https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 21:58:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4439 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:35:21 +0000 hreichard 4439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sons father is black and Italian so i gave my son an Italian name - Jovani. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4423 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:46:06 +0000 rawrasaur 4423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yin: good to know I'm not alone =) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4413 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:19:55 +0000 yin 4413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mailife: My in-laws gave my son a Vietnamese name that I cannot pronounce. I butcher my husband's name too because I cannot grasp the tones. :( We decided to leave the Vietnamese and Chinese given names from his grandparents out of his legal name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4412 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:00:26 +0000 rawrasaur 4412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any future children of ours will be 1/2 Vietnamese and 1/2 Euro Mix and we planed on them having American First + Vietnamese Second + Vietnamese Last. Honestly, I am not crazy about the Vietnamese middle, because I'm worried I will have trouble pronouncing my own child's name. I cannot pronounce my Husbands two middle names well at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4400 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:04:24 +0000 yin 4400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband and I have very Asian names, and we decided to give our children American names. Our son's name is American First + Chinese Middle (my maiden name) + Vietnamese Last. Our last name is actually a very popular American boy's first name, which makes his name sound even less Asian. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4399 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:59:27 +0000 leelee 4399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are still ttc #1 but we have already agreed that when we do have a children it will be American first name, Vietnamese middle name, German last name :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4398 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000 DisneyBee 4398@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm Japanese, and my husband is Chinese. We both were born and raised in California. So, we gave our son an American first name, Japanese middle name and his last name is Chinese. So it's the best of 3 worlds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-childs-name-ethnic#post-4379 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:08:31 +0000 mrbee 4379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Charlie is 1/2 Korean, 1/4 Japanese and 1/4 German-Irish... but his name doesn't really reflect any of his ethnic origins. The same is pretty much true for Olive as well. I guess you could say they have American names.</p> <p>How about you: us your child's name as ethnic as they are? </p>