Dai people are famous without surnames, and a person has several names in his life. The child has a birth name, and the boy has a monk's name when he enters the Buddhist temple. After returning to vulgarity, he takes back his common name. After marriage, he had a child, called "father".

Dai people generally distinguish between men and women by "rock" and "jade", and men take the word "rock" as the head, such as "rock glutinous". Women take the word "jade" as the head, and "jade is rare".

There are several ways to name a baby:

Put "such as Yan San" in order, that is, the third son. " Yu Gang ",a daughter in the middle. "Euler", the youngest daughter. According to the time of birth. Such as "Yan Bing", a boy born in the middle of the month. ""Yan Na, the boy born at the end of the month.

Named after the treasure. For example, "Han Yu" is a girl like gold. "Yu En" means a girl like a lotus flower.

Adults generally don't use their own names after they get married and have children. Men are commonly known as "waves" and women as "Mi Tao". Their names will also change with the children's names. One is to add "Bo" (father) or "Mi" (mother) before the name of the eldest son and daughter. For example, the eldest son "Shuang Yan", his father's name is "Bo Yan Shuang" and his mother's name is "Mi Shuang Yan"; If the eldest daughter's name is Yuxiang, her mother's name is Mi Yuxiang. The other is to put the child's gender before his own name, and add "Bo" or "Mi" before the child's gender, such as "Bo Nanxiang", where Bo is the father, "Nan" stands for women, and "Xiang" is my name, which together is "the father of daughter Yuxiang".

Some Dai people call it a knife. In fact, "Tao" gradually appeared in the names of some lords. There is also a legend that in ancient times, the Dai lords in Xishuangbanna were called "islands", and the sound of "islands" was similar to that of "knives". So the word "Tao" often appears in the names of some lords and their family members.