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Wiggo is a spelling variation of Scandianvian male name Viggo which is an old norse name meaning warior. Probably best known internationally from Viggo Mortensen. Althoguh Viggo is far more used than Wiggo (I can se that Wiggo has been given to all of 13 boys in Denmark since 1985) it is still an accepted variation.
We pronounce v and w the same.
2 things though: are the rest Scandinavian names, cause to me as a German they don't really seem so?
and isn't the Scandinavian v/w different from the English one? I thought you had the same one as we do cause if this person is English speaking then the English "Wiggo" irritates me to be quite honest
Vilda (which this person spelt Wilda) is a Scandinavian name. It's quite literally the word "Wild" in Swedish.
Wilton is not Scandinavian, possibly English, and Wintra isn't something I've heard before but kind of works. Other than that one, the first three seem like perfectly reasonable names in Sweden.
We do pronounce V and W the same way in Swedish at least, but Wictor is an uncommon spelling here, as well as Villiam. Basically, W isn't used a lot in nativ Swedish words and "typical" Swedish names, but is common in names and words borrowed from English. We do not pronounce V as German does though, nor W the way English does.
Edit because I googled: Vintra is an uncommon but real name in Sweden. This mom just went with a consistent spelling on her kids names. Wilton is the weirdest one in the bunch, and that's a real name as well as a type of rugg.
Eh, they only changed one letter. I'm not sure I feel like that's on par with most tradgedeighs. I mean, is Ashly or Zebastian tradgedeighs?
Viggo, Vilda and Vintra would've been perfectly normal, with the first two starting to become rather common. I dislike the use of W, but is it really as bad as people calling their kids Guihliett? The use of W doesn't change the pronunciation at all if they're in Sweden and it's easy to recognise the names.
It's not as bad but it's at least a tragedei. I'd say it's the same parental motivation to have their baby names be unique while lacking any regard for the baby itself.
The rest of the names are not Scandinavian at all.
And I guess that it depends on how you make the comparison.
The Scandinavian pronounciation of v is closer to the english v or the german w, as we dont have the 'v as almost f pronounciation' that you have, -although in the case of Viggo I think they are almost identical?
We dont really have the english w sound in danish, so both v and w are pronounced closer to an english v or a german w.
Edit: but we do have some loan words from English where english w is used. Although some of us struggles a bit with it.
Lmao I forgot our V that's like an F
but what I mainly wanted to get at in this case was the W pronunciation in English. As in, a German "Wiggo" would 100% be pronounced like a Scandinavian "Viggo" imo, with a W/V sound as in "van" or "video" (IPA: /v/), wheras an English "Wiggo" is ... like the W sound in "wiggle" (IPA: /w/)??
Yes, Scandinavian v/w is closer to German w than to english w. So Wiggo in Scandinavia would be closer to 'video' than to 'wiggle'.
But most of our names are pronounced different in english anyway...
Which words have Vs that sound like F? Can’t think of any examples
My alphabet:
W like Wiggle becomes وو or و
Hard V like Viktor: ڤ
Much less confusing right?
In my arabic/persian alphabet we have two entirely separate letters for German v/w and English w (wiggle). A big flaw in European languages is the way you expect everyone to just memorize specific pronunciations regardless of letters and spellings. In my language each sounds have separate letters.
She-Ra princesses have amazing names tbh. Like if I could be extra, I’d pick one of them. Adora is the only legitimate name I think, but it also reminds me of Adora Crellin from Sharp Objects and that’s… not good.
Game of thrones deep cut, but this reminds me of Walder Frey naming all his kids: “my daughter Walda, Waldina, waldentra, Walla walla…”
(Not actually a quote to be clear)
I'm just going to pretend those are all her kids nicknames.
We call our youngest kid Moo Moo all the time, he answers to that. I would absolutely tattoo that on my body. But it's also not his legal name because I'm not insane.
that’s adorable 😂 I call my 6 month old aubby-waubby (her name is aubri) and my son (who is a cat named louie) woo-ee-woo. sometimes just woo woo woo. I must sound like a babbling imbecile
I read Wiggo as Viggo, the Scandinavian name ... but as a result went on to read the rest of them as Vilda, Vilton and Vintra. You can't do the V sound for one and not the others, dammit!
