Name our children

[doraemon]

I think "Andy" or "Andi" (first one for boy and second one for girl) are good bilingual names since in Chinese it can be written as 安迪- an(1) di(2) (looks kind of like a native Chinese name to me).

[valikor]

In case you're still looking...

I know an "Apollo" whose Chinese name sounds almost exactly the same. Personally I think it's a cool name. I don't know which characters he uses.

[Shi Tong]

I have a couple of boys.. one called Elliot and the other Lucas. We chose these because we liked them. Personally, we think we will probably choose Chinese names for them that have little or no relation to their English ones, and at the moment, Elliot has a name which we think we will use which is Chen Yu-an. Lucas is a more difficult one, and we're yet to decide on a Chinese name.

One thing that we did consider, and you may want to think about this one, is giving our kids a middle name which has a connection to their Chinese cultural roots.. for for instance, my mother in law's surname is Li, so we considered that maybe we should give the kids a middle name of Li.

We thought about it and the decided not because Elliot would end up as Elliotly, which sounds stupid.

However, it might be a consideration for you.

[xiaotao]

It was easy for me to look up my dog's given name, Leo, Li4you3, had 3 good meanings. Use MDBG and you'll come up with lots of options. Caucasion kids at the Chinese language school are typically named by their first teacher. They are usually given a Chinese name sounding like their English name. In Chinese custom, it's the paternal grandfather that names the kids. You can always change the name later. Some people have a given Chinese name but they never use it, so they never really have a connection to it. It all depends how Chinese you are.