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Game of Names - "Arya" now more popular than "Mary" and "Catherine" in England

posted 7 years ago by TexasJack (12516)
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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41336738

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[–] TexasJack (12516) 7 years ago

I think the more common spelling used to be Aria. Either is better than those poor kids named "Kylo" by their Star Wars-loving parents

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

Aria and Arya are 2 different names, as GRRM has made clear. The former has 3 syllables, R-ee-uh. The latter has 2, R-ya.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Arya is a normal name in Sanskrit influenced countries like India, Indonesia and Malaysia.

At least it's better than nonsense word like Khaleesi or Daenaerys.

[–] CocoMonkey (28) 7 years ago

Because of this post - it got me thinking - there’s probably a list of every babies name born each year.

I found 100 top names - but I was trying to see names where only 1 baby was called it that year.

I wanted to see - as last year my sister called her new baby Gizelda - and I thought that’s a fooking strange name. I’d love to be able to find it on that list and say “look - only you were crazy enough to call your baby that out of everyone in the uk!”

Ahh, sibling rivalry.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 7 years ago

It's pretty rare in the U.S., according to this site "From 1880 to 2015 less than 5 people per year have been born with the first name Gizelda":

https://www.names.org/n/gizelda/about

Nothing wrong with being unique!

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

It's Zelda with a Gi.