Akan Names

Traditional Japanese naming for boys, not followed as widely these days as in the past literally just gives each kid a number ordering them by cardinality. Ichiro = first son, Nichiro = second son, Saburo = third son and so on. I remember watching a TV show or maybe a movie from the black and white rerun era, where a stereotyped Asian father addressed his boys not by name but by number, as first son and second son and so on.

I thought at the time this was some kind of ignorant caricature of the traditional primacy given to the first male child of a family, though not at all exclusive to Asia rather overtly expressed there. I was quite surprised to find out later on that this was a pretty straightforward calque of a genuine custom.

sigh why are Hungarians so special? It created confusion in my mind as to which one is the first mind (I'm half Hungarian)

This is pretty common in Indonesia as well, but they tend to have names that are similar but slightly different to the actual name of the month, like Febriana for the month Februari, Desi for Desember, etc…

Interestingly Wednesday Adams was named after the nursery rhyme "Monday's Child", rather than the day she was born. The rhyme has the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe". In the Netflix show she's actually born on a Friday 13th.

Heh - Perhaps he was born in the US timezone where it was a Sunday evening, but in his home country, Ghana, it was a Monday.

> His economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning "born on Sunday", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62796213 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p095j38y

Given what he did to the British economy in the shortest tenure of any chancellor, it's easy to believe he doesn't know what day it is.

There’s a Balinese tradition similar to this, where they have a few name options for each child in order up to the 4th child. If you have 5 or more children you start again from the first name and append “balik” which basically translates to “return to” or “again”.

Imagine being born on all saints day and having every name from Augustine to Xenia.

Kwame is Saturday and Komla is Tuesday

Found the old IT guy ..

They might need to contact their RelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter[1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco...

I was named Roland because it exists in both Romanian (my mother's family) and Hungarian (dad's family). It's not pronounced exactly the same (the a is different), but it's easy enough for all grandparents. And I even learned both languages, much to the relief of my grandparents.

But I was almost named Julian, because my dad had the idea for Roland only when checking me out from maternity.

Yep, this is something my fiancé and I are actively planning for at the moment.

In her culture and language, having a native-sounding name provides an individual with all the societal advantages as a default. Conversely, possessing a non-native name, regardless of citizenship status, invariably leads to the perception of being a foreigner. This results in assumptions about language proficiency and a constant exceptionality.

So, we are deciding on names for our future children that would resonate as "native" in both English and her mother tongue.

This is by no means universal. Balinese names, in particular, are typically by birth order regardless of gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name