Hi everyone, my mixed baby girl (Chinese-German) will be due at the end of next month. :-) My husband and I are now trying to give the small girl a good name. We thought about Johanna and Jovita, which one do you think is better? Or you have any other good ideas? Thanks a lot!
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PDNS
17 yrs ago
To me, Johanna is a little common but Jovita is very rare. I would love to name her Jovita but i would also want to check the meaning of the name first before everything else.
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Jovita is veeeeeeeeeeeery nice...
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fox88
17 yrs ago
Try and see how those names will be pronounced by locals, if she will be exposed to like attending local kindergarden and school. That's because some names may have a sound in chinse which could cause problems when they grow up, i.e. kids laughing etc
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Yes and no fox88. Of course if it's really offensive to the locals it is one thing. But kids will manage to distort any name.
I would buy a couple of name books. There are also several websites. http://www.babynames.com/ . At the bottom you will find "names by origin".
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Hi thanks everyone. Thanks a lot for your comments. I also think Jovita is more rare, and Johanna is too common German name.
PDNs, Jovita means "happy", and Johanna means "God is gracious".
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Not to be negative but I like neither Jovita nor Johanna. As for meanings, I find aesthetic appeal to be more important than meaning.
Here follows a list of names we considered for our second daughter. The actual name we gave her has been removed:
Eladie
Elodie
Emily
Natasha
Saga
Gina
Felicia
Valentina
Mira
Meia
Maia
Felicity
Tess
Tessa
Madeleine
Natalie
Emilia
Lila
Isabella
Tindra
Stella
Bianca
Chiara
Aurora
Caracalla
Giulia
Fiona
Flavia
Tamara
Irina
Veronica
Carolina
Iride
Iris
Elena
April
Annora
Norah/Nora
Chiara
Luna
Selena
Oona
Claudia
Padma
Livia
Jeanie/Genie/Jeanne
Aelita
Stella
Nicola
Laetitia
Angelina
Dharma
Alba
Grace
Rhianon
Evangeline
Nila
Neela
Ivana
Padme
Ione
Xenia
Nimashet
Malin
Caroline
Carolina
Zoe
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"while Caracalla, --hmmm (TIC)... ;)"
Hehe. We considered them all but rejected many immediately. Some we don't like very much at all. That specific one was proposed by my mother. "Caracalla" makes more sense if pronounced in Italian but I will agree it is not very nice. Rhianon is lovely but it might be hard for a native Chinese speaker.
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Another consideration is to give your daughter an English (or more accurately a foreign) name and a Chinese name. This is what we did with our daughter. Obviously even harder to decide the Chinese name because of all the different meanings. However if you want her to have a China pass she will have to have a Chinese name anyway.
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Yes, we will also give our small girl a Chinese name too, but still thinking over if we will give her a Chinese name directly translating from the European name we are going to give her, or add the Chinese Pingying name in the front, and the European name in the middle as a middle name. axptguy38 listed lots of nice names and I like some of them too, but since my husband is a German, he would like more to give a European name to his daughter and, even more picky, he want a given name with "J" as initial coz his surname is also with "J'' as initial, and the names of her sister's 2 kids are also with "J". That's also why he thought about Johanna, and I thought about Jovita. But am still looking for some other better ones. What do you think? As for Chinese name, if we finally decided to add a Chinese name (Pingying) in the front, my husband personally like "Meilin" 美琳 very much. I found it also a nice name, but am kinda worry that our girl will blame us for giving her such a long name in future. :-)
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Just curiousity. Don't you think that giving a child two names can have any effect on them, in terms of identity or maybe cause certain confusion becaue at school, if they attend local, or by chinese relatives they will be addressed by their chinese name but at home they will have completely different name. I don't think it's the same as having a nickname, beause the child knows it's a nickname and also knows what is the real name.
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I can't see it. Our daughter is known by everyone by her English name including the Chinese relatives. They will have more issues with their own identity when they are older due to being xxxx/Chinese. The Chinese name is essential for the China back home pass, so it's more to do with making sure they do not miss out. I'm sure they will find it fun having 2 names when they are older!
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Actually i have the same concern as evildeeds has, and that's the reason that I told my husband I would prefer to have no middle name, but have the European name translated in Chinese which to be used in the Chinese Pass.
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"Just curiousity. Don't you think that giving a child two names can have any effect on them, in terms of identity or maybe cause certain confusion becaue at school, if they attend local, or by chinese relatives they will be addressed by their chinese name but at home they will have completely different name"
Nah. Kids can handle that much complexity. I even know a kid who is called her first name by her mother and her middle name by her father. No issues.
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my hubby has two names, his western one and a chinese one given to him whiles tudying Chinese.
My baby has a western name and a chinese name.
Is till think Jovita is really nice. it's vry easy to rponounce, has no 'r's which the chinese find difficult....
plllleeease dont call her Bianca..
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haha... you are right the goddess kali, we really never will choose a name with "r" coz I can't pronounce it in the German way. :-)
why not Bianca? Any stories behind?
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I dont think you need to worry about too many names confusing with identity. Children are fine with that. It is very common for Europeans to have middle names so why not. You dont use it very often anyway. Say your name in Engish is Mary Juliana Jones, you will be using and be called Mary. Your name in Chinese can be a complete different one, say 鍾美珍 (well either use your last name or a chinese translation of your husband's). When your daughter is older, she will understand she has a chinese mother and a german father and will be very proud of herself of having 2 names (^-^).
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Stories for Bianca? none really i'm afraid.
Just that it's a an adjective that means any feminine and white ... like una scattola bianca, a white box or la casa bianca - the white house etc.
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