Howe, for a boy?

[aletterfromseneca]

Yes, I know it is much more common as a surname. It's the only one we like the sound of in both family's languages (English and Chinese). We've fallen in love with it, but have got cold feet and worry that it is blinding us.

It’s a surname. My old fuddy-duddy history teacher was Mr Howe. Not good!

Trying to think of Chinese names I like that would work in English.
Kai would work.
Tai
Tao
Liwei
Lan
Jin
Jiahao
Min
Bowen

Glad that you’ve had a rethink OP. I don’t think it works well in English unfortunately.

I actually quite like it especially spelt Hao

Hao (given name) - Wikipedia

Are you sure it’s Surrender and not Surinder?

OP I quite like Hao, with that spelling - will that work?

But can you not give them an English first name and Chinese middle name, the Chinese ILs can call the child by their middle name? I went to school with lots of girls from Hong Kong and this was the norm for them.

There’s a Howe Street where I live. Doesn’t sound odd to me - it’s a name.

Is your surname Chinese? If so, How could work as people will just assume it's Chinese so they wont be "expecting" an English name.

eg my friend's name is Ping. If she was English people would think it was a bit odd but because she's Chinese it's fine.

Is your family name 'wai'?
Why? How?

Howzat. No.

Howie is better surely? How is a very well used word in daily vocabulary (even more so in Scotland where it’s also substituted in place ‘why’).

Alternatively as pp has said Hao which would have a slightly different pronunciation in English