On our website, we have already written about how to name a child and not make a mistake with the choice . Today we present to your attention an article by Katerina Mola, which fully confirms the vision presented in our material.
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In the life of every person there comes a moment when it seems to him that everyone around him has gone crazy. I have this moment every time I hear that someone I know has a baby. The point, of course, is not in the child itself, but in the name that creative parents plot against their child. Yes, in most cases this is exactly the case - it seems that as soon as he is born, his mother and father immediately want to put him in a corner, but because he still does not know how to stand, they just give him a disgusting name. From the desire to mock.
It's no secret that the fashion for names is cyclical. For example, in my class there were 5 Lens and 4 Serezhas, but now, in my opinion, this trouble has reached a truly impressive scale. And this despite the fact that people can always go to Google, score: "the most popular names this year", and exclude them all. But no, why? Let our daughter be the tenth Sophia in the class! It's funny, they will all call each other by their last names, because they have the same first name. Mariy has been disfigured so much that, it seems, the new generation of parents, as it were, is justified for the 70 Soviet years of the unpopularity of this name. Well, if you don’t have Maria or Sofia, then the conclusion suggests itself: your daughter’s name is Eva. Bingo!
Evangelist names are popular among boys. I don’t know why, but the abundance of Marks is amazing. There is a version that this is the most popular gospel, because it is the simplest and many read only it. Maybe the popularity of this name has something to do with the re-evangelization of our country, I don't know. Mark's brothers are also present - Matvey and Luka inhabit sandboxes in many, and Ivanov has always been enough. Well, Nikita finally receded into the background, losing the palm to Arseniy and Bogdan.
But this, in essence, is not a problem. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be like everyone else. It is much worse when parents want to give their child some special name. Well, special, you know. Why this does not take into account the fact that our culture has a patronymic and the dissonance, often, of one's own surname is a big mystery. But I think people just overestimate themselves. When they call their daughter Francesca or Jessica, maybe it seems to them that she will soon marry an Englishman and go to live in Sussex and there she will be Jessica Palmer - this is much better than Ludmila Palmer or Valentina Palmer. Yes, definitely. But while she is Jessica Andreevna Skubko, and she will have to live with it for at least 20 years, have you thought about it?
Or another extreme, also very popular: old names. Slavic there, or Greek, but such that it wafted with moldy books and amulets. Here, for example, Arkhip. What should a child do to get such a name? Here is this little innocent lump, why are you doing it like that? Was he born with a stick? He was born with a beard, looked at you with a cloudy eye, and said: “In our times, this was not the case!”, And you immediately - “Oh, yes, this is Arkhip, of course!”. Or Svetozar. Do you understand that everyone will call him Light? Or Lightsaurus, if not laziness. Many justify such a name by the presence in the foggy history of an ancestor with that name. Listen, the farther into the depths of centuries, the more ancestors - they grow there, in the darkness, exponentially. Could you choose anything less idiotic? My great-grandmother's name was Domna, for example. Domna Ivanova, and I have no idea at what stage of meningitis I should name my daughter Domna.
You know, I'll tell you about strange names. There was only one time in my life when it worked. I have a friend named Agnia Loika. This is a girl from Minsk, and this is her real name. When I encountered her for the first time, all this together - I liked the name and surname so much that I went all day long, repeating like a secret childish spell: agnialoika, agnialoyka. I don't know who her parents are, but this is brilliant! It seems that if you repeat this long enough, a box of chocolates and a cloud of cotton candy will materialize in the room. Well, Amanda Petrenko doesn't sound like that.
But these are all trifles. The worst thing is the double names. Tell me, what do you think about when you do it? Do you think this is some kind of Western European charm? Maria-Stefania Sergeevna Kosenko. And it’s good if it’s just Kosenko! And then after all, in such families they like to give a double surname: Maria-Stefania Sergeevna Kosenko-Pavlyuk. So much beauty in one person! At the same time, it is clear to everyone that her name will simply be Masha, so who are you fucking in front of? Before the passport officer? Or does it seem to you that a family castle, a flock of helpful lackeys and a closed private school will build themselves around this name? No, you still live in Khrushchev in Selidovo with your parents. With ordinary parents and Karina-Kristina Alekseevna Zhukova-Stetsenko . Stetsenko is an amazing surname, you definitely need to save it for posterity. Or here's another - I had an acquaintance who named his daughter Anna-Nicole, I swear to you! I don’t know what he was counting on, but obviously not on a husband with the surname Smith.
The only thing that surprises me endlessly is that despite the popularity of healthy lifestyles, tantra, Buddhism, well, that's all, no one calls children Brahmacharyas or Parvati. Although no, I had one friend who named her daughter Maria-Ganga and, by the way, she had problems with social workers. But why only her - that is the question.
I kind of understand why this is happening. With the names in general, everything is somehow wrong - there are so few of them, and there are so many people, and all these our first names and surnames from the outside sound so miserable and monotonous, as if you are reading the multiplication table aloud. It is difficult to give your unique child an ordinary name that 40 million people bear only at this historical moment. But even patronymics! - This disgusting vestige of terry patriarchy, it is not clear how to get rid of it. Why patronymic, in the end, and not motherhood? This is so unfair, given the gender imbalance in our families, because often the only thing that a father leaves a child, instead of love, upbringing, money, instructions, all this, the only thing that reminds of him is his patronymic. And in this case, it would be quite fair if the child was not Maksimovich, for example, but Svetlanovich. Child Svetlanovich - is it easier to come to terms with this than with Francesca Stepanovna, or does it just seem to me?
In any case, I have no recipe for how to overcome this banality of names and at the same time not make your child look like a moron with tunnels and a tattooed face. Or rather, there is, but you will not like it, like all such proposals, it is good only in theory, and neither I nor you will ever use it. I mean, we all read novels about Indians as children, and we were all amazed by their ability to name. And in general, it’s a terrible pity that we never learned this art from them and still, for many centuries in a row, we call our children monotonous and boring names that do not reflect anything at all.
Katerina Mola, http://www.kolonker.com/
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