Did you know that "Ivanka" is not her real name?

[Yavin4]

It's Ivana Marie Trump. Keep that in mind if she flees the authorities.

Trump was born in Manhattan, New York City, and is the second child of Czech-American model Ivana (née Zelníčková) and Donald Trump, who in 2017 became the 45th president of the United States. Her father has German and Scottish ancestry.For most of her life, she has been nicknamed "Ivanka", a Slavic diminutive form of Ivana. Her parents divorced in 1992 when she was ten years old. She has two brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, a half-sister, Tiffany, and a half-brother, Barron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump

[C_U_L8R]

1. Of course, they named their first two kids after themselves.

And the last one, seemingly. after alter-ego John Barron.

[kskiska]

2. He copied Barron from Barron Hilton.

He liked it because it sounded aristocratic. When he bought Mar-a-Lago he altered the previous owner's crest on the building (Marjorie Meriweather Post) to create his own family crest.

[dem4decades]

3. I thought it was after The Robber Barons.

[Cha]

4. I always think of "barren"

[sarcasmo]

16. From his alter ego John Barron.

[TexasProgresive]

5. That's like a "so what"

I always knew that the ka was a diminutive of Ivana sort of like if she was named Joan or Jeanne and called Joanie or Jeanie. A simialr prefix is ke on the end of Dutch name. Bob aka Bobke Roll who has commented on the Tour de France was probably called Bobby by the Dutch when he was racing, though they used their form, Bobke.

None of what I wrote here means I like this woman. I just think this is not even a mole hill. It's like right winger complaining about Robert O'Rourke being called Beto since he's not a Latino. I guess his many of his friends were and are Latinx, and called him Roberto which becomes Beto.

[Igel]

9. Yup.

It's like sounding all suspicious and accusatory, "Did you know that 'Joe' isn't Biden's real name?"

[TexasProgresive]

14. Good one

[betsuni]

17. +1

[Raine]

20. Exactly no big deal,

lots of people use diminutives of their names., yawn.

[gratuitous]

6. I was going to guess Eva

[raccoon]

8. After Eva Braun? Nt

[FakeNoose]

7. If you're christened Margaret, and people call you Meg or Peggy

... or if you're christened Elizabeth and people call you Betty, it's the same thing.

Ivana is the formal version, Ivanka is the informal or nickname version of the same name.

[maxrandb]

10. If she were a Dem

the media would be asking for her birth certificate 24/7.

[warrior1]

11. That's not her real face either.

[Kali]

19. !

[lunatica]

21. Finally! Something relevant!

LOL!

[tblue37]

22. Of her real kidneys. nt

[abqtommy]

12. I wonder if she's related to Ivana Humpalot*?

*character in one of the Austin Powers movies

[Totally Tunsie]

13. Poor Eric loses again.

Junior and Ivanka are named for their parents.
Tiffany is named for the store.
Barron is named for Barron Hilton.

Eric is just...Eric.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Having studied the Russian language in the past,

I already knew that without having to look it up.