'English' Names for Asian People

[falloutboy]

I'm glad I saw this topic. I'm living in China right now, and have about 400 students altogether over my 2 jobs. Some interesting names include (I am making up none of these):

Radiohead
Snoopy
Vision
Smilen
Winter
Ready
Runner-up
Bever
and last but not least.......

Imaginationfish. Swear to god.

You have to understand that English names are just sounds for the most part. As stated earlier, a lot of people will choose a transliteration of their Chinese name ( ke ni = connie for example).

Interesting stuff.

PS wade-giles blows

 

[Statalyzer]

^ What do you mean by "English names are just sounds."

And "Wow." HHK? Is it that surprising?

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[Alum03]

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[Seamus McBundy]

John Wayne is a popular name

 

[MAROON]

I work for a Japanese company. All the guys who come from overseas take English names or they shorten there names. The English names are usually picked over a couple of beers Elvis has been propsed but never adopted by any of them...yet.

We've got a Keith, Mike, Kenny, Scott, Ken, etc. We've also got a Kaz (Kazahiro), Tad (Tadashi), Dash (Tadashi)....and Shingo (Shingo - his was too good to change).

 

[WorsterMan]

To really fit in and mean something, may I personally recommend for consideration:

Mack
Darrell
Vince
Earl
Tommy
Ricky
Steve (Worster of course)
James (Street or Saxon - your choice)
Scott (Appleton or Henderson)
Ron (as in McKelvey

)

 

[MP5]

I want an Asian name

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

I'm going to agree with whoever suggested "Vince".

You just can't go wrong there.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

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[Jive_Turkey]

I had a Chinese TA for one of my astronomy classes, and his English name was "Bubba."

 

[chickennugget]

I have met the following Thai hookers:

Ping Pong
Beer
Golf
MeOw
Cat
Genie
A
Bee
Fun
B

That's all i can think of right now.

 

[William Cannon]

Tell him that he should go with Denzel. Denzel Kim, that would be the shiznit.

 

[TXBabe97]

I have a friend who had taught English in South Korea for a few years. He says he purposely "assigns" kids some English names for his own amusement, of the Bubba Kim variety.

 

[Napoleon]

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[beencounting]

I have known several Chinese Americans with "black" names

La'Shai Shen
Dontrell Chan
Demetrius Che
LaMarcus Li

just to name a few

 

[texashorne]

Long Duk Dong

 

[Texas007]

Shouldn't it be "EnGrish" names ;-)

 

[gsoda3]

haha where do you live? i've never seen a chinese kid with a black name and i am chinese.

there are a lot of weird names coming from HK natives. snoopy, flower, joy... those are pretty common names... for guys.

 

[darius]

Wasn't there an Afghani character named Kamran Shah in one of the James Bond movies that went as Cameron Shaw at Oxford?

 

[judgroybeanbag]

I gotta go with "Gaylord".

All the Japanese I know who work here in the states come up with a name based on theirs. "Shingo" is "Scott". Hiroshi is Henry. etc.

 

[Mack Tripper]

I know a Vietnamese guy named Tyrone.

 

[ADMIRALSTOCKDALE]

my vietnamese friend named Nhut (pronounced new-ett) went by Scott for a while. he's back to being Nhut.

 

[FugleBunny]

don't forget about the Indonesians with Norwegian (?) names...

like Henrik and Olga to name a couple...

 

[JonathanMardukas]

My friend's name is Kiang and his English name is Kenny, but we just call him Keon.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I always thought Hop Sing was catchy and easy to pronounce.

 

[Napoleon]

I have a Chinese-American friend in LA.

We call him "Jeff".

 

[zzzz]

I worked with a Korean guy who went by "Steve."

It seemed like a good fit for him.

 

[Luke Duke]

Tell him to name himself Ramonce.

 

[ctrl+alt+del]

Ty Mai Shu

 

[BigWill]

I would always go with "Ringo".

Unless I went with "Sneezy".