Place names?

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Inspired by a recent post... what do you think of place named when you're not from the place or have no heritage there... like for example Ireland. I am not Irish, directly or have any past heritage from there... but I may love the name and the place, the culture, the people. Same with people naming their children Asia and having no heritage there. Yay, Nay? what say you?

Comments

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

I think people tend to automatically assume there's some significance to a place name and the question, "Ireland? Why'd you pick that?" would become rather repetitive.

You brought up an interesting point about other names with religious or ethnic origins. It seems that some names, like Isabella and Elijah, are commonplace enough that most people don't know/don't think about the origin. However, my husband used to work with a blond-haired white guy named Pablo, and apparently nobody believed that was his real name when they first met him. :)