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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2014 1:45:41 GMT
I think the little dunce thought it was "Erin", an immensely popular name for girls in my son's age group.
Re: Emma ~~ about 10 years ago there was a big resurgence of interest in Jane Austen amongst young women, complete with reading & discussion groups. I assumed that's how Emma gained new popularity.
A major advantage of being born into a Catholic family back in the old days (which, surprise, is when I was born) was that you had to be baptized with a biblical or a saint's name. This ensured that one would get a "real" name, rather than that of a famous jewelry store, fancy glasswear, or something more suited to a pet.
And again, Agnes is an absolutely beautiful name.
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Post by patricklondon on May 7, 2014 6:07:54 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 7, 2014 6:19:51 GMT
Emma as a baby name was popular in Canada in the mid-1970s and I think it was quite popular in Sweden too.
I too like the name Agnes -- it was one I suggested last year when our son and his wife were expecting another baby.
So does the Agyness pronounce it Agnes? Don't know why she changed it from Laura, which is okay.
I was named for the heroine in a book my mother liked when she was 13, but it was still a pretty common name when I was born. Though not many in France.
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Post by lagatta on May 7, 2014 10:37:20 GMT
Idem Catholic family in old days.
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Post by rikita on May 8, 2014 21:11:51 GMT
one thing i noticed here is, that while ago lots of names starting with "l" were popular (leon, lukas, lena, lina, laura, luise etc.), now it seems to have shifted to "a". at least, i keep meeting other people who's child's name starts with a. today, when i arrived at the family center, there were five babies and toddlers there, four of who had names starting with "a" ...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 31, 2014 7:41:01 GMT
I live in fear on my son and DiL having a son....son says that they would name a son Tiberius Alexander our surname begins with the letter 'G' so the poor lamb would be called TAG for short (amongst other things I would imagine...)
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Post by bjd on Jul 31, 2014 9:33:12 GMT
Tibby? The neighbours would think your son and DiL were calling the cat home. Of course, as soon as he talked the child could balk and say he wanted to be called Alex. Was Tiberius at least a reasonably good emperor? Two of my friends had granddaughters born last week. Invented names in N for both of them: Nayeli and Neehla. Especially the second kid whose parents are both French. Why stick an h in a name when it's not pronounced anyway? I still don't know how the other name will be said.
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2014 10:12:17 GMT
I have a new grandchild due to be born in three weeks. Not only do we not know what names my dil and son have chosen, but they have specifically asked the doctor not to tell them the sex of the child.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 11:16:57 GMT
Josephine has become a very popular name these days. Both my grandmothers were named Josephine and I always thought it to be a very old fashioned name, much like Agnes was at a time.
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Post by bjd on Jul 31, 2014 11:30:54 GMT
To me, Josephine is still very old-fashioned. However Agnes has been popular in France for years now, maybe it bit less now than about 20 or 30 years ago. I like it in Polish: Agnieszka.
My grandmothers' names were Helena and Wiktoria.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 15:20:32 GMT
cheerypeabrain, Tiberius was a tyrant ruler, one of Rome's most despised, rumoured to be a sexual deviant and murderer. PLEASE have your son do some reading beforehand, a simple scan of the Wikipedia page will be enough. Poor kid who ends up with that name.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 18:51:43 GMT
But the child could become the first good Tiberius.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 18:53:12 GMT
Good old Keroauc, always looking at the sunny side.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 31, 2014 19:05:03 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 11, 2015 14:03:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 15:33:03 GMT
Luckily in most places two or three names are still given and usually at least one non weird one.
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Post by bjd on Mar 11, 2015 16:18:18 GMT
At least in France, really ridiculous names are not allowed. Two names were not allowed a few months ago -- one was Nutella, which actually sounds pretty good compared to some of those names given in Scotland.
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Post by bjd on Mar 11, 2015 16:19:20 GMT
By the way, htmb, what was your latest grandchild named?
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2015 16:27:40 GMT
Nutella
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2015 16:28:17 GMT
Actually, he was named Dylan. :-)
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Post by mossie on Mar 11, 2015 19:25:33 GMT
Nutella, is that a good name for a madwoman?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 6:11:46 GMT
That just made me wonder if anybody has ever named their daughter Cinderella.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 11:51:36 GMT
When my husband worked as a Paramedic he delivered many a baby. There were a couple of occasions when the parents named their children some really off the wall names. One that comes immediately to mind was Placenta. I'll have to ask him if he remembers any of the others.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 17, 2015 2:34:34 GMT
A doctor fresh out of inner-city residency training told me of the time they delivered a baby that was under duress and as black liquids gushed out during the birth, someone on the delivery team exclaimed, "Here comes Meconium!" Mama cried, " I like that! I'm gonna call him Meconium."
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Post by rikita on Mar 30, 2015 21:06:44 GMT
i read about the name nevaeh today - apparently it was the name that rose in popularity most quickly after it first ever appeared ... she could have a brother named yks ...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2015 5:20:17 GMT
Not exactly a language issue, but the names given to children are an interesting indication of current trends and the influence of popular culture.
The latest list for France has just been published with one major change each -- the most popular girl's name has been Emma for the past 10 years. Emma has finally been dethroned, so here are the new lists. The list for boys also has a new champion, while the former champion Lucas takes a big tumble.
most popular names for girls in France
1. Louise 2. Emma 3. Chloé 4. Lola 5. Inès / Ines 6. Manon 7. Jade 8. Alice 9. Lina 10. Léa
most popular names for boys in France
1. Léo 2. Gabriel 3. Adam 4. Timéo 5. Raphaël 6. Lucas 7. Louis 8. Arthur 9. Nathan 10. Hugo
Anybody looking for unusual names can look for possibilities in the following names that have been give to fewer than 30 children in the last year: Boécia, Yamini, Adara, Caméo, Libbie, Nyoko, Wadislawa, Ysanne, Zipporah, Henka or Seona for girls. Amaram, Zuri, Yeraz, Parsam Bildad, Éos, Héliodore, Nan, Egun, Calhoun, Arius, Orbert, Nériah, Osmond, Searle, Scipion for boys.
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Post by questa on Oct 15, 2015 6:32:43 GMT
Zipporah or Sephora is an oldie. She was Moses's Mum or sister...forgotten which.
For boys I would have thought Mohamed in all its variants would have taken the top spot
I had a client whose 3 sons were Muhamad, Mohammed, and Mohamid. Different syllables were stressed to enable clarity!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2015 9:55:04 GMT
I saw that Mohamed is about 4th or 5th on the Belgian lists. French Muslims often go for more secular names.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 15, 2015 11:41:05 GMT
Very popular in Belgium. But you also have to understand that we split our names between Flemish and Walloons - we don't use the same names ... Strangely enough, the top 5 of female names in Flanders are all french names (with Emma...). Fro the male, only 1-2 names are french in Flanders. Lots of scandinavians are used in the north (LArs in the top 10, but Sven, Las, etc are common), never in the south. However Muslims on both sides of our lingual border use the same names :-) www.dhnet.be/actu/societe/top-des-prenoms-adam-detrone-mohamed-a-bruxelles-52d7627c357029ad9fc7239a What I find stupid is that they don't aggregate different spellings. My daughter is called Chloë, and is not taken together with Chloé...
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 15, 2015 11:54:56 GMT
They are quite anglicised names which surprises me.
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