A call to make our names indigenous.

I like to name my daughter as Marikit or my son as Makisig.. or Bagwis.. I like those name.. it was cool... don't you think?

I must admit, I don't really like the sound of using Philippine names to our children. But I have a friend whose children where named Pag-asa and Pag-ibig. These two children are girls and are now licensed nurses. This friend called his children as such because of his wonderful love story. Marilak is another name I think is indigenous.

my youngest son, most lotters already know about his story. he is zyruz but because of his birthday falls the same day as one of our national day (april 9), i gave him the nickname Magiting.

Hi eileen, that is a very nice idea. Aside from it's nationalistic, it's also unique to the world. Maybe through Philippine names, we can eliminate at least a bit of that colonial mentality that we have. The only problem is, there are only few words in the Filipino language that can sound a little appropriate to be a name. Or perhaps, I just lack research? I want to call my future daughter Mahinhin. Although she doesn't have to be. lol

hi eileen - i think for the filipinos, it would be good to have a good christian name plus the indigenious names like Maria Mahalin Aquino etc. It will be better to facilitate communication especially with those who are not familiar with the indigenious names.

The examples you mentioned are beautiful names, I wouldn't mind giving my children names like that. But, we must be careful of other "Filipinized" names. According to historian Ambeth Ocampo, there were Filipinos in the past that were given absurd names like Mabaho, Utot, etc. (not kidding).

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That sounds cute. But with these times, the only people naming their children with the names you mentioned are politicians who hope that they could use their names during campaigns for easy recall . Either that or they name their children after a don or dona which sounds very spanish. But with call centers around i think we will be hearing more western sounding names more and in the future. I have a very western name, i never liked it but i'm grateful that it was the name my mother chose instead of being called junior otherwise i would called "Pablo" . But time changes, sooner people will get bored hearing nicoles and kimberlys and michael or john and chose unique names instead but when that'll happen is the big question.