damaclese

Thanks i did not mean my list to be comprehensive thees are only English examples I just wanted to give a flavor of what i was talking about but thank you for that example
I think one of the main reasons i feel so strongly about names is that theirs been for the last couple of decades in the US this trend to name children with well some pretty shockingly poorly thought out name there have been many studies on how names affect children and I'm sure if we all thought about it you would know I'm right people tend to prejudge you based on your name so if you go for silly non traditional names people do not take you seriously at least anisuly I'm not saying its going to wreck any ones life but People have to live there hold life with a name so if on your labor bed you look over at the Kleenex box and think hey thats a good name think again no offense to any one with a non traditional name I'm sure in some ways a unique name could be a calling card for you but i for one and vary happy that my Mother had enough presence of mind to Pick Paul for me its traditional dating back over 10,000 years comes from the Hebrew Saul which means Small or humble and although in my age its not that rare its a vary rare name buy todays standards leas that 1% of the worlds population has the name Paul so i feel unique and special so theres an example of how a name can affect your self perception so you see it sounds trivial but is any thing but its a life altering and profound thing in the life of a child

PS now that i Have wrecked this thread you can all go back to what you were talking about My job here is done! lol

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Taylor

Or "Taylor".

The only confusion is online when there is no face to go by or voice to hear.

Dalmatiansoap

Funny, Ante stays for Croatian variant of Antony and most peoples thinks its womens name. We have many examples in my area, Ante (Antony), Mate (Mathew), Joze (John), etc. are all traditional man names.

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damaclese

I could tell by your writing stile that you were a guy but your name is a good example of a name both male and female but an even better example of a professional name thees are names that reflect an individuals profession not a common practice now but in the old English as well most European traditions one would often take that type of name as a no questions asked calling card as the there chosen line of work its a good idea how even i for one would not like to be called Barista sounds to much like Claresta to me LOL but i guess if I were living in Marry Old england i would be the Go to guy for coffee LOL if they had coffee back then which they didn't so id starve right!

the only person that i was ever really confused as to whether they were a guy which i thought they were was Lorax her stile is rather male in nature
I hope she doesn't get offended by that!

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Eric

Paul, I would be more afraid of calling Lorax a "girl" ! But then we've already heard her reaction to "Aunt Beth", haven't we Ante .

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My taste for tropical plants comes from my childhood when I lived in Congo for 18 months ... It's next to Bikoro I made that big slap ... Go see on google earth the place that Bikoro me like bananas ...

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bananadude

I'm a dude....and I grow BANANAS......Bananadude

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Patty in Wisc

I wasn't sure if Taylor was a guy or girl till I saw "King of Korm" by his avatar LOL

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Fish Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, Thats were I started my fishing career.
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lorax

Nah, Eric. I know what Pauly's getting at so no offence given nor taken! Then again, ask Scot why he calls me Ben (which is oddly enough roughly how ''Beth'' is often pronounced down here - I've started going by Elizabeth because they have an easier time with it....)

Besides which, if any of you ever meet me in person, you'll likely get the same impression that Pauly gets from my writing. I am hardly a fragile flower of femininity.

Bananaman88

Oh, come now!

Jack Daw

Ante = Anton (Anthony)
Mate = Matej (Martin)
Joze = Jožo (Joseph)

All of them Jewish, except for Ante, nice Slavic one. Mine is for example Latin, for those, who know it.

Although it's difficult to translate names, especially ours, since more than 3/4 of them don't have any equivalent in English. Only the Hebrew and Greek based ones. Anythig that has long version ending with -slav, -mir, -e... is likely to be Slavic in origina. Female names such as -ica, -na, -ana, -slava, -mira.
Like Croatian Zora (Zorica?), Ivana (Ivica?)...

John would be in Croatian something like Jani (do you have such in Croatia?), here it is Jano (Ján), Johann auf Deutch, Giovanni in Italian, Jean in French etc...

Funny names are also Hildegarede and Gertrude. I haven't looked at this from this point of view, everytime I introduce myself, even to foreigners, it's not translated. Let's have them their tongues twisted a bit.
But for a lack of a better name we could call you Tony from warm and sunny Croatia.


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Eric

Fragile flower of femininity !? Very well put! If I ever needed a hunting partner, I'd pick Beth over most any guy I know ! Her or an Amazonian female warrior.... Okay, same thing !

BYE

coast crab

Coast Crab...

Sounded better than "Fish Head".

I grew up on the Gulf Coast and still live here. The only time I spent away was 3 years in Japan and 4 years at Mississippi State. That was enough winter for me, especially Japan. I lived way out in the country and it was like glorified camping. The first winter was so bad I could walk across the koi pond, I knew it was going to be a long, cold winter! My first and ONLY experience of living with snow and ice. No thanks, never again. We may see frost and freezes, but you can usually count on 60 - 70 degrees a few days later.

Also, I walk sideways and you may get pinched. Just kidding about the first part.

Russell

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revensen

Robert Evensen is my name = revensen

Looking back it was a pathetic effort at being creative. This is a great thread and I really enjoyed reading it.

BananaLee

Like Bananadude, My names Levi, my sis calls me Lee and I grow bananas. BananaLee! There! Kinda stupid aint it?

Seaner

Very simple. My first name's Sean but there's a Sean here already. So I just added the next 2 letters, in my name, to the end.

Pithy_Cherub

Ummmm ... cuz I'm a sweet little angel? With a mouth? (according to the family, anyway!)

Abnshrek

Abn short for Airborne. Shrek one of a couple clean nick-names I was called while in service. lol :^)

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Westwood

Mine is easy
Westwood .
was given to me by my dad and his military friends when i got jealous as a kid for not having a name like thumper or hush puppy .
So west cause we lived in the west and wood cause i loved to go hunting mushrooms and playing in the woods.

Now im older i wonder abotu the wood part LOL