I have been racking my brain on what to have his middle name be. Here are some suggestions. His Chinese name? My dads middle name David? Or my grandfathers name Charles?
Hmmmmm
What do you think????
I think this question should go to a new pole.
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I don't want to weigh in too much, but keep in mind when looking at the Chinese names, their "sir" (our last name) name is listed first, usually it is a "not-so-unique" orphanage name second, and their individual name is last. Our child's third name was "Man" and the nannies referred to her as "Manman" in the orphanage. We used the second and third name to make as a second middle name for our daughter when we adopted her in March of this year.
We are also from Wisconsin - southwestern part. Your website was given to us from another family (also from WI) that just received their referral from the same orphanage! I hope the two of you can compare notes and share your experiences!!!
Gretchen (Richland Center, WI)
www.babykanable.blogspot.com
I'm not family, but I am an adoptive mom who put a lot of thought into our daughter's "new" names. My vote for your darling son mirrors what we chose for our girls: keep his name as second middle name. You could write it "YangFeng" or "Yangfeng Our daughter's names were Guo Guo and Jiao Jiao after their surnames. We gave them each a western first and middle name, followed by their Chinese name written "Guoguo" or "Jiaojiao" followed, of course, by our last name. Four names appear on their official adoption papers, certificate of citizenship and on their American passports. When I have to fill out forms, I write the initials of both middle names in the "middle initial" space and that has never caused a problem for us.
My personal opinion is that your son will come to you with so little of "his own". His name is one of those few things. I kept my girls' names as they were given by the SWI, not because I loved them or because they had special meaning, but because they were theirs. Their adoption paperwork states it and I didn't want them to feel we didn't feel their names were important when we adopted them. With two middle names, they can use either the western or chinese one when and if they want to identify with one culture or the other.
So much to think about...I also like both Charles and David with Andrew. Good luck!
We chose to keep our adopted 2 year-old daughter's Chinese name as her middle name. There is so little that she has that is her own from before she came to our family so we felt that it was important to keep her "original" name. I've repeatedly seen this mentioned as important by international adoptees who are now adults.
We left off the general "family" name that was shared by all children from her orphanage and we combined the two characters of her given name (Chun Hui) into one name (Chunhui). We debated how to write it but ended up deciding that having one middle name made things a bit less complicated since so many forms just have room for one middle name. [I kept my maiden name as a middle name so I now have two middle names and it is pretty common for companies to get confused by the two middle initials....I think it just doesn't fit their forms.]
Andrew David YangFeng (I vote for both).
BTW..He is ADORABLE!!!
Congratulations on your absolutely darling baby boy!!! Hooray for boys.
Just wanted to clarify my "other" vote on the poll as well. :-) I'm voting for Andrew David Yangfeng. Love the names! Our son from China also has David and his Chinese name as his middle names. David was my Grandfather so it's a special name in our family too.
Our kids both seem to love having a western "family" middle name and their Chinese name as part of their names. We've had no problem. Just food for thought. It gives our kids a lot of options through their lives regarding how they want to use their name.
Congratulations again!!! So excited for you.
Bloomer from RQ
Hi we too are from WI, Milwaukee. We just adopted our little girl from Jianxi and the same orphanage. He is very cute. And you will really like it in Nanchang. Just expect it to be very hot and humid. If you need any tips let us know. www.sophievella@blogspot.com. good luck and have a safet and wonderful trip
We had Darci's name picked out shortly after we started the process. We had a middle name picked out and had planned to use part of her Chinese name as a 2nd middle name, when we got her referral, we choose her first name in Chinese as her middle name and did not use the middle name we had originally picked out. Good luck!!
Why not Makayla? Is it too feminine. To a non-Engish-speaker like me it sounds like it could be either anyway :)
My son's Chinese name was also Feng pronounced Fung in a high pitch, it is very hard to say correctly if people do not know anything about the Chinese culture. A girl with the name Feng is pronounced Fung, but with a very low flat tone, like most Americans talk. So if it will both you that people will say his name incorrectly then pick another part of his name. Our son was Min Feng, in his file it said he was named Feng because the policestation had Feng in it's name and they are who found him. Not so special :( we decided to keep the Min because it was where he was from and we put it with his father's name as his middle name so he is now Matthew Min Christopher. Our current son's chinese name is Yang Han Xi and we named him Job Xi Christopher.... Just sharing our experience with boy names. Congratulations on your beautiful boy. Boys are great!! We will welcome our 3rd boy home in just a few months. So funny how God choose this boy for you. I guess this is just a reminder to all of us that we are not in control. I hope you share your story with RumorQueen.
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