Baby girl for Prince Friso & Princess Mabel - Joanna Zaria Nicoline Milou

[puresnow]

Congrats to the family! Baby is incredible beautiful。。。。

[Janevlierd]

Yes, I think that to. She is very nice.

[Eva-Britt]

They are very very sweet!

[Marengo]

Nohing has been released about that, but I expect that it will take some time again, as it did with the baptism of Luana (almost a year). She will probably be baptised in the Orange-Hall of Palace Huis ten Bosch, like her sister.

[rosana]

I don´t understand, whyyyyyyy do they call their kids by their second name: Amalia, Luana,Zaira. It´s very strange.

[Marengo]

Originally Posted by rosana

I don´t understand, whyyyyyyy do they call their kids by their second name: Amalia, Luana,Zaira. It´s very strange.

Well, it is a quite normal thing in the Netherlands. Often they call somebody by a complete different name then the ones they baptised him/her with. A friend of mine is baptised as Clasina Adriana Wilhelmina, while she is actually called Diana. So there is a difference between the baptism name and the 'roepnaam' (calling name). Very often the 'calling-name' is a shortened derivative from one of the baptism names. So Coby from Jacoba, Kees from Cornelis etc.

With Catharina-Amalia it is a different story btw. As the name is hyphened the two names form one name together. So one calls her Amalia one is using an abreviation from the first of her baptismnames. The Prince of Orange made it claer that her 'calling-name' was Catharina-Amalia. But once he revealed that in private they would only call her Amalia the press and the public took the liberty of calling her that way to, which is incorrect (but it does sound much less heavy for such a small child).

[rosana]

Thanks, it´s very much clear now, it´s a matter of customs. In my country we always use the first name, unless it´s awful so we use the second one.