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A bilingual name is a name of a person

Personal name

A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...

that is spelled, if not pronounced, exactly the same in two languages. The speakers of a certain language usually have names that do not exist in another language. Even when the name has a common root or refers to the same historic or religious figure, different languages will spell and pronounce the name in a unique way. Thus a name with identical spelling in two languages may be of interest to parents of Third Culture Kids, or immigrants

Immigration

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Differentiated spelling

Children named after Alexander the Great, Saint Alexander, or any other Alexander are known as:

Alexander in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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Alexandre in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

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Alejandro in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, although commonly nicknamed Alex. Sandro is a common variation.
Alexandre in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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Alessandro in Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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Alexandru in Romanian
Romanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

, shortened to Alex or Sandu.
İskender in Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

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Iskander in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

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Sándor in Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

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Santeri in Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

, which is shortened from Aleksanteri.

Or variations thereof.

Some languages don't have this or other names. This is the case with many Chinese names that are not translatable into English.

Today, personal names are seen as untranslatable, but this has not always been the case. George Walker Bush is referred to as George Walker Bush except in places where that name is impossible to render in the local alphabet. For example, in Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

the name is rendered Corc Uolker Buş because the Azerbaijani alphabet

Azerbaijani alphabet

In the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani alphabet refers to a Latin alphabet used for writing the Azerbaijani language. This superseded a previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts....

lacks the letters J

Ĵ or ĵ is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound .While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic...

and W

W is the 23rd letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.In other Germanic languages, including German, its pronunciation is similar or identical to that of English V...

, but has a letter ş

S is the nineteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.-History: Semitic Šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative . Greek did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma came to represent...

which corresponds to the English "sh" sounds.

Historically, learned Europeans were often identified with Latinized

Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration. Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors,...

versions of their names. Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...

was published as Christophorus Columbus. In Modern Italian, the same name is Cristoforo Colombo, in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

as Cristóvão Colombo (formerly Christovam Colom), and in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón. Christophorus is the Latin version of the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

Χριστόφορος (Khristóphoros).

Exotic naming

Along with the comparatively slow changes in child-naming customs, many parents throughout the world give their child a name that does not have a common translation in their own language, sometimes as an aspirational gesture.

Rarely used male bilingual names in English and Spanish

Aaron (rare in Spanish)
Abel (rare in both Languages)
Abraham (rare in both Languages)
Brendan (rare in both Languages)
Bruno (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Caleb (rare in both Languages)
Crispin (rare in both Languages)
Hugo (identified with the French Language both in English and Spanish)
Jon (rare in both Languages)
Joshua (rare in Spanish)
Leon (rare in both Languages)
Levi (rare in both Languages)
Mario (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Noel (rare in both Languages)
Oliver (identified with the German language more so in Spanish, but somewhat also in English)
Roman (identified with the French Language both in English and Spanish)
Saul (rare in both Languages)
Tobias (rare in both Languages)
Tristan (rare in both Languages)
Xavier (rare in both Languages: associated with the French and Catalan)

Commonly used male bilingual names in English and Spanish

Adrian
Adrian
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus . Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI...
Benjamin
Benjamin (name)
Benjamin is a popular given name for males, derived from Hebrew בנימין translating as "son of my right [hand]". It is often shortened to Ben, and sometimes to Benny, Bennie, Benjy, Benji or "Big Ben". Benjamin is also a patronymic surname...
David
David (name)
David is a common male given name and surname. The name "David" is derived from the ancient times of Mesopotamia and used as the Biblical Hebrew name דָּוִד , meaning "Beloved". "Dudi" is a common nickname for David in Hebrew, in the same way Dave and Davy are in English.The Arabic and Assyrian...
Daniel
Daniel (name)
Daniel is a Hebrew masculine given name and a surname. It means, "God is my judge", and derives from two early Biblical figures, primary among them the Prophet Daniel.- Background :...
Damian
Damian (given name)
Damian, also spelled Damien, Daymian, Daymein, Дамиан , Damiano, Дамјан , Damião, Дамян , Демьян , etc., is a given name from the Latin Damianus which is the latinisation of the Greek Δαμιανός , derived from the Greek word δαμάζω , "to conquer, master, overcome, tame", in the form of δαμάω/-ώ , a...
Felix
Gabriel
Gabriel (name)
Gabriel is a given name or surname derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "able-bodied one of God". It was popularized by the association with the Biblical archangel Gabriel....
Isaac
Isaac (disambiguation)
Isaac is a given name derived from Judaism and can refer to:* Isaac, one of the patriarchs of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths* Isaac , including a list of people with the given name or surname of Isaac and its variants- Places :...
Ivan
Ivan (name)
Ivan is a Christian male given name that is primarily associated with Slavic languages.-Etymology:Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Iван.It is the Slavic...
Julian
Julian
Julian is a common male given name in Britain, United States, Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, France , Spain, Latin America and elsewhere....
Lucas (disambiguation)
Martin
Martin (name)
Martin may either be a surname or given name.Martin is a common given and family name in most European languages. It comes from the Latin name Martinus, which is a late derived form of the name of the Roman god Mars, the protective godhead of the Latins...
Oscar
Oscar (given name)
Oscar is a masculine given name in the English and Irish languages. Cognates include the Scottish Gaelic Osgar, and the German and Scandinavian Oskar, and the Finnish Oskari.-Etymology:...
Sebastian
Sebastian (name)
Sebastian is a masculine given name. It comes from the Latin name Sebastianus meaning 'from Sebaste'. Sebaste is the name of a town in Asia Minor , derived from the Greek word σεβαστός , "venerable", which comes from σέβας , "awe, reverence, dread", in turn from the verb σέβομαι , "feel awe,...
Ricky (given name)
Ricky (given name)
Ricky is a fairly common male given name in English and Spanish-speaking countries, often a diminutive of Richard, Fredrick or Patrick.-People with this name:*Ricky Carmichael , American motocross racer...

(Not a name, but rather a nickname, spelled "Riqui" in Spanish)
Ruben
Samuel
Samuel
Samuel is a leader of ancient Israel in the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. He is also known as a prophet and is mentioned in the Qur'an....
Simon (disambiguation)
Victor (disambiguation)
Jesse
Jesse
Jesse, Eshai or Yishai, is the father of the David, who became the king of the Israelites. His son David is sometimes called simply "Son of Jesse" ....

Rarely used female bilingual names in English and Spanish

Aida (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Alda (rare in both Languages)
Alma
Belinda (rare in both Languages)
Brenda (rare in both Languages)
Calista (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Dora (rare in both Languages)
Juliana (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Leonora (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Marla (rare in both Languages)
Martina (rare in both Languages)
Norma (rare in both Languages)
Tamara (rare in both Languages)
Ursula (identified with the Italian language both in English and Spanish)
Virginia (rare in both Languages)
Zoe (identified with the Greek language both in English and Spanish)

Commonly used female bilingual names in English and Spanish