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Lesedi is a name that in Tswana means “light” or “light sent from god” literally meant as “star”. My friend and colleague Khoketsho and I would often sit up late at night and drink wine and talk about poetic names for our children before I was married. When Lesedi was born, it was my last […]

Heiko is my only son. When I became pregnant with him I was overjoyed. Finally a boy! My husband wanted to name him after his father, Heinrich, so we looked up names that resembled that name. Heiko is a direct diminutive of Heinrich, and the name especially appealed to me because it sounds so much […]

Irena was named after an old Nordic tale of a goddess of snow who saved young animals from the harsh winds of winter by building mounds for them. Inside of the mounds the animals were able to take shelter and store food. Since my daughter was going to be born in the middle of winter […]

I’ve always had one girl one boy names picked out since I was in high school for me figure unborn kids haha.. It was Chloe and Aiden. After I got pregnant my husband and I noticed that many of the Korean-American couples our age were naming their girls Chloe. It was now too common. So […]

Over 15 years ago, my husband and I were expecting our first child. The doctor informed us that we would have a boy. We went around and around for the perfect name for our first born son. My husband didn’t want him to be a “jr.”, so we set out to find a name that […]