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Kid Names (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think people in English have lost the connection between their name and its original meaning. No one thinks about the fact that naming your kid "Peter" is the same as naming him "Rock", or that a brook(e) is a little river.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    I think it's for all languages, if the name is not very similiar or the same to the original word or meaning it's hard for someone to make a connection. So yeah, i agree

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    We don't teach meaning of names anymore that's the big one. My coworker just had a kid and ran a list of like 5 names past me. When I pointed out what each one means and their origin he firmly threw all of them out the window and was horrified.

    It was mostly random bullshit names with weird spellings.

    He ended up naming his kid Herma. Which he claimed sounded nice, when I asked him if he knew what the word ment he said no.

    His new daughter has a very unfortunate name.

    His kid but like man... That's goanna suck later in life.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    In my family (and some friends families too) sometimes we came up with a name and think about the meaning of that meaning too, idk how much common is it tbh.

    I think it really depend on the culture

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