A friend of a friend had her fourth child recently.
Shannon and Hogan welcome:
Bre'shae Karess
She join big brother
Zacchaeus and big sisters Paeghton and Jaydah.
Oh lordy! I realize that
Zacchaeus is a legit biblical name but it looks made up or an attempt at a 'cool' creative spelling, especially when it is next to Paeghton and Bre'shae. In my opinion, even though I am not a huge fan of the name or the spelling, I think Jaydah got off lightly.
ETA: and on the same website where this birth announcement was placed I found another gem:
Moe-Moana and
Anaru welcome a baby girl:
Tyaane Tomowai-a-aniwa Elaya-Ellaniya (and then a double barreled last name!)
The poor girl, her name is such a mouthful and they gave her 2 last names as well!
To explain some of the maori names - the mothers name (Moe-Moana) means sleeping (moe) ocean (moana) and
Anaru is listed on this site and is Maori for
Andrew.
I did some research on the baby's long maori name tomo means to enter and wai means water and when the a is by itself like that is most often means 'at'. So I would guess that the names means to enter the water at Aniwa, I cannot find a meaning for Aniwa but it could be a place name.
This message was edited 6/18/2011, 5:50 PM