What first names are used both in English and some other language? (Eg, "Paul" is English, French, and I think German, but the English "Michael" isn’t the same as the Spanish "Miguel".)
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Frederick (English, German) . Anthony/Antonio (English, Spanish) . Sebastian (English, French) . Steven/Etienne (English, French) . Anna (English, Italian) . Farrah (English, Arabic) . Natalie/Natalia (English, Russian)
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Victoria... That's all I can think of. All the rest are slightly different.
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Philip in English and French. Vera in English and Russian. Alexander in English and Russian. Ida in English, German and Italian. Natasha in English and Russian. Simone is English and French.
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Actually, neither of the names you mention is English although English speakers use them. Paul is Latin in origin, and Michael is straight Hebrew. Many of the names we use as English speakers actually have their origins in other languages. There are some names that I would consider truly English by virtue of their coming to us through Saxon, Germanic or Anglic sources. We no longer use most of the really old ones (think Aetheldred, for example). But some like Robert, Richard, Chadwick, Alfred, for example, can be said to be truly English.
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