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As someone named Daniel it is really nice that it is a common name in most European languages and never deviates in spelling. Please people give your children t
by DanielHB 3y ago
As someone named Daniel it is really nice that it is a common name in most European languages and never deviates in spelling. Please people give your children the most boring name possible.
- nuxi 3y ago> ...never deviates in spelling. In South Slavic languages it's spelled Danijel as well (same pronunciation).
- DanielHB 3y agooh first time I heard of a different spelling for Daniel, but at least in all the countries I need to do business in it is the same spelling.
- SoftTalker 3y agoAlso, and not claiming there is any cause/effect but there is a correlation, at least for men, between short, common names and career success. C-level individuals tend to have short, one-syllable names (or nicknames) like Jack, Fred, Tim, Don, etc.
- fuzztester 3y agoPlenty of others have names like that, all the way "down" to the trades.
- SamBam 3y agoThe cause and effect is most likely that upper-middle class and upper class white WASP families overwhelmingly tend to prefer those simple boy names.
- Tainnor 3y agoI think this might be an anglophone thing. In at least a number of other cultures, you wouldn't use nicknames for figures of authority, and one-syllable names are uncommon in general.
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- dimmke 3y agoAs a fellow Daniel, the spelling doesn't deviate much but the diminutives do. I live in Mexico and it's Dani here and in many Spanish speaking countries. I go by Dan and that form is pretty much never used so it causes a lot of confusion. Cool post regardless.
- DanielHB 3y agoThe spelling is important so people don't get it wrong when they have to write it down. It can be a bureaucratic nightmare to get this kind of thing fixed sometimes. For example my birth certificate had a typo in my dad's last name and when I was getting my first ID card I had to go to the notary to get the birth certificate typo fixed before getting the ID card issued. Took half a day of work...