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I think you scare too easily.  :o

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Roll those eyes if you must, but who would want to bring up a child up in Thai society with a name used by a falang minority that is marginalised and looked down on? Personally, Russian names are awesome. Natasha is a lovely name. And don't <deleted> me with the individualism thing... there is nothing nice about being called something equivalent to Pornsuk in the UK/US/NZ/AU.

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Kish Hebrew meaning gift
edit: found the list... awful, they are all names no on in their right mind would give a kid, and most mispelled as agreed by most of us anglos when writing out the names... they are pronounced with an 'chhh' throaty clearing the phlegm sound which most anglos and thais cannot pronounce !!

sorry, but NOT!! kish is a casserole , in yiddish!!!

'shai' is a boy/girl name meaning present or gift also

'matana' is gift for girls, 'matan' (stress on second syllable) is 'given' for boys (both usually shortened to mattie)

we dont have too many k names in hebrew... just kfir (young lion-boys name) but hard to pronounce, no other decent k/or c names that we use here....kalil is actually halil (an arabic name but in hebrew means flute) so stay away... caveat emptor with these name your kid sites... always check with native language speaker....

also, stay away from names with r and l....

we also do name groups; or initials, or associatives (my kids are 'gazelle', 'heavenward' and 'cloud' (in hebrew they are real names)... any others would have been flower names or other nature names)

sorry no useful suggestions : wait: carla, kandi , corrine, kaya ,

good luck

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'Kitty-Kat' - sounds nicer in English than in Thai.

'Kitty' is quite a popular Thai nickname these days with trendy Bangkokians. However the Thais pronounce the 'k' as a 'g'. So it comes out as 'Gitty. Thai language also spells it this way.

'Kat' (Cat) is a very popular nickname and the 'k' is certainly pronounced as a 'k'.

In Thai languange, the name 'Kitty Kat' would be pronounced as 'Gitty - Kat'. Thought i would just mentioned that.

'Cookie' is a cute Farang-style Thai name and quite popular. (c pronounced as a 'g')

I also like Farang names such as 'Lucy' and as said before 'Chrissy. Unfortunately that 'see' sound at the end, if pronounced in the correct tone, is a rude verb in Isarn dialect which means........let you guess.

'Tiffany' would be all right, however too long for a nick-name better off as a real name.

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Kaya, thats a nice name.

kaya is nice name.. i like it also ..but it sound like ka ya ขยะ =rubbish in Thai.. :o

lol, didn't think of that.

I dont think Kitty would necessarily be pronounced Gitty.

My name is Kit, as in 'to think', and i have never been called Git, not by Thais at least :D

Also, dont forget that Hello Kitty is quite popular here, and Thais manage to pronounce it ok. Hello Kittee!

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i would prefer to name my baby *luk-krueng* combination with thai-farang nick

Kitty is cute

what about

real name = Kittiya กิตติยา

nick name = Kitty    คิตตี้

kinda cute to me :o

Hi Girlfrombar,

What my wife and I originally decided upon was Kittycha and nickname Kitty, but the Doc stuffed that by calling her Christty on her birth cert. Not to worry as she is the same little girl we love and Christty is a nice name anyway. Nickname is still Kitty or simply Kit.

I have only ever thought of Candy for our second girls name, but now I am open to new ideas for whatever reason.

My wife and I will have fun going through all these names.

She likes Paula, but that won't work with the rest of the family.

How about Corey? that can be a girls name too!!!

Here is the offending Kitty

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cory can be a girls name too but in thai the r becomes l maybe li ko li (korea)?? and u can always spell it cori

multi lingual names always have problems with pronounciations and meanings.....

i just discovered that my hebrew name: bina is banya (wisdom) in thai and has the same meeting... pretty cool no??? although for the past few days i have been lacking in that department :o:D

how bout mai.... its works out in both lingos and is pretty (maya, may, mai (as in silk in thai)etc...

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i also suggested Kaya, but Bambina correctly reminded us that Kaya in Thai could sound like the Thai word for rubbish - Kha Yah

When Bob Marley sings about Kaya, its another name for weed.

That may or may not be a good reason to call your child that. Depends on what u like to do in your spare time i guess :o

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I was watching a talk show the other night with an African-American guest. Can't remember the topic or discussion thread but what did stick out in my mind was that she mentioned a girl named "Candy," but spelt "Khandi." I thought it was rather a pretty variation. I've got to give credit to Afro/Americans when it comes to names - they are very creative.

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