Honest opinions on Kai?

[Stripes123]

Hi new here!

We both (my husband and I) have a very mixed heritage.

My husband is Japanese/Chinese.

I'm Scottish/English.

It means so many beautiful things, from each different culture. It also works really well in all 4.

What are your honest opinions on the name? It just seems so fresh, handsome and relatively unusual!

With your surname, it sounds pretty good, though. I think the surname takes it out of the very British social class context, and highlights the Chinese and Japanese element.

I know a little Kai. He's a fantastic wee chap.

If you and your DH like the name, go for it.

PP are right it sounds brilliant with your surname.

Best wishes for your baby.

Koala, we are looking for a name that works in all 4 countries! That's a nice name though

List so far is:

1. Kai Alasdair Funakoshi
2. Tom Alasdair Funakoshi
3. Matt Alasdair Funakoshi

I know a primary school teacher and Kai is firmly on the 'little bastard list'. It's a nicer spelling than 'Kye' though, which I see a lot.

I think if you have a surname that fits with it, then go for it - I know some Kais from Germany and it really works with their various surnames.

Wrt to the Rooneys, Kardashians etc, they've chosen names with the same initial, which immediately 'cheapens' it - I'm aware I'm up for a flaming there.

Oh, fair enough . In hindsight, Keishi Funakoshi is not great anyway.

(Still love Keishi though.)

Everyone judges and teachers are just people, not exempt from that.

Would you rather teach a Sarah or a Cherri-Blossum, a Connor or a Kayden? There are reasons names like these are judged and while your child might turn out to be lovely I would not want to lumber them with a name that is loaded with negative connotations.

Hairspray, I've just looked at one of the dreaded names list, Connor is on there...

Is Kai on there? 😂

Not the one I'm looking at... There's Kyle though. I really don't understand, some of the names are proper classics. It's surely just down to personal experience.

Hairspray, yes. I know a Jaie, and aside from the fact that nobody knows how it's pronounced correctly, you do immediately judge the parent for giving their child a name like that.

I was born to foreign parents in a foreign country, and although my given forename is perfectly pronounceable, it looks ugly over here so I chose to anglicise it. My parents weren't all that happy about it, but I told them that I did it in order to make my own life more bearable!

Kyle is pretty awful.

What are the rest of them, then? (Curious!)

Here...

If you have looked a list up you see my point, it's about what baggage a name carries, and to a lot of people Kai will remind them of the Jeremy Kyle Show sadly.

On one list, there's Aaron...

That list looks like American names to me

Hairspray, you would judge a Josh?

These lists are nonsense.

Every Lewis I'd ever met in my entire life was a "spirited" child until last year when we met a lovely, well behaved and charming Lewis.

I've had trouble all my life with Laura's until I met a lovely Laura when my children were small and now she's one of my closest friends.

My Dad's name is Kai, so I don't think chav when I hear it, I think 75 year old Chinese bloke who likes opera.

I knew a Kai, he must be nearly forty now. I always thought it was a lovely multi-cultural name. His parents had worked in the Far East for years and that had influenced their choice of name.

Not everyone will associate it with the Rooneys. I had no idea!

Like Kit. Don't like Kai sorry.

Nah. Bit tacky and reminds me of carp fish (koi?)

The K does work well with the surname though. What about Kay, Karl, Christopher, Conn?

In one way I would I would assume they came from a family who wasn't trying to hard when it came to naming their child!

Here are some Japanese baby names that work in English that you might like
Kento
Kaito
Rui
Hugo
Hiro
Masa
Toshio
Yoshi
Ryo
Jun
Kenji
Kento
Akio
Yuuki
Miko

*ps this list is stolen of a previous thread!

Thoughts on Kobe?

Thanks for that list!

Like Bryant?