Going by a different name in college?

Lindagaf
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:28:09 +0000

This might be very silly, but…I just returned from Thailand, where I learned that Mara means Devil. Curious, I then looked up what Mara means in other languages, and was a bit surprised that anyone would name their child Mara! To our ears, it’s actually a lovely name. Sadly though, in several different languages, Mara means bitter in Hebrew, goddess of destruction or God of death in Hindi, and a Patagonian rodent. Sorry! Consider a different name, perhaps?