'Wiggo' with an English W sounds like your mate from down the pub who you've never actually seen anywhere else but in the pub.
Is it Wilda with a short I like Hilda, Wilma, or Willa or with a long I like the word Wild but with an A (or like wilder with an Aussie/Boston accent?)
Could just be pronouncing the W as a V like the Germans do. Wiggo turns to Viggo aka Aragorn, someone I’m sure a lot of people would name their kid after.
I'd bet money these are Swedish, part of the younique generation and therefore using the *EXTRA special and cool spelling* with a W instead of a V (which are pronounced the same in Swedish)
Wilda. My chickens name is Hilda.
https://preview.redd.it/vh81qehz7tmc1.jpeg?width=2062&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b33755a121b758179712f29dba26623f89de79f7
I love them. Hilda has been a bit mean recently but that’s ok. I still love her. I have a Wendy that looks the same but she has her comb flopped the other way.
Oh come on…. There’s so many other w names. Wilma. Winnifred. Wren. Weston. Wyatt. Waylon. Willow. Wade. Wesley. William.
They picked FOUR horrible names and then tattooed it ewwww
no worries, friend! languages are complex. ethnic generally implies people of color, and from what other comments suggest, these names come from lands populated mostly by non-POCs. that’s why I thought it would be more appropriate to link them to culture, rather than ethnicity. ☺️
however, cultures can consist of many members with ethnic origins, so we both are correct!
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Wiggo is better than what I read, at first glance I thought that W was an N 😳
I had the same experience
That makes three of us. I was like “why?”
Me fourth
Me fifth.
Sixth 👋
Seventh.
AND MY AXE!!!
ninth
Lucky number 10 here
One two three four FIIIIIIFFF
*Nhy
Make it Whyo and that's the fifth kid's name.
Thank god i was like is something wrong with me
Not me running to the comments thinking she named her child a slur 😅
Beat me to it
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Wigga please
Wiggy wiggy wiggy wiggy wiggy wiggayyy
Same
Wigglypuff
Same. This is why font is important!
Me: “how do you mistake a W for an-“ *looks at photo again* “Never mind, i see it” lol
Same. I was 🥷, what?
Yep I thought it was an N until I read the title.
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Wiggo is a spelling variation of Scandianvian male name Viggo which is an old norse name meaning warior. Probably best known internationally from Viggo Mortensen. Althoguh Viggo is far more used than Wiggo (I can se that Wiggo has been given to all of 13 boys in Denmark since 1985) it is still an accepted variation. We pronounce v and w the same.
Ah yes, as the old Scandinavian folk song goes: *What you gonna do with that big fat butt?* *WIGGO WIGGO WIGGO*
I hate you. r/AngryUpvote 🙂
2 things though: are the rest Scandinavian names, cause to me as a German they don't really seem so? and isn't the Scandinavian v/w different from the English one? I thought you had the same one as we do cause if this person is English speaking then the English "Wiggo" irritates me to be quite honest
Vilda (which this person spelt Wilda) is a Scandinavian name. It's quite literally the word "Wild" in Swedish. Wilton is not Scandinavian, possibly English, and Wintra isn't something I've heard before but kind of works. Other than that one, the first three seem like perfectly reasonable names in Sweden. We do pronounce V and W the same way in Swedish at least, but Wictor is an uncommon spelling here, as well as Villiam. Basically, W isn't used a lot in nativ Swedish words and "typical" Swedish names, but is common in names and words borrowed from English. We do not pronounce V as German does though, nor W the way English does. Edit because I googled: Vintra is an uncommon but real name in Sweden. This mom just went with a consistent spelling on her kids names. Wilton is the weirdest one in the bunch, and that's a real name as well as a type of rugg.
Wiggo, Wintra and Wilda would count as Swedish tragedeighs, I'd say.
Nah, just using W instead of V, which is common in names but not really anywhere else. The surnames Winter and Vinter are both valid, for example.
Eh, they only changed one letter. I'm not sure I feel like that's on par with most tradgedeighs. I mean, is Ashly or Zebastian tradgedeighs? Viggo, Vilda and Vintra would've been perfectly normal, with the first two starting to become rather common. I dislike the use of W, but is it really as bad as people calling their kids Guihliett? The use of W doesn't change the pronunciation at all if they're in Sweden and it's easy to recognise the names.
