Posted by
LovelyM in Friday, June 24th 2011
A name tells a little story about the person. Its the meaning behind the name that counts. For Chinese, naming a baby is important as the name is to go with the flow of the baby’s elements, namely; Earth, Fire, Metal, Water and Wood. Some name a baby according to the number of strokes in the characters required, some go with the words that complement the elements. Some combine the both when they find the sound of the name a little weird on the tongue.

For couples who give Christian names or English names for their children after giving them their Chinese names, they search for the unique name so that when someone call their name, they know it is only them. In the past, it was the trend to name the children after famous writers or what was trending. Names like Cindy, Claudia, Andy, Tony, Michelle, John were common.
For a name to trend, it might just take a movie that is of high popularity to make it a trend. Transformers made the name McKayla or variants of it popular. McKayla has a beautiful meaning: Who is like God. Sometimes, a name trends because of its sound and some parents have been known to change the spelling but kept the sound of it.
How would you name your baby?
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