Category: Name

To differentiate people with the same name, qualifiers — prefixes and suffixes — are used.

Some in the government service has a serial number as the suffix. e.g. U Maung Maung (6)

One singer called himself “Twante Thein Tan”. Another had a bigger name “Myanmar Pyay Thein Tan.”

U Zaw Min (EP70) decided to have a career change and a name change after he arrived in the USA. He is now known as Zaw Min Nawaday or Zaw Nawaday.

Some did not know why Saya U Thein Aung (Met72) was called “Myodaw Thein Aung”. They were not aware of the Zat Mintha.

One wonders if having long names would resolve the name conflict. e.g. Cartoon character named Khin Maung Thet Cho Oo.
What happens if a name is too long to spell or pronounce?

• My boss was named Surapol Dasananda, but most called him “Dr. Das”.
• My colleague was named Suttipong Kanakakorn, but most called him “Nick”.

Some have several qualifiers e.g. Mingun Sayadaw & Tipitaka Sayadaw

Names with Inya

Inya is the name of

• a lake : Inya Lake
  Home of Rangoon University Boat Club (RUBC) and Rangoon Sailing Club (RSC)
  Cross Lake swimming event was held as part of the Inter-Institute Swimming Contest
• a road : Inya Road
  It has an entrance to the Main Campus of Rangoon University
• a residence hall : Inya Hall / Inya Saung
  It was for female students of Rangoon University
  Some writers (e,g, Moe Moe) use as a suffix for their pen name.
  

Inya Saung / Inya Hall

Daw Su Su was the first occupant of Room No. (1) at Inya Hall.

She danced three roles in the fund raiser for the Tekkatho Dhammayone. The director of the play was her cousin brother Saya U Lu Pe Win (Pali and Kyauksar Scholar). The rehearsal was assisted by U Nyi Bu (First male actor in a Burmese movie, Brother of A1 U Tin Nwe, U Maung Maung Soe and A1 U Tin Maung).

Daw Su Su was honored at the Thet Kyee Pu Zaw Pwe (Paying homage to the elders) held at the Tekkatho Dhammayone. Her account was published in the Golden Jubilee Sar Saung of Inya Hall.

She has three daughters :

• Daw Hazel Saw Lwin
  mother of Dr. Tin Tun
• Dr. Olive Saw Lwin
• Daw May Saw Lwin
  mother of U Aung Mon and Dr. Nyi Thet Lwin

She wanted them to have experience (like her) at the Inya Hall.
Per their mother’s request Daw Hazel Saw Lwin and Daw May Saw Lwin spent a year at Inya Hall as room mates.

• ICS U Paing has four sons : Myo Paing, Soe Paing, Win Paing and Kyaw Paing.
• They attended SPHS (St. Paul’s High School).
• They are Champion Golfers.

Dr. Myo Paing (SPHS54)

• Medical doctor — BMRI
• Early assignment was Malaria Campaign
• Champion golfer.

Saya U Soe Paing (SPHS56)

• Stood 17th in the whole of Burma in Matriculation examination of 1956; Won Collegiate Scholarship
• Received BSEE and MSEE from Stanford University
• Joined the RIT EE Department as Assistant Lecturer.
• Co-founded UCC with Dr. Chit Swe, U Myo Min and U Ko Ko Lay
• Transferred to UCC as Systems Manager of Systems Division
• Received M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Southampton University
• Worked for UN projects in several countries.
• Wrote “Computer Ah Sa UCC Ga” and his experiences as a States Scholar and UN Advisor.
• Spent time playing golf and practicing vipassana meditation.
• During his UCC days, he served as a Golf Correspondent.
  I helped him type about the competition at RGC and BGC and submit to the English newspapers.

U Win Paing (SPHS64, GBNF)

• Won several Golf Championships with his younger brother U Kyaw Paing.
• After finishing the finals for Chemical Engineering examination in 1970, he became U Wara.
• Served as Taik Oke for more than four decades.
• Succeeded Sayadaw U Vinaya as the Chief Resident Monk of KabaAye Sunlun Gu Kyaung.

