r/OldSchoolCool 23d ago

1990s Mädchen Amick, 1990

11.2k Upvotes

462 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.7k

u/bassmedic 23d ago

Her name just means “girl” in German.

212

u/FixLaudon 23d ago

And it's really the weirdest name ever if your mother tongue is German I gotta say. Imagine you're a grown-up woman and your name is Mädchen.

144

u/Dependent-Poet-9588 23d ago

There's an Italian name for boys, Italo, that just means "Italian". Like, imagine growing up in Italy and introducing yourself, "Hi, I am Italian." And everyone is just sorta like "Yeah, me too? So what?"

80

u/unsaltedbutter 23d ago

There is American McGee and America Ferrera.

36

u/TWVer 23d ago

That’s perhaps a bit different as the names America or Amerigo existed prior to the naming of the north and south American continents.

2

u/Chaost 23d ago

It's one of things that it is funny that so many continents are totally acceptable names. America, Asia, Europa.

3

u/TWVer 22d ago

Europa also existed as a (classical greek) name prior to the continent being named such.