Have you given your kids fantasy names?

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Griffith Dragonlake

First Post

• Dec 5, 2006

• #1

Are you so geeky that you gave your kids fantasy or mythic names? My daughter's middle name is Brynhild and my son will have Beowulf as his middle name. One of my players named his first son Alexander and the second son Arthur. Another player named his daughter Raven. Not quite the same, but an ex-GF legally changed her name to Aeryn.

Anyone else?

 

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Nyaricus

First Post

• Dec 5, 2006

• #2

On a technicality, some of those would be considered legendary names

And I'm too young to have kids (well, to think about having kids, but same difference), so nope: haven't named anyone recently

cheers,
--N

 

Umbran

Mod Squad

Staff member

Supporter

• Dec 5, 2006

• #3

I don't have kids myself.

I do know of one pair of brothers named Boromir and Faramir - from long before the movies came out.

 

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GwydapLlew

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• Dec 5, 2006

• #4

A friend of mine named his son Raistlin. I'm named Alexander, but it's after a certain Macedonian...

 

Xyanthon

First Post

• Dec 5, 2006

• #5

I have a friend who named her daughter Kitiara. I know this really isn't fantasy (as far as I'm aware anyway) but my son's name is Bear.

 

jdrakeh

Front Range Warlock

• Dec 5, 2006

• #6

My friend in California named her son Tanis (yes, that spelling). I pointed out that this is, in real life a female name. . . to no avail. Specifically, she didn't believe me based on the rationale that a fantasy author would never knowingly give their male protagonist a female name

A couple of years after the fact, she confided that she wished she would have done some research prior to choosing the name in question (presumably because she didn't want her son to endure what my male friend Tiffany had to endure in his youth). And, yeah, I actually know a trucker named "Tif" (swear to God).

And, in High School, I knew a girl named Larry. And her two sisters. . . Georgie and Scotti.

[Note: There is an unrelated male name "Tannis", though it is not in common use.]

 

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Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero

• Dec 5, 2006

• #7

Not a fantasy name, but probably genre ... my wife won't let me give a kid the middle name of "Danger." This unreasonable stance of hers has us at an impasse!

 

Rhun

First Post

• Dec 5, 2006

• #8

I don't have children, but if I did I would probably try to sneak some fantasy names in.

 

HeapThaumaturgist

First Post

• Dec 5, 2006

• #9

My cousin named his son Dhalgere, after a character in a story he wrote in high school.

Swear to God.

We named our daughter Zoe (with the dots over the "e") and everybody assumes we named her Zoey after the butt-kickin' chick on Firefly. Don't ask me why.

Worst I got was, if she were a boy, she were going to be named Erasmus.

--fje

 

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Tyler Do'Urden

Soap Maker

• Dec 5, 2006

• #10

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

Not a fantasy name, but probably genre ... my wife won't let me give a kid the middle name of "Danger." This unreasonable stance of hers has us at an impasse!

Click to expand...

My parents had an acquaintance who named his son, no joke, "Castle Danger".

I also grew up across from a fellow (my same age named) with the first name Loch... last name, Ness.