| Sunday, November 19, 2006 |
| What is in your name, Tara-Jade Sim? |
Sumiko Tan’s article on parents who gave their kids creative names was featured in the papers today (The Sunday Times, 19 November 2006). Parents are getting really good at conjuring up names for their offspring. Coming real-soon in a play-group near you is a Mango, Garyl (a stitched-up version of Gary and Cheryl – a male, female or unisex name?) and Verneesa (a mis-spelt Vanessa?).
In the USA, a “name is an indicator – not a cause of his (name’s owner) outcome”. There are “white (people)” names and “black” names (Katherine versus Kayla). There are names that hint the parents’ socio-economic status. “Marc” is seemingly more suave and interesting than “Mark”. Oh! Oh! Having a hyphen in a name adds to it “a gloss of class”. Well, well… At least, the kid has got a pretty good head-start.
Before the kid’s gender could be confirmed, she was simply “The Kid” – The Kid is active today, Kid has got hiccups from noon till five. We then moved on to “Tyler” (Hamilton) whom Wil respected as a great cyclist. Around her fifth gestation month, her gender (with an accuracy of 73%) was disclosed. We decided to switch from “Tyler” (which in our opinions is a predominating male name) to “Tara”.
Her second name is derived from her Chinese name which (for those in her generation) must contain the character for the green, translucent precious stone. The Kid became Tara Jade. The hyphen was added later because Wil wanted her to be “Tara-Jade”, not “Tara” or “Jade”. Hence, seven days after her birth, her legally registered name is “Tara-Jade Sim”. Like the parents mentioned in Sumiko Tan’s article, Wil and I stroked our own egos for coming up with that name.
However her name is just her name, we and our families are responsible to bring her up right.Labels: family, name |
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