Naming a child is quite something when you think about it, we tried hard to come up with names that would be good in both English and Japanese, but when my eldest daughter Erika was born, all the names that were on the list went out the window, one look at her and the name just popped into my head, no explanation, it just did
Erika May Ablett
My maternal grandmother was named May, the story goes that great grama had like 8 kids, and when grama was born, in May, they had run out of names, so they just named her May
Erika's middle name is in honor of my grandmother.
The second daughter, Mizuki was named by my wife, she likes the name, and it is easy to say in English, I don't think many people will misread it....
Me-zoo-key if I had to sound it out for you, I think that is fairly obvious from "Mizuki"
Also it is the Dogwood flower, which happens to be the provincial flower of BC, where I'm from.
I guess Don you can be glad they did not name him "Sue"