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Kate 08:22 on 2024-06-11 Permalink Reply  

• Ephraim 12:18 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  TIL that Aryan is a popular Indian name…. ugh!

• Ian 12:29 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  The Aryans were a Vedic period Bronze Age people that lived in what is now northern India, Afghanistan, and Iran, and spoke Sanskrit. It’s been a hot minute.

• JP 13:00 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  Maybe it’s cause I’m Indian myself but I don’t see why we should stop or avoid using it as a name…it’s Sanskrit and most of our names are derived from it. Arya is the female version, popularized further by Game of Thrones…

• bob 15:51 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  Not to mention there are a dozen varieties of Arya/Aria – Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, etc…

  The top ten names for 2023 are rather anglophonic, especially for boys.

  Most popular girls’ names in 2023 in Quebec:

  Alice (465)
  Florence (465)
  Emma (456)
  Olivia (430)
  Charlie (415)
  Charlotte (405)
  Livia (359)
  Léa (326)
  Beatrice (300)
  Juliet (300)

  Most popular boys’ names in 2023 in Quebec:

  Noah (613)
  Liam (556)
  Leo (549)
  Thomas (535)
  William (520)
  Edward (495)
  Jacob (468)
  Louis (427)
  Nathan (400)
  Arthur (398)

  https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/alice-florence-noah-and-liam-most-popular-baby-names-in-quebec

• Kate 15:59 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  I’ll never understand why Liam, an Irish variant on William, is so popular here.

• Blork 17:24 on 2024-06-11 Permalink

  Related: 100% of dogs named between 2010 and 2020 were named “Maya.” (Or so it seems.)

• Ian 16:56 on 2024-06-12 Permalink

  @Kate or why it’s pronounced L’yam. Another is Ethan, pronounced as É-tann. But hey, this is Quebec – Mario Blackburn is a super French name here.

• Orr 17:21 on 2024-06-12 Permalink

  114 Mavericks in 2023, 500 in the last six years. Hoping to meet one in person one day.

• Kate 08:32 on 2024-06-13 Permalink

  Why do people in Quebec name their kids after an early 1960s American TV series and/or a 1990s movie?