fandom baby names

AITA for naming my firstborn Vash The Stampede?
Editing Help from the lovely Eve! / eve_ningmusic
Timestamps:
0:00 - 3:48 Intro
3:48 - 7:14 AITA for naming my twins after characters without knowing that the characters would develop romantic feelings for each other?
7:14 - 10:10 Does anyone know people named after fandoms in real life?
10:10 - 13:08 AITA for accidentally revealing that someone's husband named their baby after a Homestuck character which directly resulted in their pending divorce?
13:08 - 15:42 Is giving a fandom name to a child ever okay?
15:42 - 16:00 Sister Named After Hunger Games Character
16:00 - 16:40 Teacher's Son Almost Named After ATLA Character
16:40 - 18:01 Naming My Baby After A Transformer
18:01 - 19:28 A name inspired by f*ckin' Genshin Impact
19:28 - 20:16 BTS ARMY Babies
20:16 - 20:50 Can we snap people who use their children as Fandom adverts?
20:50 - 24:08 My Sister Named Her Sons After Brothers She Ships
24:08 - 27:15 How do I cope with being bullied for my siblings and I Harry Potter themed names?
27:15 - 28:17 Naming Your Children After A Fandom is Kinda Selfish
28:17 - 29:54 I’m so sick of fandom names
29:54 - 32:57 Have someone you know named their child after a fandom, if so, what do you think about it?
32:57 - 33:38 Baby Sephiroth
33:38 - 34:59 If you had to name your future child after a Genshin character, what would you choose and why?
34:59 - 38:30 If you had to name a baby subtly after your favorite Kpop group, how would you do it?
38:30 - 40:45 Video Game Baby Names and Loki
40:45 - 43:55 AITA For Naming My Baby Eddie-Munson?
43:55 - 44:43 Concluding Thoughts
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[@v1rzen]

guys, don't name your kids after fictional characters. if they're trans enough, they'll do it themselves.

[@sotragespacefullgacha1430]

😂 as a trans person I feel called out

[@mosasaurusrex1815]

​@@sotragespacefullgacha1430me too....me too.

[@etherealrosess]

REALL I RENAMED MYSELF AJAX AND THAT INTRO JUMPSCARED ME SO BAD😭

[@wilddragonsong2994]

Omg yes my best friend named himself after Nico di Angelo

[@MrFern5]

Honestly considered naming myself angouleme it’s obscure enough and could be shortened to something

[@IS2A3ELLE]

Just think going to school and your classmate is named Hatsune Miku

[@TheRealDakasch]

AHAH THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

[@wiseathena97]

I mean Miku alone is cute at least 😭

[@Someguyhere111]

I would be jelly

[@Who_evenamIanymore]

That would be cool tbh

[@Majdouline_World]

I will be Rin-Chan for that kid

[@brucereutens8730]

"My friend named his kid after his favourite archangel." "Let me guess, Michael, Gabriel?" "Lucifer."

[@trickstab7903]

Even though the name Lucifer has some bad connotations to it, it's genuinely such a badass name lol

[@Horaxus]

Tbf with the name. I have a cousin with the names of Lucia (short name Luci) and Fernanda (short name Fer) which is kind of funny if someone in the family want to nickname her. Interestingly in a highly popular TV series in my country there is a character with the same names and every other character use Lucifer as a short name.

[@harubynspades]

@@Horaxus Lucia is a great name, though it's origins are a mythological Christian saint martyr who got her eyes gouged out and her throat slit open because she was going to be executed for not wanting to marry some random guy and relinquish her Christianity and died a gruesome death :)

[@luciagarcia7590]

@@Horaxusare you my cousin?? hello???

[@lordfelidae4505]

Ah yes, the angel of ‘fuck you, all powerful tyrant!’ *gets bodied*

[@thepokepoet9482]

"This is my son, Firestar Warrior Cats and my daughter Pomi Digital Circus."

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

I WANNA THROW HANDS WITH SOMEONE THAT DOES THAT

[@BlackReshiram]

HELP FJGJGHJ

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Firestar is unironically cool as a middle or last name tho

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

@@QuantemDeconstructor yeah it would

[@PeriluneStar]

Oh no XD

[@Mx_Mc]

In ten years: my baby ranks fanfiction tropes

[@MDSpencersLs]

Coley just lifts a toddler up to the screen and has them point to whichever ones look shiny

[@static_theshapeshifter]

peeps the silver spoon pfp

[@milesgoering3755]

"What's A/B/O?"

