When I was born, my parents had already immigrated to Canada and there weren't many Korean people in our area so my parents assumed I would never need a Korean name so I never had one. Meanwhile, all of my Canadian-born friends have a Korean name. Whaa?
Anyway, my in-laws gave LO a Chinese name (Wing Yan) and my parents are STILL fighting about a Korean name (my parents keep disagreeing with each other).
Do YOU have an ethnic name? What is it?
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
my korean name is 예석 
lo has a korean name too. 예랑. it means Jesus' love
grapefruit / 4400 posts
Mine's my legal name (my "American" name is a nickname that doesn't appear on any paperwork), so I'd rather not say. But it starts with an "A" and then "T" (Vietnamese names are in pairs, like Mary Ann.)
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
@HabesBabe: I realized after I posted that some peoples' names ARE their ethnic names and probably wouldn't say. Ooops on my part. Do people call you by your American name or your legal Vietnamese name?
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
My Hebrew name is Malkah Ashira.
My lo isn't named yet, we've been trying to set the date since she's been born!
honeydew / 7968 posts
my korean name is se-ra. we'll give our LOs korean names - my FIL has to figure it out. i do want veto power.
grapefruit / 4400 posts
@Rubies: Only my parents/Asian family call me by my Vietnamese name. Sometimes the hubs calls me it (in his American accent) as a joke.
pear / 1723 posts
My husband's American name and Cambodian name are the same - his American name is just the English transliteration with a different pronunciation. He and his sisters all have Cambodian nicknames, but they aren't names as much as things like "littlest sister" or terms like that.
honeydew / 7917 posts
I always wanted an American name. My sisters ended up with names that could go both ways -- Lynn, Lee, and May. Of course my name is 100% Chinese. Boo.
My LO had a Vietnamese name that my in-laws gave to him, but I'm not sure what happened to it. I think they were offended that it is not part of his legal name and just forgot about it. My parents cannot pronounce his name and call him "Lit" because it sounds the closest.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
My first and only name is Korean. It's a really common Korean girl's name.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
My Japanese name is 要.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A6%81
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
@mrsjyw: Did you ever want an "American" name? I'm asking because I hated my first name (even though it's not ethnic) and always wished I could have a name like "Michelle" or "Jessica." Even now, I'm not crazy about my first name. I always wondered what it would be like to grow up with an ethnic name...
honeydew / 7917 posts
@Rubies: Actually 4 sisters... the youngest has a very Chinese name just like me. 5 girls = drama, drama, drama
bananas / 9227 posts
@artbee: You have an amazing middle name! It's a combination of 2 names I like: Asha, Sanskrit for "hope", and Amira meaning "princess" in Hebrew and Arabic.
pear / 1861 posts
This is so cool. Wish I had two names. How did y'all make the characters here?
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@Rubies: sorry it took me so long to respond! And YESSS growing up I used to wish for an "American" name... I finally grew into accepting my name during college. Now I have an ethnic Korean name + a long traditional Polish last name... I like to laugh it off now 
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