Gee, did it become the most popular name within the last 4-5 years? I love Captain Sparrow too, but… Jack is very popular in England too, but still it strikes me as strange. I’ve never met a Jack whose real name is Jack, rather than John or Jonathan - it and Zane are both derived from John, anyway. Considering the trouble my uncle Don (yes, Don, not Donald) has had, I wouldn’t give a nick name as a first name.
Eh. If I have kids I want boys only, and at the moment I want to name them Owen and Nicholas. Maybe Jeremy, Christopher, or Avery if there were more than two. None of those strike me as strange to hang on a grown man, which are what our sons will spend most of their lives as. If they decide to go by Wen and Olas, I guess that’ll have to be okay since they can call themselves what they want.
Happy Lendervedder, I’m not sure what’s wrong with Quincy. We’ve got one in our history books, don’t we? As for the other, I’d go with the #618 ranked August, and call him Guster. You wouldn’t want to name a kid something than means “has been band who threw away their well-loved percussion style after being signed to a major label” would you? :d&r:
For goodness sake, people, don’t we have more sense than to get into a “what rhymes with what” debate on an international message board? Tomato, tomato and all that…
In Australia, “piano” has a short “a” (*) as opposed to such names as “Stephano” and “Giuliano” and (I’m going to assume, though it’s a name I’m not familiar with) “Cristiano”
FWIW, it would never occur to me to try to pronounce “Tiano” with a short “a” (unless for some unknown reason you decided to spell it with two n’s “Tianno”) - it would go through the “Italian-type-names” parser in my head, where long “a” is the default. And that’s probably what I’d assume about the name - that it was an Italian one (eh - Mediterranean, close enough :)). And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with “The Right Honorable Tiano Blinkingblinking” … apart from the bizarre surname of course
*unless you’re a muso and you mean “play softly” not “the musical instrument with 88 keys”
I am getting annoyed with this. Is there something I am missing here? Have I pronounced ‘piano’ incorrectly my entire life?
Watch this youtube video and listen to the way they say Cristiano. Imagine they say it without ‘Cris’ at the start. It does not rhyme with ‘piano’!
Popular Names Results
Search Criteria: 2000-current
Top 100
Male Given Name
Number of Babies Registered With that Name
Joshua 5395
Jack 5288
That was Victoria.
Here is NSW results
2007 Top 10 Male names
Given Name Number of Babies Registered
Jack 707
William 643
Joshua 629
Lachlan 601
Thomas 591
Riley 506
Cooper 502
James 455
Noah 440
Ethan 436
South Australia results
Boy’s Names Amount
JACK 173
JOSHUA 171
LACHLAN 164
THOMAS 159
RILEY 136
JAMES 136
ETHAN 134
WILLIAM 129
SAMUEL 106
If you want to see all the Australian results look here
What you’re missing here is that your son’s classmates are not going to give two cents how you want to pronounce it, and will pronounce it in whatever way gives them maximum amusement, i.e., to rhyme with piano instead. Just as they will feel free to give any other nickname to your son, such as ‘Cris’, whether you like it or not. (Btw, your remedy of going to ‘Tiarno’ instead is absolutely painful - please don’t do it!)
Melbourne is a multicultural city, yes, but I’m willing to bet that all those other names are common among the ethnic groups to which those kids belong. That’s a different kettle of fish than trying for something that sounds counter-ethnic, as it were, to your own apparent ethnicity (as suggested by your last name). I live in NYC, also a major multicultural city, and I have to tell you that on the odd occasion one runs into an Irving Gonzalez or Vincenzo McMaster, it’s notable … in a ‘what the hell were his parents thinking?’ sort of way.
I don’t think you need a name that ‘goes’ with your first son’s name, but I do think you have to consider whether your desire to have a unique name is going to set your son up for a hard time later on. I repeat my suggestion of using Tiano as a middle name, if you’re hell-bent on it, and giving the kid an option for a more regular name to use when he’s older, if he wants.
No, it doesn’t. The problem is that you are making an automatic connection between “Christiano” and “Tiano”, which most people are not going to do. I recognize that the former was your inspiration from the latter, but people viewing the name for the first time are going to be unfamiliar with it – even those familiar with Portuguese, since, as mentioned upthread, “Tiano” is not the common diminutive of Christiano. Hence, they will do the natural thing and look for the closest analogue they know how to pronounce, which (for English speakers at least) will be “piano”.
An example from the other side may help. If I tell you that I’m naming my son “Cob”, how are you going to pronounce it? Do you think it rhymes with “Bob”? I say it doesn’t; it’s pronounced “cub”, like a baby bear – it’s the second half of “Jacob”, because I like the “cob” part but I hate the nickname Jake. I then tell you I don’t see where you’re getting this “Bob” stuff from, because after all, everyone knows how to pronounce “Jacob”.
I just want to say, give your kid a traditional name and save the cutesy made-up stuff for a nickname. He may end up loving “Tiano” and use it for his entire life, and if so more power to him. But give him the OPTION to use “Cris” or “Cristiano” in a formal context, or if he gets tired of being called “Tiano” and just wants something more normal, or even if he just likes “Cris” better. Options are good!
I am the same: Laura, Robert and Johnathan. We call them Laura, Robert(Rob) and John. Yes, we are freaks! I feel a tiny bit bad about the extra “h” in Johnathan, but it is in use and I think it looks naked without it. Johnathan was a compromise: I wanted Nathaniel; The Husband preferred John.
I hope you consider that even if it is in your power to name this child, that you are naming him for the rest of his life. Tiano (and I pronounce it Tee-ah-no, much like piano. I am not Portuguese and neither are you) is not a horrible name, given what’s out there. My daughter goes to HS with 3 girls with the same name: Uneek, U’Niq and Unique. At least one of them is spelled correctly. There is also a boy named Tron. I don’t know his feelings on the film, but I pity him.
Kids will tease regardless–I’ve been called Rigby, Roosevelt and Aquitaine all my life, as well as smellenor and other witty things. To avoid teasing, you’d have to not have a kid at all. But why not give the kid options? Why not give him an adult name he can twist and change to what HE wants it to be? He’s not a doll or a dog–he’ll be a grandfather one day (perhaps).
As for the Condoleeza stuff–she succeeded despite her name. I’m sure it did not help her in anyway.
Not mentioned yet, but if’n you give your kid and odd name you will eventually be in a world of pain.
Sure Tiano is cool now. But wait until you are in Disney World and L’il Tiano must, must, must have a souvenier WDW license plate with his name on it.
Tabetha, Ted, Teddy, Timothy, … Oh. Shit.
ChiefScott’s first law of child naming: The uniqueness of a child’s name is inversely proportional to the amount of pain you’ll experience getting the kid home.
When I picture a Tiano (in my head it’s tee-ah-no, which sounds enough like “piano” for me) I picture a guy who is half-Asian, half-Latin American. He is wearing a very tight tee shirt and has greasy hair. He surfs and has a muscle car. I think he might be gay.
I think it’s a touchy area when you give a child a name that sounds ethnic, but it’s not your ethnicity. If this is the case for you (meaning you are not of any kind of Latin descent that would seem to go with the name Tiano/Cristiano), you might want to think about whether it will seem weird. Especially with your other child being named Darcy, which is to me doesn’t really seem to “go” with Tiano, as I think it’s more of an Irish name, isn’t it? To me, it would be like naming my daughter Jane and my son Pierre…both fine names, but with a disconnect between them.
Also, I like the idea, if you do go this route, to use the full name “Cristiano,” as others have suggested. I tend to favor giving a child a “formal” name, and then using a nickname. That way, when they grow up, they can go with whichever one they prefer.
