So, I was just reading some questions others had posted and thought of this one. What is your opinion on names from movies, anime, stories, etc. I have always like [name_f]Sina[/name_f], [name_f]Rose[/name_f] & [name_f]Maria[/name_f] (prn. [name_f]Mar[/name_f]-riah) as a triplet sibset, but these are the names of walls that keep titans from destroying a city, [name_f]Sina[/name_f] being the innermost wall (oldest), [name_f]Rose[/name_f] being the middle wall (middle) & [name_f]Maria[/name_f] being the outermost wall (youngest). It’s not just the reference that I like, I also like them together, but a lot of nice names people may think that you get them from movies or stories. I was just wondering opinions on these kinds of names. Same goes with [name_m]Ronald[/name_m] [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m] [name_m]Alois[/name_m] [name_m]Knox[/name_m] (3 characters from an anime, [name_m]Ronald[/name_m] [name_m]Knox[/name_m], [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m], [name_m]Alois[/name_m]).
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Honestly, most people probably won’t even get the reference. I feel like half of my names are influenced by characters that I like, and I think that so long as the name is normal enough and not a “signature” name, we’ll call it, then it’s not so bad. For example, naming your kid Harry after Harry Potter isn’t so bad, since the name Harry has history and isn’t too unusual in most English speaking countries. However, calling your kid Daenerys is just downright unusual. It’s not a name that exists outside of GoT, and even people who haven’t read the books or watch the series probably have heard it and associate it with the Game of Thrones, or worse yet, all the bad things that they’ve heard about that character in particular.
My point is most people don’t watch or read Attack on Titan, and Rose and Maria are comparatively normal names. I was named after a character in a book. Not a popular book, but still. Literary names can work. I think it just depends on the popularity of the series and how unusual the name would be in every day life. Sina is unusual, but not unreasonable.
I have two complaints though, and here they are: Would Sina be pronounced Sy-nuh, See-nah, or Sinn-uh? I would also spell Maria as Mariah if you intend to pronounce it as such. Otherwise she’s likely to go through like getting called Ma-ree-uh. (I thought the name of the wall was pronounced Ma-ree-uh anyway? I’m not actually into the series myself.)
My only complaint about Ronald Sebastian Alois Knox is that it’s so dang long (Assuming you meant them as a set), but otherwise it’s another reference I don’t think people would get. It’s not like you named your kid Naruto.
The wall is pronounced [name_f]Mar[/name_f]-ree-ah and no, I wouldn’t spell it [name_f]Mariah[/name_f], because I pronounce that differently again. I pronounce that as in [name_f]Mariah[/name_f] [name_u]Carey[/name_u], and [name_f]Sina[/name_f] would be See-nah. That’s how the wall is pronounced.