In the choice of the names the name spades are completely free, which leads naturally to a large variety of names also with the children for example. On the one hand there are more familiar names like Mark, Alexander and David, Christian names like Korbinian, Jewish names like Aaron and Elias, but also strange names like Mashyana, Anahita and Lara-Armaiti, all three from Persian mythology. The more than one hundred children born in the tribe so far (some of whom are already adults and some of whom no longer live in the tribe) received names from various languages such as Vanya from Russian, Marcel from French, Giacomo from Italian, Nana Eudore from Greek, Kurelen from Mongolian. Numerous historical personalities or figures from pieces of poets are honoured, for example by the name Giordano (Giordano Bruno, whom the Kath. Church in Rome in 1600, because he did not revoke that the earth revolved around the sun), by the name Alyosha (from "The Brothers Karamasoff" by Dostoevsky), by the name Demian (from "Demian" by Hermann Hesse) or by the name Nimue (from "The Nebulae of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer-Bradley). A source of the first names are also the ancestors of the respective child, as for example with Franziskus, who is named after his grandfather. There is one thing that the name givers always pay attention to, namely that they do not give a name that another tribal member already has - but even here there could be exceptions, because the name givers are in fact not restricted by any rules.

Picture: Demian