Name List: A. Research Notes

A. Miscellaneous
18A. Need To Research More
18A. Research Notes
7I. Favorites
68II. Diacritical Delights
21II. Double Names
24II. Fashionably Old
27II. It Could Be Jade
50II. Really Long Names
9II. Really Short Names
39II. Water Entendre
82III. Central European
65III. Eastern European
57III. French
80III. German
43III. Méridional
116III. Native Vietnamese
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Names that I found interesting stories or tidbits about while researching.
▾ Standard view
Name M/F Remark
Xảo m / f "one military doctor insisted it was Sảo, not Xảo, but I remember clearly it was Xảo, otherwise why else would there be a huge X in his signature"
Tiệp m / f Nguyễn princes couldn't keep it in their pants so they had to recycle names but they used different radicals because Minh Mạng neurotically made this elaborate scheme for his family
Sùng m I never knew Lạc Long Quân had a real name (Sùng Lãm)
Sách m it's possible Thi Sách's name is just Thi, but then where does the Sách come from?
Nô En f / m "I was born at 1AM on Christmas Day and my neighbor was like 'It's Christmas' so that's why dad named me that"
Kháp m "many sources write his name as Cáp or Hợp, because of the reading of [合] under the radical Miên (宀)"
Dạ f / m Lâm Vỹ Dạ is probably named after the place, Vỹ Dạ, because it's a subject of a famous poem by Hàn Mặc Tử