Why do norwegians......

[Anonym bruker]

use names like kevin and dennis?? If they think it's cool with english names then there are loads of names which are much better. I just can't understand it.

[Anonym bruker]

Norwegians are not the coolest people in the world or have you not noticed that? No offense, my husband is norwegian! Hehe :-)

[Anonym bruker]

i chose to be anonymous.. cos i'm sure there'll be a lot of angry replies...

 

i think "normal" norwegians choose OK names for their kids.. tho i do think the rise in names like noah and jonathan is worrying.. imagine calling for your kid and you got 4 others turning their head too, hehe

 

anyway, as for Dennis and Kevin.. i'd classify those names as "harry", if you're familiar with the norwegian meaning of that? underpriviledged parents.. not the brightest really.. have a tendency to give their children names like that, cos their fave character in a boygroup or movie is called that...

 

but that's just MY opinion...

[Anonym bruker]

I concur! I think it is a result of underpriveliged parents and low income/low social status.

 

I would prefer a good, strong Norwegian name for my baby if I could, but being married to an American I have to go with an international one. It won't be Kevin, Noah, Chris or anything of that kind, though...

[Anonym bruker]

I think some people will use "harry" names where ever you go. And using English names is particulary awful in my book. But there has always been a higher % of people using those names on the west coast years back because of trading and so on, mind you ;0)

[Anonym bruker]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! What a lot of rubbish!!!!

[Mama-panama76]

Its actually not as hard to understand as u think.

 

What if those parents think that names dennis and kevin simply sound nice? There r definetely dosens of names which many ppl think r much better, but those parents didnt think so huh

 

Besides, english names "work" abroad.

[Anonym bruker]

Actually, the use of the newer more popular American/British names does not bother me as much as naming their kids nicknames of longer names...

Like Jenny, or Johnny, or Willy...and I have met a lot of them....so why not just go for the Jennifer, John, and William? Norwegians do not tend to nickname as often as Americans. Then they go and pair one of these nicknames with a more traditional Norwegian name...so you get Ole Johnny or Marit Jenny....and of course, the combination names are also quite difficult to understand--except that they must have done it to avoid too many kids by the same names, and so picked two instead! We have to realize that much of US/UK history have names that came in from an international connection--se we simply have more names to pick from. While Norway tends to hold on to traditional names a lot more.

So keep the Kevins and Dennis's...but please--not Jenny! that was old in the 80's! (I had 25 Jennifers in my graduating class in 1990!)

 

[Anonym bruker]

Actually mama-panama76 it is that hard to understand! I am fully aware that english names work abroad my kids have english names (proper names) but the names kevin and dennis do not work in england!

In england a typical dennis is a lazy, overweight, lower class male with colourmatic glasses.

And i don't think anyone in england has been given the name kevin scince 1980, and kevins aren't usually associated with intelligence!

 

[Anonym bruker]

So are you saying that Norwegians are too clever to have names like Dennis and Kevin? That to have such a name you have to be, or at least show signs to become, an overweight bloke with learning difficulties? Or does it mean that by giving your child such a name you actually turn them into "a lazy, overweight, lower class male with colourmatic glasses"?

 

Gosh, I'm so glad you told us about this! Otherwise I might have unwittingly given my child a name that would change his future forever.

 

I mean, I live in England and even I didn't know about this.

 

Thank you.

[Anonym bruker]

You didn't know about it?

Give your child a name like Dennis or Kevin and there is little or no chance for them, sorry!

[Anonym bruker]

I actually know a "normal" norwegian who just had a baby and they called it Dennis! When she told me I was so shocked that I couldn't think of anything to say apart from "mmm"

[english bird]

Actually I think the word we are looking for is chav!!

chavtastic!

[Mama-panama76]

Now i see why this subject is so challenging to you.

When you stop judging people by names, then you will be able to understand lots of things..

I don't want to be mean, but this conversation is a waste.

 

Who cares about those stereotypes in other countries?! I bet your name somewhere sounds even more peculiar than Kevin sounds to you. Do you care?

 

And by the way, "abroad" does not always mean to be England.

[Anonym bruker]

People should worry more about world peace,before they worry about all the Kevins and Dennises in the world!

 

I know a Dennis. His parents are norwegian,although they live far from Norway. Dennis is a fun,loving and caring man. He is a familyman, and is very rich (own his own business)

 

The Kevin I know has great parents, and absolutely no loosers. Never seen the inside of social welfare services.

