All seem perfectly decent names to me. I was at school with a chap whose Christian names were Toby Felix. No-one bothered him over his name.
I'd like to know why Theresa married a Mr Green. And I did work with a guy from the subcontinent called Kowshit. He changed it to Kowshik quite quickly.
I see the point as increasing mobility and multi-cultural societies will face us with such situations. Same thing applies actually also to brand naming.
For example the Renault Koleos sounds good for a car until you discover that Koleos means "balls" in greek. Or the infamous Toyota MR2 which sounds like "shitty" in french.
Marketing people spend time now checking meaning and pronounciation in different cultures. I'd see the same for kid names.
And who has the problem here exactly, the person with "some name" or the bigoted person who thinks it's OK to judge them for their name alone?
So your problem really is the Zurichdeutsch language.
The only problem with the names you listed above are the way Swiss Germans pronounce them. I really though this conversation was going to be about silly names like Harry Pitts or Stan Still or Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.
In Portugal as well the name is Lucas, with the 's'.
Me too.
As Angela says double names are common in quite a few countries, including France and Italy (oh & Swiss Romande & Ticino).
I have a pompous double name too. But I won't force you call me by it. I hope you'll let my family use it though and not consider them too beneath you.
Jeez, this is not a Friday crowd. Double names are fine, it's just that certain combinations don't exactly complement each other. And my point is that parents who have no connection to a culture other than having heard the name in a film choose to name their kids after the film character. Amber IS a perfectly fine name, for someone who actually knows what it means and can pronounce it. This is NOT the case with the parents I'm talking about, they call their little girl "Hanee" after that Jessica Alba dance film and don't realise they've named their kid after bee produce. That's why I wrote "special" and not special. But I see we're in a super-enlightened mood today where parents are holy creatures without fault that are allowed to do with their property children whatever they please, no matter how it may be detrimental to them, right?
Who cares why the parents choose the name of the child? Why are you the one that gets to decide if the double barrel names complement each other or not? None of the names you have written do I see as problematic.
Including Hanee which is not a bad name either. Does it matter if it comes from "a bee product"? Amber might "mean" something, but really, it's just a name. No one associates the thing that is amber, lily, rose, etc with the person called Amber, Lily, Rose, June, April, etc.
Names change over time as do languages and cultures. Where people get names also changes. Before it was movie stars or names from Jane Austin novels, or the bible, or whatever.
I grew up with a double barreled "foreign name". I also have a friend who's mother made up her name out of nothing. Yes we had to spell it more often than we would have liked. Shockingly neither of us is living in the gutter on hand outs.
Your snide remarks at the end don't endear you to anyone & don't make your case stronger either. The fact that you don't like the names chosen does not make them bad parents who treat there children like "property". (BTW I'm not a parent.)
No offense, but perhaps it's you this is being overly judgmental.
You are right Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen is not so bad really & Bobby Tables is sorta cute. But that's because I'm super-enlightened and think parents are holy creatures without fault and that children are property.
Aurore however is unpronounceable to anyone that isn't mother tongue French. I keep telling my French friend she MUST change her name. But she does not listen to me. The b*tch!
So where do you draw the line? Maybe it's a culture thing (probably, as I find people in my German speaking group of friends DO react strongly to names), I remember in England I could call myself whatever I wanted on the school files and did hide my German-sounding surname for about a year because there was the whole debate with the Nazi gold going on at the time. And even in England I noticed that none of the Aristokids I went to uni with were called Kevin, Wayne or Barry, so there must be some class divide in names even there.
There is a class divide but you can't jump out of it by calling your child a noble name. My name is very common in England for my age group, I still enjoy telling people it's meaning and I think it quite suits me. Old English for waterfall or water way. I don't think for a minute that me mum knew that, when she had me christened.
Spent childhood with the very proper double name that would have fit a lady and not a tomboy who liked to bring worms home as pets from the playground. It was terrible ! Now I could use it but I still only use the abbreviation.