• What does your first name mean in English?
  Your last name?

• Is your name common or unusual?
  (Note the difference between "common" and "popular.")

• Who chose your name? How or why?

• Do you have a nickname?
  How did you get it?
  Do you like it?

• Do you like your name? Why or why not?

• If you could have a different name, what would it be?

• If you could have a name in English, what name would you choose?

• Women, will you change your family name after you get married?

• What name(s) will you give your child(ren)?

Prepared by C.A. Edington, 2001
Sapporo University Academic Writing
Hokkaido University of Education Composition