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Various interesting names of college students so they were born at least around 1987 [these don't count the incoming class or 2006]. I don't know the sex of the names

Karouna
Courtland
Delman
Troy
Thelonious
Gwynessa
Clovis
Viktoriya
Mikelis
Audra
Giovanna
Hazelyn
Vahn

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why would anyone take such a pretty name like victoria and turn it into Viktoriya???

Actually, Viktoriya is completely legit. It is the Russian/Bulgarian/Ukrainian spelling of Victoria.

i still think it's ugly spelt that way. im from america, so i have only ever seen the name spelt victoria.

And I'm sure there are plenty of people from those country who think Victoria looks ugly. Just because it's not what you're used to seeing, doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it. It's called ethnic diversity. In this day and age, you should get used to it.

i'm well aware of ethnic diversity, still doesn't mean that i have to like the way it is spelt. you could very easily say that about the way any name is spelt. nor did i ever say it was wrong, i said i didn't like it. excuse the hell out of me for preferring one spelling to the other because of what I have seen in my culture.

But it IS a part of your culture, because in North America our culture is very much one of diversity. I personally find it rude when someone calls a name ugly simply because it 'isn't what they are used to'. It's the normal spelling in the language it comes from. You're intitlted prefer one to the other; I never said you weren't. I just don't think it's fair to pass judgement on it because it's foreign. Obviously you like the name Victoria itself, so that is not the issue. The issue you are having is the way another language spells things, which I find ignorant. I personally equate it to saying that the structure of the language itself is ugly. It's just different; it's that simple.

But I will agree to disagree with you on this one. Perhaps it's just where and how I've been brought up that's causing me to feel this way.

while north america may be diverse, it doesn't mean i know everything about every culture that may reside inside the borders of north america. i simply know my culture and those of that directly around me, the way they live and such forth.to me it is ugly spelt that way, i never said it was wrong. i also never passed judgement on the name spelling because of where it is from. just because the spelling is viktoriya in another part of the world/culture, does not mean i have to like the spelling. i am not discriminating how they(other cultures) spell it, but to me it is ugly. it has nothing to do with how, nor where, i was raised.

you are right, we will have to agree to disagree.

I disagree, i dont think she was passing judgement because it was foreign, rather because it viktoriya does just look plain ugly, regardles of it's ethnic origin.

Hm, I'm not going to say anything. I regret starting anything in the first place... it just bothered me.

I think it's completely different when someone who is of that culture spells the name that way than someone who is not affiliated with that culture at all tries to be cool and think of the strangest way to spell 'Victoria' possible.

really? I never woulda thunk it. See? We're so used to people getting all crazy with the name spelling that we're automatically suspicious! lol :D

The last names looked like it could have been something like that. I was trying to skip ones that were obviously, culturally, unusual to me but I had never seen it spelled this way so I added it. Cool thing to know.

Those are, for the most part, hideous. Karouna is too close to Corona to me (I assume it'd be pronounced similarly to that), Gwynessa looks like her (I assume that it's a female name) parents tried to mush Gwyneth and Vanessa together, and Viktoriya looks awful (though the -iya makes me think it might be a foreign spelling).

Troy is a legit name, though, and I think that Thelonious is, too (I believe they're both Greek). And I love Giovanna - it's Italian for Jane.

yeah I thought of Corona too. I chose the crazy names on purpose, along with some I hadn't really heard that did sound nice like Giovanna.

Legit names:

Troy
Thelonious - Although it really should be spelled without the 'o', it is a name.
Clovis - It was actually in the top 1000 back in the early 1900s.
Viktoriya - It's just the Russian/Bulgarian/Ukrainian spelling of Victoria.
Mikelis - Latvian form of Michael.
Audra - It's Lituanian, or sometimes used as a variation of Audrey.
Giovanna - It's Italian. Giovanni is normal, right? Well, this is just the feminie variation.

feminine*

I like

Troy
Audra
Giovanna

Viktoriya is awful

I know probably 5+ people named Troy. I thought it was common everywhere. Hmmm.

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