One of the things we discussed more than a year ago and while we still weren’t quite decided to start a family (or not) was who would get to decide on baby names. We decided on the arrangement where I’d work out a list of baby girl names, and Ling baby boy names. We’d both have to finally agree on which name of course, but we each get to decide on our list of potentials.
Lots of people I think want special sounding and looking names to be different from the rest. For me though, one thing that was firm in my mind (Ling may be thinking differently) is that the baby girl names in my list would not include any fancy or new-age spellings of a traditional name. For example, it’s Mary and not Mari. Elizabeth and not Elizebeth.
I haven’t spent too much time looking for certain, but from say A to F at least, here’re the ones I passed along to Ling the other day as my list of potential names:
Agnes (Greek) – pure, virginal
Diana (Latin) – lumious, perfect
Anna (Greek / Hebrew?) – gracious, one who gives
Esther (Hebrew) – secret, hidden
Emma (Hebrew) – the female version of Emmanuel
Of the first five, Ling liked Agnes, Diana and Anna. My favorite of the list is Agnes, so we actually had our first consensus. The rest of the alphabet soup to follow, soon enough.:)
at that time we had not known the gender of our first baby but while looking at names key chains at a christian bookshop in jurong point. saw the name Ada at the top rack.. saw the name Abel at the bottom rack and so the names were booked for the 1st boy and 1st girl. subsequently came 2 more girls and we had a hard time trying to fit an appropriate letter between two As. these are the names of our children : Ada, Abel, Ana, Ava. hoping the next will be a boy so we can use the reserved boy name Adam…:D
it’s a fun process, i hope you guys will have loads of joy going through the naming baby stage.
are you guys considering dialect names or will be it the same as the current fashion where it’s only hanyu pinyin?
if you name your daughter starting with A, make sure her friends lock their phone keypads hor! otherwise they’d get “prank” calls like me sometimes LOL…
my dad was going to name me ANNA but he didn’t know how to spell! LOL so anna is nice. agnes and diana also not bad.
esther *gasp* my principal’s name is esther nei *shudder*
don’t want emma la… sure get teased as “ah ma” one… LOL
btw anna is of hebrew origin i think. cos mine is hebrew origin meaning the same thing… so should be the same la ha?
Yeah Ann and Anna could be the same.:)
Well, I need to look at the next couple of names from the other characters soon. Ling was commenting the other day about boy names too, but I’ll wait for her blog entry on them.:)