My daughter is named after my wife's first PC!

[pensiv]

I'm often told that my son's name sounds like it should be an RPG or SF character.

Gabriel Ash.

My wife will tell you that his middle name is for Ash in Evil Dead. I will tell you, depending on my mood that his middle name is for the tree, or for Ash in Pokemon. A couple of my friends will tell you that he's going to be called GayBash in school.

 

[Ferret]

If I have a some I might call him Nicholas, but it's early days yet (I'm 15).

What? oh sorry that had nothing to do with any kind of RPG.

 

[kengar]

I'm often told that my son's name sounds like it should be an RPG or SF character.

Gabriel Ash.

My wife will tell you that his middle name is for Ash in Evil Dead. I will tell you, depending on my mood that his middle name is for the tree, or for Ash in Pokemon. A couple of my friends will tell you that he's going to be called GayBash in school.

More likely GayA$$, but kids are cruel. No name is safe.

 

[Frostmarrow]

My son's second name is Dante. It makes me think of Las Vegas for some reason. It's a cool sounding name which I've used for several characters in the past.

 

[tonym]

...Anyone here got kids named after D&D characters?

Kinda. The name for my daughter came from an NPC of mine, not a PC. The NPC was named Sindil--a powerful wizard in my 2E campaign.

Some years later, when my wife was pregnant, I pitched that name to her. She liked the name, but not the spelling (the "SIN" part, specifically)...So she came up with a new spelling: Cyndil. Which is what we used.

Adding another layer of geekiness to this already geeky story, I may've been influenced in the naming of my NPC by the Star Wars "Ewok" movie, which has a curly-haired little girl with a similar name.

By the way...haha....I waited until LAST YEAR (five years) before telling my wife that Cyndil's name originated from an insane, cursed evil NPC wizard of mine who lived in the one-room belly of a gigantic Bog Toad.


Tony M

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

The Curse of the Shared Name

I've actually gotten a bit superstitious about having in-game and real-world names overlap. My wife named her first character after her pet iguana, and two sessions into the game, she announced that she had changed the character's name because her iguana died. I worked it sureptitiously into the story, and eventually, the character's name reverted. It worked out in the end, but the iguana's still dead.
My mother was raising Koi. very nice, very big koi. She wanted names for them. I named one after a gold-dragon, archmage NPC of mine, and it promtly died. I decided not to test that sort of thing again.
One more-I know a little girl named Shannari. Cute kid, but a little strange. Compared to her weird, and I mean WEIRD, parents, though, she's downright average.
I think that I'm just a little creeped out by my own superstition.

 

[Mark]

My wife wants Marcus or Alexander (or Marcus Alexander) for a boy. I just can't do it, though.

Your wife has excellent taste...

Sincererly,
Mark Alexander Clover

 

[orsal]

Anyone here got kids named after D&D characters?

No kids, but I have a friend who named *himself* after his D&D character.

Details here

Of course, my ENworld handle is the name of my first D&D character, but that's unremarkable.

 

[dinsdale]

My wife is pregnant with a girl and she has suggested on multiple occasions that we use the same name as one of my wife's long-standing LARP characters. She's not that attached to the character, but really liked the name, which is why she chose it in the first place. But somehow, I just can't bring myself to agree with the idea.

We would have considered stealing names from the LotR, but with its current popularity, I think we are going to pass.

However, middle names could be fair game.

 

[diaglo]

kids out there are lucky i didn't name them.

my character names tended to include my sense of humor.

Working in a hospital, i have seen some winners without D&D references... edit: a don't work there any more...i'm with the gov't now.

Baby Boy or Baby Girl being a common one....
Nylon
Chanel Number 5
Hu Flun Poo

these are actual names....i kid you not.