Have you ever seen the Billy Connoly sketch? Farquar, then he can shout come here you little Farquar Any one got a copy of Billy and Albert?

My mother in laws name is "Lamai"

I always thought it was a beautiful name.

It's also the name of a Hawaiian island.

Don't mean to burst any bubbles, but the Hawaiian island is Lanai (pronounced Lana'i, I believe... just one of those things that sticks with you after living there for a bit =/)

Back to the name, though, you might try Robert.

In English it's Robert, Thai it's Lobut and Japanese it's Rrobato. Very easy for people to pronounced and commonly known.

my pal's kid is Oceanio - Oshi

His daughter is Oceana - Annga (soft n, like ng)

Both stunning looking.

She's 5. I'm 32. so...When she's 20, i'll be 47.... perfect.

My parents had a similar problem........... my dad wanted a traditional name, but my mom wanted a modern name. The result was interesting when they compromised. My bro, sis and me-self ended-up with 2 first names (a piece ). We all have 1 modern + 1 traditional name. Scary!

I agre with idinasia

My children are :

Natalie (could have be Nathan if boy)-Nat

Samantha (could be Samuel if boy)-Sam

No middle names .

This should make them less "vulnerable" at school for comments

and "exotic " names, are also difficult to write if you are in Primary.

Wiley Coyote

Edited June 25, 200719 yr by wileycoyote

My mother in laws name is "Lamai"

I always thought it was a beautiful name.

It's also the name of a Hawaiian island.

Don't mean to burst any bubbles, but the Hawaiian island is Lanai (pronounced Lana'i, I believe... just one of those things that sticks with you after living there for a bit =/)

Back to the name, though, you might try Robert.

In English it's Robert, Thai it's Lobut and Japanese it's Rrobato. Very easy for people to pronounced and commonly known.

Lamai is the name of a beach on Koh Samui and one of my (female) Thai neighbors had it as a nickname.

Anita

I have a Matthew, Lilian and Jasmine which the Thai's just shorten to Matt, Lily and Jazzy. To easy.

NARISSARA?

could be sara in english. na, lee, sa or laa (r=l) in thai.

however the one girl i know with that official name is known to me and everyone else as BAM. THEY will choose their favourite nickname anyway i guess.

Edited June 25, 200719 yr by toolonginexile

As before, I wrote the Thais piss me off when they pronounce my daughters name. So in their tiny minds to help satisfy the family now calls her LAB. As in Skye Lab, as they can not say Sky.

I am really thinking about changing her name to HaR Sip-Har Sip (or even Mi tdem baht) even thou she has more brain power than the rest of the woolly hat wearing, nose picking, beetle-nut chewing, incest related, dog eating villagers put together.

YES I HAVE HAD A BAD DAY

Ok ok ok ok#

CF

If all else fails, start reading road signs, in English or Thai. My daughter was getting frantic about a name for her daughter, after scouring all the books and lists of names. The baby's name needed to sound both English and Spanish, since her Dad is Mexican-American. Riding home from Houston, they passed a road sign that announced Santa Clara Creek. Clara is now 16 years old, with middle name Maria, all very Hispanic, with brothers Daniel and John Gabriel, ending in a Mexican family name that even the Dad can't pronounce correctly.

However, be careful about getting names from advertisements. "TidyBowl Sasapacha Hynesworth-Heathwicke" wouldn't work well.........

My daughters name is Emily - a nice and simple English name, which just gets shortened to Em here in Thailand.

Alicia, Ben, Charly, Chuck, Dan, Jack, Nat, Pat, Sam work in both languages.

Our baby is due in a few weeks and we are 70% certain it's a girl. My wife will choose the first name which we will probably be ธนิตา (Tinata) if it is a girl or ธนพงษ์ (Tanapung) if it is a boy.

I am going to provide her with a list of 5 nick names for a boy and a girl. So far I have

Girl

Molly

Sally

Kimmy/kim

Polly

Sky

Boy

Ben/Benny

Tim/Timmy

BTW, is it meant to be bad luck to think of names before the baby is born?

How about these two? My daughters are blessed with these.

Saranya (Thailand) and Sara, or even Sally (UK)

Alissa (Thailand) and Alice (UK)

Sorry, I can't help you with a boy's name.

Alissa. That's my wife's name!

For English names can I suggest the following based on some Thai children I know.

Oat, Earth, Few, Diesel, Benz, Best, Next, Q, A and all letters in between.

Obviously the Thai parents liked these names and they'll be well recognised back home too.

if a girl, Edith, which in short form in Thailand, Ead is a common nickname.

Edith? seriously?

my daughter is nicha kaitlin.

nicha was a thai name i had never heard before and i think it crosses over well.

As someone pointed out about Dweezil and his sister Moon Unit, the sky's the limit for names. Sasarachanakatittypornabasa, Donut, Nut, Cedric, Anastasia, Euripides, Socrates, Napoleon, Xxsskkhhlkdfn - not to mention Nateeka, Shaneesha, Tyrone. My daughter found a book which said some names were finally out of fashion and would never return like Aristophanes, Myrtle, and Byron, while English fighter pilot names from WW2 were all the rage in the early 1990's. Don't give your kid a name that five other kids in the class have, like Heather and Dustin.