What do the parents of Arya do?

[ireallyshouldbeworking]

Pronounced Arr-yah. If you heard of someone calling their child this name, would you make any assumptions about what her parents were like/ what job they did?

[givemeaclue]

Fantasy role players

[givemeaclue]

Are ya?
Are ya having tea
Are ya coming out
Etc

[SpringHeeledJack]

they live up a mountain somewhere in the States with a gun cache under the bed

[mercibucket]

Not sure what their jobs are but it involves crystals, homeopathy, energy fields and tinkling bells

[mercibucket]

Not sure what their jobs are but it involves crystals, homeopathy, energy fields and tinkling bells

[Hassled]

Potters. I think they'd make pots. Ugly cups etc.

[Bumpsadaisie]

I'll give you my honest answer - my first thought would be that they were fascist white supremacists (Aryan). Sorry!

[BarbecuedBillygoats]

How mn
A thread that becomes about pirate sex

Not having seen GOT I still don't think it has good connotations

[RillaBlythe]

Make swastikas.

[EmpressOfTheMadBoxOfFrogs]

Not having seen Game of Thrones I'd think Third Reich too, sorry.

[DilysPrice]

IT, both of them.

[hatebeak]

Again, American neo-Nazis stockpiling arms in a mountain hideaway. Sorry...
Ariadne, Ariel, Soraya instead?

[DilysPrice]

But DD (10), who is not allowed to watch GOT funnily enough, says "I'd assume they didn't know much about the Second World War".

[DilysPrice]

...which I think is sweet of DD, she assumes ignorance rather than Nazism.

[lljkk]

Opera or music fans.

[YummyHoney]

Nothing of any value to society .

[mamalovesmojitos]

Thanks BOF, just spluttered a glass of red over my phone! My thoughts exactly.

[Bonsoir]

Oh, there is an Arya in my DD's year at school in Paris. His father is a professor of mathematics (at Columbia) and his mother is a graphic designer.

[Bonsoir]

Oh, and both Arya's parents are from the Iranian diaspora.

[MaMattoo]

You do know that the word means noble, truthful, great...yes?
What hitler and co did to the name and its meaning is recent history.
The god who is worshipped on Diwali is called 'arya-putra' or son of the noble one.

The arya I know is the son of a development economist and social scientist.

[mercibucket]

I think most of us are thinking along those lines, mamattoo: either neo-nazi ('recent history as you call it)or hippy (you do know it means noble, truthful, great .. Yes? Said while waving incense and wearing crystals)
There is also the 'foreign' option. Like bonsoir, the only people I know with similar names are from Iran

[PropositionJoe]

Haven't read the thread. I would pronounce it A-ree-yah if I hadn't been told. The parents would be Indian doctors.

[PropositionJoe]

Oh yes - and I'd think it was a boy

[3b1g]

The father would be called Ned (short for Eddard) and would be the Lord of a castle in the North. The mother would be called Catelyn.
Arya is a strong character and a good role model though.

[Rhubarbgarden]

Neo nazis