French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translated or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence.
Any name of a (Catholic) saint would probably have mappings to other languages. (The Jesuits got around. :)
They know you're Anglo before you show up. Which is a problem because they wanted a native French speaker for the role.
Meanwhile "Fatima" has an interesting split between Muslim use and Catholic use:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_(given_name)
(I had a good (Portugese) childhood friend with that name; still sometimes manage to keep in touch.)
> Jesús is a common Spanish name, but totally nonexistent in English and French as far as I’m aware.
Jesus is not a saint.
> María too is way more common than “Mary” in English (that is a real English name, but AFAICT it’s pretty rare in the last few generations).
Mary is the most common female name in the US, but, José and María are by far more common first names in many parts of the Spanish-speaking world than Joseph and Mary in the English world, to the extent that often people who have them as their first name use their middle name as their common name, not their first name.
Good to know, but the overall point is the same, I think. He was a person who is (obviously) very important to Catholicism, and therefore the name has an equivalent in every widely-used language.
I think thats partly because Maria itself has been quite popular in English recently. Marie is also quite well accepted as an English name even if it's technically not.
The vast majority can't pronounce it correctly by the standards of my American dialect. But I don't mind.
But again, I don't mind. I kinda like the way the rest of the world says it, actually. æ is my least favorite sound in my native tongue...
My mistake! I'll be sure to next time I'm out that way.
Either you call Hindi, Persian and Bengali European or you call German English and French Asian. But saying one is European/Asian while the other is not is simply a racist view.
India and Europe are subcontinents of Asia, that's true
Languages from India are Indian and languages from Europe are European, that's also true
Your mom's racist bud
Indo-european is different but that is ancient family of prehistoric languages and hardly anyone would think this is what people mean.
I'd bet you'll find it among Copts and the Ethiopian Orthodox as well, which is also not in contradiction to what I said.
But it has caused some bureaucratic problems, because properly translating (rather than transliterating) your name seems to have fallen out of fashion, and authorities don't like that documents don't "match", even though that used to be very common. So nowadays authorities don't like that my American birth certificate and Greek registration of birth have "different" names.
And I'm a relatively easy case, because at least Mark vs. Markos look obviously similar. It's an even bigger problem if your U.S. documents say John while your Greek ones say Ιωάννης/Ioannis, even though these are direct translations. In the modern era, governments seem to want people in this situation to either choose Ioannis as their legal English name, or to choose Τζον/Tzon as their legal Greek name. But not everyone wants that.
Some of the different versions are not easily recognizable, like the English John and the Arabic Yahya, but if you knew the original Hebrew Yohanan it's not so hard.
It will be hard for people to search online so more privacy.
People judge a lot based on the names in absence of other information so having familiar, well known and something they already attach good meaning to should help.
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