Be Honest do you like these names

underlay_guru

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian person, for example, that does not have a traditional German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian christian name?

Britain must be the only place in the World that are not happy with their traditional christian names, and lamely adopt traditional names of others as a fashion statement....

No wonder foreigners laugh their heads off at us. They must think we are stupid.

jackieglasgow

Erm, the OP IS half greek..................

Kentmumof1

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Danish/Spanish person that does not have a German/Danish/Spanish sounding christian name.

No wonder foreigners laugh their heads off at us. They must think we are stupid.

I think if you had read through the posts you would find I AM GREEK which is why my sons names are Greek, really some people just don't get all the facts together before commenting !!!

delain

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Danish/Spanish person that does not have a German/Danish/Spanish sounding christian name.

No wonder foreigners laugh their heads off at us. They must think we are stupid.

I've heard of an Iranian family who moved here calling their daughter 'Fiona'

ncsmummy

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Danish/Spanish person that does not have a German/Danish/Spanish sounding christian name.

No wonder foreigners laugh their heads off at us. They must think we are stupid.

Well my DH is german and has an english christian name!!

jackieglasgow

And the person I referred to called Nikolai, is in fact GERMAN!!!


Someone should start that thread, "What stupid non traditional names have foreigners adopted for their children?" or some other such nonsense.

flower24

who gives a flap anyway if somebody wants to use a foreign name?

some people will moan about anything :think:

Kentmumof1

immynjoesmum wrote: »

who gives a flap anyway if somebody wants to use a foreign name?

some people will moan about anything :think:

And when they do and they get it wrong, do you notice they don't come back on to the thread again !!! :rotfl:

underlay_guru

Kentmumof1 wrote: »

I think if you had read through the posts you would find I AM GREEK which is why my sons names are Greek, really some people just don't get all the facts together before commenting !!!

Hi,

Ive only just noticed that on page #2, sorry, so was wrong to aim the argument at you OP.

I hope other people get my point though. Sorry if others don't agree. I personally would not feel comfortable with giving my child a name that has indicates a complete mis-association with his/her roots, connections, faith or nationality.

underlay_guru

Kentmumof1 wrote: »

And when they do and they get it wrong, do you notice they don't come back on to the thread again !!! :rotfl:

Yes, because I was busy carefully and lovingly writing the above post to apologise to you