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for girls the first (and only) non italian name is Nicole, 25th
for girls names are quite frequent the H added at the end of the name (like Samantha, Deborah, Sarah) or Gessica written with the J (Jessica). it's also becoming quite frequent the name Andrea as first name also for girl (traditionally we give the name Andrea to boys, because it's the italian for Andrew).
for boys the first non italian name is Christian (25th) or Cristian (29th).
I know just one family that gave foreign names to their children. they call them "Nicolas", "Norman" and "Chantal".
Did they do the same thing with Adams, Madison, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Fillmore, Buchanan, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, McKinley, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush?
They probably did with Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Lincoln, Grant, Arthur, Harrison, Wilson, Johnson, Carter and Clinton.
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Kennedy are names that are used for sure.
Roosevelt, Lincoln and Wilson are used as first names in Brazil.
Parents just have no idea those names are actually surnames.
I think it's because in the USA and UK it's usual that people are known by their surnames, but that's not usual in Brazil.
If president John F. Kennedy is often presented as "president Kennedy", many Brazilians will assume Kennedy is his first name. No wonder there are many people in Brazil called Kennedy (first name).
I believe there are already some kids in Brazil with first name Obama.
How about Usnavi? I thought it was a Native American name until someone told me it comes from US NAVY!!! I've met Colombians and Venezuelans with this name.
I hate the Yanet, Yenifer, etc...names. They big me for some reason!
How about Usnavi? I thought it was a Native American name until someone told me it comes from US NAVY!!! I've met Colombians and Venezuelans with this name.
I hate the Yanet, Yenifer, etc...names. They big me for some reason!
There was an urban legend...back on my military service days....that there was a Guamanian/Chamorro (from Guam) guy with that very same name (Usnavy). He was asked why did his parents picked that name.....he would answer that his father worked at the US Navy port in Guam, so he chose to give his son that name.
I heard this back in the 70's.....don't know if that tale is still going around.
Parents in Japan have fairly recently (within the past half century) started giving some English-style names to girls.
The -a ending which is so noticeable on Western girl's names, was not a traditional feminine name ending at all in Japan. But now you can find many girls named:
Juria (Julia)
Sara
Maria
Anna
Risa (Lisa)
Erika
Ria (Leah)
Rina (Lena)
As well as An (Anne). "Akage no An" (Anne of Green Gables) is hugely popular in Japan, and apparently a lot of parents have named babies after her.
There are also a couple of native names which happen to coincide with Western names, such as Hana (Hannah) and Naomi.
Names which are easy to say and write in Japanese are pretty limited. They are never going to adopt names like Elizabeth or Jennifer, which are just too awkward in Japanese. And boy's names from the West don't seem to have caught on. My nephew lives in Japan and married a Japanese, and they have two sons. He had a hard time, but finally managed to find boy's names that work in English and Japanese. They are Kento (Kent) and Rei (Ray).
Also, during the Year of the Tiger (2010) many boys were named Taiga, which can be written in kanji and passed off as Japanese, but really comes from the word Tiger.
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