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Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:44 pm

The ones to avoid

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Sara · Post by **Sara** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:07 pm

Luckily we dont have any of them on the list

I really couldnt call a child Ninni

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:33 pm

... and Pyry might cause a few problems back in old blighty: "Come 'ere Pie-rye!"

and then I'm not too mad about Veeti either (sounds like hair remover) and Wilma...... bit too Flintstone-ish.

IIRC it was not easy finding Franco-British-Suedo-Finnish first names for our kids. In the end we were very boring.

Amandine.K · Post by **Amandine.K** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:56 pm

Yeah we had the problem too Penelope as we wanted names that sounded ok in French and in Finnish and that would be read properly in both languages. We eventually went for Elea and Kiara. And everybody loves the name, as they sound unusual in French and in Finnish.

Now we're trying for a baby again, I wonder what we will end up using! None of the name on the list I'm afraid as I really don't like them.

Sara · Post by **Sara** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:26 pm

Penelope, I imagine you struggled! Its hard enough for us to get something that fits well enough with Finnish and English. Some of my family still cant cope with the surname and Ive been with my husband for 9 years

karen · Post by **karen** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:43 pm

It was really difficult to settle on one Finnish name. There was no way we would ever agree on a second one. I went to an Irish name (my heritage) site and made a short list of names I liked. Dh approved of Declan so our ds was Reino Declan.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:18 pm

My husband's best friend named their kid Pyry. Damned if I can pronounce it.

And there are two Ninni's at my kid's day care. And an Eliel too, which I am surprised came back.

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:01 am

When our daughter was born I said I wasn't too bothered about the name if it didn't have an 'R' in it, on the grounds that it would to bloody embarrassing not to be able to pronounce it properly, she got the name Eili, though by the time she started moving about and getting into things she probably thought her name was Ei.

karen · Post by **karen** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:30 am

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:45 am

Well, if it would have been a boy, bilingually EiNo!

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:08 am

For your information, there are currently 169 Elvises in this country (apart of course from the REAL one who lives in Siilinjärvi), and more intriguingly one of the said fake Elvises does not have quite the same pelvis as the other 168.

Also worthy of consideration is the fact that there are three guys walking around called Zico. Which should warm the cockles of Ari Hjelm's heart.

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:26 pm

'Well, if it would have been a boy, bilingually EiNo!'

Hank you've made me realize that I may have confused Eili when she first learnt to talk, because I always told her 'no' in Finnish then english, maybe this is why her best friends in päiväkoti are boys?

If Eili would have been a boy we would have called him Tapio.

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/finn ... eity=TAPIO

Actually Hank from the description...

Paul_D · Post by **Paul_D** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:41 pm

I hope I will have to choose soon, but I definitely won't be looking for a firstname that is pronounced "naturally" the same way in French and Finnish.

My main criterias would be:

- agreeing with my wife

- something Finnish and Finnish looking and Finnish sounding (not Emma or Anna, for instance), because the last name will be French for sure. If the little one is called Jean Dupont, but grows up as being culturally Finnish (mother's culture and land where raised), without having lived in a French-speaking country, I think it's terribly weird.

- something that does not sound like a joke in French or Finnish, by itself or combined with mother's lastname (divorce may always happen) and father's last name, in any twisted linguistic thinking. For example in the top-10 for girls, there is Venla

Gosh, it is pronounced as "Sell her!" for a French reader !!!! And Lauri would be more a girl's first name in French...

- popularity, or meaning of the firstname would come after all that...

/Paul

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:15 pm

otyikondo wrote: (apart of course from the REAL one who lives in Siilinjärvi),

I thought he lived in Åland

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oompah18 · Post by **oompah18** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:17 pm

As most of my family in Uk are elderly, we had to find simple, bilingual (English/Finnish) boys names, so we have Olli (Petteri 2nd name), Martti (Artturi)& Timi (Valtteri), that seem to go down well in both countries. I really wanted Henri, but I know of at least 5 people called Henri around here! As for females, there are loads of mums called Virpi or Marika around here! Strange!

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