My wife always wanted a child with an unusual spelling of a popular name (lemmy.ml)

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When we had our firstborn, she said, “How about we name him Mark, but with a C?”

I smiled and nodded and then told her I’d take care of everything with the name registration and birth certificate. When my wife looked at the birth certificate a few days later, she was confused.

“Honey”, she said. “Why does this say Cark?”

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[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less "trendy" in favour of other "foreign-sounding" names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples' given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. "Jennifer Fumagalli" or "Thomas Bongiovanni" which sound a little kitsch but it's also adorable.

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