cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1361025

Idk, something chill like Hakim Shaoqi… or Mikhail Sorensen

Both in different scripts (arabic et chinese) or (Cyrlic and Roman)

  • ᜐ᜔ᜉᜍ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔ ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓ︀-193
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    If you take the meaning of the names into account, it would go well. Sadly because bigots don’t like research, it might be a breeding ground for bullying.

    My name for example has an English name and a Spanish-derived surname, which is not uncommon here in the Philippines.

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    Well, I have foreign name and last name in cyrilic since I changed it so it’s perfectly normal

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    The only real requirement for a name is that it is catchy and not too embarrassing.

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    Normally a name is something meaningful, it becomes a person’s identity, and it also becomes their first impression.

    So when your child hears the their name, what kind of perception will they have of themselves? When their peers and teachers hear the name, what kind of impression will them have of your child?

    Ultimately, will your child find a space where they will be accepted for the name they are given? If you give them a name that doesn’t fit with neither the culture and upbringing that you can provide nor the culture and upbringing that their environment can provide, then that’s not really doing them any favours.

    So if your entire family and your spouse’s family has abrahamic names, but they have a Chinese name, while attending school with predominantly Greek children then they will have some trouble identifying not only with their family but also the institution.

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    You can name your kid whatever you want with some exceptions. John and Karen naming their kid Mohammed is not illegal lol. Nor is Abdel naming his kid Mads or Eric.

    I don’t know about different scripts though.

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    I suggest traditional and historical Polish names, because not only will they stand out and be unpronounceable to anglos but will also have a cool meanings behind them.

    Many unfortunately are gendered, but boys being given girls names was something that often happened. You were even sometimes out of luck if the preist decided to himself name the child not giving the shit about its parents wishes.

    Like Będzimir, a mans name for “There will be peace”. It would even stand out in contemporary Poland! For the trans ladies into grandma core I suggest Jarosława, “Hot, angry, harsh glory”, but the list is endless really.

    Slavic names have gone unappreciated in the post-socialist era. Most people tend to make their children either abrahamic names, sometimes anglo names for which these children are unfortunately bullied. Brian and Jessica being the common stereotypical names, sometimes used as slurs when written Brajan and Dżesika.

    Only a few “standard” Slavic names have survived into today. Mostly for girls being named after flowers and fruit. Like Róża and Jagoda. Or for boys which tend to have easy foreign translation. Stanisław to Stanley for example.

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    At least where I live they’d assume your parents are from that region at least, but it wouldn’t be a big deal anyway. Plenty of names from all over the world already.