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Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast

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  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also had a coworker named America and I’m pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker’s first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty…)

    There’s also America Ferrera, I don’t think the name is that weird.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, I’ve known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Latierra

      If I had to bully her I’d call her Latrine

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      • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “You changed your name to Latrine?”

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      India is a name I’ve seen often.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most places are named after people too

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  • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But which America is it? North or south?

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    • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They compromised and it’s central.

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• Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.

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  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was briefly married to a Georgia, but the family wasn’t Southern. The fathers name was George and that is also what he named his first son, so his first daughter was Georgia.

    Never have understood the phenomenon of fathers passing down their name, you’ve already cursed your child with the family name, why make things harder on the poor whelp?

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    • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vanity isn’t it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.

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      • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know plenty of women that carry an old school second name because there grandmother’s names are passed down. Like Elisabeth, or Rose or the like.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The names were first. The locations are named after names.

    Even America was a name first.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

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  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it that uncommon?

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Ferrera

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dont know. But its weird as hell

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it a feminine form of Amerigo maybe?

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• punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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