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Help[Opinions] Re: Would an unusual Russian name be appropriate with one Russian parent and one non Russian parent?
in reply to a message by Wish Fish
I think Irina must show up a lot in American media and pop culture, or maybe it's just very obviously a form of Irene. It seems nearly mundane, or at least, not obscure and more familiar to me than Ivan (I've never met an Ivan and still vaguely associate Ivan the Terrible or Ivanovich before I'd think of an ordinary guy named Ivan). The only Natasha I have met was African American (+ I associate Latasha) and not Russian, although I'm still aware that linguistically it is Russian.
To answer your question, it wouldn't seem weird or inappropriate to me, unless one of the parents couldn't pronounce the name, or unless the name meant something negative in one parent's primary language. Like I probably would not expect a character named Dong to have had a parent whose first language/dialect was American English...a more Russian example might be Boris (American English associations being bore, boarish, and a cartoon villain), although that's grown on me since I met (a foreign) one, so I don't think it'd be impossible IRL just doubtful.
To answer your question, it wouldn't seem weird or inappropriate to me, unless one of the parents couldn't pronounce the name, or unless the name meant something negative in one parent's primary language. Like I probably would not expect a character named Dong to have had a parent whose first language/dialect was American English...a more Russian example might be Boris (American English associations being bore, boarish, and a cartoon villain), although that's grown on me since I met (a foreign) one, so I don't think it'd be impossible IRL just doubtful.
This message was edited 4/23/2025, 11:51 AM
