Not sure I’d mind any sort of name. I reckon you need to define ‘mabantot’ since it can be subjective. Though I’d drop the ‘h’ in some just to lose the tackiness. Heehee.

It sounded like I was badmouthing those with the uniquely Filipino names of combining the parents’ first syllables.

I’m not. In fact, I like them because they are uniquely Filipino. If anything we should celebrate this as a strictly a Filipino thing; therefore a part of our modern culture! It’s just weird though how some Filipinos think this is something that is done in imitation of Americans or some other western entity.

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As for myself, yes, I definitely would change my name. Not legally mind you, but only if ever on the far and away chance that I become some kind of famous personality. Hah! Just to make things easier… far too many mistakes with my current one.

To what other form – that is the question. It’s tempting to go hardcore Tagalog (where I hail from) and go with Malakas, Mataginting, Malib… err.. Masigla. But that would just risk too much mockery; you know how we are with “mabantot” names.

That said, yes, I’ll dig up some of my ancestors’s names and use those instead.

Eugene: Good on ‘ya, mate!

Rinaldi: Oh, I prefer the Spanish sounding names actually. So, I guess you’d want to change your name if you could, huh?

Luis: Feeling a little frustrated, Luis? Hehe. Don’t worry it’ll happen soon.

Lina: Good to know of the things people would do as form of respect to their parents. I guess Rico’s example is applicable to this.

I’m a dude, and my Filipino parents named me after an Italian last name? Ew.

But nooo… Filipinos fawn over this name. OooOOh, so exotic, they say. So foreign. And of course, foreign=good.

When will we love what’s ours?

In fact, on a more serious note, I’ll change my name to something that harks back to our Spanish Colonial history – I don’t tend to view this as particularly the highlight of Philippine history, but it certainly is irrevocably a part of OUR history and our identity.

I’ll have to go with Fernando.

From my Dad’s Mother’s maiden name.
The one grandparent I never got to meet; she died before I was born.

Thirst quenching midsummer rain.

That would be my new name.

From what I’ve heard about Native American practices, it seems that their names and/or family names draws from their traits, their background, or whatever event or significant object was a portent of their arrival to this world.

And I think that’s beautiful.

Enough of these borrowed foreign names; half baked “Americanized” sounding names but are actually exclusively Filipino because what the parents did was combine their first two syllables ie. Arnel, Rodel, Rommel, Efren, etc..

thank you so much for you time. god bless!

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