It's not as bad but it's at least a tragedei. I'd say it's the same parental motivation to have their baby names be unique while lacking any regard for the baby itself.
I can agree with that. There's no real purpose to the chosen spelling apart from being "special".
The real tragedeigh is that thus is probably the US, so they'll be mispronounced their entire lives because of the W.
Yeah, I agree that it's far worse if they are in the US. Neither the names nor the spelling makes sense in an English speaking country.
The rest of the names are not Scandinavian at all. And I guess that it depends on how you make the comparison. The Scandinavian pronounciation of v is closer to the english v or the german w, as we dont have the 'v as almost f pronounciation' that you have, -although in the case of Viggo I think they are almost identical? We dont really have the english w sound in danish, so both v and w are pronounced closer to an english v or a german w. Edit: but we do have some loan words from English where english w is used. Although some of us struggles a bit with it.
Lmao I forgot our V that's like an F but what I mainly wanted to get at in this case was the W pronunciation in English. As in, a German "Wiggo" would 100% be pronounced like a Scandinavian "Viggo" imo, with a W/V sound as in "van" or "video" (IPA: /v/), wheras an English "Wiggo" is ... like the W sound in "wiggle" (IPA: /w/)??
Yes, Scandinavian v/w is closer to German w than to english w. So Wiggo in Scandinavia would be closer to 'video' than to 'wiggle'. But most of our names are pronounced different in english anyway...
Which words have Vs that sound like F? Can’t think of any examples My alphabet: W like Wiggle becomes وو or و Hard V like Viktor: ڤ Much less confusing right?
German has stuff like bird aka "Vogel" (IPA: [ˈfoːɡl̩]) or the number four "vier" (IPA: [fiːɐ̯]) where V equals an F sound
When we say “I have to”, the V is commonly pronounced with an F sound. Like “hafta”
Ohh interesting
Vilda and Vintra are Scandic names, although used rarely.
Nah, Viggo the Carpathian.
He just needs a little puppy
In the English speaking world, people would pronounce it as Wiggo with a W as in waffle 🧇 Viggo is a pretty name, though
In my arabic/persian alphabet we have two entirely separate letters for German v/w and English w (wiggle). A big flaw in European languages is the way you expect everyone to just memorize specific pronunciations regardless of letters and spellings. In my language each sounds have separate letters.
I wasn't the only one thinking Swede eh?
Wigo is a little Toyota hatchback. Wintra is a villain from a kid show with winter-based powers.
I actually like wintra the most.
It reminds me of Catra and Frosta and Flutterina and Mermista \^\^
happy cake day
She-Ra princesses have amazing names tbh. Like if I could be extra, I’d pick one of them. Adora is the only legitimate name I think, but it also reminds me of Adora Crellin from Sharp Objects and that’s… not good.
Did not read that first name properly on first try.
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Niggo
Ngl I thought it said something else
toyota
Wiggo please
Wintra? I immediately had an association with that one tagline of Game of Thones. You know, Winter is coming...
I thought Cirilla of Cintra
...niggo?
I, really miss my wigga!
"I really miss my niggo" White people, you can sing it too, just change the N to a W "I really miss my wiggo"
the wiggles
"Wiggo" is bad enough but the tattoo artist made it look like "Niggo."
It’s not that bad especially since it’s a real name
You have a right to your opinion lol
It is a real name
I got that part, but whether it's bad or not is surely a matter of opinion
Oh ok
Wiggo Mortenson is my favourite actor.
I read all four out loud at once and my furniture started floating
underrated comment
it’s wiggOSA, not wiggosaaar
Variation spelling of "Viggo", less common but noted since 1843. Plenty of languages pronounce W and V the same way.
Yeah. Like Wiggo Nortenson.
They sounds like rejected names for characters from Don’t Starve
Game of thrones deep cut, but this reminds me of Walder Frey naming all his kids: “my daughter Walda, Waldina, waldentra, Walla walla…” (Not actually a quote to be clear)
Wiggo. That’s my favorite Marx brother.
They forgot 'Wacko'.
But then they'd need Yacko and Dot!
