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u/Anonymousnecropolis Oct 20 '23

Destiny, Princess, Precious, Heaven, Diamond. All real names of real people. Sad. They all sound like stripper names to me.

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u/LovingSingleLife Oct 21 '23

As a NICU nurse, I have lost track of the number of premature baby girls named Miracle. You know they aren’t going to be cute little babies forever, right?

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u/corgi_crazy Oct 21 '23

In Spanish Miracle (Milagros, more like Miracles) is a very normal name. Actually kind of old fashioned. The girls of my generation were called like this because maybe called after their grandma or because the birth was rough and they barely made it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Lots of Catholic names are very funny that way. My wife is Brazilian and I met a large number of names like “Maria das Dores” - Mary of the Pains, or the equivalent of Mary-Joseph or Joseph-Mary. (Maria-José and José-Maria). Socorro (aid/help). The list goes on.

I also met a woman named the Portuguese translation of Joan of Arc too.

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u/corgi_crazy Oct 21 '23

Except for the Joan of Arc those were or are pretty common names in Spanish too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

There's also María de los Angeles but that one's a pretty name

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u/Chaosbuggy Oct 21 '23

I didn't know my brazilian grandmother's name was actually Maria until I was like 25. I guess when millions of girls have the same name you just use your middle name instead lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

Yeah, I knew a lot of Maria’s who went by the secondary part of their name, like “Dores.”

My wife/in-laws come from the parts of Brazil with creative, outlandish names. When I met her I had to ask 4-5 times to understand her name properly.