How to incorporate cultural identity in name

[Misslemon01]

I'm expecting my first and I'm Chinese British whilst my husband is white British. I've kept my own (Chinese) surname.

I wonder what's the best way to incorporate Chineseness into the baby's name? Double-barrel? My surname as a middle name? A Chinese name as a middle name?? Or just keep it simple but have a separate Chinese name?

Thanks everyone, and apologies for not using abbreviations; I'm new.

Hello! I'm British - Mexican (whichever way you want to put it!) personally my daughter has nothing that identifies her as half Mexican, but I had chose not to I would have given her a Mexican middle name :)

That's a coincidence. I've just been admiring the double barrelled name of a talking head on a documentary.

The name was something similar to Su Li Perry. I was just thinking what a name it was and wondering if "Li Perry" was an unhyphenated DB surname.

What a NICE name ^

What about a name that might work in both languages? Even just the sound of not the spelling? May/Mae/Mei, or incorporate a sound into an English name, e.g. Julia, where Ju is daisy? Ju-Lia? When I lived in Singapore lots of my Chinese friends had names like Li-Ann, Su-Ann.

My children have Chinese middle names, as do I (although both of my parents are Chinese, but I was born in UK).

I would have liked to give them my surname too, but would have resulted in 5 initials. Tbh, I wish I'd stood my ground on that one.

Same situation here. I've given mine English first and middle names followed with 2 character Chinese names, finished with their father's surname. So 5 initials in total. Sounds a lot but it's what we wanted.

We went for: [English forename] [English middle name] [Chinese name] [Chinese surname].

It does give a fair few initials but it formalises both names. The English middle name is a family name too so it gives lots of options.

I think putting your surname as a middle is good or choose a Chinese name that works in both languages as as first name for example Alix is a girls name and works in Chinese and English also Bartek Chinese and good in English both easy to pronounce and spell, however just go with what makes you both happy don't focus on what other people think.

I think a Chinese middle name would be nice :)

Same situation as friends of mine. Their DC has an English first name, Chinese middle name and both surnames. The surnames are both single syllable and work very well together.

Buddies of mine have EnglishFirstName Chinese2WordNameCombinedInto1 (e.g. Jiali, Wenhui, Weijie etc) LastName.

Thank you everyone - all excellent ideas and super helpful. I think we might go for EnglishFirstName Chinese2wordName EnglishSurname