What's your favorite foreign name?

[KostasKouvalis]

By "foreign" I mean, foreign to YOUR country.

Male: Kostas (Greek)

Female: Kenza (Maghrebi)

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+1 y

Okay, if we're doing multiple ones than add me

Male: Vasiliy (Russian)
Female: Zaynab (Arabic)

Because I have OCD

[jennifer_bloom]

I like the name Rochelle and Rafaela for a woman

And Subhas and Felipe for a guy

[KostasKouvalis]

Sub has? Is that Filipino?

[jennifer_bloom]

I had a South Asian classmate and a co worker named Subhas

[KostasKouvalis]

Indian? I never would have guessed. First time hearing that name

[jennifer_bloom]

I grew up in a neighbourhood with a lot of Indians, until high school which was mostly Europeans

[KostasKouvalis]

I understand

[2facedfa1ry]

girls: lana & svetlana (russia), linnea (sweden), ruoxi & mei (china), priti (india), jia (south korea)

boys: killian (germany), misha (russia), ryusei (japan), jaemin & hyunjin (south korea), vincent (france)

[Guy13]

I don't have one... in America.

[RyanEC]

Athena.
Elizabeth.
Alexander.

[KostasKouvalis]

Elizabeth and Alexander are foreign?

[RyanEC]

English and Greek.

[KostasKouvalis]

I guess that technically counts, but in that case, there is no such thing as an "American name", except maybe native names

[RyanEC]

Well I think Elizabeth sounds British to the average American but America is a European diaspora nation with an Anglo Saxon plurality so I guess an English name isn’t as foreign as a Mongolian name.

[KostasKouvalis]

Well yeah, Elizabeth is distinctly English. It's not as popular in the states, but Alexander is