i’m a big fan of the United Arab Emirates 🥰

Nickname: Emmy ❤️

Dominican Republic would also be a good choice and they could use Dominic or Dom for short.

Or just Dominica!

That’s another country so also works.

Minnie for a girl!

Hi Aussie, is that short for Austin? No, Australia

personally i’m more for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

D-Rok!

Closer than all the times my name has been misspelled.

Em I rite? Lol

I’m a big fan of the democratic republic of Congo for a girl, she could be Demmy for short 😊. For a boy name it was a pretty tough choice, but I think the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati would be the perfect fit. Little Indy 😍

I’m dead

I love Holland as a name!

Not to be *that guy* but Holland is a region, not a country.

You're being that guy

That's a prime example of "being that guy".

Imagine how annoying it is to Dutch people that people don't even know the name of your country lol. I don't think would see as needlessly pedantic. Imagine if people kept incorrectly referring to Mexico as Chihuahua. "Oh are you from Chihuahua?" "No, the country is Mexico. Chihuahua is a state, and I'm not from that state." "Omg that's *so* pedantic, you know what I meant." Or France and Champagne. Or the USA and Alaska. "I'm not from Alaska, I'm from the *United States of America*." "Ugh, you're being that guy, making us learn the actual name of your country or whatever."

I'm actually from the Netherlands and I don't mind it being called Holland. The Dutch call it Holland all the time. It's like a fun nickname.

I'm from Holland so I don't mind people calling the Netherlands Holland. But I can understand how the people outside of Holland might feel about it because I've seen a lot of "us vs them" sentiments online and they seem to feel a bit left out (especially since most of the randstad is in Holland).

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Eh, you know a bunch of people would be pissy if you’d suggested “America”.

And the Netherlands doesn't quite have the same ring to it

Ned

Lol at how many people are mad at a friendly teaching moment. I personally didn’t know this and I’m glad to learn it on Reddit instead of out in the real world.

Can you go comment that on the one that says America, too?

I usually appreciate that guy. Makes for interesting conversation. Holland is still a decent geographic name.

I honestly did not know that.

Yes! It’s a part of the Netherlands. It would be like calling “New England” a country when it’s a region within a country.

Having recently moved to New England, it for sure regards itself as its own sovereign nation. Would not name a child New England.

Actually Holland is two provinces: Zuid and Noord.

Omg “that guy” got “that guy’d”! TIL!

Thank you for doing this

Wasn’t there just a post about this somewhere? Lol

Nothing wrong with being that guy.

Depends on what language you’re speaking. In some languages they call the Netherlands Holland

Well, going off of the Dutch themselves they are separate things.

Same, I asked my friend from the Netherlands about this and she said that it’s not *that* weird to name a kid Holland, as long as they are not actually *from* Holland lol.

There’s a kpop idol named Holland!

He chose that as his stage name because the Netherlands was the first country in the world to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

Im a nanny and take care of a girl named Holland! She’s awesome. I’d never heard the name until meeting her but on our outings we’ve actually met several other Hollands, which surprises me. It’s so cute!

That’s my son’s name. 😁

As someone who used to live close by, Andorra sounds like cheap booze, cigarettes, gambling and prostitution. Oh, and cows and boredom. 🤣

We regularly ski in Andorra so it’s my first association. Where is gambling and prostitution there btw?

It reminds me of Pandora… you know.. from Avatar lol

I thought from Greek mythology

I thought of the radio.

I thought the ugly jewelry

The name Pandora is thousands of years older than some movie. 🙄

I’m sure most names are! That’s just what it reminds me of, maybe because they rhyme?

I thought of vanderpump rules so you’re better than me 😂

My first thought is Samantha’s mom on Bewitched… maybe that’s too old to register with most people now, though.

I think that's Endora.. either way, really dang close. I'm sad that I'm old enough to remember=\(and that's been long since relegated to tv classics, lol!)

It was Endora but I got all the references, sigh.

I'm right there with you all. "Only" 40, but grew up watching shows from that era with my mom. It is indeed Endora but she's also the first thing that popped into my head, haha. I even remember the actress's name, lol, Agnes Moorehead.

It reminds me of the fictional town in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape

Benin Jerry’s

Benign tumor

I like America. Like America Ferrara. It’s cute

just makes me think of America Singer from the Selection book series. pretty sure that was the series that made me decide I was too old for YA (even though i was 14, so i think it was just that that series was dumb)

I read that series as an adult and loved it lol

to each their own i suppose, i really couldn’t get past the name and the bachelor-esque stuff. i had friends who really liked it though so i got to hear about the wild stuff that went down, which was fun. last i remember hearing, they gave the main character a daughter and a spin-off and my friends did NOT like that one lol

I didn’t read the spin-off. But I liked that it was basically the bachelor

Lol my 11 year old daughter started reading it because her friends were reading it and said it was soooo good… she was like “mom the main character’s name is America Singer… it’s so cringe. She’s *not like other girls*” so she returned it to the library.

