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This includes all masculine given names that can also be found in the subcategories. Male given names ... Lists of people by given name. Feminine given names. Given ...
SG equivalent of En Patrick, Peter [24] (both En names are etymologically unrelated to one another). SG Peadar is used for the name of the saint (Saint Peter). Pàra, Pàdair are SG dialectal forms. [24] Para is a contracted form. [49] Pàdruig Patrick [54] Pàl Paul [52] See also SG Pòl. Pàra Patrick [24] Dialectal form of SG Pàdraig. [24 ...
Vietnamese people may distinguish unisex names by middle names. For example, Quốc Khánh may be a male name (Quốc is a male name) and Ngân Khánh may be a female name (Ngân is a female name), and sex-specific middle names such as Văn for males and Thị for females also help. In many cases, a male could have a female name and vice versa.
Old-Fashioned Baby Names. Whether you’re looking for vintage names because you love classic monikers or because you want to revive a forgotten favorite, here are 175 old-fashioned baby names to try.
A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901. The name is also found in the opening of Edna Ferber 's 1926 novel Show Boat , whose female protagonist, Magnolia names her baby daughter Kim; the name was inspired by the convergence of the three states Kentucky, Illinois ...
Slang forms exist for male names and, since a few decades ago, female names. They are formed with the suffixes -ян (-yan), -он (-on), and -ок/ёк (-ok/yok). The suffixes give the sense of "male brotherhood" that was once expressed by the patronymic-only form of address in the Soviet Union.
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally.Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.