mixing origins?

JaZavitz · November 2011

Just curious what everyone thinks of using a first name that is very different in origin from your last name.

I love the name Gianna but our last name is Scottish and I feel like its too much of an origin difference.... do you think its a do or a don't??

StephCripps · November 2011

I don't think it really matters

We're using a Native Name and our last name is either Irish/German (DH not 100% positive)

I don't think it matters.. unless you're in a seinfeld episode.. Donna Chang

haha

alliejo725 · November 2011

With Gianna, I don't think it's a big deal.

If it was Donatella, Mei, or Xochitl....yeah, that's a problem. But Gianna is pretty mainstream and doesn't sound unusual with a non-Italian last name.

bread&jam · November 2011

mj.reilly:
American is a mixing pot. A lot of people have different backgrounds.
I see no problem with it and I probably wouldn't do a double take. Unless it is an uber ethnic name you have no ties to.
Not everyone knows that much about names either. It would not be that hard to find a dozen people that don't know where Gianna comes from.
Gianna is fine.

Exactly.

streamtrax41 · November 2011

I could have my own episode- Kerri Tang. Blonde hair, blue eyes, about as white as can be, lol. I always wonder what people are expecting when they meet me.I am Irish and Italian and I tend to like names of these origins, none of which "go" with an Asian last name. I don't think mixing name origins in naming your kids is a bad thing at all. Especially if they reflect your combined heritages, I think it's kind of cool. True, maybe I came to that conclusion because I had no choice but to accept it

emikat · November 2011

I think it's perfectly acceptable and I kind of like it.

KittyMarie219 · November 2011

First of all, just b/c you're Asian that doesn't mean you have to name your kid MeiLi Xiao. I was best friends with a girl in high school whose parents had come to America from Taiwan like 10 yrs ago -- her name was Vicky, and no, it was short for anything. Her siblings were Julia and Kevin, and her parents had VERY Asian fns.

Second, who cares what the origin of a name is? Not using a name just b/c you're not of the same heritage, is just another thing people do to sustain the social divide between the classes and withhold total equality.

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