U Kyaw Paing (SPHS67)

• Represented Burma in the Putra Cup.
• Lawyer and Entrepreneur.

U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76) wrote:
For number of years, I was the carrier-cum-postman to bring Saya Paing’s typed golf news to the WPD, Working Peoples’ Daily at Theingbyu Street! Just one of the chores I had in those days.
I remember jokingly asked Sayadaw U Wara how he felt seeing the (18th??) hole over the fence from the Sunlun Kyaung’s “Thein”. The new golf course was built for VIPs inside KabaAye, and that particular hole was seen from the “Thein” less than 40-50 yards, of course over the fence.

ဘဝနတ်ထံပျံလွန်တော်မူခြင်း။

ရေနံချောင်းမြို့ ကျောက်စာရုံ ဒါယိကာ -ဦးသန့်ဇင် ဒေါ်မမကြီး နှင့် ခြောက်ထပ်ကြီးဘုရားကြီး ဒါယိကာ -ဆာ ဦးဖိုးသာ လေဒီသာ (ခ) ဒေါ်ရီတို့၏မြေး စည်သူဦးပိုင် ICS(retd) ဒေါ်ဥယျာဉ် တို့၏ တတိယသား ဒေါက်တာဦးမျိုးပိုင်-(ဒေါ်ခင်မမ )၊ဦးစိုးပိုင်-ဒေါ်စောယုတင့် တို့၏ညီ၊ဦးကျော်ပိုင်-ဒေါ်အိအိမြတ် တို့၏အကို ၊တူတူမ ၁၀ ဦးတို့၏ ဦလေးတော် ဦးရီးတော် ဖြစ်သည်-(ဦးဝင်းပိုင် BE Engg Chemical 1969) “ဆရာတော်ဦးဝရ “သက်တော် ၇၅ နှစ် ဝါတော် ၅၂ ဝါ -၇မိုင်ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဂူကျောင်းဝိပသာနာ တိုက် ကမ္မာဌာနစရိယဆရာတော်”သည် ၂၆/၀၈/၂၀၂၁ နေ့ည ၁၁ နာရီအချိန်တွင် ဘဝနတ် ထံပျံလွန်တော်မူသွားပါသည်။

ဆရာတော်မနာကျန်းဖြစ်မှုအားခွဲစိတ် ကုသပေးသော ဆရာဝန်ကြီးဦးတိုးလွင် ၊ဦးကျော်မြင့် -သမားတော်ကြီးဦးရဲမြင့် ၊ဦးသူရိန်ဝင်း နှင့် Oncology ဆရာဝန်ကြီးများအပြင် ပန်းလှိုင်ဆေးရုံကြီး၊ဂရင်းဟန် သာဆေးရုံကြီး၊ပင်လုံဆေးရုံကြီးတို့မှတာဝန်ရှိဆရာဝန်၊သူနာပြုဆရာများအားငုင်း၊ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဝိပသနာကျောင်းတိုက် ဂေါပကအဖွဲ့နှင့်ယောကီများအားငုင်းကျောက်ပန်းတောင်း ၊မိုးကုတ် ၊ပြင်ဦးလွင် တိုက်ခွဲများမှ တိုက်အုပ်ဆရာတော်နှင့်ယောဂီများအားငုင်း အထူးကျေဇူးတင်ရှိပါကြောင်းလေးစားစွာအသိ ပေးအကြောင်းကြားအပ်ပါသည်။

ကျန်ရစ်သူညီအကိုများ

Examples

• Ann, Anne, Annie
• Archie
• Art, Arthur
  
• Baby
• Bob, Bobby
• Bruce
  
• Carol, Caroline
• Charles, Charlie
• Cindy
  
• Dave, David, Davinder
• Dick, Dickie, Dicky
• Don, Donald
  
• Eric, Erica
• Ernest, Ernie
• Errol
  
• Frank, Frankie, Franklin
• Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Frederick
• Fey
  
• Gavin
• George, Georgia, Georgie
• Gerald, Geraldine, Gerry
  
• Harold
• Henri, Henry
• Hugh
  
• Ingrid
• Irene, Irina
• Iris
  
• * Jack, Jackie, Jacqueline
• * Joe, Joseph, Josephine
• * Jon, Jonathan, John, Johnson
  
