fresh off the boat

Newly immigrated, especially without having yet assimilated the host country's language, culture, and/or behavior. My grandfather was still fresh off the boat when he opened up his business here in 1820, and he didn't speak a lick of English.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Abhay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Mercia	-	English (Rare)
Regan	['ri:gən]
Uladzimir	-	Belarusian
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Karekin	-	Armenian