Some vital and fun info

Not that we believe in sign predictions, but it’s still fun to read.

• 出生日時 / Born date time： 2013/11/02 – 16:33
• 重量 / weight： 3260g
• Chinese Zodiac: Snake (aka little dragon)
• Western Zodiac: Scorpio

Why these names?

Ethan – We just like the sound.  According to baby name book, it means “firm, strong”.  We didn’t know it was such a popular name until I looked it up just now… Baby Name Wizard. Our first choice was ‘Aiden’, but my cousin beat us to it by a few months.

孟宸 (Mèng chén) – My parents went to a naming specialist, who takes in account of birth date, time, weight, etc to come up with a Chinese character stroke count.  Then picked the words based on some additional properties of each word.  He gave us a list of names, none of which we liked directly, but somehow we arrived at these 2 words.

• 孟 Mèng  – follows the name of a rather famous ancient Chinese philosopher 孟子 Mencius of 300BC “who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencius
• 宸 chén – the word can be used to represent emperor or emperor housing or great house.  We have no such aspiration for him, but  it is considered a “good” word.  One important aspect is that the word itself has a “house” part, which the naming specialist thought it is import to have for those born in the Snake year (reasoning: snakes can move a lot, they need a house to contain them…)
• Overall – stroke count isn’t too high (thus not too difficult to write), and it’s not too common of a name.