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Help[Opinions] Bela
This is the name of a secondary character in a sitcom I've been watching.
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This message was edited 2/15/2025, 9:04 PM
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It's alright, I'm not crazy about it. I have it on my PNL as a Yiddish/Judeo-French name. It also reminds me of Béla Lugosi.
Reminds me of Bela Lugosi mostly.
I love the name Bela for any gender. It sounds so resonant and beautiful to me.
I adore it, I think it's beautiful
I love Bela so much. I would use it in real life.
In English-speaking places, it just doesn't work because it's too similar to Bella, which in addition to being a girls' name of very long standing is also like the most popular name for female dogs and cats.
It is a common name for elderly Ashkenazi women in Israel.
I think it's okay
I think it's okay
This message was edited 2/16/2025, 6:09 AM
How do you feel about Candida? And all the Gwen and Gwyn names in Welsh, Blanche in French. I dislike Bella, just the sound of it, though I had two wonderful great-aunts named Isabella and called Bella; I'd be fine with Candida, though in modern English usage it's more like 'candid', meaning 'honest, truthful' than 'white'. Bela and Běla are unfamiliar to me; are they pronounced differently?
Candida is unfortunately the scientific name for yeast (a fungus, made famous by yeast infections).
That has never bothered me at all.
Candida reminds me of Canada
Gwen / Gwyn names are fine, some I like (like Gwendolen) some are just okay. I really like Gwythyr, which is not one of those names but it starts similar to Gwyn. It means "victory".
Blanche is nice, I first said this name as blahn-shuh but I also like the correct pronounciation blahnsh. Though the English pronounciation I do not like.
Bela is a variant of Bella I believe, beh-lah or bay-lah (ay being like the sound in may but with less y sound). Like the e in Stepan or Petro.
Běla is byeh-lah. Hungarian Béla also could be a variant of Běla.
Gwen / Gwyn names are fine, some I like (like Gwendolen) some are just okay. I really like Gwythyr, which is not one of those names but it starts similar to Gwyn. It means "victory".
Blanche is nice, I first said this name as blahn-shuh but I also like the correct pronounciation blahnsh. Though the English pronounciation I do not like.
Bela is a variant of Bella I believe, beh-lah or bay-lah (ay being like the sound in may but with less y sound). Like the e in Stepan or Petro.
Běla is byeh-lah. Hungarian Béla also could be a variant of Běla.
This message was edited 2/16/2025, 10:11 AM