#oh also funny thing. my cousin is named kyriaki. everyone calls her Kiki (except her mom i think shes the only one calling her by her full

[sugaroto]

Dhzjdj ok wait I think I have more name lore, my mom and aunt got their names mixed

My aunt (1st daughter) was supposed to be named after yiayia's mom

But for some reason she got pappous' mom name

I'm not sure why, did they not like the name? Did the grandmas don't care?

But now that I think about it... my aunt is named after the great grandma that kidnapped my pappou so she might have been like GIVE MY NAME and maybe the other one was like eh I don't care

So yeah my aunt (1st daughter) and mom (2nd daughter) have the name the other was supposed to have

And I don't think my mom really likes it🤔 especially not how it's written in the ID and everything, it's the nickname version ending in -ουλα instead of the normal one, which she has cut again into a smaller and cooler version 😭

And bc she didn't like her name she wasn't sure if I would like mine, my yiayia is actually Ζαχαρω (Zaharo) which sounded bad and Zaharoula (nickname ppl called my yiayia) sounded too villagish or something

And then my aunt came up with Zaharenia (🥳) which everyone liked and it sounded more modern 🤣 (I guess)

Also my cousin was also a τάμα baby!

I think my aunt had like 6 miscarriages Before she did the τάμα to Χρυσοβαλάντο (I was not aware that whole name you mentioned was her title 😶) so yeah now my cousin's second name is Χρυσοβαλάντης tho no one calls him that, but yeah it's there

Also... kind of unrelated but I remembered the story of my pappous' adopted sister (I've made a post about the story) which long story short was baptized Maria but her adopted parents renamed her something else and she never questioned why she had a different name than what her papers wrote 😭 girl why were you even surprised when you found out you were adopted

Also yeah what you said in your tags-> People come join us with greek naming bs🤣

PS: I WAS WRITING THE TAGS AND I REMEMBERED THIS

I know twins. Boy/Girl with the same name.

Technically!!! This is a whole different case, cause they're Albanian

And they got their names by their parents, it's a mix of their parents name

Like for example the mom is Maria and dad is Yiorgos they got Morgos/a (fake name I'm not giving out the real one since it's unique and personal information)

But yeah the only difference is that the girl has an -a at the end

Like 😭 I get that it's weird, but I also love their name so much

I keep seeing reels with people being like "[Random name] is now an old people's name 😨😨😨😱😨😨😨" bc I guess everyone named their kids Emma or something 20 years ago so 5 year olds now think Emmas are old and the new cool name is Toyota or something

And this is so weird what the fuck is an old name

Do Americans all name their child something cause it's trending and then don't interact with the name again for the next 70 years?

Yall have too much freedom with naming (looking at you Elon musk) and it gives you problems. Forget the trends, embrace tradition💪💪💪💪 name your child after your parent like greeks have been doing what the hell is an old people's name💪💪💪💪👹👹👹😈👹💪💪😨💪🏴‍☠️🏁👽👽👽💪🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

For real tho I can't think of a name and be like "old people name" I can think of names I don't really like but not like ah yeah the γερικο όνομα. Even Katina. I know a young one yes.