Oh, hurray for being a nerd!

[Plaidman]

(But, hey, I'm not one to talk. My oldest is named after a comic book love interest and I readily admit it)

Ooooooooo! What comic? Do tell

[lupo pazzesco]

Ooooooooo! What comic? Do tell

I may be completely off base, but she's mentioning Wolverine in her sig line, so mebbe X-Men?

I actually kinda like the name Logan. I don't know why. One of my favorite male names, though.

[Tama]

I swear if I ever have a son he's going to be named HK.

His middle name'll be 47.

There's worse things I could call him.

[dawnfire]

i'll admit i'm nerdy too

We picked my son's name for it's nick name . his name jordan and his nick geordie and my youngest is Alexander. It's not really surprising seeing hubby and I met at the local star trek club.

[FenigDurak]

My cousin's names, on the birth certificates, are "Luke Sky Walker" and "Leia Sky Walker".

I grew up like your cousin's daughter. People, please, do not do this to your kids. Luke and Leia, at one point were acceptable. But Anakin? Geebus people, no. Bad parents. Bad. -=rolled up newspaper swat=-

That being said, a friend of mine named his sons Liam and Ewan. Those boys, when they're older, at least have the option of plausible deniability. I grew up hating Star Wars because of my name. It wasn't until a few years before the Special Edition came out in theaters that I finally sat and watched the glory of the Wars.

Another woman I know named her daughter Kahlan from the Legend of the Seeker series, but then a few years later the TV show premiered and it turns out she'd been mispronouncing it the entire time. Rather than Kay-len, it's been Kuh-lawn. When I was first introduced to these people I couldn't figure out what the poor kid had done to be named so similarly to a body waste organ.

Just don't do it.

[Plaidman]

Nor should parents name their kid a name that can be easily made into an insult.

Like Driver.


Screw driver.
Drunk Driver.
Sunday Driver.
Hey! Lets Pile on Driver! It be a PILE DRIVER!


It was hard enough with my eyes. Add my name, I never had shot.

[Chromatix]

Driver as a surname is fine - it's one of those old professional names like Smith.

Driver can also be a title, at least in Britain. In the railway hierarchy, Driver is the pinnacle of one of the many career paths.

As a forename... no, I don't see it.

[Plaidman]

Yeah well welcome to my life. That was my name.

[Andara Bledin]

My mother once knew a woman who named her daughter Galadriel. Only she pronounced it "gay-la-DREE-el."

My name is Polly, which has a ton of built-in insult potential. And, yet, they managed to get particularly creative with my last name, which is fairly benign and somewhat common.

^-.-^

[draco664]

On a completely unrelated note, a friend of mine is naming their child Anakin. Go nerdy names!

My wife and I named our second daughter Kaylee. Hopefully she grows up with more mechanical aptitude than her Dad.

[unholypet]

. Seriously. The solo family has enough problems to make a epic soap opera.

Yeah. I always shuddered when I had to stay home from school sick, when my Mom watched soap operas.

We had a conversation one day about what we like, and dramatic things like Star Wars is like soap operas, and Star Trek we found was more like CSI/NCIS/whatever those others are called.

Freaky o_0

[dalesys]

I swear if I ever have a son he's going to be named HK.

His middle name'll be 47.

There's worse things I could call him.

Heinz Kid 47?

[Midnight_Angel]

Well, still better than calling the Kid AK 47...

*ducks and runs for cover*

[RayvenQ]

I swear if I ever have a son he's going to be named HK.

His middle name'll be 47.

There's worse things I could call him.

I wouldn't do that if i were you, it'll start out innocently enough, with hi mreffering to you as meatbag, but soon he'd be plotting your demise.

[Crime Scene Scarf]

I think it's unfair to kids to give them fan names with no plausable deniability. Logan would be fine. If you didn't share your parents love of X Men, it would be easy to claim your name is a coincidence. Anakin, not so much.

If parents love these names so much, why don't they change their own names? A child is a person itself, not an extension of the parent, and things the parent loves. I have a name my mother chose due to her nerdy love of something, and I hate it. Nobody can spell it properly, when they read it, nobody can pronounce it properly. I am just thankful that it's my middle name.