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I'm British, and my partner is Japanese. We will be having a baby (girl) soon. We've been thinking about names and it's quite hard, since we want a name that could work in both England or here in Japan, given we could move to England (back, for me) at some point.
Obviously some names are off the table. Something like "Violet" is too English, and would be rendered as Biorettu anyway, which would just sound odd and foreign in Japan. On the other hand, a female name like "Akane" would be very foreign back in the UK, and everyone would probably mispronounce it as "a cane", when it's "a-ka-neh".
Something like Mina (English, works in both) or Mio (English, works in both) would be good, though neither of us are keen on it.
Feel free to share good boy names too!
Oh, and my name is "Taylor", so do bear in mind that in any case she'll have my foreign surname...
Obviously some names are off the table. Something like "Violet" is too English, and would be rendered as Biorettu anyway, which would just sound odd and foreign in Japan. On the other hand, a female name like "Akane" would be very foreign back in the UK, and everyone would probably mispronounce it as "a cane", when it's "a-ka-neh".
Something like Mina (English, works in both) or Mio (English, works in both) would be good, though neither of us are keen on it.
Feel free to share good boy names too!
Oh, and my name is "Taylor", so do bear in mind that in any case she'll have my foreign surname...
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