He is a cool young man.

 

To name a child a little different than the rest, -whats wrong with that??

 

Is your own name so mega-cool??

 

 

[Bea86Emma04Emmeli09]

Hi, i am a norwegian girl. i have a lovely daugther, named Emma

 

I know many Dennis, but no Kevin..

In norway Dennis is a very used name, and it's not

usuall at all. My best friend gave birth to Noah, 8 february

and that's a little usuall name, but i know the name are

more used now.. very beatyfull name i think..

 

but why bother the name?

 

sorry if my english sucks ;p

[Kanskje snart? *igang igjen *]

As someone else said..hahahha what a lot of rubbish!!! And why are you afraid to show yourself??? (why are you using the ANONYM button?? Because you are having a discussion with yourself or what?)

[Anonym bruker]

Your english may suck a tiny bit, but your brain and heart works better than some.

So you are ok :-)

[Anonym bruker]

Typical English attitude - judging and arrogant!!! The question should be 'why do the English always think they do everything right and the rest of the world don't know their mouth from their ass? Do you seriously think that the name is what makes the person? A baby boy named Dennis or Kevin has no hope in life? They are all doomed to be loosers? Wow - spoken like a true Englishman. I bet you have named your children after the English royal family or thinking it will bring them a lot of luck and make them great little englishmen!

 

Sad that there is actually people who think like you. I think there is a lot more to life than the name you carry. The person makes the name- the name does not make the person. I think Dennis is a great name for an activ little boy - Norwegian or any other natilonality.

[Anonym bruker]

Amen to that )

[Anonym bruker]

i'm not english... not even from any english speaking country... so HAH, who is making assumptions now, eh?

 

btw i'm the one that wrote about the underpriviledged parents and "harry" names.. and i stand for that..

 

too bad i am so lazy.. else i'd maybe be able to dig up a graph that shows geographical distribution of names (if such a thing exists) and it would prove my point.. i guess all those kevins and dennises have brothers or cousins named ole ronny or remy andre

 

and yes, i am prejudiced, so bite me :>

[Anonym bruker]

Not just prejudiced sweetie, but extremely immature too! Most people stop using the word 'harry' after highschool. You are knocking baby-names norwegians choose for their kids, you are accusing parents of beeing underprivelidged based on which names they choose for their kids, you are knocking this poor girls abilities to write english above here.....sad, and very immature of you! So you are not english, just a 'wanna be' - even worse. You defintley have that 'I am superior' attitude. It is not going to serve you well in life, you will see some day...

 

I have friends named both Dennis, Kevin, Johnny and Jenny, and they are all wonderful, intelligent people of different ages and nationalities. You are dead wrong!

I wish I could be there to laugh when this attitude of yours is going to hit you straight in your face one day!

[Anonym bruker]

hear hear!

[*Sweetheart*]

I only know the name Dennis from the children movie with the same name. I saw that movie when i was a child, and tha name Kevin from The Home Alone movies. I think the names are ok, but wouldnt have used it myself.

[Anonym bruker]

I'm Norwegian with an English partner, and I've been living in the UK for quite a few years now, and I feel I've got a pretty good insight into both cultures at this point. To answer your question: No, Norwegians DON'T think it's cool to use these names because they are English (so if you Anonym are English you are flattering yourself ! ) You need to know that even though these names are initially English, they have been in Norway for such a long time now that we don't even think of them as foreign names anymore.

Same as we regard Lucas, Marcus, Jenny, Tina, Charlotte, Tom, Richard, Elisabeth etc etc normal Norwegian names even if they're not TRADITIONAL Norwegian names such as Tor, Ingvild, Solveig, Embla, Trym, Sondre etc

The other thing you need to realise is that a lot of names actually sounds nice in Norwegian, but terrible in English -and the associations that comes with a name differs as well -and it works both ways! I mean here in England a lot of people now name their kids Charlie/ Charles, George, Lilly, Harry, Finn etc and they think these names are such cute names, while as if you use them in Norway (which you can) they sound like old farts' names. I mean, who the heck would name their kid Harry -it's awful, a name for an old fat man! Yet, nobody over here seems to realise that. Probably because it's to do with different associations and taste.Not social differences.

Now I agree that Dennis and Kevin aren't particularly nice names, but hey, it's always a matter of taste! So no, we don't think it's cool to have English names. After all, the English aren't exactly looked upon as cool..