Name Help

[Ailuo]

Hi Everyone, 

 

I'm looking for suggestions for my son's Chinese name. His English name is Shepherd, so I was thinking about using 牧 as the family name. For his first name, I would like something that is related to being a gentleman, kind, scholarly etc. Any ideas? 

 

I speak Chinese fairly well,and we are teaching him Chinese, so this is something I would like him to be able to use. I'm not sure where to really start with the name though. 

 

Thank you!

[skylee]

牧 is not a surname AFAIK. It is a pretty good given name, though, like the great poet 杜牧.

Shepherd starts with an s, so consider the surname 守. If you like, you could call your son 守牧之.

[Publius]

Yes 牧 is a surname. Type 牧姓 into Google or Baidu, there's some baby names sites where you can draw some inspiration from maybe.

 

But be ware of homophones / near-homophones.

 

I'm just thinking what kind of suggestions you will get if you post '牧姓男孩起什么名字好' to a Chinese BBS. Pretty sure there will be something along the line of 牧羊犬 or 沐浴露.

 

In my opinion, you should first decide whether you want a two-character name or a three-character name.

 

牧野 sounds like a good name. A poet is using it as his pen name. Even if you mess with the tones, you probably would just end up calling him 牧爷.

[Lu]

If you study Chinese yourself, do you (or your partner) have a Chinese name already, and if so what is the surname? It would make sense to use that for your son as well.

[Ailuo]

My surname is 艾 and my husband's is 高. I wasn't sure which to use though...

[Lu]

Traditionally in China, children mostly get their father's surname, but you can also pick 艾 if you two (or you three) want to. What I wouldn't do is pick out an entirely different surname. After all, you're family.

[Ailuo]

This is true. I suppose I was just thinking that our Chinese names are not used too much, but this makes sense. Thanks.

[Haipeng]

高子卿or艾子卿。苏子卿 is a famous patriotic officer in Han汉朝.   one day ,he went to a country near Han. unlucky,he ..........my english is bad. you can baidu 苏子卿牧羊

[aguerreiro]

Hi everybody

 

Sorry to hijack this topic, but I thought that it would be better to post here than open a new topic about the same subject.

 

I need a little help from the Chinese friends of the forum: what do you think about the name 高諳東? Does it sound authentically Chinese? What´s the meaning of this name?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!