What’s with the Name

Published by admin on June 16, 2008

When another member of a family is about to be added to the tree, how do you prepare for it? I bet the members of the family would often discuss the name they want to give to the baby. Some would want to name the baby after another member like the grandmother or the great grandfather, etc. How about you? How did your parents formulate your name?

By the way, mine is from my father’s with just a few alterations to make it more feminine.

In Japan, names are derived from words with meanings that the parents want their child to mirror when they grow up. The Kanji characters of Japan have different meanings depending on how you will use them. The meaning of these characters is used to come up with a meaningful name. Japanese names are usually composed of two characters: an adjective and a noun; thus the name would be a specific quality that must obviously be desirable.

Some names actually do have meanings or are just derived from those that do and this is one factor that people consider in naming a child. Others would want to combine the name of the mother and father to come up with something unique. Others would name their child after their favorite football player or Hollywood star. Religious people would give a name after a Biblical character or a saint maybe. There are really a lot of ways that people do just to come up with a name to give for the baby.

Thinking about it, the name wouldn’t really matter at all. It’s just how people will call you. The way the child will live his life in the future will still be the most important.