Have you given your kids fantasy names?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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

When he got older, did the ladies just love him? That's the argument I keep making with my wife.

 

[arscott]

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.

My friends named their baby Caileigh Serenity. It took a lot of training for them to get us to pronounce it ky-lee instead of kay-lee, and every once in a while someone still slips up.

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

not to far out but named my girl raven after the raven of myth

 

[TDRandall]

I dropped a few such names into the mix of potentials when we were considering names for our boy.

I liked several of them and didn't think any of them pressed the boundaries all that much, yet they were still regretfully some of the first removed from the pot by my non-gamer mainstream-fantasy-movies-only wife.

 

[Waldorf]

Catoblepas and Froghemoth.

 

[Griffith Dragonlake]

Catoblepas and Froghemoth.

 

[cattoy]

My niece is named Arwen.

 

[Xyanthon]

Catoblepas and Froghemoth.

If I ever have twins....Nah, probably not.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I wouldn't name my children after fantasy characters, but I'm determined that if my fiancee and I have children they won't have boring names like mine.

I like some archaic names, mostly Roman. No Gnaeus or Publius for me, though!

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

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!

IIRC, one of the Penn n Teller guys gave his daughter the middlename of "Crimefighter" (first name "Moxy") so if she gets pulled over, she could say "We're on the same side officer. Crimefighter's my middle name." There's also the IMO cruel name "Audio Science" but Nicholas Cage named his son Kal-El.

Me personally, I'd be cruel and name my daughters Apri, Aviane, Yasmin, TriNessa or any other birth control I could think of. Heck, I want to get a dog with a drool problem and name it Pavlov.