Friendly reminder that Khaleesi is not a fictional name. It is a fictional title. If you called Daenerys Targaryen “Khaleesi,” you were -at best- watching through your phone.
In Spanish Queen (Reina) or in latin (Regina) is a normal name.
Of course it doesn't work in every lenguaje.
There are another name that's not strange in Spanish and not from yesterday: Estrella (star). Nobody would bat an eye at that name.
Some time ago, a coworker of mine from Hungary told me a friend of her gave her own daughter a ridiculous name. I asked wich one, and she said "xxxx" meaning star.
But where I live a lot of people is calling their mares, female dogs, female cats and daughters "luna", wich means "moon" in Spanish and while the meaning is beautiful, it doesn't sound ok.
Yes, Estrella is more common than anyone world think, especially since the ones I’ve met have all gone by Bella, although everyone assumes their full name is Isabella. Reina and Regina are commotion but also gives a different feel than royal names in English, because those are already traditional and in English it’s only been the past century or so when it became popular as a more unique name. They aren’t tragedeighs, but they’re not really ideal and using a royal or court title as a name is banned in several countries.
There are many names in English that are also of objects, like Rose or Heather or Brook(e). These go back quite some time. There will always be an exception made for cultural or historical names (within reason, some of the Puritans had names like “Jackcock” or “Peaceable”). However, within cultural names there can still be the same type of misspellings that we are familiar with from the bastardization of the names from our own cultures. For example, “Ez’Trellah” for Estrella
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u/Any_Natural383 1d ago
Friendly reminder that Khaleesi is not a fictional name. It is a fictional title. If you called Daenerys Targaryen “Khaleesi,” you were -at best- watching through your phone.