ALSO 'GOOGLE'
Parents Increasingly Naming Children Apple, Mac and Siri
(Thanks to Chuck Cody)
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December 04, 2012
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I named my first son MySpace. He get beaten-up everyday on the playground.
Posted by: random thunking | December 04, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I wanted to nickname our firstborn after one of my vendors at work. My wife, Sears, didn't like the idea.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | December 04, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Notice how "Bing" hasn't made the list yet.
Posted by: padraig | December 04, 2012 at 10:12 AM
ControlAltDelete is another popular name.
Posted by: MikeyVA | December 04, 2012 at 10:12 AM
What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Edsel | December 04, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I named my first son IBM. He was impossible to toilet-train.
Posted by: Ford79 | December 04, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I'm of a hope that our next g-kid might be blesses with the moniker of "Escape" ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | December 04, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Vista flunked kindergarten. "That kid's just slow", said head teacher.
Posted by: Steve | December 04, 2012 at 10:38 AM
I think a lot of these articles were prompted by the (possibly apocryphal) story of the woman who supposedly named her kid "Hashtag" last week.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 04, 2012 at 11:32 AM
But when you're upset at your phone, don't you just want to say,"Siri, go to your room!"?
Posted by: jon | December 04, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I don't see what the big deal is. Nobody hassles me over my name.
Posted by: Zune | December 04, 2012 at 12:58 PM
I named my last kid "Quits".
Posted by: nursecindy | December 04, 2012 at 01:14 PM
I suppose those are better than "Aquanet" (yes, the cheap hairspray), which I saw twice in birth announcements at the newspaper I used to work for.
I think this could be filed under "Is our children learning?"
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Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 04, 2012 at 01:31 PM
I told the nurse we were calling our son rm -rf *, and when she typed it, the whole hospital shut down.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 04, 2012 at 01:43 PM
A Chinese computer company called " Hei Yu " would start out with great name recognition.
Posted by: Clankie | December 04, 2012 at 03:04 PM
XKCD is on the case.
Posted by: Bobby Tables | December 04, 2012 at 04:05 PM
A co-worker's husband wanted to call their first daughter Polly Esther. Their last name was Codell.
What ever happened to good old names like Dopey, Sneezy and Grumpy?
Posted by: Loudmouth | December 04, 2012 at 04:26 PM
Wait till they grow up and find out they cant use their own names on twitter.
Posted by: oneblankspace | December 04, 2012 at 04:54 PM
I think I'm carbon-dating myself here, but it occurs to me that you should actually name your second child rm -rf * and the first born should be called su root.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 04, 2012 at 09:55 PM