Wikipedia has several other articles about interesting naming systems, e.g.:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names</a> (traditionally exactly one syllable long)<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_name" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_name</a> (in East Asian tradition, each generation gets the next syllable of a poem)<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions</a> (comprised of three parts, not two)<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names</a> (surname is written first, unlike most European names)
Nice. Anglos have a similar but not so common tradition where kids (usually female children) are named after their birth month (April, May or June are common) or occasionally their birth weekday (eg. Wednesday Addams)
According to Wikipedia, Akwasi Kwarteng, the British Chancellor of September to October 2022, was born on Monday 26 May 1975. But according to this “Akwasi” is a Sunday name. I wonder what happened?
I had always heard that Roman names like Septimius and Octavia were given based on birth order within the family but this piece suggests it was more likely the number of the month of their birth:<p><a href="https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/15623/why-did-so-many-romans-name-their-children-after-ordinal-numbers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/15623/why-did-so-m...</a>
In Spain it was common to name the children according to the catholic Saint's day. And because all saints had a day then your birthday was also called the day of your Saint. My mother and her siblings are all named with this system.
Day names are common across ethnic groups within Ghana, and different southern ethnic groups have similar sounding names.<p>For instance, Kojo, Kwadwo, Jojo, Cudjo are all Monday names across different southern languages. Yaw, Yao, Yawa are Thursday names, etc.<p>Kwame and Komla are Tuesday names from mutually unintelligible southern languages.<p>It's common for foreign nationals adopted by locals to be given an appropriate day name.
Man… Now these are horrible names to have:<p>> father refuses
responsibility<p>Obím̀pέ "nobody wants"<p>Yεmpέw "we don't want you"
Reading about this kind of tradition got me thinking: do anyone name their children with phonetic names? I mean, names that can be read the same in several languages. For example: English-Spanish, French-English, etc. Is there a tradition on that?
In Indonesia, people name their children after the name of the months:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Origin_of_names_in_Indonesia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Origin_of_nam...</a>
Also interesting are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name</a><p>Wayan = eldest ...