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Giving LO a name of different origin than yourself

aatteburyaattebury
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And I mean of completely different origin. For example DH and I are Irish, English, French and German descent. DH picked our DS name and its German and English origin.

I have two girls names that are our front runners and they're Lola and Leila, I absolutley love them. But clearly not the same origin as ours, not even close. Having second thoughts, and feeling like they're too different than ours.

Would you do it? Maybe I'm just over thinking it.

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    magsugar13magsugar13 member
    i definitely think you are over thinking....this is the melting pot! Big Smile
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    kerribear1717kerribear1717 member
    Unless your DH is Seamus and your LO is Alejandro then I probably wouldn't think twice.
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    ConnieRobConnieRob member

    I think you would be fine with either name. No one would ever think of it as being a different origin. I was thinking you were going with somethinig radically different (Example: DH is Bob Jones your Jane Jones, DC is Undubadabway Jones).

     

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    owens0410owens0410 member
    You are most DEFINITELY way overthinking this. If you were considering a day that was Chinese or Japanese that might be too weird, but no one really gives a crap about the origin of a name. I don't even know what the origin of LO's name is. German maybe?

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    dejavu22dejavu22 member

    imagekerribear1717:
    Unless your DH is Seamus and your LO is Alejandro then I probably wouldn't think twice.

    LOL!

     

    I wouldn't worry about Barron & Leila/Lola.  I think they sound great together.

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    kurokaikurokai member

    I nixed most of SO's suggestions based on origin of the name - but he wanted something that definitely didn't fit. His number one name choice for LO was Karasu or Ichigo, which are both major characters in a very popular anime Hmm, and also do not match with our ancestry.

     

    I wouldn't worry about your names though. They sound wonderful and unless someone was an expert or looked it up, it would never occur to them that it was from a different origin.

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    526SadieSadie526SadieSadie member
    I think you're overthinking this. The only thing that might seem odd is if you (as a European caucasian) chose an ethnically Asian, Middle Eastern or African name.  But then again, it's your child.  Give him/her a name you love regardless of where the name is from.
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    jordan_nbjordan_nb member
    I think Barron and Leila sound adorable together!
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    lageorgiapaperielageorgiapaperie member
    In this case, yes, you are over thinking. They're from the same continent as your origins, so I think it's okay :). If you were to to with an Asian influenced name (or something equally different from you) then we might have an issue Stick out tongue
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    aatteburyaattebury
    Thanks all! DH doesn't think its an issue either.
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    brookelynpaisleybrookelynpaisley member
    I think names like you've listed are pretty neutral and no one's going to say, "what's your origin? What origin is the name you chose?" However, one of my favorite guilty pleasure names is Priyanka, which is Indian... which I'm clearly not. I think that would be weird.
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    monimonimonimonimonimoni member

    imagekerribear1717:
    Unless your DH is Seamus and your LO is Alejandro then I probably wouldn't think twice.

    Haha! Yeah, I agree with this.


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    JMU_Bride09JMU_Bride09 member
    In general, I would say don't do it. But in this case, I think you're over -thinking,
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