I’ll “translate“ your combos into Croatian 🇭🇷

@wintergarden sorry for such a delayed reply! Here are my ideas, hope you like them!

Charlotte Delilah - Karla Milena / Lota Milena

I already used Karla in another translation so I wanted something new and landed on Lota, which currently sits within Croatia’s top 50. Milena was chosen for its meaning “dear, gentle” as Delilah means “delicate”.

Penelope Hazel - Helena Mirta

Since we don’t use Penelope or any of its variants, I chose another name as old as time, Helena. Helena is very loved and a well-used name in Croatia, although not to the extent of being too popular. Mirta is a plant name I haven’t used before in this thread, and it’s a plant name meaning “myrtle”. It sound goes right along with Hazel’s spunkiness.

Vivienne Winslet - Vida Korana

Vida has also been used for a long time, and can either be an alternative name for Slavic goddess ŽIva / Zhiva, or come from Vid / Svetovid, another Slavic god. For Winslet (“Wynn’s channel or stream”) I chose Korana as it’s a beautiful name of a Croatian river, also used rarely as a given name.

Pronunciation: (realized I forgot to do Karla in the recording but I figure you’ve heard it before)

I used to be a croatiaphile in 2017-2019! these are my current top names for my kids, i’m curious to see what they’d have been :slight_smile:

[name_f]Trinity[/name_f] [name_f]Katrin[/name_f]
[name_u]Phoenix[/name_u] [name_m]Trevor[/name_m]
[name_u]Houston[/name_u] [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] &
[name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Paige[/name_f]

Since I speak another language that doesn’t use middles alongside english and I’ve decided that these names sound good in both languages (even though I’ve come up with combos just for fun), I’m curious to see how these first names work in croatian:
[name_f]Aurora[/name_f]
[name_f]Eliza[/name_f]
[name_f]Ingrid[/name_f]
[name_f]Matilda[/name_f]
[name_f]Freya[/name_f]
[name_f]Helena[/name_f]
[name_f]Selene[/name_f]