Oh, hurray for being a nerd!

[El Pollo Guerrera]

A friend of mine has a son named Raiden.

Named after the Japanese god of thunder, not the video game.

So he claims...

[cinema guy]

... so she decided to pick a name out of the book she was reading at the time.

She saved the book... and gave it to me on my 17th birthday.

I'm named after a whore house's madame in a trashy 70's romance novel based in the Old West. *shudders and facepalms*

Wow.

While picking a nice name from a book is one way to come up with a name, if the book is of less than stellar quality and the character of a dubious nature, your offspring really doesn't need to know that part.

Still it could be worse. "I was watching Psycho while I was pregnant and decided Norman was a nice name for a boy."

[Mishi]

My husband argued for about 6 months while I was pregnant in order for me to relent and allow him to call our eldest daughter a nerdy name, with the compromise of a common middle name in case she hates her first name. I watched all of ST: DS9 before admitting that I liked the character enough to name a kid after her. That's right, JazzyBee's first name is Jadzia. We continued the theme with our second daughter, but there were no arguments about the name. Kaylee is common enough that most people don't get the 'nerdy' link.

[Flying Grype]

I don't want kids... but I will name my cats either Aubrey & Maturin (if they're boys) or Meryl & Millie (if they're girls).

[AyreBiskits]

i saw the name Logan and thought "cool, do you have a sister named Jessica?"

we had 2 cats named calvin and hobbes. calvin was always getting into trouble , go figure. lol

and if we ever had kids and one of them was a boy, we were going to name him James Tiberius.

[Geek King]

A friend of mine has a son named Raiden.

Named after the Japanese god of thunder, not the video game.

So he claims...

Er, the video game, both the overhead shooter, and the Mortal Combat character, were named after the Japanese god of thunder. He's not foolin' anyone!

[lordlundar]

I got teased for my first name all. the. time. in school.

It's Autumn.

Yes, I though I was named after the season as well.

I'm named after a whore house's madame in a trashy 70's romance novel based in the Old West. *shudders and facepalms*

Well, if anyone asks, you can say"yes, I'm named after the season." After all, it would be the preferable choice.

Er, the video game, both the overhead shooter, and the Mortal Kombat character, were named after the Japanese god of thunder. He's not foolin' anyone!

Considering in the Mortal Kombat Universe, Raiden IS the the god of thunder. So even if he can claim "not named after a game character, honest!", he still doesn't have much of a solid footing there.

[Imogene]

Hi, I'm Matt Steele.

I used to work with a Lee Steele, and I just had to laugh every time we crossed paths, cause it was such a porn star/action hero name... and I could never get the vision of a James Bond type going around beating people to death with dildos out of my head...

[Becks]

A girl I've worked with is named April. Middle name--May.


When was she born? Early March.

[kowalski65]

One of my sons has a normal name-Cameron, but from an unusual source...we didnt know what to call a boy, and as we drove up the motorway, saw a lorry with "Cameron Trucking" on it! hey Presto, one kid named! Good thing it wasnt an Eddie Stobart or Norbert Dentressangle lorry

Another daughter has a more unusual middle name..named after Lyekka, the man eating plant woman from the TV series Lexx, although we didnt know how to spell it & it ended up 'Leika'

[JustaCashier]

That's funny, Beck's. Even before I got down to your post just now, I had remembered, and was going to post about this Merchant Teller I used to go to around 20 years ago.

Her name was April, and so I commented about it one time, (likely with the month of April about to come up, or already there) wondering the exact date of her Birthday. She said it wasn't in April, but some other month that I don't recall.

Turns out, when her mom was pregnant with her older brother, who was due in April, they decided they would name the baby that, if it was a girl. Since it ended up being a boy they, of course, came up with another name.

However, when she was born, they still liked the name so much, they decided to give it to her.

Mike

[chainedbarista]

i have a not too distant ancestor with an odd one:

aura izora

i'm not ever gonna ask the origins of that one.

mine's pretty odd too; makes me think of southern belles and antebellum mansions. where am i from? washington state...go figure.

[ThirdGenRetail]

I got teased for my first name all. the. time. in school.

It's Autumn.

Yes, I though I was named after the season as well.

...

...

Until I turned 17 and my mom decided to tell me the origin of my name.

Apparently, she was on quite a trashy romance kick when she was pregnant with me. She didn't find out she was pregnant until less than 2 1/2 months before I was born, so she decided to pick a name out of the book she was reading at the time.

She saved the book... and gave it to me on my 17th birthday.

I'm named after a whore house's madame in a trashy 70's romance novel based in the Old West. *shudders and facepalms*

My name origins bite just a bit less now... -Gives cupcake-

[Munkie]

when I was in my final year of high school, a friend of a friend had a son named Raistlin.

ANd I've always wanted to name any boy child I have "Vanyel" and a girl child "Amaryllis" *shrug*

[ThirdGenRetail]

You know, Munkie... I know exactly the reference your friend's friend made with that name... *Totally read one of the books* .. I wonder, if I named a daughter Susan, would anyone get THAT reference...?