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

[BrooklynKnight]

For years, i've wanted to name my first daughter Kaylie-Amarice.

 

[Umbran]

Lillita? Lolita. Not much better.

Eh, most grade school kids won't know what a "Lolita" is. Plus, this was over 30 years ago, long before the "Long Island Lolita" nonsense that made the term popular again.

 

[Seonaid]

I've always said that I want to name my kids traumatic things like Rock or Chanel. It's character-building.

I have a really boring name (first, middle, and last) and even though no one ever mispronounces it, it's still boring. (My claim to fame is that my first name has about a million nicknames and derivatives.) Now, though, I think I'll just name my kids something that isn't common in the United States. For example, I really like the name Brigitte pronounced the German way, not the French. Then again, I'm really hooked on "Kestrel." A lot of my characters (D&D and otherwise) are named Kestrel, or some variant thereon. It's not as odd as it could be, but it's definitely gaming-related and definitely not "normal."

Edit: I've also considered my handle as a name (and it is my name in the SCA), but I don't really like the way it's pronounced, just the way it's spelled. I like Siobhan, too, but it's become too Anglicized, in my eyes.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

We have a daughter named Ember and she gets quite a few compliments on it. Also a lot of confusion as we explain it's Ember with an E, not "Amber." Still, it's worth it. Had her matching twin been a boy, we would have named the other one Coal. As it turned out, Ember's twin sister is named Madelaine. Credit my husband for coming up with Ember.

 

[Zander]

We have a daughter named Ember... Credit my husband for coming up with Ember.

Hmmm. How old is Ember? Perhaps credit Jonathan Tweet as author of the 3.0 PHB.

BTW Pretty name.

 

[Axegrrl]

> I have a friend who named *himself* after his D&D character.

Heh. My first AD&D character's name became my computer ID in college. As it happened, my advisor's wife and I had the same given name. When he went through a messy divorce, he started calling me by my computer ID name (and we were all extra-nice to him on days he did that, 'cause we figured it meant he was having a really bad day with the divorce procedings).

Years later, I moved -- and the local friend knew me from my computer ID thru GMAST-L. It was sooo much easier to go with that name, rather than having him explain the name variance....

So my current name is that of my original D&D character...who was named after a very minor character in a book by Madeline L'Engle.


I know of at least two guys who've used multiple names, at least one of which has been an RPG character.

 

[Silver Moon]

My wife and I had a rule that we would not use D&D character names for our children's names. Although she and I each have a PC named for two of her siblings. And I often use work associate names for NPC's.

 

[orchid blossom]

My friend and her husband named their son Grayson. He's a big fan of Nightwing, but she wouldn't go with a more obvious reference. With Grayson, those in the loop will guess, and those not will just think it's an unusual name.

They named their daughter Jade. Not that unusual, but they picked it from the Green Lantern's girlfriend, I believe.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Names also go in cycles. My grandparents were stongly against my parents naming me Zachary, because it was "such an old name." No one was named "Zachary" anymore! But then, in the late seventies, all of the sudden the name exploded in popularity, and has increased every since.

The thanks for that one may need to go to John Denver...

But seriously, I honestly think Mystra, Auril and especially Talona are nice names (especially when pronounced in Dutch).

Hopefully, when pronouned in Dutch, the second one doesn't sound like "Oral" which would be a tough name to be saddled with in the US.

On a personal note, when my brother (a big fan of the Avengers TV show in the '60s) found out we had named my daughter Emma, his first question was whether her middle name was "Peel."

-Dave

 

[Hardhead]

The thanks for that one may need to go to John Denver...

Porbably right.


This is sort of the opposite, but I once named a character of mine after a RL friend. It was in a modern day setting using the Alternity rules, and I wanted to make him a minor celebrity. I was trying to think of a "Hollywood" type name, when I thought of my friend Jayson's last name - Hammer. So I asked Jayson what his middle name was.

"Jayson. I don't go by my first name."

"Then what's your first name?"

"Christopher"

Thus, my action star PC was born - Chris Hammer.