bodhisamaya Wrote:

Smackle Wrote:Names ending with こ (子) tend to be female names.

Not cool any more:
2009年の人気の赤ちゃんの名前

I was replying to Tobberoth, but I guess I should have used the quote button.

Smackle Wrote:I was replying to Tobberoth

Ah, yes. Of course

First off, おめでとうございます！

And yeah, names ending with 子 don't seem to be "in" at the moment. Anecdotally speaking, か as the last syllable seems more popular in my area.

As for freedom and choosing irregular readings, as someone said, you have plenty of room for creativity. My favorite was a girl who used the single-kanji name 晴, read as はゆる. Very pretty, I thought. And it confused pretty much every Japanese adult who tried to read it .

Also, I recently saw Haruka written as 悠, which I thought was really cool for some reason. More often I see it as 遥.

Welcome to the forum Themistoclaus.

真里亜 kills several birds with one stone. It's English, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, and bob knows what else.

おめでとうございます!

Hmm, my favourite Japanese girl's name is みずき (美月). There's みつき as well, possibly Suki would sound Ok as a shortened version in English (or even Sue, come to think of it. That option is maybe not very cool, though, although I like it, and maybe it'll come back in fashion). I like りか as well, and I guess there's ぎな, though that's not very trendy as an English name.

Think はな and まや are nice.

You should be safe enough, but for me my own slightly unusual name has been a curse. The constant misspelling, the mispronunciations, the teasing, the outright-getting-it-completely-wrong... >_< So, just warning you in case she grows up to hate it. ; )

Ampharos64 Wrote:Think はな and まや are nice.

I also think まや is a really pretty girl's name. It works in all those languages that kazelee mentioned for 真里亜, too.

kazelee Wrote:真里亜 kills several birds with one stone. It's English, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, and bob knows what else.

Haha. I have a tattoo of Maria on my chest. My former Filipina wife asked me to do it as a marriage present. Perhaps 90% (a wild guess) of Filipino women have Maria in part of their name as their parents' way of pleasing God.

The winning name is Hanalei 花麗ちゃん (beautiful flower). Hanalei is the name of the town in Hawaii I lived most of my adult life. Hanalei bay was chosen as the most beautiful beach in America for 2009 by the Dr. Beach rankings.
花麗ちゃんの写真

Congratulations bodhisamya! I'm sure you will be a great dad, and that's beautiful name.

ありがとうＴａｙｌｏｒさん

ありがとうアイスちゃん
They change color depending on the lighting from green to blue the same way mine do. Just a shade darker though.

One japanese girl whom I know is named まり, It could be translated to Mary..

jettyke Wrote:One japanese girl whom I know is named まり, It could be translated to Mary..

... or Molly

Or Bertha

Marge is coming back in style I hear..

or Mergatrude

Congrats bodhi

Congratulations bodhisamaya! That is a very pretty name ^^

I think Megatron would be an epic name for a kid.

for what it's worth, isn't Hanalei where Puff the Magic Dragon lived?