Naming a baby can be so hard! There is one name that I liked – Mikael and I have been telling Azman that if he dares name his baby something else, he could very well get the EPISIOTOMY himself.
But Mikael for a name is a little too short I think. We don’t want our son to think that his parents lacked creativity in naming him when three quarter of the boys his age are named Muhammad Ryan Danish Daniel Haiqal bin Their Dads (phew!) Besides, what will he gonna do during the exams when everybody else is still busy filling in their names in the OMR form?
At one time, we thought of combining our names to create a nice symbolic one for the baby… You know when you combine Azman and Diyana you can get names like Diaz, Asmadi, Mandi….. But Diaz is too Hollywood, Asmadi is my boss and Mandi is mandi are you crazy??? so the best that we could came out with is Adi.
Speaking from personal experience, having a name that starts with an earlier alphabet like D, I had a lot of unnecessary nerve wrecking times at school. When it came to Math class, I was always called earlier than the rest of the class to recite the stupid sifir just because my name came on top of the list. You know I never memorize tables!! Not even now!
Mommy not gonna repeat the same mistake your Grandma did, son, so Adi Mikael was dropped.
We thought of several other names, like Muhammad Mikael, Mikael Putra, Iman Mikael even Yoep Mikael! But my mother insisted that we name him after one of the prophets; in fact she has been calling him Yusof even before he was born. So we considered naming him Mikael Yusof, but you see, his dad’s name is Azman, and we are so freaking sure our son will end up getting called Cokman by his friends at school! No way!
We went through the names of the 25 prophets and we think that Prophet Luth pbuh will be the one.
We think that it will be a beautiful name, Luth after the messenger of God,
And (remember) Luth, We gave him right judgement of the affairs and Prophethood and knowledge, and We saved him from the town who practised Al-Khabâ’ith (evil, wicked and filthy deeds, etc.). Verily, they were a people given to evil, and were Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient, to Allâh).
And We admitted him to Our Mercy, truly, he was of the righteous.
Surah Al-Anbiya’ ( 21:74-75 )
and Mikael after the chief angel of blessings that resides in the seventh heaven and is popularly believed to have wings of emerald green
Whoever is an enemy of God or his angels or his apostles or Jibriel or Mikael, verily God is an enemy of the unbelievers.
Surah Al-Baqarah (2:98)
On 27th Jan 2007, my sweetie cekodok is registered as LUTH MIKAEL bin MOHAMMAD AZMAN in his birth certificate. Yeaahhh!! And you can call him MIKI.
His name is awesome! It sounds very sophisticated and urban plus has a good meaning to it! Job well done in the name selection. :O)
I agree with you 100% – things happen for a reason. I found this by accident and noticed that we have some things in common. Thats what I love about the Internet, every blog is like a box of chocolates 🙂 Thanks – Great blog.