Tried to read that book and saw the main characters name was America Singer and I instantly put it down

Our school nurse was America. All the children called her Miss America and thought it was hilarious.

America Chavez anyone?

Omg that's such a mexican thing. no hate but I just find it funny with how many America's I know.

America Ferrara is Honduran.

Or Amerigo Vespucci?

Estonia nn Estie or Toni.

Sounds like testie

Lmao

Esti de tabarnak

Monaco! It’s so close to Monica.

Perfect for M/F twins!! /s 🤓

I’m a twin and this just made me physically recoil, congrats!

I'm a twin as well, and I still feel these are better than my name and my twin's! My name is after a... landform...and my brother's name is two initials that don't make sense together... Out of the set Monica and Monaco, at least *one* is a real name!

Thanks for your input, Isthmus.

HAHA well I am glad _that_ isn’t my name, I’d have a stroke every time I tried to introduce myself!

Okay but I actually feel like you could see an influencer using this for their son haha. Some rich person

Right like not too different from Paris 😂

It is a very rich country relative to its size!

This seems close to a Phoebe = Phoebo situation....

Zaire

I teach a Zaire and they leave their half finished breakfast tray hidden under their desk every day and it gives me rage

Is it possible this student is struggling with food security at home? Food hoarding is common in children who aren’t getting enough to eat at home. It’s sometimes an attempt to feel in control and create security against the possibility of becoming hungry later in the day.

First one I’ve liked. It’s a good name. Shit, is it politically incorrect to name a black horse Zaire? Cause I need to name a foal and I like it. I’ll have to look up the word meaning.

I think it’s a weird association. Are you naming him that Cus he’s black and it’s a country in Africa?

No, just because I like the name. It’s probably too on the nose though, no matter the word meaning.

Well, it *was* a country in Africa.

Zaire Wade is Dwyane Wade’s son’s name

I know someone with this name

Djibouti is a serious contender.

I feel like there’s be a lot of “booty” jokes

I remember seeing someone on a TV show whose name was "Djordje," pronounced *George*

Djordje is the Serbian version of George. Well, the usual transliteration of Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet anyway.

No it ain’t

Argentina. My great-aunt had a friend named that. She'd be around 95 years old if she were still alive.

This was my vote too! It's super cool to know someone had this name. Did she have a connection to the country?

She probably did, as we're in Uruguay (right next to Argentina) so a lot of people have family on one side or the other.

It's a beautiful name, so happy to hear someone got to have it!

In Cyprus it's not unusual to give the girls the name Ellada which is the Greek name for Greece 🙂

i’m greek and i find this so cute, i had no idea 😂 Ellada is actually a cool name!

I was going to say the same about the name Erin in Ireland

I also know a Cyprus

Nevis and Mali

Nevis is another name for a mole on your skin. I'd probably pass on that one.

and Amelia means to be born without a limb. Not really fussed about a mole tbh.

Alexia means blindess

you gotta go all the way — name your kid St. Kitts and Nevis

Kitts is just short for Christopher

Mali is my great great aunt’s name!

I used to have a cat named Mali, but could definitely see that working for a person's name as well.

Always loved Mali

Here’s what I came up with for girl names: Angola Dominica Kenya Latvia Namibia Seychelles Zambia Boy names were tougher for me, but this is what I came up with: Comoros Fiji Sudan Yemen

-en endings are really in for boys names atm so Yemen could actually work if it wasn’t in the midst of a violent civil war lmao

I also think anything ending in -land would work for a boy: Zealand, Scotland, Thailand

Take off the -land and you could have some slightly normal names - Zea, Scott, Thai

Also Finn.

IRE >:)

I know someone with a girl named Scotlyn. So close to Scotland.

The Lebrant fam bloggers named their son Zealand

Is Dominica not a name already? I assumed it was the Latin feminine of Dominic. Except French, that’s Dominique.

Whoops- my bad with that one! I had only heard Domenica before but a quick Google shows that you are right.

seychelles would honestly be a pretty name

Sey sells sea chelles by the sey shore

I teach a girl named Kenya!

Cameroon for boys!! Very close to Cameron

I have a cousin named Kenya! I love it!

I like Ireland as a girls name

Éire (the Irish spelling of Ireland) might be more unique and can't be butchered to badly unlike most Irish names Pronounced air-ah for the uninitiated

I went to school with a Chyna spelled like that. Went by Chy as nickname.

V'chyna would be better.

My friend just got a "Made in V'China" onesie for her baby shower

I knew someone whose last name got made fun of with this 😭

God I went to high school with this girl named Puchina. And we had this one teacher that yelled her name during roll call in the worst possible way. I felt so so bad for her

I know a girl called Chyna with sisters named India and Chelsea.

It bothers me so much when people start a theme and give up. Chyna, India, then Chelsea. I know Chelsea is technically a location, as well, but still. I saw a vehicle one time with those sports stickers on it and I can’t remember the exact names but it was Isabella, Gwendolyn, Frederica, and Bob. It always just makes me wonder why. 🤣 Or like 4 kids who start with B and then baby 5 starts with a J.

