Unconventional Baby Names in China: A Look at Mr. Zhang and Other Unique Choices

2023-07-22 04:07:10

A pair of post-90s parents in Yantai, Shandong, China recently named their son “Mr. Zhang”. (Picture / Taken from “Sohu”)

A pair of post-90s parents in Yantai, Shandong, China recently named their son “Mr. Zhang”. In this regard, some netizens called it too domineering, “I was born as a domineering president”, and some people questioned, what will the superiors and colleagues call when they work in the future? Wouldn’t it be too hasty to name it like this? However, due to the fact that there is no legislation on naming standards in China, strange names such as “Wu Shiyi”, “Li Bu Shangshu”, and “Glory of the King” have emerged one following another, which makes people laugh and cry.

according to“Sohu”According to a report by the Beijing News, a pair of post-90s parents in Yantai, Shandong Province, recently named their son “Mr. Zhang”. Since the baby boy’s mother’s surname is Yan and his father’s surname is Zhang, the baby’s mother also posted a post claiming that she had already thought regarding a second child, so she named her son “Mr. Yan”. Yan Nu later responded to netizens on social media, saying that the name given to her son was to tell him not to work, not to be controlled by others, and to live freely, “I don’t ask him to be rich, even ordinary money is enough for him to spend.”

However, taking strange names is not new in mainland China. A couple in Anqing, Anhui Province named their child “Wu Shiyi”, which became popular on the Internet because of the homonym for “5 billion”. In this regard, the child’s father, Wu Lin, also told reporters that since his name is a homonym of “50”, he named the child Wu Shiyi because of the homonym of “51”, which implies inheritance. He also said that “collecting memories” can be understood as picking up memories, “I hope that when my son gets old, looking back on his life will be a good memory.”

In addition, there is another pair of Zhejiang parents who were afraid of duplication of names, so they named their son “Li Bu Shangshu”. The father said: “The whole family didn’t approve of the name at the time, and I didn’t show them the name secretly. Thank you for your concern. There is no plan to change the name yet.”

In July this year, a Mr. Wan from Yichang, Hubei shared his son’s birth medical certificate on social media, which showed his son’s name as “Wantu Sirui”. Because it reads exactly like “123” in English, it aroused heated discussions among netizens. To this, Mr. Wan responded that his surname is Wan and the child’s mother’s surname is Tu. “Si” refers to thoughtfulness, and the name of the baby tiger has a mountain and a king, which means good. If you meet a king, you will be expensive, and if you meet a mountain, you will be smooth, so you use the auspicious “auspicious”.

In 2017, a father from Shaanxi Province named his child “Glory of the King”. According to reports, this kind of naming is firstly registered in advance for fear of collision with the name, and secondly, it is an open, creative, eclectic and even unconventional product under the Internet atmosphere. As long as China does not legislate on naming norms, this naming “madness” will continue.

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