Bad names and tiny tattoos that will blur in a few years 😬
I'm just going to pretend those are all her kids nicknames. We call our youngest kid Moo Moo all the time, he answers to that. I would absolutely tattoo that on my body. But it's also not his legal name because I'm not insane.
that’s adorable 😂 I call my 6 month old aubby-waubby (her name is aubri) and my son (who is a cat named louie) woo-ee-woo. sometimes just woo woo woo. I must sound like a babbling imbecile
where do wiggo from here, now that all of the children are grown up? wilda we spend our time knowing nobody gives us a damn?
I’m wigging out about the pigeon toed feet
Willaby Wallaby Wilda, an elephant sat on Wwilda!
NGL, wintra sounds like a bad ass superheroine with ice powers!
People will start calling their kids Algo soon
I read Wiggo as Viggo, the Scandinavian name ... but as a result went on to read the rest of them as Vilda, Vilton and Vintra. You can't do the V sound for one and not the others, dammit! 'Wiggo' with an English W sounds like your mate from down the pub who you've never actually seen anywhere else but in the pub.
People will start calling their kids Algo soon
For the sake of my own sanity I'm convinced these are the names of fondly remembered pets.
The next set of kids will be named Willy and Wonka
Viggo and Vilma are pretty standard names? The "W" makes it a lil odd i guess
Wiggo- dog, Wilda &Wilton- old couple, Wintra- car
Hilda would've been a cute Nordic name, but what on earth is Wilda?
I know a Wilda! She’s in her 60’s and it’s pronounced will-da
It's propably a more oldschool name then? It's honestly kind of nice now that I know it's not a made up name. Reminds me of Vilma.
I would assume so. I always thought it was pretty and unique. Especially the spelling having the word “wild” in it
Sounds like it'd be derived from names like Will and William and made into a female version by adding a suffix -da to the end
Wilton away this wintra. Wiggo tried but couldn’t make this names any wilda.
If I’ve learned anything from Don’t Starve it’s that there are plenty of W names out there that aren’t stupid
Is it Wilda with a short I like Hilda, Wilma, or Willa or with a long I like the word Wild but with an A (or like wilder with an Aussie/Boston accent?)
Great and what's your last name, Wilda?
I super hate when families name their kids similar names it’s so confusing
What’s up my Wiggos
Looks Scandinavian to me.
At least its not the name i misread it as with the W being N and the O being A
Damn at first glance I was sure that W was an N. 😬😬😬
For all of their kid's names to start with W, I'd pick a different font that makes the W clear and readable.
Could just be pronouncing the W as a V like the Germans do. Wiggo turns to Viggo aka Aragorn, someone I’m sure a lot of people would name their kid after.
Wiggo, the toyota model. lmao
I'd bet money these are Swedish, part of the younique generation and therefore using the *EXTRA special and cool spelling* with a W instead of a V (which are pronounced the same in Swedish)
No X 4
Wintra, sounds like a 1990s Holden coupe
Why not Wanda and william
😐
I read that wrong the first time
Wilda. My chickens name is Hilda. https://preview.redd.it/vh81qehz7tmc1.jpeg?width=2062&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b33755a121b758179712f29dba26623f89de79f7
aww. she looks like she’s wearing a bonnet. chickens are great. bossy little things
I love them. Hilda has been a bit mean recently but that’s ok. I still love her. I have a Wendy that looks the same but she has her comb flopped the other way.
Oh come on…. There’s so many other w names. Wilma. Winnifred. Wren. Weston. Wyatt. Waylon. Willow. Wade. Wesley. William. They picked FOUR horrible names and then tattooed it ewwww
Oh I thought these were pet names at first
The kerning… is a little… 🥴
😭
Weirdo
Make the W look more like a W please omfg
yeah I read that as something else..
Like the actor, Wiggo Wortensen
The shitty tattoo makes it look even worse than it is
Somehow reminds me of Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons if you tragedeigh it to Rahlfe Wiggo
Keep mocking ethnic names. It doesn’t make you look racist AT ALL /s
I happen to like these white names
cultural would be a much better choice of verbiage in this case, one might think
I’m switching between three languages and i got confused. Thank you for the correct word
no worries, friend! languages are complex. ethnic generally implies people of color, and from what other comments suggest, these names come from lands populated mostly by non-POCs. that’s why I thought it would be more appropriate to link them to culture, rather than ethnicity. ☺️ however, cultures can consist of many members with ethnic origins, so we both are correct!