What name would you love to use but you feel you can't because it's from another culture?

[Wavyheaded]

Just for fun... I'm not even close to having a kid but love thinking about names.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Serafina (my all time favourite name!) but I'm not of Mediterranean or French descent and so it would be weird to use it - unless I marry a French man.

I also love Ettyenne, another French name (I think), it's just so elegant.

What do you wish you could use?

Nafeesa - absolutely love it
Love the spelling of Mariyah as well.

I love many Polish names, Jurek, Jerry, Marek and Pavel

Tove! No Swedish links whatsoever though. And everyone would say it to rhyme with stove. Even in my northern Irish accent it just sounds like Tova

I've always loved Athena, but no Greek connections

Sumiko

and for a boy Lars

Che but the way it’s spelled means shit in my mother tongue..

Amina
Soraya
Alistair

Priya is one of my favourite names.

Sacha for a boy.
Nuala
Tagdh
Aoife
Eleri
Ania
Anastasia
Lucie (love this spelling!)
Violette
Oskar
Sven
Lars

Reuben. When I told him I was considering it my dad howled with laughter and kept saying Mazel Tov 😒

I also love Anoushka

To all of those who say you wouldn't use "Latin" sounding names with English surnames, that happens quite a bit in Argentina. There's a very famous Gustavo Adrian Clark

Soraya. Beautiful name

Why can’t you use names from a different culture when every single person working in Indian call centres are called John?

I really love the name Sorcha but there is not one drop of Irish in either me or my husband.

Love loads of Hawaiian names

I'm a Miriam. Throws everyone off (I'm Irish but dark featured) and have had some really nasty stuff said over the years. I wish my dad had stuck with Mary to be honest.

Gosh, really?! I’m Irish too and I wouldn’t have thought Miriam an uncommon name over here at all (cf Miriam O’Callaghan).
I’m surprised as well that people would consider Biblical names ‘out’ if they’re not practicing Christians or Jews themselves - these were just the ordinary names of the people of the time, and so many of them are completely mainstream now (David, Sarah, Ruth, Joseph).

Yes loads

Tove
Torin
Shay
Khadija
Giovanna

We're a really mixed race family but not a drop of the above

I love Irish names but zero Irish links here and personally think it would sound v odd to use them x

Leila/ Leela is one of my fave names at the moment for impending baby no. 2 but I'm a bit worried I'm stealing it from Indian culture

I love the name alessandro for a boy!!!! or alessio!!!!!! Won’t use it because it’s a bit too Italian but I’m calling my baby Alex and I’ll call him Ale in the Italian pronunciation for short

Any of the welsh names!

Zosia and Xanthippi are two of mine.

Thankfully, I have both Scottish and Irish heritage so that opens up a world of names I love.

Soren and Aishwarya. Such beautiful names.

@maryberryslayers I know 2 Reubens and a Ruben none of which have any Jewish ancestry. It’s a Biblical name like Joseph, Noah or Peter.