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HelpRe: Kyah/Kya
in reply to a message by Sarah
There's a Kaia in the database. It's a variant of Katherine and means "hen" in a Scandinavian language.
Also, if the meaning is important to you, I'd look for secondary sources. Baby name books are notoriously inaccurate. Especially if they don't give an origin more than 'African' and with a princessey, feel-good meaning like "diamond in the sky", I'd do some independent research. You could post on the name facts board, and there's also an African name book under the book link on the main page. You could get it from the library.
Also, if the meaning is important to you, I'd look for secondary sources. Baby name books are notoriously inaccurate. Especially if they don't give an origin more than 'African' and with a princessey, feel-good meaning like "diamond in the sky", I'd do some independent research. You could post on the name facts board, and there's also an African name book under the book link on the main page. You could get it from the library.
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I completely agree with you on this one. A book should give the specific language of origin, not just say the name is African. I find the idea of lumping African names together like that extremely ethnocentric. It would be like listing all names coming from Europe as European, as if each place had the same language and culture. I also find the "meaning" of the name quite suspicious.
I completely agree with you on this one. A book should give the specific language of origin, not just say the name is African. I find the idea of lumping African names together like that extremely ethnocentric. It would be like listing all names coming from Europe as European, as if each place had the same language and culture. I also find the "meaning" of the name quite suspicious.
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