Some are given the name of pali, for example, Maung Thura, Maung Taeza, Maung Thiha, Ma Thida, Ma Sanda and etc.
Maung Thura means brave one.
Maung Taeza means brilliant like sun.
Maung Thiha means lion-hearted one.
Ma Thida means cool like water.
Ma Sanda means cool like a moon.
နာမည္မ်ားက္ို ပါဠိ အမည္မ်ားလည္းေပးတတ္သည္။ ေမာင္သူရ၊ ေမာင္ေတဇ၊ ေမာင္သီဟ၊ မသီတာ၊ မစႏၵာ စသည္တို႔ျဖစ္၏။
ေမာင္သူရ = ရဲရင့္သူ Brave
ေမာင္ေတဇ = ေနကဲ့သို႔ထြန္းလင္းသူ = Sun
ေမာင္သီဟ = ျခေသၤ့ကဲ့သို႔လူ = Lion
မသီတာ = ေရလိုေအးျမသူ = Water
မစႏၵာ = လလိုေအးခ်မ္းသူ = Moon
Name are given basing on day on which he or she is born. Myanmar have 33 alphabets.
1st group: Ka Kha Ga Gha Nga.....Monday
2nd group: Sa Hsa Za Zha Nya.....Tuesday
3rd group: Ta Hta Da Dha Na ........Saturday
4th group: Pa Pha Ba Bha. Ma ......Thursday
5th group: Ya Ra La Wa ..................Wednesday
6th group: Tha Ha ...........................Friday
7th group: Ar .................................. Sunday
သို႔ေသာ္ ေမြးေသာေန႔ႏွင့္ အေျခခံ၍ နာမည္တို႔ကို မွည့္ၾက၏။ ျမန္မာအကၡရာသည္ ၃၃ လုံး႐ွိ၏။
ပထမအုပ္စု က ခ ဂ ဃ င = တနလၤာ
ဒုတိယအုပ္စု စ ဆ ဇ စ် ည = အဂၤါ
တတိယအုပ္စု ဋ ႒ ဍ ဎ ဏ = စေန
စတုတၳအုပ္စု ပ ဖ ဗ ဘ မ = ၾကာသပေတး
ပဥၥမအုပ္စု ယ ရ လ ဝ = ဗုဒၶဟူး
ဆ႒မအုပ္စု သ ဟ = ေသာၾကာ
သတၱမအုပ္စု အ = တနဂၤေႏြ
For a Monday born person one of the first group of Myanmar alphabets ka, kha, ga, gha and Nga is given for the first name. Let A, B, C , D, E be the alphabets of the first group, and let it be Monday, the name of Monday born person are to be named beginning with A or B or C or D or E for example; Albert, Bobby, Clinton, David and Edward. They all are Monday born persons.