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English / Spanish : Male names gives very few names that I’d recognize as English names. https://mixedname.com/english_spanish_masculine_names https://mixedname
by dfee 6y ago
English / Spanish : Male names gives very few names that I’d recognize as English names. https://mixedname.com/english_spanish_masculine_names https://mixedname.com/english_spanish_masculine_names
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the value of this?
- capableweb 6y agoThe point of the website is to find names that sound/look acceptable in both English and Spanish, not that they _are_ both English and Spanish.
- adrianmonk 6y agoI think it would be a nice addition to rank the names. At the top would be ones that work really naturally in both languages. Lower down would be names that work naturally in one language but only work OK in the other. Naturalness might be tricky to define, though. Really common names are probably natural by definition, but uncommon names may also be natural. For example, Roman isn't a common name, but it's natural. Another thing to take into account is if there is a more natural equivalent. For example, it is OK in English to name someone Antonio, but Anthony is the more-English version. One of the core issues is whether you're looking for names that occur in both languages by coincidence or ones that have been borrowed because of cultural overlap. Maybe you're looking for a name that both cultures understand, or maybe you're looking for a false cognate that just happens to work in both languages.
- sarb 6y agoI got the same impression, lots of names that sound Spanish or English but few or none that would work in both.
- jdmichal 6y agoI checked out English / Spanish also, since that was the dilemma my wife and I dealt with. I think the fuzzy matches are actually much higher quality than the top list.
- anthk 6y ago- English name - Jacobo Ahem...Biblical names can be traced to almost older than English, at least in romances. jacob <-> Jacobo, Santiago Noah <-> Noé George <-> Jorge Also, Martín is French origin I think.
- gostsamo 6y agoMartin is latin, meaning little Mars.