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The real-life FFVII name thread got me thinking, would/have you ever name one of your offspring after a character from a video game or any other fictional character? What do you think of others who've done it, like Kevin Smith naming his daughter Harley Quinn?
"Want your house sold quickly and for a fair price! Call Sephiroth Baranowicz!"
If it's good enough for Robin Williams it's good enough for me. Zelda Hobbes sounds p. good.
To be honest, it's almost unfair to the child to be stuck with an obvious name that links back to a game; it's almost putting a target on their heads that they really don't need sometimes. However, some names are generic enough that it wouldn't be too bad. I've always been fond of Oliver as a boy's name, or Natasha for a girl.
zelda as a name has been around since before her legend
sephiroth is fairly new unfort. however, jenova is an ancient name, so that'd be fair game.
"Up next in our recital, please put your hands together for Jenova Swanderfurfer playing 'My Fair Lady' on the Ukelele!"
i mean if a kid doesnt like being made fun of for being named after loz
they can be like 'actually you should google zelda fitzgerald mr. grade school bully"
"Want a deal on that used car? Call Solid Snake Jones, at 1-800-555-SOLID!"
My kid won't have to worry about bullies, because they'll Jujitsu the trout out of them.
If I ever have twin boys, I'd most definitely name them Mario & Luigi. You don't waste an opportunity like that.
I would like to name my first Daughter Elie. Take a guess where I get the name from.
PS - It's not Last of Us.
son #1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man
son #2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Reilly
My husband picked these names out. If I have a daughter her name will be Rosalie because it's a pretty name. Thankfully my sons' names are good names anyway!
yeah, cause she has two l's in her name.
For me/ That's the plan.
I've never played Zelda, but I freaking love the name Zelda. Will try to impose on the father of my children.
After watching Death Proof and falling in love with Rosario Dawson, I was super fixated on naming a daughter of mine Abernathy, but have kindof grown out of it. Also, I've always wanted to name a daughter of mine Valentine after Valentine Wiggin but was told I'm not allowed. Other than that, I can't think of too many fictional characters or famous people I'd want to name my kids after.
Probably. I've gone through a lot of names in my fictional stories and would probably recycle one of them. Most of them are regular names so no one would be the wiser. I like Zora too, and once named a character of mine that without realizing where it came from o.o
Seymour Butz will be very fashionable by the time I have kids.
General Leo. :D
Haven't named any kids after vidya game characters, but I did name my son after the titular character in George Eliot's Silas Marner with the hope that someday he would have a daughter and name her Eppie.
MissH has already ruled out Joel for a boy and Ellie for a girl :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dat Matt
Also, I love all of krissy's responses in this thread.
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I think Kairi is a really nice name for a girl, but I dunno that I would ever actually name my daughter that. Mostly because there's other names that I prefer more, and partially because I don't want them to have a weird first name to go along with their impossible to pronounce (outside of Italy at least) last name.
I both really want to have kids named after a video game characters, and really don't. xD I know the names we'll give to our first son/daughter, everything after that is up for grabs (although I suspect if we have two daughters I know the name for the second one already, too, and it's not from a video game).
You're talking crazy Mr Baffle, we can all totally pronounce your last name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pheesh
I probably won't name my kids after fictional characters, but that is not to say some fictional characters have nice names that I wouldn't add to the list of potential babby names. Nothing completely out there and bizarre though.
inb4 Basch fon Ronsenburg of Dalmasca
I'm naming it Daniel (Fallout: New Vegas) or Steve (Minecraft) if it's a boy, and Ashley (Mass Effect), King Robert (A Game of Thrones) or Sarah (Final Fantasy I) if it's a girl.
No my kids are going to get a slightly uncommon but regular name to increase the chances that they grow up to be normal.
Maybe I'd pick something from fiction for a middle name but even then I'd choose a character that has a normal name.
Nah.
I think naming your kid after a fictional character is a pretty nice idea. Why not connect your love for your favorite video game/movie/whatever with your love for your kid?
Of course, one should be considerate of one's kid's future and not name it... I don't know, Sephiroth or Lightning. But what's wrong with calling your daughter Yuna, for example? It's even a real Japanese name, as far as I know. Apart from that, there are tons of games and movies with characters that have totally common names.
It's still better than naming your kid after a brand (e.g. Apple) or after a city (e.g. Paris) in my opinion. ;)
If it's something moderately normal like Garnet then yeah.
Robin Williams is Robin Williams. He could do whateverthesmurf He wanted as far as naming his daughter Zelda.
Anywho.. If I loved a fictional character enough, I'd consider naming my child after him or her.
Anything I come up with can't be worse than smurfing "Khaleesi"
I don't see any reason why not. Of course naming them with something very unique or foreign wouldn't be that good idea but some names are really nice and there is no reason why you should miss a name you love just because it's also in a video game.
Sarah
Cecelia
Lydia
Tina
Terra
Celes
Vincent
Yuna
Ashley
Claire
If I have a daugther, I want to name her Penelo B'nargin Bunansa. I kid you not.
For a boy, I'd name him either Charles or Franklin for the Peanuts characters.
I've strongly considered it, to be honest. Naturally I'd want a name that doesn't stand out as especially offensive, though.
As Final Fantasy names go, Terra, Freya, Fran for girls and Vincent, Cecil, and Locke for boys are strong contenders. Otherwise I considered Annah from Planescape: Torment, Edwin from Baldur's Gate I and II, and Revan from KOTOR were names I fancied as well.
