The baby will have an american name. As of now if it is a girl we are probably going with "Asia" for a name, and for a boy we haven't really decided yet..maybe Owen. I'm looking for middle names and of course my wife will probalby call the baby by some vietnamese house name or something. All suggestions welcome. Baby is due early april.

VJ

Gio lua

gio lua....need tonal marks please

sausage or wind blowing curtains?

Lean Sausage

Guess no one else here likes Vietnamese food. Well, *I* thought it was funny. LOL

How about naming the baby "Seven" ( Seinfeld episode 117..)

or Addie
I suggest using an ethnic yet somewhat easy to pronounce name.

Our daughter is half Japanese her name is Airilei Kalea
pronounced eye-ree lay
We also have a boy on the way we are looking into Boys names

We are thinking of Aidan or Tora

Tora Tora Tora

Dit E Mau.

goawaynow

For girls: avoid "MY DUNG" = Mỹ Dung, "MY BICH" = Mỹ Bích, "MY HO" = Mỹ Hổ, "MY LAN" = Mỹ Lan, "MY VAN" = Mỹ Vân, "MAI TRUC" = Mai Trúc
For boys: avoid "MY PHUOC" = Mỹ Phước, "HUNG" = Hùng, "DONG" = Đồng, Động, "THONG" = Thông, "TUNG" = Tùng, "HO" = Hổ, "DUC" = Đức, and my favorite: "PHUC" = Phúc (blessing),

I say: for boy go with Vinh - Vịnh - Vĩnh = Vince
Girl: An - Ân - Anh - Ánh = Ann = Annie or Ái (favorite)

JV

Just don't name it "Roi Aggie"

Many Asian Americans or Asians who have taken English names often have a name that can be pronounced within that culture. If you are trying to be culturally sensitive and not create a name that is a tounge twister for your wife and her family, avoid names that start with or have the letters F, R, or W in them.

Vincent is a common Vietnamese-American first name. Some others might be: Tony, Theresa, Susan, Vivian. All pretty standard English names but pronounceable by Asians.

OK, since you'll probably be having a girl, I recommend the name "Minh", which can also be used as "Mindy" when she's hanging out state side.

Our daughters name Airilei is a Japanese ~ American Hybrid name

The first part " Airi" is Japanese "Ai" means Love Lei ~ from hawaiin Lei,

The cool thing about Japanese names is although when written in Romanized letters the pronounciation is similiar there are many different chinese Characters ( Kanji) that have different meanings but are spoken the same.

We want our children to have Unique Cultural names,