• Katherine, Kathleen, Katie, Kathy
• Ken, Kenneth, Kenny
• Kim, Kimberly
  
• Larry
• Leonard
• Lily
  
• Marie, Mary
• Margaret, Margie
• Mona
  
• Nelson
• Newt, Newton
• Noyce
  
• Oliver, Olivia
• Oprah
• Orwell
  
• Pam, Pamela
• Percy
• Phillip
  
• Quarry
• Quebec
• Quincy
  
• Roland
• Rob, Robbie, Robert
• Ron, Ronald, Ronnie
  
• Sam, Samuel, Samuelson
• Sylvester
• Sylvia
  
• Tina, Tiny
• Thomas, Thompson, Tom, Tommy
• Tim, Timmy, Timothy
  
• Ursula
• Uttam
  
• Victor, Victoria
• Vince, Vincent
• Violet
  
• Walter
• Will, William, Willie, Willy
• Winnie
  
• X (as in Malcolm X, Planet X)
• Xavier

• Yale
• Yolanda
• Yusuf
  
• Zuse
• Zeppelin
• Zorro

U Thet Lwin

He matriculated from St. Paul’s High School in 1957. His Burmese teacher was Saya U Sein.
After graduation, he joined the Burmese Department at the Institute of Economics. During the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the University of Rangoon in 1970, he served as Secretary of the subcommittee chaired by Saya Dr. Aung Gyi, then Professor of Civil Engineering at RIT.
One day, he was informed of a vacancy for Registrar at RIT where Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi was Rector (having succeeded Sayagyi U Yone Moe). The two sayas were reunited as co-workers at RIT.
His pen name is Ngwe Hlinne. He is an accomplished pianist and composer. He received several “Dat Pyas” from BBS (Burma Broadcasting Service) for his songs including “Mya Kyun Nyo Nyo Tekkatho”. He treated his Ah Nu Pyinnya Shins with the remuneration (he received for his songs, typically K100 per song).
He is the maternal uncle of U Sein Tin (EC74).

U Thet Lwin (EC78)

He worked for UCC (Universities’ Computer Center) and PTC(Post and Telecommunications Corporation) before going to Singapore and Thailand.
He is now back in Myanmar.

U Thet Lwin (Stats)

Dr. Thet Lwin taught Statistics at the Institute of Economics.

Wunna

It is a Pali word meaning means “good looking” (handsome, pretty, …).
It is one of the good karmic results along with Aryu (Longevity), Sukha (Happiness, pleasure, joy, bliss) and Bala (Strength) for doing meritorious deeds.

Sao Wunna

He was a Kayah Sawbwa.
He was a Minister in an AFPFL Government.

Sree Wunna Mangrai

She is a member of the Keng Tung Sawbwa family.
She is a niece of Saya Sao Kan Gyi (RIT English, GBNF), Sao Biddy (spouse of Sao Hso Holm), Sao Yan Naing and Sao Yan Paing.
She studied M.Sc. (Computer Science) at UCC.
She worked in Singapore.

U Wunna Sithu (SPHS65, EC71)

He rowed for Ye Kyaung Lu Nge during his high school days.
He rowed for RIT and RUBC during his RIT days.
He also swam and played water polo for RIT.
He worked for DCA before moving to Thailand and USA.
He attended the first East Coast Reunion.

U Wunna Ko Ko (EC96)

He is the son of Daw Khin Mar Mar (Physics, UCC) and the grand son of Saya U Net, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mandalay.
He did further studies in Japan and the USA.
He created and maintained the second RIT web site.

Wunna

He is the son of U Nyein Min (C79), who named his company as “Wunna Construction”.

• Dr. Win Aung (M62) — NSF (National Science Foundation); Secretary General, iNEER; Attended SPZP-2000; Wrote about his father Saya C Ping Lee (EE) for RIT Alumni Newsletter; Attended First East Coast Reunion; Gave us dinner

• U Win Aung (TTC, M70) — High School Luyechun for Ngapali Camp in the Summer of 1964; Represented RIT in Swimming and Water Polo; Secretary, RIT Swimming Association; Volunteer, Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65

U Win Aung (M69) — Moved to East Coast, USA; He would phone his former classes very late at night.

