I used to hate my name. I’m always asked if my name is real – did I name myself and do I have a chinese name. It’s so short and frankly uninteresting without the variety of vowels in names such as Josephine, Carolyn ect.Or even more chinese-y names that sounds horribly strange in english but means jade flower,strong leaf or small lotus *runss

My freaky name and its even freakier origin (my mom literally chopped my name into half because she wanted an english-chinese-fied name).It means (I have actually checked this out!) gentle,dimuinitive and mild. Yes, gentle and mild, that’s me! Woo!And virtuous as well,don’t forget

But now I am one of the cool kids as 1900s names are starting to come back into fashion! After hearing my name being called out to mostly toddling, drooling, blonde girls in the past few months, I am am a wee curious why are there suddenly little girls with my name when before this it’s usually a name reserved for pets. My St. 5 textbook have me as a parrot. One of the bacon’s friends’ kids thought that I was a dog before he met me. Well, not like much has changed…..

And guess what…my name is in the top 20 most popular names for baby girls now! OMG…I now feel like a Sharon of the 80s! One of the top 100 names for girls is Niamh. I keep pronouncing this nia mah (your damn mother in cantonese). *chuckle*. If I meet a Niamh I would probably just not stop laughing. And Freya, another popular name for girls, is the name of a brand of lingerie for well-stacked women (in the PC world, well-endowned). Or Mya, name of the R&B star, also name of bacon’s niece.

Then you have the Bluebell and Princess Tiamii. Seriously, WTF?? Why do you want to traumatize your kids with such names? Or popular names back in the days – look where the name Anita is today. Or Sharon – which was popular in the 80s.Parents should be sued for cruelty if they dare name their children names that would definitely get them laughed at for the rest of their lives; like Elvis ( who, incidentaly, died 30 years ago yesterday) or more drastic one, SPIDER PIG . Not so bad if it was named Homer even, but after a damn cartoon pig??

And for the chinese, the equilavent of Ah Kow (dog), Ah Meow(cat) , Ah Hua(flower). Nowadays chinese names have gotten extremely strange, likes of zhywang yng ect. And we are not even talking about mainland chinese/hongkie english names yet. I’m sure the expats can give me excellent examples of Plastic Wong or Potato Yang.

PS: My name’s not Jack.

Anyway, I did a couple of checking on the names of some of my dear readers……obviously only those with english names apply.

Moo: Male, Virile
dreyb: Nobel strength
Lisa: Consecrated to God
Elving: Friends of Elves
Viv: Living, lively
bacon:He who hears (really???)

So, what does your name mean?

Some of the sites that I have been stalking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6196035.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name

http://www.thebabywebsite.com/article.313.Baby_Names.htm

http://www.businessinberkshire.co.uk/businessinberkshire/extra1238.html

http://www.babyguide.co.uk/pregnancy/articles/top_baby_names_engwal.asp

http://www.realbabyguide.co.uk/babynames.html

http://www.ourbabynames.co.uk/ukpopular2002.php

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