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Well, I think we're a pretty open-minded bunch as long as we're informed of the origin and meaning of the name. However, our personal styles are all very different. Some might like a name and others might dislike a name for any number of reasons. It depends on the name itself, its meaning and/or history, the background of both the family the name's being considered for and the poster responding, and other miscellaneous issues. You're quite welcome to stick around here if you want to get a better feel of the board.

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According to Wikipedia Amharic is actually a Semitic language spoken in Northern Central Ethiopia: http://snipurl.com/e2ni. A Google search reveals 123 English hits for "Amharic names", including this site: http://snipurl.com/e2nh. I can't vouch for its etymological accuracy as I really don't know anything about Amharic etymology. And another site very briefly describes the Amharic general naming practice (http://snipurl.com/e2nm):

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Amharic names are concatenations [connected or linked in a series or chain] of the child's given name and the father's given name.

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Or in other words, since my given name is Miranda and my father's (first) given name is Dennis, I would be Miranda Dennis in the Amharic system.

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Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett

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Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks. Check my profile for their names.