All About Bryan and Dylan

Got tagged by A-Mom’s Diary on the the meaning of Bryan’s name.

Bryan’s full name is Bryan Lim Shern Khai, and it is selected by my hubb. Bryan is a Gaelic name which meant noble, strong and virtuous.

Although neither one of us have English name, we chose to give our son one. Why? For me, I do work a lot with people outside Malaysia – Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese….etc. And almost everyone have problem pronouncing my name. And I am not comfortable adopting an English name. So to avoid problem such as this for our children, we decided that we will give our children English name.

I did come up with my list of preferred English names. But hubb rejected every single one of them. Some it is because he already knows of someone by that name or he didn’t like someone by that name. Others he could coin up other words with similar sound with that name.

So I got fed up and let him make the suggestion instead. He suggested Bryan and Ryan,…and out of the 2, I chose Bryan.

Next comes the Chinese name. I am a banana, so my hubb has the responsibility to find and suggest names. My friend loaned me a book on Chinese names. It is sort of a numerology book. The number of strokes in each Chinese character contributes an element and the combination of elements and total number of strokes will determine the strength of the name.

We evaluated the “quality” of the book by doing a calculation of our own names first. Turned out that the book did give pretty good description of both our characters and prediction based on our name. So we decided to use it to select Bryan’s Chinese names.

Hubb uses reverse engineering methodology to find the suitable name. Since the surname is fixed. We use that as an anchor point. Next we need to get a certain number of strokes for 2nd and 3rd character respectively and arrive at a total number of strokes for the entire name for it to have a good overall element.

Then, we look up suitable words based on the number of strokes that we need. The books did come with a small “dictionary” to suggest the meaning of different Chinese characters and what are suitable in a name and what are not.

Once we have a list of suitable 2nd and 3rd character, we perform mix and match until we find a name that is pleasing to our ears. And that is of course Shern Khai.

“Shern” meant holy. For example “Sheng Jin” – Holy Bible.
“Khai” meant victory.

So actually, both the English and Chinese name have similar meaning.

Bryan Lim Shern Khai - we hoped that you will grow up to be a strong, noble, virtuous and successful man.

Wait, there’s more…..

The character Shern is a combination of the words – Ear, mouth & king. So, we hope that he will be a leader (king) who listens and are able to guide the others as well.

Khai meanwhile has the words mountain & bean in it. Bryan is born in the year of the Rooster, and these characters are supposedly beneficial to the Rooster babies as well. Mountain symbolizes home & strength to the Rooster, and presence of the word “bean” meant that there will be plenty of food (income) as well.

Pwuahh…!!! This is a really long post but I am happy to do this as it will be good for Bryan to know the meaning and how we came up with his name when he grows up.

And now, I want to know the meaning of the names of
Pei Sze’s Hin Lerk
Angie’s Evan
Joyce’s Ethan
Wooi Sin’s Ching Ern
Jin Miin’s Wei Xuan

Enjoy the tag.

Instructions

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Proposition: What is the meaning of your kid’s name?Requirements: write about what or how or why you giving the name to your kids.Quantity: FIVE PEOPLE.

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The list
Msaufong-SQ & Kiki
Shoppingmum and Kids-Justin and Isabelle
Chooi Peng-Kai Wen
Judy-Terry
Dragonmummy-Nicole and Marcus
Jasmine-Faythe & Vyktore
Anggie–Jeremy Chang Ee Jay
Chanel–Jeriel Lim Jing Yong
A Mom’s Diary
Shooi - Bryan