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I haven’t met any one with a terribly spelt name but one girl I worked with was named America. Weird as hell if you ask me
Is it that uncommon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Ferrera
Dont know. But its weird as hell
There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America
I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.
I was briefly married to a Georgia, but the family wasn't Southern. The fathers name was George and that is also what he named his first son, so his first daughter was Georgia.
Never have understood the phenomenon of fathers passing down their name, you've already cursed your child with the family name, why make things harder on the poor whelp?
Vanity isn't it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.
I know plenty of women that carry an old school second name because there grandmother's names are passed down. Like Elisabeth, or Rose or the like.
You must be able to see that giving your daughter your mother's name as a middle name is not at all the same as giving your son your own name?
The names were first. The locations are named after names.
Even America was a name first.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.
Many people are named after places. This one doesn't feel weird to me atleast
I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.
India is a name I've seen often.
Most places are named after people too
But which America is it? North or south?
They compromised and it's central.
I also had a coworker named America and I'm pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker's first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty...)
There's also America Ferrera, I don't think the name is that weird.
Yup, I've known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).
If I had to bully her I'd call her Latrine
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