What is the name from.. a question/name game for you!

General Name Discussion
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A language / culture / country that is not yours.

For non Anglo/english speaking Berries: what are your favourite names from your language/culture/country? (If you are multicultural like me feel free to just choose the one you feel more familiar with! I have two very cultures far from each other, but I am waaay more familiar with the Italian one, plus it is my native language and how I have been grown up, so I will choose that.)

My answers:

I chose Japanese because besides having no ties to it, I studied the language and like many names of it
  • shiori 栞 詩織
  • yukino 雪乃
  • kotone 琴音
  • nodoka のどか
  • otoha 音葉
  • koharu 心遥
  • yuriko 有里子
  • wakane 和音
  • hiyori 日和
  • nozomi 希
  • hinako 日向子
some of my fav italian names

Adelaide
Rossella
Ofelia
Galatea
Costanza
Angelica
Violetta
Isadora
Dorotea
Lavinia
Fiammetta
Eleonora / Leonora
Sonia
Evelina
Carolina
Maria Carlotta
Berenice
Minerva

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The first ones that came to mind are:

Slavic- [name_f]Oksana[/name_f], [name_f]Daria[/name_f], [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m], [name_f]Anya[/name_f], Iliya, [name_f]Inessa[/name_f], [name_f]Ruslana[/name_f], [name_m]Lev[/name_m], [name_f]Svetlana[/name_f], [name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f], [name_f]Yekaterina[/name_f]

Romanian- [name_f]Miruna[/name_f]

Scandinavian- [name_f]Sunniva[/name_f], [name_u]Asta[/name_u], [name_f]Runa[/name_f], [name_f]Ylva[/name_f], [name_f]Tova[/name_f], [name_f]Solveig[/name_f], [name_f]Freyja[/name_f], [name_f]Ingrid[/name_f]

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These names are stunning ! I like many names of these languages too

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Some I like:

[name_u]Ara[/name_u] (Armenian name meaning King)

[name_u]Isra[/name_u] (Arabic name meaning she who travels by night)

[name_u]Dana[/name_u] – or [name_f]Danah[/name_f] (Persian and Arabic name meaning wise – pn Dah-nuh – not to be confused with Dan-uh (fem form of Daniel), or Day-nuh (meaning from Denmark)

[name_f]Farah[/name_f] (Arabic name meaning joy/happiness)

[name_f]Nadira[/name_f] (Arabic name meaning rare/treasure)

Naiara/Nayara/Nayyarah (Spanish/Arabic city name)

[name_f]Inaya[/name_f] (Arabic/Urdu name meaning care)

[name_f]Nayeli[/name_f] (Indigenous American/Zapotec meaning I love you)

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I like [name_f]Inaya[/name_f] and [name_f]Nayeli[/name_f] too!

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Some of my favorite Icelandic names are (this is not an exhaustive list :sweat_smile:):

[name_m]Hjörtur[/name_m] (obviously)
[name_m]Húni[/name_m] (again, obviously)
[name_m]Kjartan[/name_m]
[name_m]Sindri[/name_m]
Litríkur - means “colorful”
Grímur
Flóvent
Trausti
[name_m]Hrafn[/name_m]
Sigfús
[name_m]Haukur[/name_m]
Fólki
Geir
Glói
Sólmyrkvi - meaning “solar eclipse”

[name_f]Salka[/name_f]
Júlírós
Alparós
Gló
Ágota
[name_f]Edda[/name_f]
Jakobína
Karólína
Sumarlína
Móey
Eygló

Some of my favorite Polish names:

[name_m]Tadeusz[/name_m]
[name_m]Maciej[/name_m]
[name_m]Felicjan[/name_m]
Walerian
Florentyn
[name_m]Melchior[/name_m]
[name_m]Piotr[/name_m]
[name_m]Konstantyn[/name_m]
[name_m]Serafin[/name_m]

[name_f]Judyta[/name_f]
[name_u]Nikola[/name_u]
[name_f]Lucyna[/name_f]
Mariola
[name_f]Agata[/name_f]
[name_f]Magdalena[/name_f]
[name_f]Zuzanna[/name_f]

I don’t feel very connected to my Swedish heritage, even though I’d love to change that one day, but here are some of my favorite Swedish names anyway:

Thure
[name_m]Tage[/name_m]
[name_u]Janne[/name_u]
[name_m]Hjalmar[/name_m]
[name_u]Ola[/name_u] (m)
Pontus
[name_m]Niklas[/name_m]
[name_m]Lillebror[/name_m] (definitely a GP)

[name_f]Ebba[/name_f]
[name_f]Lotta[/name_f] / [name_f]Lotte[/name_f] / [name_f]Lottie[/name_f]
Åse
[name_u]Asta[/name_u]
[name_f]Gry[/name_f]