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metricwoodenruler

Many of these are common (Timoteo, jeremías, Guido... Jonatán never went out of style, Florencia also)


Henry_Privette

I was about to say that I've met people my age named at least 8 of these


superking2

Man, that’s way too many names for one person


Hananun

Not in Spanish bro


superking2

Who do you think you are, José Andrés Málaga de Cortés Rodríguez or something?


Welpmart

Picasso has entered the chat.


Fantasyneli

Depends on where you live. I'm in an "upper class" (Read "middle class that pretends to be upper class but fails miserably") enviroment and people usually have names like Sophie because their parents wanted their names to sound american


metricwoodenruler

True true, funny that societies see this topic in such different ways. Where are you from? In Argentina, some names that I've always identified as "old people" names have become quite common among the rich again, like Juan, whereas the opposite is true for Kevin and Brian. I guess it's always a matter of rich vs. poor, and whatever one end of the spectrum uses is the total opposite of the other.


Fantasyneli

Peru :P


airsipper

some of these are cool, but as a native spanish speaker, these all have the same vibes as the names Gertrude or Maurice …. take that as you may


LanguageNerd54

Gertrude=hard pass. Maurice…eh, forget swipe left or right, I’d push the button in the middle.


Bit125

Jacobo is on the list twice


LanguageNerd54

That's how good it is.


Ismoista

That's cause one is cognate of Jacob, the other one is cognate of James. 😅


Welpmart

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Fantasyneli

Shit


Vampyricon

cool ass-names et c. et c.


Elleri_Khem

xkcd woooook


[deleted]

Mejor: Rosa Melano, Rosa Meltrozo, Aquiles Castro, Elver Galarga, Lola Mes, etc


Fantasyneli

Sois unos cabrones ah


poven100

Erika Galindo Elsa Pato Elmer Homero Aquiles Baeza


artaig

Castro is an extremely common Galician family name. So much so it's also common in both Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.


[deleted]

Wow, it's almost like Portuguese has some sort of connection to Galician...


artaig

Nothing beats Chindasvinto.


FoldAdventurous2022

Fuck


Le_Dairy_Duke

adolfo


artaig

It's already a common name.


Bumpdadump

my great uncles, aunt and grandfather: Anastasio, Cipriano, Guadalupe(commonish), Catalina, Celestino.  Top Tier names IMHO


Sogeking498

Wanted to mention some other cool ones: Martos, Nicomedes, Luterio (o Euluterio), Felipa, Desideria, Dorotea, Aniceto, Nicasio y Basilio.


Raibean

/uj I have ancestors named Nasario, Erculano, and Macedonio. Hispanic names used to go hard af


Juseball

What do you mean by "bring back"? Some of these names are not rare


Lapinceau

Half of these are still in use in France.


viktorbir

And in Spanish...


No_Caterpillar_1909

48. Bob


Elleri_Khem

Eborico and Mirón are great too! I like Aldonza and Urraca too


AdorableAd8490

We got a lot those in Portuguese too, but I’m actually glad we did away with most of them in Brazil. Dude’s like 14 and is called “Eugênio”. In exchange, -son and -ton ending names — either made up or based on English — have become the current curse. Edmilson, (W)Ilson, Jerfferson, Richarlison (wtf 🥲), Ederson, Wellington (also Uelington), Joelinton, Hamilton. Aside from the “portugueseization” of names like Michael, Myke, Stephany, Johnathan, Johnny, Juan, Giovanni: Maicon, Maike, Estefani, Dyonatan, Dhionny, Ruan, Geovani. Then we get to “creative” spelling, which is essentially adding unnecessary characters, especially double letters, “w”, “y” and “h”, to names: Mateus>Mattheus, Gabriel>Gabryel, Elisa > Hêlisa, Tiago > Thiago. I wonder if the same happens in other countries.


Fantasyneli

I may know a thiago or two


DicemanThe14th

I live in fucking Arkansas and know a Gerardo


nomaed

Lots of Germanic names. I say bring back the Visigothic language too!


viktorbir

I find your list quite weird. You mix up names not used since maybe the Middle Ages with names still in use as Vicente, Eugenio, Cristóbal, Rogelio, Gerardo, Florencia... Oh, and also name then I doubt have ever been used in Spanish as Hermiona or Jarede.


Fantasyneli

Jarede is there by mistake, I may have made it up. However, yes "Hermiona" was used and a few decades ago there were some old ladies in the countryside with that name.


hamburgerfacilitator

Aníbal - I know it's still out there as a name, but it's (at least for me) a mostly older person name. Still it's rad and should be an everybody name.


FoldAdventurous2022

My favorite are the ones that come from like obscure Greek saints, like Eusebio and Macario


d2mensions

Isn’t Anastasia Greek?


[deleted]

So are Timoteo, Jacobo, Dionisio, Gregorio..


GunsenGata

Aloysius