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70% of the names have a meaning usually, at least the most used names in Italy have a meaning in a way or another, so i suppose it's the same for all the countries
I think people in English have lost the connection between their name and its original meaning. No one thinks about the fact that naming your kid "Peter" is the same as naming him "Rock", or that a brook(e) is a little river.
I think it's for all languages, if the name is not very similiar or the same to the original word or meaning it's hard for someone to make a connection. So yeah, i agree
We don't teach meaning of names anymore that's the big one. My coworker just had a kid and ran a list of like 5 names past me. When I pointed out what each one means and their origin he firmly threw all of them out the window and was horrified.
It was mostly random bullshit names with weird spellings.
He ended up naming his kid Herma. Which he claimed sounded nice, when I asked him if he knew what the word ment he said no.
His new daughter has a very unfortunate name.
His kid but like man... That's goanna suck later in life.
Is it not just feminine of Herman? Nothing comes up on Wiktionary.
From what i gather herman is germanic for "army/warrior man" and herma is a feminine version. Both derived from the greek god, Hermes.
In my family (and some friends families too) sometimes we came up with a name and think about the meaning of that meaning too, idk how much common is it tbh.
I think it really depend on the culture
I think everyone knows what Brooke means. Brooks (the rivers) are nice. And it is now a common name. So Brooke is a reasonable thing to name a girl. Similar to Rose or Ruby.