Everyone wants to know how their name came about. And here's how we ended up with Mikayla Rae-Ann Hong.
Mikayla wasn't even an option until about eight months into the pregnancy. For the record, I did most of the research and came up with a long list of names I liked - Haley, Natasha, Kayla, Kimberly, Victoria, Sasha, Jade, Shyanne, Kira, Kiersten, Tasha....so on. Mikey shot most of them down, and the ONLY ONE we agreed on after countless evening debates was Victoria. So it was Victoria for the longest time. As for her middle name (which is also her Chinese name), it wasn't as difficult coming to a decision. These were our options: Mae-Ann, Rae-Lyn, Rae-Ann. We chose Rae-Ann, "Rui En" in hanyu pinyin and it means "goodness" and "grace".
Back to "Mikayla". So I started throwing names at Mike again one evening (I mean surely there must be some other name he fancied!), and when we got to Mikayla, he paused, thought about it and said okay. Only because Mikayla, Micaela, or Michaela, is a derivative of Michael, which means "like the Lord".... He wanted his little girl to be named after daddy. We spelled it "Mikayla" because it's easy to pronounce when you break it up :Mi-Kay-La.
It's worked out really well. Now, I can't imagine calling Miki by any other name. Speaking of names, we did a little experiment today and found out Miki knows her name! But she responds only to Kayla (which is what we call her most of the time).
Mikayla wasn't even an option until about eight months into the pregnancy. For the record, I did most of the research and came up with a long list of names I liked - Haley, Natasha, Kayla, Kimberly, Victoria, Sasha, Jade, Shyanne, Kira, Kiersten, Tasha....so on. Mikey shot most of them down, and the ONLY ONE we agreed on after countless evening debates was Victoria. So it was Victoria for the longest time. As for her middle name (which is also her Chinese name), it wasn't as difficult coming to a decision. These were our options: Mae-Ann, Rae-Lyn, Rae-Ann. We chose Rae-Ann, "Rui En" in hanyu pinyin and it means "goodness" and "grace".
Back to "Mikayla". So I started throwing names at Mike again one evening (I mean surely there must be some other name he fancied!), and when we got to Mikayla, he paused, thought about it and said okay. Only because Mikayla, Micaela, or Michaela, is a derivative of Michael, which means "like the Lord".... He wanted his little girl to be named after daddy. We spelled it "Mikayla" because it's easy to pronounce when you break it up :Mi-Kay-La.
It's worked out really well. Now, I can't imagine calling Miki by any other name. Speaking of names, we did a little experiment today and found out Miki knows her name! But she responds only to Kayla (which is what we call her most of the time).
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