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Were you born in another country and now live in the United States?

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I was just wondering (if you did) why you decided to name your child an "American" name.

I was born in the United States and have lived here my whole life. If I ever moved to another country and had a baby I would name my baby an "American" name.

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  1. I was born in Canada, but I'm Cambodian. My parents were born in Canada. I've been living in the U.S. before I could even sit up by myself. I have a traditional Cambodian name and I'm happy with that but the mispronunciations do get tiring after some time.


  2. Yes I was. I gave my daughter an English first name and a non-English middle name. Her last name is very English and it really didn't go well with non-English names...

  3. I was born in Puerto Rico but my husband is American and we live in the US so our kids will have names in english.

  4. Nope the opposite; born in the states live in another country.

  5. Yeah I was born in France, lived there till I was 13. I've lived in the states ever since. I gave my son a typical American name, Jayden, but gave my daughter a French name, Adeline. best wishes x x

  6. Well my cousin was born in Enlgand and moved to US with her husband and had 8 children. When she had some of them people were slighlty worried about the names because they had been popular there for a few years but not in England yet. None of them have a traditional english name like Victoria or James. They are all name that are very American born names.

    :)

  7. NOPE

  8. i wasn't but i have a friend who was born in Germany and is 14 and her name is Rebekah Leigh. in Germany a lot of people born over there have american names though.

  9. I was born in Israel, but have lived in the US since I was four.  I have a Hebrew name myself and am familiar with a bunch of them, but am actually more familiar with the English names.

    I actually like the idea of continuing to pass Hebrew names down to my American born children.  The big problem with it is that American's are not going to know how to pronounce the vast majority of Hebrew names.  Plus, some of these names might sound too strange too Americans.  I don't want my kids to have to constantly correct people who mispronounce their names like I have always done, and I don't want their names to sound or look too strange on a resume.  

    There are a couple of Israeli names that I think would work well in the US.  I really like Noam for a boy,  and Ariella for a girl.  My husband unfortunately is not a big fan of Noam.  He loves Ariella though, and there's a good chance that will be our first daughter's name.

    Keep in mind as well that one parent may be from the new country.  My husband's family are American dating all the way back to the days of the Mayflower so a name that's not used much in the US is going to sound strange to them.

  10. I was born in the US and I've never been out of the country! :P

    My name is Tiffany. I guess it's a very "American" name.

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