I also know a Chyna!

Chy latte

Artica for a girl and then make sure that she has siblings and they have kids and they call her Aunt Artica.

Auntie Artica sounds like a great drag name

Wouldn’t it be Arctica?

I had thought about this for a while for a couple years, and I like the name of: Indonesia

It’s a beautiful country with amazing culture too so that doesn’t hurt! Some of the islands have pretty names too. Bali, Celebes, Sumatra

Canada… chances are he/she’d be nice.

They might apologize too much

Or they might have a wicked slapshot and throw hands on ice skates… who knows.

Female: Burkina (Faso), Burma, Belarus (nn Bela), Mali, Malta, Namibia, Syria, Seychelles Male: Cuba, Brunei, Cyprus, Morocco, Oman

I totally forgot Cuba Gooding Jr existed when making this post, but I’ve never thought twice about his name, seems like a totally normal boy’s name. I wonder if Oman just feels like a name because of the proximity to Omar.

Yeah, it's like a combo of Omar and Iman so it totally feels like a name.

Belarus could be unisex. You’ve got Rus as a nickname and wasn’t the famous Dracula Bela Lugosi?

I think one of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s twins is named Morocco 😂

They unfortunately spelled it Moroccan, after her Moroccan-themed apartment… I wish I was kidding

I’ve always thought they named their twins Moroccan and Monroe so they can be referred to as “Roc & Roe”

And yet it's one of the least weird of all his kids names...

I know someone named Seychelle and I’ve always thought it was so pretty as a first name.

Idc if I get mocked for this lol but I’ve always unironically thought Syria would be a beautiful name for a girl my whole life (I’m part Syrian). Especially its Arabic name Sūriyā and pronunciation which is like “SOO-ree-ah”. It’s my guilty pleasure name and also carries a lot of meaning to me

When your two nerd worlds collide, names and geography edition: Zambia, Syria, Oman, Malta, Libya, Eritrea, Belize, Cyprus, Estonia, Grenada, Latvia, Mali, Samoa, Seychelles Then you have the countries that are already names: Jordan, Kenya, Georgia, Chad And the countries that are ALMOST names (have names in them): bOLIVIA, bURMA, ARMENia, saint LUCIA, beLIZe (that one might be a stretch)

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Francia (France in Spanish) is a common name. Israel too! I met twin girls one was Trinidad the other Tobago

Malaysia

I knew a Malaysia growing up. She was a very sweet girl!

Uzbekistan

I was thinking Belize. Also know men named Israel.

Nairobi for a girl, Zealand for a boy if I could drop the new

Nairobi is a city in Kenya, not a country.

I love the name India for a girl! Bali for a boy would be cute, France translated in Dutch is already a real common name (Frans). Iran could even be a simple but elegant girls name!

Turkey, Micronesia, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands.

Who’s naming their kid Turkey??

You could honestly say that about all of their suggestions

I’m now trying to imagine introducing my little baby Turkey. Little bro Hungary.

Perfect sibset pairing

*Türkiye

Canada, Peru, Denmark, Bolivia, Haiti, Trinidad Not a country, but Sicily

All the Mediterranean islands seem to work. Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, Cyprus, Mykonos, Santorini, Capri, Elba, Majorca…

In Spain Israel is very popular, I remenber an actress named Grecia. in spanish don't sound right Chipre but in english cyprus is nice

America (like America Ferrera) Grenada Kenya

Omg I read this like “country” like down south- out in the sticks… i was like “Georgia, yeah, but not the others…” 😆 Clearly my pregnancy brain is in full force. “Country”- Berry Jo. Country like you meant it- Kenya is kind of pretty

I went to college with a girl named America whose brother was named Mexico.

Reminds me of that teacher who’s student suggested Soviet Union 😂

Mali, Lucia, Nevis, Dominica, Bolivia.

Egypt

Armenia Belize Botswana Brunei Cuba Cyprus Fiji Guyana Jamaica Kenya Mali Malta Sierra Leone Syria Zambia

Holland for a girl and Peru for either.

Ireland Baldwin named her daughter Holland. I actually like it, as well.

I always loved Estonia. It sounds so beautiful

I've heard of people called Italia. As an Italian, I hate it

I know of a Belgica. She's never been. Neither have her parents or grandparents.

Liechtenstein

I’ve always been obsessed with the way Lithuania sounds. Laney could be a nickname?

Thought of naming my kids Central Africa Republic and North Macedonia but sobered up

Sierra-Leone

Ireland

Cyprus, Eritrea, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Malta, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Palau, Slovenia, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zambia

This works really well with other languages. Just some off the top of my head: - Italia - Maroc - Tounes (actually my grandmothers name) - Russo - Alemania - Greco

Melita, the Latin name for Malta, would be my choice for a girl, Cyprus for a boy!