KINGZ wrote:
Zachery 16 (Hebrew) does not rank in the top 2000 in the US
Dakota 15 (American) us rank 257 currently
Onyx 12 (Greek) Does not rank in the top 2000 in the US
Christopher 9 (Greek) us rank 12 currently
Isaiah 8 (Hebrew) us rank 61 currently
Zoey 6 (Greek) us rank 221 currently
Hana 5 (Japanese, Korean, & Arabic) us rank 1260 currently
Let’s see out off all these names, only one is American.
Ummm... Dude.
The only name that is wonky in that list is "Onyx". The rest of them are perfectly normal Western European/English names. Okay, except for Dakota. I'm not going to flog you for naming a kid after a state, although every time I meet someone named Dakota or Montana or whatever, I have to fight not to roll my eyes. It seems to be all the rage for a certain type of people these days. And maybe the wonky spelling of what most people would expect to be Hannah. And the slightly unusual "most people don't know how to pronounce the name so I'll stick a -y at the end of it" Zoe. But other than Onyx and Dakota, these are all perfectly normal names that have been common in Western Europe, and our history and literature, for millenia.
Now you suggest throwing an alien Temujin or Leiliolani or a Haneul into the mix without the obvious connection of an ethnic tie.
Might as well go with "Moon-Unit," "Dweezil," or "Orangejello."
Tony
(Sorry, guy, but I have long been on rants about parents who want to name their kids "cool" or "unique" things or use "creative" spellings, instead of just giving them a nice normal name that would not prompt people to stare at their job applications or credit cards and wonder, "what the hell were your parents smoking?")