippa, if you like - so that every time she meets somebody new in her own home country, she is effectively introducing herself to everybody as "Hello, I'm blow job". She might even find that her own name is censored on her school/work intranet as obscene and all of her emails are instantly blocked. I'm just saying that most parents would care enough about their children not to do that.

Just like, if I had moved from a country with a different language, I wouldn't insist on them only speaking my own native language and not learning the language of what is now their country. Wonderful if they can become fluent in both; but they do need to be able to communicate freely in their home country.

I don't know why you specifically picked up on the Indian example rather than any of the European ones - we're obviously talking about language here, not race or skin colour, if that was where your mind was going.

What’s wrong with Daria?

oh yeah tell a French person what it means in her own language
smh

To be fair, Chlamidya and Diarrhoea also sound pretty and pleasant to the ear - if you don't know what they actually mean!

In fact, I'd also avoid using Daria for that very purpose!!

It’s none of your business if someone wants to give a non British name including - gasp! - an Indian one

Dikshit?! 😅It makes Saline pale into insignificance!

Just because a name isn't English or a non English speaker gives their child a legitimate name in their culture that sounds 'funny' or 'silly' or 'like a word in your country' to you means absolutely nothing and is actually pretty racist to even think like that.

That's not true. It isn't racist to think that a name sounds like a word in a different language.
Why would thinking that Peter sounds like "fart" be racist? Which race is affected?

in Latin it definitely won't be pronounced as saline. however, English people will read and pronounce it that way. I'd say something too

No that would be just adding salt to the wound!

She has google its on her. Its not just mouthwash though sea water is a saline solution so you both are missing something!

Just checked and it means the same in French!

Ah so it isn't pronounced like the English pronunciation of salt water at all (say-line).

Say-leen sounds much prettier. In that case I would not mention it at all.

Plenty of people in the UK say say-leen drip (I’m in NE England and hear it plenty). Either way the spelling is going to be an issue because of both pronunciation issues and connotations. Gently checking she understands the meaning of a chosen name within the context of the country they live in isn’t patronising. Knowing a word means “salty” in Latin languages is very different to knowing it’s an incredibly common medical product.

Same! my mind doesn't go to salty solution so it sounds fine as a name to me.

I probably wouldn't mention it - I'd think they are probably aware - most folk would at least do a quick search on a baby name.

But she lives in the UK and that's where her DD will grow up. You don't move to a different country and then live there in a vacuum.

Would you think it wise if an Indian family who had moved to the UK and become long-term established here called their DS Dikshit - which is a not-uncommon Indian name?

If you lived in France, would you call your DS Peter, which means 'to fart' in French?

If you lived in Italy, would you call your DD Nicola or Andrea, and leave everybody puzzling over why she has (to them) a boy's name?

Was it Trigger? Or maybe Triggetta as a feminine version?!

Saline also means SALTY in French. :-) Tell her this!

...like Marge (and Homer, obviously).

This has sent me into orbit !!! Baby chlamydia 😭😂😂😂😂😂

I would, Celine is lovely though, very chic! Definitely not Saline.

I once heard of a Chanade (combo of Chanelle and Lemonade) instead od Sinead.

@housethatbuiltme , Saline isn't a girl's name in the cultures involved, so your reply isn't relevant.

Yes definitely tell her

Yes absolutely tell her that this is an English word that means salty water and has medical connotations to native English speakers.

I'm firmly in the camp of mind your own business. Honestly the balls on some people.

Just because a name isn't English or a non English speaker gives their child a legitimate name in their culture that sounds 'funny' or 'silly' or 'like a word in your country' to you means absolutely nothing and is actually pretty racist to even think like that.

If I had had a penny for every person who thought to give their completely unwanted opinion on my non English name Id honestly be rich. Its luckily got better over time, the 90s where insanely racist, the 00s where a mix and by the 10s political correctness was taking off. Now I just get annoyingly interrogated as to why that name, wheres that from, where you from, where your parents from. I am English and an English speaker and my name sounds like a random word when said out loud (which people love to point out as if we are idiots that don't know, of course we know) and I frankly don't give a fuck of their opinions. No one is asking what you feel about their name so just shut up.

Saline isn't a bad word, it basically means 'salt water' and in most accents it sounds exactly like Celine/Selene sounds.

You want to talk about 'silly' theres a literal tonne of Amelia's running around right now and its straight up the medical term for a disability and means 'born without limbs'. It's completely OK though isn't it because thats popular and heavily used in England even though its an actual birth defect. It's obviously only ever a problem that needs 'correcting' if its seen as a 'foreign' name though.

No need for the angst. Just say ‘it’s lovely given the heritage of the name. Most people in UK will be familiar with that pronunciation and spelling as a surgical wash for wounds. Just mentioning it in case you weren’t aware’ Then she’s informed and it’s up to her.

There’s no way a Spanish guy would pronounce it like that.
in Spain it’s sah-lee-neh

I think you need to tell her English people would struggle with it and put the error on them rather than her choice of name.