Names and Adoption

When we bring our child home it is mostly like that he or she will be over 6 months old and already have a name. So we now have 3 name questions. What to name the baby, how to name the baby, and do we change the baby’s name?

What to name the baby is giving us the same trouble as it did last time around - we can come up with girls’ names but we don’t necessarily agree and as far as boys’ names go, well, we just can’t come up with those (so let’s hope for a girl).

How to name the baby? Do we use an “American” name? Do we try and find an Ethiopian name we like? Do we Americanize an Ethiopian name? And that goes along with do we change the baby’s name. I don’t think we’ll change it completely (if we change it at all). We’re leaning towards keeping their given name as a middle name and giving them a new first name.

To be honest, out of all the choices we’ve had to make in the process so far this, for me, is one of the hardest decisions.

But if we do decide to change their name, do you have any suggestions?