Many people are aware that Ivanka Trump was named for her mother, Ivana Trump. Her real name is closer to her mother’s than you might imagine. It’s actually her mother’s exact name: Ivana Trump. Ivanka revealed this in a Tweet 2010
, “Ivanka”This is a Slavic diminutive “Ivana,”Similar to “Bobby”And “Robert” in English. Ivana, who was born in Czech and died in July, was an immigrant from Czech who taught or attempted to teach her children the language. Ivanka Has said she speaks Czech “poorly,”Donald Jr. is her elder brother. Fluent.In her 2017 memoir “Raising Trump,”Ivana said that it was sheDonald was not the one who had to make the decision about the names of the children. “This is going to be what it is,”She wrote: ABC News
. “I carry my kid for nine months, and this is what’s going to be … [Donald] wanted to call Ivanka Tiffany, because we got the heir rights for the Trump Tower from Tiffany [& Co].”As Trumps followers will know, Donald won this battle with Marla Maples his next wife. Together they named their only child Tiffany.Ivana, despite Donald’s preference, insisted on her name. She had Ivanka’s middlename, Marie, and even a diminutive, Maria, which she gave to her mother, four years after Donald Jr. was given his name. This was not Donald’s choice.
