Lol, i've met at least one Shiloh, she was a Tri-Delta at my school (i think she was a DDD at least).

Suri, never heard of. Of course, Suri will never be allowed to play with any non-Scientologist kids anyway. If she exists.

how about...

Racer, Rebel, Rocket, and Rogue Rodriquez
(parents Director Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan)

I like Shiloh. But I'm the normal named kid who wishes she had a unique name.

I also have cousins named: Princess, Shimmer, Paris, Mercedes, Lucifer, and Glitter. So Amber is highly preferrable to those I guess...

:confused: :confused:

I don't "have the looks" to be a Cynthia, yet I'm Cynthia. I actually only have ONE cousin who doesn't have an "English" (Anglo-sounding) name.

Maybe that wasn't important to your family. It was for ours. We decided on Mariana, but if she didn't come out looking like a Mariana, we would have found a different name.

Actually, it isn't just my family, but Chinese immigrants in general. Most don't think it's important to have only a Chinese name. Most have both, with the Chinese name only used by older family members.

I remember having a Chinese exchange student and here she went by Katie...I couldn't even being to pronounce her Chinese name. One of my friends in college though, Ng Gee Min, didn't want to take an English name.

I went to a high school that was 66% Asian. A lot of the Asian students had legal names that were in Chinese or Korean but went by American names. My friend's name was Jing something or other (like AlphaFrog, I too, couldn't pronounce her name) but she went by Alice.

Anyone noticed that the American names that immigrant Asian-Americans or their first generation children have tend to be more old-fashioned? Especially for the girls? Alice for example above or I know one girl named Sally... the only Sally I've ever met. Her brothers are Kris and Kevin, older names but boys names age better than girls.

I don't think either of those names are that old fashioned. I actually know a Sally, and she's our age.

Yeah, and so is this Sally, but you know ONE... I don't even know an Alice. I'm just saying they tend to be older, less commonly used names these days.

It's not bad. They just haven't followed the trend of weirder names these days...

Better a Sally or an Alice than a Millicent. I went to middle school with a Millicent.

Hmmm...the most common names of Asian girls in my high school were:

Jennifer (common for people my age, anyway)--4 people
Karen--5 people
Amy--3 people

This was a class of 86 girls, close to half being Asian.

As for second generation: My cousin just had a baby. She came to Canada as a teen and her husband is CBC (Canadian Born Chinese). Their daughter's name is Caitlyn.

I had a high school classmate who was Thai. Her name was Ateptaya, but she went by Tanya.

Why would they name their kid after the devil? All the others, eh, whatever, but Satan?

Or were they thinking along the lines of God's favorite angel?