Dateline: Sofia, Bulgaria. Parents have been spotted naming children more unconventionally, "as the nation prepares to join the EU" (??)--for example, based on Classical names:
Mythology from neighbouring Greece was also the source of many baby names such as Aphrodite, the goddess of love, Apollo, the god of arts, wine god Dionysios, Gaea, the goddess of earth, and Galathea, the sea-nymph who fell in love with a mortal.
And just a little way around the world, an account of Indian surnames, including this:
North Indian names, which are closest to the Western style of first name followed by a family name came to be in many different ways. If you go back to the part of History that is misty because of its antiquity, then you find that in the era before Christianity, the people of Bactria (western Afghanistan and Eastern Iran of modern day) and even as far as Greece had names like Diodotus and Herodotus. It is very likely that the last name "Dutt" came out of a split ('Sandhi vicched') of such names. This is solely my theory.
Back in Europe, we have a treatment of Irish names (gasp! Sean isn't as Irish as you might have thought...):
The Irish have always been open to experimenting with names, from flirting with glamorous Roman names in the 6th and 7th century to genuflecting in the direction of religious names after the country became Christian.
And, back in the good ol' American Midwest, the name Maximillian Kenechi Igbanugo prompts an explanation of Maximilian (no connection to a "million"):
The American College Encyclopedic Dictionary indicates that Maximilian is a German blend of the Roman names Maximus and Aemilianus. However, proud papa Herbert Igbanugo said, "The name is Latin."
However??
Ok--that's it.
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