Would you name your kid after a video game character?

[sliop24]

This question came up a couple of months ago between me and my ex girlfriend (when we were still together) when she asked out of nowhere,"what would you name your kids?" I said "Sonic if its a boy, and Zelda if its a girl" needless to say she was none to pleased.

[jajaja]

None, I would never name any of my kids names from video games :)

[Querjek]

Robin Williams would.


I wouldn't, or at least, not on purpose.

[Cryomancer]

There's going to be like, a few hundred kids coming from the current generation that were spawned accidentely by FF cosplayers at conventions, and will get named after Cloud / Sephiroth / ect, and it shall be very sad.

Maybe middle names would be ok though. Like John "Digdug" Smith. Or Jane "Samus" Doe.

[garyfoo182]

Hmm its funny me and my ex-girlfriend were talking about this and i said that i would like to call a boy Kano. I think its quite a cool name and i couldn't remember where i'd heard it from. She loved it until my mate reminded me. Its bloody from Mortal Kombat! ARGH!

It's still kool though

For a boy

ZAG

[nate1749]

Sonic, huh... just tell your kid it was from the book of genesis, he'll never get through the 1st chapter of the bible anyways =)

And to answer the question - No.

[drwily008]

Random adult: "Aww such a cute little boy! What is his name."

You and wife: "He's-a Mario!"

Yes, I would and did name my kid after a game character....
.................now where is that little guy......Yoshi!!!!! Go make your self a damn quesidilla!

J/K

[Cirrus]

I would hope that no one would ever do that. It would be no worse than naming someone after a sports figure, a character from Star Wars, or any other thing, but that's still really, really bad.

[FooFighter]

My kid? no never. I did name my dog Link though. :)

[Half Cab Leroy]

I've never thought about naming a kid after a video game, but I might name mine Nicholas D. from Trigun.

[imanerd0011]

I personally would never name my kid after a video game character. Pretty lame if you ask me.
There is a kid that I met and his name is Yoshi. He is from Japan, and wasn't named after Yoshi from SMW (since this kid is at least 20 years old). When he told me his name, I said something about Mario, but I don't think he got it at all. LOL One of his friends did though, so it wasn't like I looked like a total moron.
On the topic of naming your kids after sports icons. I know this guy who named his kid "Jordan Michael" after Michael Jordan (obviously). This guy is a ratball, and also has a tatoo of a naked woman on his puny/flabby bicep. So that goes to show what kind of guy this is. LOL

[Kejoriv]

No. Thats just a guarantee to get his lunch money stolen every day, weekly wedgies and getting stuffed in lockers. LOL

[slownerveaction]

There's going to be like, a few hundred kids coming from the current generation that were spawned accidentely by FF cosplayers, and will get named after Cloud / Sephiroth / ect, and it shall be very sad.

That's the most compelling arguement for mandatory sterilization I've ever heard.

[Nebagram]

My kid? no never. I did name my dog Link though. :)

Pet names are cool. I've got this big f**k-off fish called "the bastard" (no, seriously) that I occasionally feed other, unruly fish to. In hindsight, I wish I'd called it Bowser now. :)

Anybody, though, who names their kid after a videogame character, especially something, well, unambiguous like Sephiroth or Aerith, really deserves to be neutered so that no further kids much suffer the shame.

That said, though, I am planning on naming my first kid (if male) "Duncan" after the main character of Highlander. But: a) I'm a Scot and can get away with it and b) Highlander is cool. :)

[SuperNES]

Luke.... i am your father.....
kkkkkkkshhhhhhh.......kkkkksssshhhh....kkkkkksssss shhhh

erm, well, probably not, but it's still cool to imagine. if i get a new cat (my old cat kicked the bucket) i'm gonna name him blinx.

[sliop24]

Sonic, huh... just tell your kid it was from the book of genesis, he'll never get through the 1st chapter of the bible anyways =)

And to answer the question - No.

Well im convinced. I will now name my child after the great biblical hero Sonic. Who went forth and freed all thy animals from Dr. Robotnik and his Death Ark.

[evil_genius]

My son is named Blaster master Basconavich

[DCVision]

There was a kids name Skylar in my geology class back when I was in high-school.

