http://news.aol.com/story/_a/is-it-a-bird-...808153409990001

Why? WHY do this to your poor baby son? What did he ever do to you? You've pretty much decided that he's going to grow up to be a rapper. What if he wants to be an accountant? Poor darling baby.

I swear to you all, I have a cousin who's name is Anakin. Yes, like Skywalker/Darth Vader. No, I'm not lying or joking. That Poor Poor Baby Boy.

aww me and my friend were just talking about this there are kids at my school named thomas jefferson the third, and william williams

At least it's not Methuselah or Mulva....
"You don't know my name, do you?"
"Yes, I do!"
"What is it?"
"...Mulva?"

...Is that from Seinfeld?

ya, it is

That's awful. Even Superman... people like that shouldn't be allowed to have children.

4real is just, wow, why!?
I can see some of the more exotic names, but Superman!? I don't know it just doesn't work.

why would you do that to your kid, like seriously

and how do you tell your kid named Superman that he can't go out until he cleans his room? It's like "i'm f***ing Superman!!!"

and one of the pictures said someone wanted to name their kid Metallica hahah

I mean I do want my kids to have unique, creative names, but Superman just doesn't work as a name.

My friend is from Pennsylvania and, in his school, was a kid named Pencilvania. Yeah. Like "Pencil" then "vania." Winner.

I must say, that is quite creative....but another name I wouldn't want to use...

I'm thoroughly against the idea of Government getting to say yay or nay to what we name our children, regardless of how awful a name you want to name your child.

But I do think parents who give kids odd names are wankers. Everything from people who just give odd names like Apple and Kal-el, to people who use normal names and spell them stupid like Ambaaah (I shit you not, my mother taught a girl with that name).

When my baby sister was due in 2004 my Dad told me he and my step mother planned to give her a Khmer first name and an Anglo middle name (Khmer because she's half Cambodian), the options were Sophea (Pronounced Sop-ia not Sof-ia) and Recksmay. I forbade them from naming her Recksmay on the grounds that kids in Australia would bark at her in the playground. Needless to say her name is Sophea Christina Turner. According to that article, if it were up to the French that name wouldn't be allowed and that is uncool in my books.

I don't think that people should be able to name their kids anything with actual numbers like say, 8675309 or something, because it seems like they don't have an identidy (Actually, I think I read somewhere that that is the reason why they don't allow it, but I could be totally wrong). I would love to have my name be Treehouse, weird I know, but I would love it (I'm not going to though because I wouldn't want to have to notify everyone of the change and everything, so I plan on using it for my next pet), but I wouldn't want to name my kid that. I would be afraid they would get made fun of more that someone with a more normal name. I still want my kids to have unigue names, but I don't want to ruin their lives.

hahahaha! That made me giggle.

I'm with you on all of that. The main point of this post was to just complain about the wankitude of the parents naming their poor, defenseless baby boy "4Real".

First of all, I want to comment on the genius of the word "wankitude" which I will now use incessantly

And I totally agree with God - I disagree with government involvement, but parents should think of the children, really.

Having said that, I got pissed off when my parents refused to name my sister Zallyandro. I thought it was a fantastic name.

Years ago in Japan someone tried to name their baby son 'Akuma', which means 'devil'!
It obviously got rejected by the registry but I think they took it to the court....what idiots.
But I have no idea what the outcome was....

I don't understand why you would want to name them that.
Then again, they might have worshiped the devil. Hmm.

It reminds me of a kid in Aus who was refused admission to a Catholic school 'cause his last name was Hell... yeah you don't choose your last name but it reminded me lol.

Aww that's sad

Oh that's awful. I'm all for strange and exotic names, but Superman? Honestly. Spiderman is pretty bad too. There was a Facebook group that was like, "If this many people join this group my finaceé will let me name our second child Spiderman." Needless to say she dumped his ass.

Anyways, I like funny names sometimes... though I do feel bad for the person that is the owner of that name... there's a real estate person (err, it's 5am and the title has escaped me) in my city named "George Georgopoulos"

Haha that's kind of fun. I personally would love some crazy name, as I said earlier, but I would be worried my child would get picked on or something, so I wouldn't do it.

lol second child? She was stupid enough to have one child with that guy?

Hmm, look what I came across:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Its_a_M...how/2286727.cms
Some people wanted to name their baby "@"
But it kind of has a cute reason. 4real and Superman don't.

Hahhaha, that's horrible, but sort of funny at the same time. the Ambaaah part. hahahah wow.


It makes me think of an episode of Best Week Ever on VH1, and everyone was talking about the weird ass names they've been giving their kids, and Patton Oswalt made a comment that has stuck with me forever. He was like "What are celebrities doing these days? Do they open up a dictionary and pick the first two words they see and name their kid that way? Like they open it to 'STeelwool' and 'Wombat' STEELWOOL WOMBAT! THAT'S YOUR NAME"

but seriously though...


there were two kids, not from my area, but their last name was Rhea (like ree-ya) and they named their kids Beta and Diah... yep. Diah Rhea. that's fucking disgusting on the parents part

aw, that is kinda cute. and personally, I don't think '@' would be such a bad name, it'd be kinda cool, but I would never name a kid that.

a woman I knew named her daughter "armandea" after the character "armand' from Interview With a Vampire... but I always thought that was kinda cool, haha. and at least it sounds like a real, albeit weird, name.

at one point I wanted to have four kids, named Gretta, Johnny, Gareth, and i can't remeber the fourth one's name but it was a boy... so fairly normal names.
then I wanted to name them Arthur, Lan, and Gareth. but then I decided that I didn't like the name Arthur, and Lancelot was kind of a big tough jerk in the story, so that wouldn't work.
I still love the name Gareth though. and Lan reminds me of a character from another book, full name Lavan, not related to King Arthur, so I could still use that.

sorry, that was a bad tangent haha. but oh well.

For years now, my sister has decided that her kids are to be named "Scaffolding" and "Pharmacy".

Pure evil, I'm telling you.

At least Pharmacy can go by Macy. But Scaffolding is just screwed. That's so mean.

I heard a story, one of my co-worker's family members works in the neo-natal ICU, and they get a lot of crack babies in there. Including one named Crack Cocaine.

At least it won't be hard to Social Services to spot that there's a problem there.

I have a Great Aunt Anil.


And I'm totally serious.