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All Rivers aren't mellow... think of the late actor River Phoenix
That's why the Mr. vetoed going with the English translation of the name: the assumption that he was named in honor of River Phoenix. Although I was indeed a fan of both his acting and his music, that actually wasn't even my motivation; I lived in a commune when I was a kid, and a lot of the kids had "earthy" names, so it didn't sound that off the wall to me. So, the Portuguese translation was a amicable compromise, and actually sounds better with our last name anyway.
On a long bus ride in South America (one of many), my wife and I discussed nice names (and everything else). We agreed that Olive and Violet were very nice names, but to spice them up, change the Os to Qs, and make them Qlive and Viqlet. (Q being a beautiful but underutilized letter.) Pronounced of course, Clive and Vicklet. We are now committed to using those names for our first pair of baby goats, yet to be actuated.
On a long bus ride in South America (one of many), my wife and I discussed nice names (and everything else). We agreed that Olive and Violet were very nice names, but to spice them up, change the Os to Qs, and make them Qlive and Viqlet. (Q being a beautiful but underutilized letter.) Pronounced of course, Clive and Vicklet. We are now committed to using those names for our first pair of baby goats, yet to be actuated.
Probably the only kids that should be given names with such unique spellings.
On a long bus ride in South America (one of many), my wife and I discussed nice names (and everything else). We agreed that Olive and Violet were very nice names, but to spice them up, change the Os to Qs, and make them Qlive and Viqlet. (Q being a beautiful but underutilized letter.) Pronounced of course, Clive and Vicklet. We are now committed to using those names for our first pair of baby goats, yet to be actuated.
Well, don't come crying to us when all of the other goats start making fun of them
No offense, but probably 95+% of these names fail the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court test, but more importantly, they fail the resume test no matter what job they get. If an executive picks up a resume with some flighty name on it, they are immediately prejudiced by the name, and your child will have a higher probability of not getting a returned call for the interview.
I agree with this ^ idea, and also:
1. Think of yourself standing outside yelling for your child to come in for dinner;
2. Think of how compatible the first name you're considering is with your surname. Random example: Robin is a nice name, and could be compatible with a surname like Smith, but if your last name is Byrd you might want to reconsider!!
Good point. A friend of mine had decided to name her son Cash, and it wasn't til after the birth certificate was signed that she put it together with her last name -- Rich. Talk about obnoxious.
In my perception, Lily and Jade are names that are commonly given to Asian girls, in particular by adoptive parents who want their adopted Asian girl to have a name that sounds kind of "Asian-y" but not too much so.
Robin is a unisex name, and is actually more common on girls than it on boys. But "common" is relative; it's popularity has been plummeting in recent years, and it's no longer in the top 1,000 names for either gender, as ranked by the Social Security Administration.
As for Rain, I'm not a fan of names that are far more commonly used as something else besides a person's name. And you know how, when someone speaks your name, you hear it even if you're not paying attention? Well, Rain is going to get distracted a lot when people start commenting about the day's precipitation. If you want, you could try Amaya (for a girl), which means "Night Rain" in Japanese.
EDIT: I thought of another reason to not pick Rain as a name: he's going to be mighty unhappy whenever his elementary school friends look outside at the precipitation that has caused the cancellation of their recess and start singing "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day!"
The baby will be Asian, so we're okay with something that sounds good with the middle and last names we have chosen (and something that sounds sort of Asian is probably a good fit -- frankly, I don't like Jade as a white person name at all). That's why we love flower names so much. They sound appropriately feminine, and they don't sound like they're whitewashing the kid. At the same time, they give the kid the freedom to go by something English or something Vietnamese (the Vietnamese names we have picked out are a little hard for most English speakers to pronounce, so she'll end up being Lily or Daisy at school but something else at home). We worry a little about discrimination, so we definitely need an English name.
Rain is a very popular Korean singer. That might be a lot for a kid to live up to, so that one is probably out. I don't think we'll go with a nature name if we have a boy; I just think it's interesting that those are harder.
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