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Originally Posted by Table 5
I hope it's not the case with you YNAT, but picking "foreign sounding" names that have no tie to your own families history sounds a little lame to me. Are people's family histories so worthless that they need to re-invent themselves by leeching other cultures?
Coming from a family with all sorts of euro spelling's of common english names, it's not as fun as those parents seem to think. Mädchen might be fun to you, but your kid will spend a good amount of it's time trying to work around that umlaut.
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Mädchen is pretty foreign sounding, but we are of German heritage, most of our ancestors had very German sounding first names, and often they anglicized it when the area they lived here in Soouthern Manitoba started becoming more and more english speaking. Johan became John.
Future names will be foriegn names, but like I said, not too far out that english speakers will have trouble with them (though we realize that english speakers will always have trouble saying Mädchen).
She will have to spell her name everytime she gives it to someone, but my wife and I have to do that pretty much every time as well, and we have normal names. We know what it's like.
We hope she'll have fun (in a good way) with the umlaut. Mw wife and I know we would, so we hope our personalities rub off of our daughter enough for her to enjoy having her unique name.