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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.
The word comes from English dialect geek or geck (meaning a "fool" or "freak"; from Middle Low German Geck). Geck is a standard term in modern German and means "fool" or "fop". [ 6 ] The root also survives in the Dutch and Afrikaans adjective gek ("crazy"), as well as some German dialects , like the Alsatian word Gickeleshut (" jester 's hat ...
The English version is derived from the Latin Iesse, borrowed from the Ancient Greek Iessaí (Ἰεσσαί), and ultimately from the Hebrew Yišay (יִשַׁי). The English name was translated into many languages (especially Romance languages and Greek). It has been a popular given name in many English-speaking countries since the 1880s. [1]
It was the third-most popular name for newborn boys in New Zealand in 2023 and is also common in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. In 2022, it was the 27th most popular name given to boys in Canada. [2] In the United States, the animated film Luca has been cited as influencing its usage of the name for boys. [1]
Andréia is the most common Portuguese spelling of this name, although Andréa is also used in Brazilian Portuguese. The masculine form is André. In Dutch, Andrea is used as a female name, although the variant Andrée is found in French.
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Giovanni is a male Italian given name (from Latin Ioannes). [1] It is the Italian equivalent of John.Giovanni is frequently contracted to Gianni, Gian, or Gio, particularly in the name Gianbattista, and can also be found as a surname.
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