American Baby Names? (parent, brother, fighting, cities)
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Perhaps the creepiest name for a boy that I have heard. Draco. You can imagine a child with that name would appear reptilian.
Draco is Latin for Dragon. I've never known anyone named Draco personally, so I only know the name from the Harry Potter series. Before looking up its origin I would have guessed European since its definitely not an American name. According to the SSA it hasn't even been in the top 1000 names in the past 14 years (if ever).
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Originally Posted by aliss2
I'm not American. The name "Cody" screams American. Other ones are names Mason, Connor, Landon, Carter, Cole, Chase, Brayden, Caden/Laden, Blake, Carson, amongst others. Those are the names non-Americans easily recognize as being American. Very fond of short names starting with "C".
Never had a girl so I never noticed those much but I'm sure there are plenty.
Cody, Landon, Carter, Cole, Blake Brayden, and Chase are English. Mason is French. Connor is Irish, and Brayden also has Irish orgins. Carson is an Irish/Scottish surname. Caden is Welsh.
Googling Names with American orgins comes up with some crazy lists. A lot of names that have different orgins but are just spelled in a way that you can barely figure out how to pronounce the name (Vagnessa as a spelling for Vanessa). A lot of names that are just random objects. Then they had names such as Cherryseth (a female version of Seth) and names that no one would (hopefully) name their child like Mylove, Corvette and Gumdrop.
If there was a true American language entirely distinct of non-American origin, then we would have American names. No, this is not the case, so no there are not any true American names.
I would say African American names, while influenced by African names, are definitely American. African children have African names.
As much as some people (to an extent, myself included) cringe when I see some names African Americans give their children, it's pretty self-evident that these are among the most American of names.
But I don't see them as common as elsewhere, nobody French uses Mason anymore at least...
But the OP isn't asking what names are common in America. The question was what names ORIGINATED in the US. Just because a name becomes popular in a certain country doesn't change its origin to that country.
If there was a true American language entirely distinct of non-American origin, then we would have American names. No, this is not the case, so no there are not any true American names.
Yeah, I think this is about right and certainly correct as well.
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Are there any American names for children? For example, Liam is Irish, Natasha Russian, Oliver is French - are there "American" names? The only ones that might be close that I can think of are Hunter and Austin. Do "African American" names like Daquan count? I am not talking about names that are popular in the US, I am talking about names that originated in the US.
Common American names have changed drastically in the past 30-40 years. In my generation ( Baby Boom), common names for boys were James, David, Robert, Michael, Christopher, William, Thomas, Joseph, Daniel, etc. For girls, Mary ( of course; the number one name for girls for at least 50 years), Ann, Margaret, Susan, Elizabeth, Linda, Christine, Lisa, etc. It seems that these names, so traditional for so long, are no longer in vogue..
If you want totally made up names (which I guess could qualify as American), come to Utah. I posted this on another baby naming thread, as well: The Utah Baby Namer
They do have Native American, although you always have to be careful with Native American names. For instance, a lot of people say that "Shania" is a NA name, but when you go to the Ojibwe People's Dictionary, that word doesn't exist. I've also read many other NA blogs/websites where a lot of so-called NA names are discounted. (For people thinking of Shania Twain, she made up the origins of her name, as nothing like 'Shania' exists in Ojibwa or Cree.)
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