As a nurse I managed to keep my composed when I've just met baby Melina

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Should I say something???? Not that close a friend, but a friend nevertheless

Ah, I won't be mentioning it to SIL.

Again, not be medically trained I had not heard of the name in relation to a medical condition.

and of course Devora's mate's surname is Thrush, what else could it be?

When I did Midwifery in the early 1970's the apperient of choice was called Cascara. At least 2 mums that I knew of used this as a second name for their baby girls.:)

Princesses!

It's spelled differently and isn't the same word and most people will never have heard of the medical term, I hadn't until now, it would be very nasty of you to say anthing

In Polish 'melina' means a thug's den

Malina in Polish is a raspberry

Oh dear! I wasn't aware of the meanings of any of these names, but if I was thinking of naming my child with one of them I think I'd have had a good look at what they meant.

Would I say anything? No. But how unfortunate!

When we were building our house there was a guy who came to quote on the windows and his name was Anal. He pronounced in Ann-Al, but I thought 'Poor guy!'. He was Asian and presumably the name is perfectly fine in his parents' native land.

I would like to know. I am freakishly odd about name meaning though and ruled out tons, even those with tenuous, ambigious links. Lola, cecelia, Tallulah, kerenza (carenza - void in italian) Viola. The latter is a beautiful Shakespearean name but means something horrid in Spanish.
I am so ocd that I rule out names that sound like other things as well. However I know I'm being silly. They are just sounds after all. That said for me its a cultural thing, name meanings are more important than the sound. Others prefer the way something sound.
Growing up in multicultural school there were the kids with names that didn't translate well into English. They were always teased.
So do you think your friend is the type who would want to know?

When my other had heard a friends name he told me that in his home language it translated as 'poo shit'. Both first and second names are very very common too.

Spelt the way your friend has spelt it too, it doesn't mean faeces. It may sound the name, but according to Wiki: The female name Melina is of Greek origin and means "honey".

Lol
I once lived on a road with a house called Candida

Well, I am a HCP and would not be my first choice of name and I would've thought of 'melena'.

Having said that, IME it seems to be in the English speaking world that people struggle to accept that words in another language can have a totally different meaning or connotation. I am forrin and get really bored with the puerile sniggers about words in my native language. Get over yerselves!

In all my time working in hospitals I had never heard of 'Rose Cottage' as a euphemism for mortuary btw...

Not heard Rose Cottage either, we used to transfer people to ward 13.

That's like Amelia - really popular name, but also a medical term.

I know a Melina and have never heard of the medical term but she was a (greek) nurse and so presumably got by!

I love how old Latin names are descriptions, ie hey there's the girl without limbs! (I am a variant of this and have never heard of this meaning!).

I hate that twee "Rose Cottage" business. If even HCPs can't be direct about death then no wonder it's still a subject we can't talk about openly.

As a nurse myself I know exactly what melena is and how rotten and downright disgusting it smells. It follows you round for days. So I get why you had to keep your composure when you heard it. But as a lay person it wouldn't mean anything other than I guess its a nice name??? I couldn't ever relate it to being nice though because I know what it means medically. Having said that i wouldnt say anything to the person if it wasnt close family. At least its spelt differently though!

Its like my sister was going to call her baby Fea if it was a girl and I said you cant call her that- that means ugly in Spanish!

Pisfirpeter.. I went to school with a girl called candidia.. My mum was disgusted her parents had called her that.
And rose cottage is a term used in my hospital workplace. Or a Rosie as the porters call it..

I know people called Melina, Malena and Milena. None of them appear to have been damaged by the horror of their names.

As with 'Amelia', the name has an entirely different origin to the medical term, and the medical term is comparatively little known.

I do find Candida and Alexia a bit odd, as the problematic meanings are better known in those cases.

The only alternative meaning I knew about from all the names given here is Candida.