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Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by blankton »

samatman wrote: post #43
mc32 wrote: post #17

I prefer the ones that have translations like: John. Ian, Ivan, Jan, Johan, Aidan, Juan, Joao, etc. Charles, Matthew, Katherine, Ann, and so on so you have an actual name with a standard accepted translation in many languages. French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translated or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence.

My name (Sam) is useful in that respect: I'm fairly sure it exists in every European language, being Biblical, and that it's spelled the same (in short form) in all of them. The vast majority can't pronounce it correctly by the standards of my American dialect. But I don't mind.

In the german Bible the name is actually written: Sem. But I havent yet met a person named Sem.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by School-Cotton »

boyter wrote: post #83
Hokusai wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the family thinks it’s Spanish. They think it is Spanish, because it is Spanish. Hector (/ˈhɛktər/) is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the Greek name of Hektor.

Without getting into pedantic arguments. Ask any person to write down the name of the Trojan prince and you get Hector or Paris depending on who you ask. The origin is Greek even if the spelling more palatable for the modern English or Spanish speaker.

It’s English in the sense that it’s a common name in England and other English-speaking cultures. Just like “them” is an English word despite originally coming from Norse.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by anthk »

dfee wrote: post #15

English / Spanish : Male names gives very few names that I’d recognize as English names. https://mixedname.com/english_spanish_masculine_names Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the value of this?

- English name - Jacobo

Ahem...Biblical names can be traced to almost older than English, at least in romances.

jacob Jacobo, Santiago

Noah Noé

George Jorge

Also, Martín is French origin I think.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by School-Cotton »

throw0101a wrote: post #28
mc32 wrote: post #17

I prefer the ones that have translations like: John. Ian, Ivan, Jan, Johan, Aidan, Juan, Joao, etc. Charles, Matthew, Katherine, Ann, and so on so you have an actual name with a standard accepted translation in many languages. French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translated or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence.

> French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translates or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence. Any name of a (Catholic) saint would probably have mappings to other languages. (The Jesuits got around. :)

That’s true, but they won’t all be commonly used as names everywhere. Jesús is a common Spanish name, but totally nonexistent in English and French as far as I’m aware. María too is way more common than “Mary” in English (that is a real English name, but AFAICT it’s pretty rare in the last few generations).

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by BurningFrog »

cco wrote: post #98
moultano wrote: post #29

I did a similar thing for our kids (Hindi/English) but we had slightly different goals. Since the kids were getting my English surname, we wanted to give them Hindi first names, but we wanted them to be easily pronounceable in English. So I wrote a character-based ngram language model based on the US census count of names, and used that to score a list of Hindi names. I then improved it by adding a bunch of rewrite r…

> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as two of the most common English words, "are" and "of." Native English speaker from the Pacific Northwest, I would pronounce those "Ri-yuh" and "Are-rov"(I think your intended pronunciation) or maybe "A-rav", depends upon whether I knew they were of Indian decent,…

I think they're saying the names are easy to pronounce once you've heard them. They contain no non english sounds or tongue twisters.

I agree pronunciation is not 100% obvious from the spelling.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by nicoburns »

School-Cotton wrote: post #105
throw0101a wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translates or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence. Any name of a (Catholic) saint would probably have mappings to other languages. (The Jesuits got around. :)

That’s true, but they won’t all be commonly used as names everywhere. Jesús is a common Spanish name, but totally nonexistent in English and French as far as I’m aware. María too is way more common than “Mary” in English (that is a real English name, but AFAICT it’s pretty rare in the last few generations).

> María too is way more common than “Mary” in English (that is a real English name, but AFAICT it’s pretty rare in the last few generations).

I think thats partly because Maria itself has been quite popular in English recently. Marie is also quite well accepted as an English name even if it's technically not.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by azernik »

cco wrote: post #98
moultano wrote: post #29

I did a similar thing for our kids (Hindi/English) but we had slightly different goals. Since the kids were getting my English surname, we wanted to give them Hindi first names, but we wanted them to be easily pronounceable in English. So I wrote a character-based ngram language model based on the US census count of names, and used that to score a list of Hindi names. I then improved it by adding a bunch of rewrite r…

> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as two of the most common English words, "are" and "of." Native English speaker from the Pacific Northwest, I would pronounce those "Ri-yuh" and "Are-rov"(I think your intended pronunciation) or maybe "A-rav", depends upon whether I knew they were of Indian decent,…

"Of" is actually pronounced with a "v" phoneme, despite the spelling.
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