Names you will never name your childern

Hmmm well this is actully quite hard...

Boy:

Syrus ( Hell knows why sounds groovy )
Ogre ( After the vocalist of Skinny Puppy :up: )


Girl:

Prince ( They would wish they were never born hahaha )
Bob ( Hahahaha PMSL poor children )

Percival. Naming your son Percival will give other children the undeniable urge to punch him repeatedly in the mouth.

Jake.

i would never call my kid sakura fubuki...cause that means cherry blossom blizzard! lol

francheska cheska bobeska fanana fana fofeska me mi momeska francheska III

[q=kikimm]Anything from a video game or a book. I don't get why some people want to have little Arwens and Aragorns running around. It's just going to embarress the kid.[/q]A guy in his late 20s named Aragorn was jailed for drug possession in my city last year:cool:
My country also boasts a TV production working person named Arwen O'Connor.
At high school, I once debated against a young woman named Rohan.


Product names are bad. I wouldn't name my kids after objects. Same goes for history's worst criminals, oppressors and totalitarians - Adolf, Saddam, Idi, Pol, and so forth. I'd never inflict those names, with all their connotations, on anyone. However, in 2003 a Chinese couple named their son 'Saddam Sars', to commemorate the two biggest events of the year. Also, a guy at my university who graduated this year has the first names 'Joseph Stalin'. I don't know him - just saw his name in the graduation list - but his name kind of stood out. That's not his entire name, just his first two names. His surname was something completely different.

Speaking of something completely different, I wouldn't name a kid 'Monty', unless my wife and I agreed to call him Montgomery, which is of course a cool name since it's Scotty's real name.

I actually quite like Olga, but I prefer Olya, a slightly-less-common variant.

I'm not totally opposed to naming people after fictional characters, either. Rand and Nynaeve, from The Wheel of Time, would make quite good names for a boy and a girl, respectively.

I wonder how long it's going to be before companies start paying parents to give their kids 'advertising names'? They're already paying adults to change their name to 'Sony PlayStation' or whatever, so commercialised baby names are the next logical step. Celebrities could auction naming rights to the highest bidder... :twocents:

I don't understand why people say stuff like "oh no nothing from a game or book or movie no that's just silly and wrong!" Can I ask why that is? What if they happen to name their kid Tidus but never played FFX? Is that silly and wrong? Or what if they named their kid something and then 2 years later a game came out with a lead character sharing that name? Is everyone girl I've met named Rosa under a silly, wrong name because of FFIV?

That just doesn't make any sense to me. If the name sounds good and the parents like it, and it means something to them, why should it matter wether it was from a game or a movie or a book?

Oh and actually, most names DO come about that way. Just look around at the billion people with Biblical and Koran based names...and those are books.

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Oh and actually, most names DO come about that way. Just look around at the billion people with Biblical and Koran based names...and those are books.

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You have somewhat of a point, except for this part. It's the religion that people are basing names on. The religious books don't make much difference, it's the religion (or language) and what's IN the books--considered to be religious history--that inspires names for children.

Syphilis and Pajama have to be the worst baby names I've ever heard, whether the stories are true or not ("Syphilis" being on a band around the baby's wrist, "Pajama", obviously, being on a tag on the baby's clothing, apparently the women thought they were already named or something.)

I had another name in mind, but I can't remember it right now. Too tired, I suppose.

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I don't understand why people say stuff like "oh no nothing from a game or book or movie no that's just silly and wrong!" Can I ask why that is?

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It's not the idea of giving a kid a name that happens to be in a game. They just don't want that to be the story behind the name. "Daddy, why did you name me Cloud?" "It was the name of mercenary with a bigass sword in this kickass RPG I used to play." Sounds so special, doesn't it?
My story to tell my kids is that I named the all the things (I'll name them) because it's what was derived of my ambition.
Joseph is my name, Zackary is also my name (by choice), Zenreye originated as a misinterpretation (intentional) of the word Sentry and later became merely a combination of Zen and Ray. I gave the word zenreye my own definition as I AM to a degree a vane person. Zenreye: A person whose actions and motives make one look upon him/her and question their own actions and motives in life. S/he is a person whose beliefs shed light onto the misgivings and sorrows of others. This is not to imply that I intend for my son to be anyone's savior or guiding light. I just like the sound of it.
I have reasons for every name I've chosen for my predecessors. None (save for Zack which really doesn't count) have anything to do with games.