Let's be real though, these names are going to corgis because I don't want children. :p
If my wife and I have a son, his first name will be from a certain awesome television show (although it is a "normal" name) and his middle name will be from a certain guy who doesn't want to enter the Farplane with everyone else.
I actually know someone who named her kids after Zack and Cloud (because she commissioned me a drawing of them as their Christmas present, it was so sweet and heart warming!)
I would definitely named my kids after fictional characters as long they are good names and hold a sweet sound in them. For example, Zelda, Marth, Luigi, Midna, Cecil, Firion, Bartz, Terra...
I just realized I need to adopt a lot of cats and named them after my favorite characters! XD
i literally got a legal name change and my last name is the same of that as character in a crappy series vampire/werewolf movies.
If its a name I like then yeah sure. Especially from like the Suikoden series there's a good number of normal names. Millie is a good one.
Also, a character from Fire Emblem is named Cherche. I looked up the pronunciation because I had no idea how it was pronounced, but I think we were wrong. Anyways, the way he pronounced it was like "Church" which I thought would be a stupid name for a child but it has since grown on me leaps and bounds and I especially love the spelling. But then I realized that if I do have a girl and name her that, she'll always have people not knowing how to pronounce her name and I know from experience that that can get really annoying, really fast.
Why would I want my child to live in the shadow of something else? I'd rather name him or her something so that people can remember them not the fictional character that came before them.
I can't imagine anything cringier.
Yeah, but all names are derived from something else unless you just invent a name.out of the blue. I can't imagine I would ever name any kid I had after a Final Fantasy character, but I have always liked the name Roland which I had first exposure to in Browning ' poem and later in The Dark Tower series. The name Orlando derives from there as well. I don't think that's particularly cringe-worthy.
Also Auron is a cool name. :zombert:
I would invent a name. The name I'm thinking of most likely already exists, but I know it's not the name of any well-known fictional character so that's fine.
Sure, why not? I know an old lady named Zora. XD
There's nothing wrong with naming a kid after a fictional character. They're just as likely to live in the shadow of a real person they were named after; Muhammad, Jesus, and Alexander are a few good examples, I doubt most people can live up to those names.
I wouldn't give my kid a Japanese name though, if only because I'm not Japanese, and also because I don't live in a Japanese community. That's just my personal taste however. Something like Yuna is fine, but Kasumi is so obviously Japanese, that if you aren't, it's going to turn heads. On the other hand, a name like Bakura has several origins and meanings, and could easily be given to any boy; it's unique enough to stand out, yet doesn't sound too much like any one foreign culture.
Besides, lots of people are already named after fictional characters. Friedrich and Arthur are (largely) fictional characters that many people are named after. Naming your kid Sephiroth however, is absolutely retarded. It would be like naming your kid Mjølnir. I imagine many Orthodox Jews wouldn't appreciate it, especially considering the meaning of the word and it's significance in their beliefs.
Says the man who has twins named Leon and Claire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
Source: My Old Manus fanfiction.
"Leon! Claire! Stop making baby Jill into a sandwich!"
This is the thinking that gives us babies with names like North.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
I having an odd name, Brady(okay not incredibly odd, but easily made fun of, god damn I hate the Brady Bunch), got made fun of a lot as a kid. So I think I'd be very conscious about my kids' names. Nothing unique and weird, but I would want to give them something meaningful. I could see me naming them something more normal, but still game inspired, Lulu, Leon, but I could never name a kid Cloud or Sora, etc.
And especially no weird names like North West, like come on if that kid wasn't rich as heck they'd get humiliated.
We toyed with the idea. Our first son was nearly Vash (or Vasher), his name is Ashton. Our second boy was nearly Odin (FF tie in, but mostly because of my ancestry), his name is Owen. I'm looking forward to number 3.
A friend of mine "stole" Alexander from me. It was the name I used (when it fit, Alex when it didn't) for all of my RPG characters (starting as far back as FFI, Dragon Warrior, Zelda, etc.). In FFI, my Fighter/Knight was always "Alex". We were in elementary school when those games came out. After playing at my house he started using Alexander (Alex) too. He named his boy Alexander.
I know someone that named their son Raistlin.
My name is Ashton
I'm a girl though. And there is an Ashton in a Star Ocean game
You know them? I would've thought Raistlin's parents would have to be at least 150 by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasher
Sometimes names that aren't commonly unisexual are used in that manner.Quote:
Originally Posted by shion
There's this evil woman who writes for one of the local papers here who's name is Michael.
The other way, my cousin's wife has a male cousin named Hillary, which runs in her family. Also, Beverly used to be a popular name for boys in the South.
My best friend is naming his next born soon Sylar.
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Originally Posted by shion
A little older than that. I fart dust and piss rust, so...Quote:
Originally Posted by PsychoticYou know them? I would've thought Raistlin's parents would have to be at least 150 by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasher
No. Not because I have anything against the practice, but because I want to give my kids as little reasons as possible to be relentlessly mocked by their peers.
A little girl at a table I served one day was named "Aeris". Her parents had to scold her a lot, which is the only reason I knew her name.
Well to be fair, her name could have been "Eris" which is pronounced exactly the same way, from Greek mythology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
I've considered changing my own name to Aerith from time to time.
I've actually just been informed I actually am not allowed to name anything anymore since I name things based on physical traits. My gf fears I'd name a kid Lizafolos if they come out looking like a lizard.
Have you ever heard about Arabela? I love her and I will name my kid Arabela :)