# Name Tsubaki's kid! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936 "2002-03-25T02:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tsubaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Tsubaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsubaki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/1 "2002-03-25T02:31:30Z")
As some of you (well, a handful of you 😃 ) may know, I’m pregnant with my third baby. No, I am not seeking congratulations. What I WOULD like is name suggestions. You see, my first two kids were planned, and we had decided on names WAY before they were born. Luckily we had one of each, so we were able to use the one boy’s name and the one girl’s name we’d thought of. But now we are stuck. This baby wasn’t planned, and we have no idea of good names. We still have a while to find something good (baby is due November 12). Here are the rules: - no ultra-common names, but nothing so stupid that the kid is going to have a reason to be bullied - both boy’s and girl’s names are needed - if possible, the names need to be easy to say for both Aussies and Japanese - the initial of our surname is U (so please avoid any names that start with P or F 😛 ) Yoroshiku! ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/2 "2002-03-25T03:00:42Z")
Well, congratulations anyway. I have a Japanese-American cousin named Alissa. That name seems to work well in both languages. My own name (Ken) is bilingual too but I wouldn’t recommend it, it’s unusually short in both languages. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/3 "2002-03-25T03:31:46Z")
You can never go wrong kissing up to the powerful. Name your child after the Emperor/Emperess. My favorite Japanese war hero - Saburo. My favorite Japanese plane - Zero! Sushi - has a nice ring to it, perhaps unfortunate connotations. My favorite Japanese Simpson character - Akira. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/4 "2002-03-25T04:58:21Z")
Ooh! Cougar! ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/5 "2002-03-25T05:08:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*You can never go wrong kissing up to the powerful. Name your child after the Emperor/Emperess. \*\* Ugh, don’t do that, unless you want people to think you are extreme right-wing. Besides, nobody uses the name of the emperor anyway - the previous emperror will always be known as the Showa Emperor, not Emperor Hirohito. As for Saburo, it means “third son” so it would be a very unusual name for a second son. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/6 "2002-03-25T11:39:03Z")
For a girl - Sharon (Shazza). For a boy, Darryl (Dazza) or Barry (Bazza). ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/7 "2002-03-25T12:06:12Z")
Ooooh, deja vu (haven’t I seen this thread somewhere before?) Having absolutely NO knowledge of anything Japanese (apart from their culinary delights), I was going to suggest Wayne and Kylie, but… ninevah’s choices are waaaay cooler! \*Humble apologies to any Wayne’s or Kylie’s out there. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/8 "2002-03-25T12:07:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **For a girl - Sharon (Shazza). For a boy, Darryl (Dazza) or Barry (Bazza).** Hehehe. How about, in the great Australian tradition, Bruce. For boy OR girl. 🙂 Once again, congrats Tsubaki. Hope you have an uneventful pregnancy and baby arrives safe and well at the proper time. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/9 "2002-03-25T12:15:12Z")
Toshiro or Toshi or Tosh for the boy. Lena or Asahi for the girl Congrats and IIRC omedeto ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/10 "2002-03-25T13:03:25Z")
Having taught countless bi-cultural kids in Japan, I’ve seen what names go well in both languages. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order: Meg (Megu in Nihongo) Kai Kahn Nozomi Hana ( I love this one, but may be too common) Chihiro Jaye (for a girl) Julian (comes out as Jureean in Nihongo) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/11 "2002-03-26T00:26:09Z")
My favorite boy’s name overall is Akira. I just like it. Unfortunately, we can’t use it for the upcoming BeanSprout. Well, I guess we could use it, but we’d all have a lifetime of explaining why a little Jewish kid from New Jersey had a Japanese name. So, I suggest it to you. And congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/12 "2002-03-26T00:32:32Z")
This week I’m recommending the girl’s name **Majandra** (pronounced as in Spanish: Ma han’ dra). Not sure what _Nihongo_ will do to that–maybe knock out the “d” for “Mahanra”, maybe end up as “Mahandura”. According to the actress Majandra Delfino, the name comes from Hindu for “Blue Moon”. For boys, you just can’t beat **Jojo**. 😉 (What? You expect a serious post? Maybe later!) ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/13 "2002-03-26T00:59:54Z")
How about Tsunami? ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Tsubaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Tsubaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsubaki)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/14 "2002-03-26T02:12:12Z")
Thanks for the input, all! Keep them coming! (Dazza, Bazza or Shazza? Bruce?? That’s just too sad!). ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/15 "2002-03-26T02:35:32Z")
Whatever you go with, please just don’t pick a three-syllable Japanese name. They always get butchered when English speakers say them, because for some reason everyone emphasizes the second syllable. So my friend MIwako becomes miWACK-o, and TEruko turns into tuh-ROO-ko. DRIVES ME CRAZY!!! Not that I have any personal connection to you whatsoever, but I’m just saying… How about Nami? I always thought that was a pretty name. I also like Chie. I’ve never much cared for Japanese boy names. I saw a television show once where a child’s name was written “poem” (“shi”) and “dream” (“mu”) and pronounced “poemu.” Which is actually really cheesy, I guess. Picking a Spanish or Italian name might make it easier to be rendered into Japanese. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/16 "2002-03-26T03:34:12Z")
Well, since your are asking dopers, how about Cecil Adams Tsubaki or Cecillia Adams Tsubaki? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/17 "2002-03-26T04:25:26Z")
Steve ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/18 "2002-03-26T04:41:50Z")
“Earthling” adapt as needed… enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/19 "2002-03-26T04:49:03Z")
Well, _my_ favourite boy’s name is David, but _you_ don’t have to use it if you don’t like. I think the Spanish/Italian name idea is a pretty good one. There are lots of names in the Romance languages that can be quite multicultural. And what’s wrong with Bruce? 😃 (…oh, ok…for a newborn? I guess you’re right…) ---
**Author:** ![islandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@islandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/islandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936/20 "2002-03-26T19:21:33Z")
[http://www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm](http://www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm) This is a nice site that has a huge listing of multi-cultural names and their meanings. They also offer a Baby Name Service. Congratulations and good luck to you! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-tsubakis-kid/99936.md?page=2)