[OFF TOPIC] Which are the most popular names in your country?

[dcro 10,210]

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[hckošice 15,029]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

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That feeling when only 1 country in this map is named by another country name One would think we are actually occupied ?

 

edit: just realized also about Moldova

[Werloc 3,171]

1 minute ago, OlympicIRL said:

I had a housemate called Andrea who was a girl but she called herself Andi (which most often is used for boys - Andy).... all very confusing

 

We have an Italian e-rasmus student in our Italian class and his name is Andrea, which globally is known as a female name, but in Lithuania we have a male version of this name Andrėjus, which stems from the Russian language Andrej.

[dcro 10,210]

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

That feeling when only 1 country in this map is named by another country name One would think we are actually occupied ?

 

edit: just realized also about Moldova

 

I guess that canoe slalom is in our blood, we just need to realize that.

Edited October 13, 2016 by dcro

[hckošice 15,029]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

I guess that canoe slalom is in our blood, we just need to realize that.

 

 

maybe time to stop play with ball in the water and try to seat in the canoes instead

 

[kungshamra71 922]

28 minutos atrás, dcro disse:

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Yap, one of my surnames indeed 

Though I had no idea that Silva was "Forest" in Latin. In Portuguese it's the name of a plant 

 

[crovitlaci 177]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Emma is in the top-3 in Slovakia, Ireland and the Netherlands...interesting  

 

Same thing here :

 

Mia

Lucija

Ema

Ana

Petra

...

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

43 minutes ago, dcro said:

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"Of bad hearing" is the best

 

[mrv86 3,151]

In Mexico, the most common names were Juan and José (for boys) and Maria (for girls), both often followed by Guadalupe ("Lupe" or Lupita") as middle name (Think for example about the case about Lupita Nyongo, born in Mexico City)

 

Now according to the National Population Registry's Bureau, these were the top 10 names last year:

 

Girls:  Sofía, Camila, Valentina, Isabella, Ximena, Natalia, Mía, María Fernanda, Nicole, Melanie.

Boys:  José Luis, Miguel Ángel, José Francisco, Jesús Antonio, Alejandro, Juan Carlos, Ricardo, Daniel, Fernando, Jorge.

 

Yet, I read that  in the state of Nuevo León (one of the largest in the country) tthere's been a grow from 1990 until now were Britany, Kevin and Brayan (yes, that's how they usually spell it in Mexico )

 

About the most common surname, I'm pretty sure it's Hernández, which means son of Hernán or Hernando, itself a variation of Fernando (Ferdinand)

 

[mrv86 3,151]

51 minutes ago, dcro said:

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Interesting info. I didn't know that "García" either meant "bear" or "young"