My wife and I named our daughter Fara Allegria Maharani. While I insisted on the name Maharani, my wife picked her first name and we also agreed on using a musical term somewhere in her name a long time before we were even married.

I had no strong feelings for or even against her choice of first name but I did think it was a nice name. She told me it was the name of a wife of one of the prophets. Allegria was from Allegro, a brisk tempo. Maharani means queen.

When she was born, we were blessed with such a joyful, cheerful, playful and happy daughter. Fara has never been short of providing us with such a great time as a family, always finding ways to have fun especially since she’s been able to walk, run, throw things around, laugh, smile, and do things that babies do.

Today, nearly 14 months after Fara was born, my wife Dm’d me over Twitter. She apparently looked up Fara’s first name in various languages and discovered a few things.

Do you know Middle English’s Fara = Beautiful One, Arabic’s Farah = Joy, Afgan’s = Glory, Farsi’s = Joy, happiness, cheerfulness,

no wonder she’s SOOOOOOO GENKI!

beautiful/joy/cheerful, joy/spirited, great queen = sugar high queen? 

Sugar-high queen she is. She also runs very fast.

She really does live up to her name. Her uncle calls her Speedy, after Speedy Gonzales. She loves cheese too.

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[Update August 2012]

Fara, if you come across this post, read this blog please? I miss you.