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My country has just opened a Name Voyager for first names! Before I only new the top 10 popular names but now we can see the popularity of the names through the years and also where in the Netherlands the name is most popular. If you're interested: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/ Fill in a name in the right corner. I wonder if this will influence name giving!
I have an aunt whose name is Lilian, everyone calls her Lil (pronounced something like Leel). We are not English speaking though.
I just checked the facebook site and it looks like the owner did not put any research into it. If you check China, you cans see that it is mostly made up of family names because Chinese normally write the family name first. I was surprised to see there only being one female name in the list for the Netherlands. And thought it was funny that one of the popular groups is Starbucks! As we have just last year gotten our first 2 Starbucks shops.
I just read on another website: a woman who is pregnant and will name the boy: Riot. I really don't understand people like that. Her daughter is names Emm!e.
Johan is a very normal name here in the Netherlands, although a bit outdated. You won't meet many children with that name. We spell Esmée and pronounce Esmay. I can understand English speakers pronouncing Esme though.
Tian is actually used as (part of) a first name in China. Most first name have 2 characters though so it is more likely to be half of a first name.
One of our princesses is named Magali (Margriet Eleonoor). Her sisters name is Eliane. This is the Dutch Royal Family, I don't think it's a Dutch name though.
I think it's a great signs that there wasn't a huge surge in people naming their child Barack. No matter how in awe you are of the man now, he hasn't accomplished anything yet. You don't know how he will do and if you will still agree with him in a few years. I would never name my child after a politician, no matter how much I admired him/her at the moment. It's just not a smart thing to do. Regarding the nn for Astrid, I tend to agree with your husband.
What stands out to me in these fastest rising names is that they are all spelled wrong or creative, however you want to look at it. So people are copying the "creative" spelling now which takes the creative part out of it and just leaves a botched name.
Regarding middle names, I think many people are not that focussed on matching etc. My sister doesn't have a middle name but I do. For most of the people on this site that would be not understandable at all. But I bet my parents never gave it a second thought. My sister and I have never had ill feelings about it either.
The thing is that many of these obscure characters were not used for names in a long time and they have only recently become more popular by parents wanting to be original (like the "creative" spelling in the US). Also, imagine having to spell you name every time in Chinese. It's not like with our alphabet and because there are characters with exactly the same pronounciation but different writing when you say your name and they want to write is down you for example say: "the Mei of beautiful" so they know which character to write for your name Mei. With an obscure character this is impossible.
This will not mean that only common names will be allowed in China. It's just that some characters that are so old that they cannot be typed and that is a problem in the digital era we live in. But if we would take away the Q and B from our alphabet we could still make original names. Last year in China some children were names Au Yun (that's 2 characters like most first names in China) which means Olympic Games. Not common at all!
I've loved the name Inara since I first heard it on Firefly. It's just beautiful, I hope I can use it some day.
I don't like compound names at all, they sound a little desperate to me. Often they don't flow well. Of course there are exceptions but in general nms. I also don't really understand how there can be two capital letters in a name without a space. Isn't that against spelling rules? Izola does sound made up to me, but it doesn't sound awful. I think I like Zola better.
I don't really see how the name Kai links to his Chinese heritage. Cai is not pronounced as Kai as far as I know. However, I also have never heard of cai meaning bastard. Cai can mean 100 of things though if you don't link it to a Chinese character. One charachter for cai for example means dish (as in food). As there are many Chinese dialects, all with different pronunciations, the pronounciation cai (not Kai) will most likely have a bad meaning in some dialects and good in others. As long as you link it to the right character this is not a problem.
Honestee, that is just awful. I really don't understand these people. Do they not know how to spell, think it's creative or what? Honesty would have been bad enough, but Honestee???
Tammis doesn't sound quite right to me, love Tamzin though. Although of course some names on this list are not heard of i English speaking countries, quite a few names are popular everywhere. This is the list of most popular baby names of the Netherlands in 2008: Girls: 1 Sophie 2 Julia 3 Lieke 4 Emma 5 Sanne Boys: 1 Daan 2 Tim 3 Sem 4 Jayden (!!) 5 Thomas
"Hope, Messiah, Nevaeh" That is just terrible, especially Messiah (putting some pressure on that child) and Nevaeh (faled attempt at being creative).
About Johanna; my mother's name is Johanna and it's a family name. So definitely not creative, more like a classic. She goes by Anja but people in the family before her have also gone by Annie. We are in Western Europe.
When I was still a child I knew no one with my name and I couldn't buy anything with my name on it. I really hated that back then. But it's become more popular over the years and now I wish it hadn't!