Skylar being the green alien chic from the Jaguar game Cybermorph.

I honestly doubt I'd name any kid after a video game character....

[evilmess]

Yeah I did, kinda.
When my wife was pregnant and we knew it was a boy then that meant I got to pick the name so I threw a couple names at her and of course Ranger was immediately shot down so my fall back choice was Brandon.

Who is named Brandon in a popular third person shooter exclusively on the PS2?

[Dangerboy]

I've had this talk with a few people, though I can't for the life of me think fo a boy's name, I'd name my daughter Kasumi. I've always loved that name from the early days of Ranma 1/2 and Gunbuster....though now I know it'd be associated with a rather well...um...defined....female ninja from Tecmo.

[DigitalSpace]

If I did, it'd be a conventional name.

[Dr. Morbis]

I don't mind names like Mario and Luigi that are real names anyway, but Sepiroth? Come on... if I ever see a kid named Sepiroth I'm going to have a talk with his parents LOL

[sharkbates]

Already did, kind of.

My wife and I liked the name Rayne, which I got from Bloodrayne, and made that our daughters middle name.

Just hope she doesn't grow up with a leather fetish and a thrist for Nazi blood. LOL

[Lady Jaye]

For a boy's name, no, most are either ridiculous or too typed... However, for a girl, some characters' names are nice, unusual yet not too weird.

Frankly, it's much better to have a rather unusual name (but not so weird as to be ridiculed) than have the same name as 15 other kids in your class.

When I was in high school, my name (Sarah) was very rare. No one in Quebec (or almost) used that name. Now, it's extremely common... And back in high school, the most common names were Julie, Melanie and Nadia (as in Nadia Comanesci, the young darling of the 1976 Olympic games).

[Lone_Monster]

Ugh, please. Naming your child after a video game character would make your child a laughingstock. If you would actually name your boy Sonic, then good luck to him. He'd need it during High School.

[dojosky]

in my old days (high school) I told my GF at that time now (my wife) ... that i wouldn't mind naming a boy Bonk lol but now i look back to that feel like I was just being stupid haha LOL ah old days and being young haha :evil:

[DCVision]

Ugh, please. Naming your child after a video game character would make your child a laughingstock. If you would actually name your boy Sonic, then good luck to him. He'd need it during High School.

I wonder if he would come out blue?

Hmm.... LOL

[Lothars]

well i could see naming my kid somthing like terra, Celes, edgar, locke, but it really depends

[retroman]

no...i would not

[Rikimaru]

No. Thats just a guarantee to get his lunch money stolen every day, weekly wedgies and getting stuffed in lockers.

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's the name that helped to make you strong."

[spider-man]

I see nothing wrong with naming your kid after some character that has a relatively normal name, at least it would be better than joe, john, or any of the other uninspired names (no offense to anyone with those names). I liked the names dante and viola (boy and girl respectively), which I got from video games (well dante from the author of the divine comedy), if I did name my kids those two names, it would be because I like the names, not because I want my kid to be a half-demon gunslinging swordsman, or a pilot of a huge mech (off-topic, but I prefered viola in a her A.I. form).

[punkoffgirl]

If I found a name that I liked, sure, why not? A name is a name. I think having some kind of meaning behind your name would be better/more interesting than having your name just because your mom opened the baby book up to that page one day. That said, I'd probably be more likely to name my children after characters in books that I've read.

[Milk]

Odd names can get annoying if their spelling or pronounciation isn't clear. Trusting my child's good name to a community which couldn't decide if the big round robot in Guardian Heroes was a Village Guard or a Village God? To the same people who brought us Zero Wing? Hell, "Lucca" is a boy's name!

[Aussie2B]

Well, if I ever had a child (not planning to, but whatever), I definitely wouldn't be so childish and selfish as to give the kid a ridiculous video game name.

Now if we're talking about a real name, I think it would be hard to NOT think of a video game in which I saw the name before. With all the games ever created and all the characters within them, I think most English names have been covered (along with many foreign names). Most of us can at least think of one game in which our name appeared.

Or maybe I'd just give the kid a name of Eastern European origin since that's what me and my boyfriend are.