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美国人也“迷信”:后疫情时代英文名大赏
今年年初,国内发布了2021年最受父母欢迎的新生儿名字,“梓豪”和“芷晴”分别登上了男女宝宝爆款名字的排行榜之首。而在国外,受疫情影响,这两年给新生宝宝取名也出现了新的趋势。在后疫情时代,新生儿父母是如何给孩子取名的?这些名字又寄托了父母对孩子们怎样的期待?
From 'Alma' to 'Zuri', Parents Are Looking for Positive Baby Names
By Jancee Dunn
The coronavirus pandemic, stretching into another year, has left few corners of everyday life untouched. For the most recent crop of new parents, the pandemic has been the backdrop of their entire birth process—for some, it's even changed how they chose the names of their babies.
Pamela Redmond, chief executive of the baby-naming website Nameberry, found that names derived from optimistic meanings—like hope, light and happiness—have been "trending upwards since the beginning of the pandemic."
Views of the name Zora, for example, which means "dawn" and suggests new beginnings, are up 40 percent, Redmond said; while Alma ("soul" in Spanish) is up 37 percent. Other risers include Aurora (Roman goddess of the sunrise), Felix ("happy"), Frida ("peaceful") and Zuri ("good" in Swahili).
Jennifer Moss, founder of BabyNames.com, is seeing "a huge influx of gods and goddess names—Persephone, Adonis, Achilles, Athena."
With mythological names, Moss suggested, "people want to instill strength in their children, because we're all feeling scared and powerless right now over this virus we can't control."
At the moment, certain baby names have fallen decidedly out of fashion since the pandemic began. As you might imagine, anything that sounds like "Covid" is facing tough headwinds; Redmond noted that "Cove," for example, has been dropping on Nameberry's charts.
And for the time being, we can probably forget "Corona." "Very pretty, Latin for 'crown,'" Moss said. "Not happening."
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