To give my baby a name from another culture.

[BubbleMix]

We are expecting our first DD in October. There is a name I really like, however everyone I have ever met with this name has come from a specific country which myself and OH have no connection to. I love the name but I don’t know if DD will have to keep explaining her name growing up. Should I go with it or pick something else?

Fair point ShirleyPhallus (great username)

I wouldn’t bat an eyelid at a white girl called Priya either tbh.

Not advisable if you happen to have a noun for a surname (particularly one that could be perceived as negative).

BubbleMix Jr: "Hello, I'm calling about the job you advertised."
Potential Employer: "Could I take your name, please?"
BM Jr: "Yara Pratt"
PE: "How very very dare you - don't waste your time applying, then!"

I think it's a lovely name. People use names from all over these days so it's not that uncommon to have a name from a different country/culture.

Arya is popular because of GoT. People will presume you're a fan. I think Arya will date badly when GoT dies down.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Deadly serious. Wanker is a surname in parts of the US (obviously it doesn’t have the same connotations) and my Mum cracked up laughing at the thought of some poor soul being lumbered with the name “Randy Wanker” how I wish she was still alive so I could tell her his sister might be “Yara Wanker”

Sorry OP! I still think Yara is a gorgeous name!

Yara Sophia is a beautiful famous drag queen who was on RuPauls Drag Race TV show I think s/he was Latin American but if I hadn't seen the show I would probably just think Yara was a little unusual but not tied to a particular culture.

Ciccabella Annunciata Ramsbottom has a certain ring to it.

Is that a name from GOT then?

I like Tara so if you give me five minutes I'll probably like Yara too.

@YeTalkShiteHen

Ooh, ooh, I can feel a Mumsnet Classic coming on....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3245503-what-are-the-funniest-names-you-ve-heard-of?pg=1&messages=100

Haha I’ve never been part of a Classics before (despite being around for a few years under different names!)

It created much hilarity at the time, mostly because my mum was the most buttoned up, prim and proper Presbyterian you could ever meet! But my word she lost it that day, she spat her tea out and everything!

The poster was saying that there isn’t ANYTHING wrong with it and it wouldn’t raise eyebrows at all

True, but that's not the point. Using 'black girl named Elizabeth' as an example of being 'fine' - the other example was an Indian girl named Chloe - has been rightly queried by several posters.

I went to college with a Sri Lankan girl called Yvonne.

Roisin Ingle who nobody would have heard of in the UK but she's a z lister in Ireland called her white daughter Priya and gave the other twin an Irish name I think.

I like Tara so if you give me five minutes I'll probably like Yara too

I like Zara, Tara and Lara more than Yara.

True. Me too!

I like it OP - different without being too 'out there'.

My name isn't unusual, but still not a name you hear all that often in UK, especially as I was growing up (I've actually heard of a couple under 5's called it recently). I have lost count of the amount of times I've been asked if I was Italian when people hear my name, especially as I have very dark hair. Personally I've never found it irritating to be asked and I've never had anybody ask why I'd be named something that typically is Italian if I have absolutely no connection to the country.
A few people have chuckled about me being English with an Italian forename and Irish surname, but that's it.

@YeTalkShiteHen

Actually, I don't think it ever officially made it into Classics - but a Classic by any other name.... !!

Yara is fine .

Unusual, but fine.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll there is that I do love your username although I’m now singing in my head

Summierisdone

Is it Lucia ?

The poster was saying that there isn’t ANYTHING wrong with it and it wouldn’t raise eyebrows at all

yes but the fact they think that would need saying implies that there could be something weird about it

Think you’re over thinking this, OP. I have a foreign name and have never been asked where I am from. People just assume my parents liked the name. No big deal.

Yara will be fine - all the GoT names are well known, so it won't be seen as unusual.

What an anticlimax 😂

If ever I met a British Yara, I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.