Have you given your kids fantasy names?

[Lockridge]

Some friends from years back named their son "Thor Aikenhed". I probably spelt it wrong and I should state that they were immagrants from Norway or Sweden or thereabouts. Maybe someone from there can tell me if thats a common name. In North America it sounds like "Sore aching head". They probably don't even play D&D.

Another friend named his daughter Kyanna. This was a combination of two goddesses names. I forget one but the other was Innana.

 

[smootrk]

My son's name is Michelangelo, but no... he was not named after a Ninja Turtle.
I just joked last night that we (wife & I) ought to name additional children after dwarves (Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Fili, Kili, etc). She acted like it was a good idea.

My wife's sister's son has a nickname of Bilbo (he's only 5 now), but it has seemed to stick with him.

 

[Imagicka]

Greetings...

Well, keeping with the theme... My friend named his twins Damien and Michael. I think his third son was named Simon. But he moved away before the third was born.

I went to school with a girl named Mary, and her brother Noel. Their last name was Christmas.

As for my daughter... well, it's not as interesting, but I put a lot of time, thought, reasoning, as well as numerology behind it.

 

[Voadam]

No, but I almost named my son Finn (Mackool is a family name). I've known an Arjuna. One of my son's friends is named Kai and I keep thinking of Kai Allard-Liao every time I hear it.

 

[Zander]

Not fantasy but....

The friend who introduced me to RPGs way back when has the initials PLC (which in the UK where we lived also stands for Public Limited Company, i.e. a company that's publically listed and therefore traded on a stock exchange). His wife has the initials KFC. They have three soons. The eldest has the initials TLC and his twin brothers have the initials AC and DC!

I also know a woman who has the initials PM. Her only child has the initials AM.

 

[BOZ]

a geek i may be, but i absolutely refuse to name my kids after fictional characters. nothing from comic books, RPGs, Star Trek/Wars, LoTR, etc.

for example, my wife wants to use Xavier if we ever have a boy, and i said, "then i'd have to shave him bald and call him Professor".

i was in a comic book shop once, and a dad brought his little boy... Logan... in with him. i had to cringe.

 

[Tiberius]

I'd love to name a kid Gaius (in the "I'd never really be that cruel, but like to think about it" kind of way) after Caesar. I suspect my wife would disagree. I'm not sure if BSG's Baltar counts as ammo for or against my case.

Still, this is the woman who suggested displaying the Colossal Red mini towering over the Nativity scene in the living room, so there may be hope yet.

 

[lukelightning]

I'd love to name a kid Gaius...

He'd be called "Gay Ass."

 

[kenobi65]

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.

Shiny!

I guarantee you that there are a lot of young people (in their late 20s) running around named "Luke" and "Leia". Probably even a few "Darth"s.

 

[MojoGM]

It may be ok to give a kid a cool middle name (since he/she can just use the initial or not at all), I think it is crazy to give the kid a weird first name, as it can seriously impact their career later in life.

A lot of younger people do this to their kids. I'm not sure how I feel about the laws in Germany on naming kids, but I can see why they have it.