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Help[Opinions] Some "new" additions to the German naming pool
My e-mail provider has some sort of daily newsflash, and yesterday they talked about names. Apparently the German Press Agency had asked around the civil registry offices what uncommon names they had officially accepted over the past few months.
Not all of them are really uncommon or unheard of, some of them had been "legal" here before. If I were to guess, I'd say the whole thing was more about "Dear civil registrar, what was the most unsual name that YOU have authorized recently?"
Anyway, here they are:
Girls:
Amsel (that's the German word for blackbird)
Aruba
Casey (that one had been used here before)
Cattaleya (Cataleya had appeared in BAs before, so this seems to be about the spelling)
Ducati
Ferrara Melody Maxima
Frangi - Pany
Kenia
La - Vie
Loreley (nothing new...)
Madita (Seeing as Madita has been in the top 500 for a few years now, I'm surprised it's on this list)
Maybee
Neki
Peaches Princess
Sealina
Sueann - Presess
Süske (that's actually an old North Frisian name, rare but certainly legal before)
Versann
Hedi - Rocky
Boys:
Ashton - Phoenix (that one's probably more about the hyphen than anything else)
Belmondo
Buckminster
Cabero
Daron Angel (that one must be about the combination. Or maybe about Daron.)
Eisi Faust Erik (sounds like "icy fist Erik" to a German ear)
Hajaina
Jari Lias
Jeremy - Jaden (I don't know why this one made the list. Maybe because of the hyphen, maybe because of the combination. But seriously, I don't know.)
Legolas
Lönne (nothing new...)
Male Mylow
Pazifik (the German word for Pacific)
Piér
Price
Raider
Rocky
Smart
So, what do you think? Anything worth keeping? ;)
Source: http://www.gmx.net/themen/lifestyle/leben/48a9c0w-marie-maximilian-beliebte-vornamen-2012#.A1000146
Not all of them are really uncommon or unheard of, some of them had been "legal" here before. If I were to guess, I'd say the whole thing was more about "Dear civil registrar, what was the most unsual name that YOU have authorized recently?"
Anyway, here they are:
Girls:
Amsel (that's the German word for blackbird)
Aruba
Casey (that one had been used here before)
Cattaleya (Cataleya had appeared in BAs before, so this seems to be about the spelling)
Ducati
Ferrara Melody Maxima
Frangi - Pany
Kenia
La - Vie
Loreley (nothing new...)
Madita (Seeing as Madita has been in the top 500 for a few years now, I'm surprised it's on this list)
Maybee
Neki
Peaches Princess
Sealina
Sueann - Presess
Süske (that's actually an old North Frisian name, rare but certainly legal before)
Versann
Hedi - Rocky
Boys:
Ashton - Phoenix (that one's probably more about the hyphen than anything else)
Belmondo
Buckminster
Cabero
Daron Angel (that one must be about the combination. Or maybe about Daron.)
Eisi Faust Erik (sounds like "icy fist Erik" to a German ear)
Hajaina
Jari Lias
Jeremy - Jaden (I don't know why this one made the list. Maybe because of the hyphen, maybe because of the combination. But seriously, I don't know.)
Legolas
Lönne (nothing new...)
Male Mylow
Pazifik (the German word for Pacific)
Piér
Price
Raider
Rocky
Smart
So, what do you think? Anything worth keeping? ;)
Source: http://www.gmx.net/themen/lifestyle/leben/48a9c0w-marie-maximilian-beliebte-vornamen-2012#.A1000146
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By chance, could any of these names belong to say, the children of American service members stationed in Germany?
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I honestly don't know. They didn't mention anything along those lines.
Then again, I'm not even sure if American military members would have to register their children with a German civil registry office (the article explicitly states that they went straight to the "authorities". So no BAs, hospital announcements or the like but the real deal if you so will).
You've made me curious, though: do American service members stationed abroad have to register their kids with the local civil registry offices/offices of vital statistics? Does anyone happen to know?
Then again, I'm not even sure if American military members would have to register their children with a German civil registry office (the article explicitly states that they went straight to the "authorities". So no BAs, hospital announcements or the like but the real deal if you so will).
You've made me curious, though: do American service members stationed abroad have to register their kids with the local civil registry offices/offices of vital statistics? Does anyone happen to know?
This message was edited 3/13/2013, 8:38 AM
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Maybee?? sounds not so sweet like the meaning ("may bee"); it's like "maybe (i'm pregnant)" ^^ Ducati & Smart aren't nice either... & the meaning of Amsel is ok, but the name doesn't sound nice... can't believe that these names have been authorized...
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