• Ye Aung — Actor
• Ye Chit Pe (MEHS64, M 70) — Retired BG
• Ye Gaung (EE80) — May Recording Studio
• Ye Gaung — Minister
• Ye Khaung — Student Political Party
• Ye Htut
• Ye Htut Aung — ICST
• Ye Lwin (AGTI, RIT) — Bass Guitarist; Leader of E-Machine & Myizzima Hlaing
• Ye Min
• Ye Munn
• Ye Myat (Ye Myint Thein) — Father : Myint Thein
• Ye Myint, Dr. — Burma’s second cardiac surgeon; first was the late Dr. Khin Maung Thaw
• Ye Myint, Dr. — Professor, Renowned laparoscopic surgeon
• Ye Myint, Dr. — UK; Parents : Tin U and Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt
• Ye Myint (ChE70) — Saya; Moved to Singapore, Donated to RIT and ChE
• Ye Myint (C70) — Saya
• Ye Myint (EE72) — Father: U Ba Toke
• Ye Myint — B.Com; Son: Zayanda

• Ye Myint Kyaw, Dr. — Prof, Pen name : Linga Ye Kyaw: Paediatrician, author of over 20 books, script write for the three books made into movies, Regular contributor of medical and non medical topics
• Ye Nyunt
• Ye Sein — Teacher, Mintha; Father: Kenneth Sein
• Ye Sint (Physics) — Saya; Past VP of TBSA; Editor, Dhammananda Newsletter and the Memorial Book for U Silananda; Pen name: Ogga
• Ye Swe — Boxing
• Ye Tint — Boxing
• Ye Win (EP67, GBNF)
• Mehm Ye Win (EC69 — PTC
• Ye Wint — Father: Zaw Myint
• Ye Yint — Cinema

Dr. San Lin (C62)

• Taught part-time at Civil Engineering Department
• Worked for EPC before moving overseas
• Worked for UN in Thailand and New York
• After retirement, moved to California
• Spouse : Dr. Daw Thynn Thynn, Founder of STW-2 Dhamma Center

U San Lin (C69, GBNF)

• Taught at Pyay, Yenangyaung and Tanyin GTI
• Served as Principal
• Retired Assistant Director of Set-Saik-Thet

U San Lin (Robert, EC73)

• Received Masters in Computer Science from UCC
• Worked for Texas Instruments in Singapore before transferring to USA.
• His division was bought by another company (twice), but he was retained by those companies
• After retirement, he moved from SugarLand to Dallas to be close to his son Vincent (medical doctor)
• Spouse : Daw Hla Myint (Marina, EC73)
• Father: U Boon Bin (Railways), Class of 48 and 49

U San Lin (M87)

• Maung Lu Pay — named similar to Maung Lu Aye (Theikpan Maung Wa’s character)
• Sponsor, SF Bay Area Literary Talks
• Founding member of NorCal RITAA
• Member, BADA

• Soe Thein — Ta Ka Tha leader; Registrar at RIT; Transferred to DHE as Director

• Soe Thein (EE60) — Attended SPZP-2000 with his brothers Saya Dr. Aung Soe (C) and Saya Dr. K Chiu (Tin Aung, ChE)

• Soe Thein (EP69er) — Peter Myint Mg at MEHS; Daughter drives him to 69er events

Soe Thein, Dr. (C75) — RIT saya; Masters from AIT; Doctorate from NUS; Organizer & Webmaster, SPZP-2007; Organizer & Webmaster, Singapore Civil Engineering Alumni

Notes

• Several student leaders became administrators in the Revolutionary Council government and BSPP.
• The three brothers are also known as K K Chiu, K J Chiu and K C Chiu.
• Peter had an operation. He no longer drives.
• Dr. Soe Thein’s mentors include Dr. Aung Soe and Dr. Win Thein. Both sayas share a part of his name.