[@BrandonVout]

​@@milesgoering3755"Well, when an Alpha and an Omega love each other very much, or if it's that time of the year..."

[@Kokkurichan]

"Mom, what's sex pollen?"

[@lidu6363]

Hot take: We should normalize people renaming _themselves_ after their favorite characters instead of forcing that on their children.

[@Eeeg_yea]

This has inspired me I will now name myself "Papyrus Undertale" (Kidding obviouslyyy)

[@animal8006]

*raises hand* I named myself after Vanitas from vnc 😭

[@GOING_POSTAL666]

that's what i did 😭thankfully no one knows where i got Tobias from

[@seguaye]

it’s giving that one guy who named himself Lucius Malfoy and tried to adopt Tom Felton 😂

[@Suited_Nat]

@@animal8006too bad I know exactly which manga and anime you are thinking of lmao

[@Farne536]

Imagine some poor poor kid gets named "Vaggie".....

[@Just-some-random170]

V A G I A N A

[@elliotangie381]

“This is why I named you after the best thing ever…”

[@jasperjazzie]

or imagine if someone named their baby angel dust lmfao. just angel or anthony are fine names but i know there's a non zero chance someone would genuinely name their baby angel dust. then the poor kid just shares a name with a drug

[@ch3rryl3m0naD3]

My chosen name is William. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been called “purple guy” or “the man behind the slaughter”….

[@rayven_ray]

Very relateable 🤝 My chosen name is Ray (which is uncommon in my country), and I can't tell either how many times people made "Ayanami Rei" reference upon introduction

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

i thought about for a time going with samantha for my chosen name, glad i didnt! :3

[@goofabella]

I used to go to school with a William and now i'm mad I never thought of that lol

[@than_487]

One of my chosen names is Thanos, cause I'm Greek and it was my grandpa's name (a nickname, but I use the full name too). I've also been called purple guy.

[@ch3rryl3m0naD3]

@@than_487 purple guys unite ‼️‼️‼️🟣

[@yourlocalpossum4744]

No way a FATHER named their CHILD after a character the have a CRUSH on. THAT'S the biggest issue here.

[@sn0wcake]

not to mention that vriska is already 13-16 years old in the comic. assuming this guy is in like, his early 20s, and read the comic when it came out, it could be a childhood crush that never went away which is the best case scenario. i guess you could argue that even then it's still a bit creepy but either way that's assuming this is even a real story at ALL, it sounds really fake to me

[@user-dw2tr2pm8k]

Vrischika/vrishchika does actually mean scorpio zodiac sign in hindi though. And i also think its fake story

[@CyHelven]

Real ones name themselves after their fav characters lmao

[@Silvery_jade]

REEAAAL

[@Caterfree10]

Trans fandom nerds rise up. /o/

[@moonoftheblood]

Ayyyy trans memes lesgo Sadly I chose basic ass name Alex (Alexis actually) instead of something cool af like Loki

[@vexywexypoo]

I literally named myself "Vex" after the hot lady from the Skyrim Theives Guild.

[@havzic2358]

deadass named myself Zagreus because of hades game and i like mythology

[@serbetlemons8475]

My cousin named her son Harry. A few months later my friends named their son Draco. These children have never met but in my head they are destined rivals.

[@swiffsunshineanimations]

they haven't met.. Yet.

[@GothVampiress]

i work in childcare. renesmees and kahleesis used to be everywhere, i've met a few castiels and kal-els, but i will NEVER forget the elementary schooler named kakashi. also important to note: zelda williams IS named after princess zelda! robin williams was a fan.

[@Sing_A_Rebel_Song]

I know several Zeldas from school 😂 I’ve actually considered it for my daughter in the future

[@thislycantomboy7087]

was looking for this comment! imo Zelda is a neat enough name on its own that it works out (plus that one LoZ ad with them genuinely uh. makes me cry)

[@frostboi77]

i think i've seen Zelda on a namelist smwhr so i feel like it's lowkey normalised enough, esp since LoZ has been around for decades by now

[@gayforitzy14]

im sorry are we just gonna ignore the elementary schooler names kakashi

[@behemothking6081]

One of my great great great grandmothers is named Zelda and my grandfather was named Burk

[@jameslaverghetta]

naming your kid after a fictional characters you are down bad for : cringe naming YOURSELF after a character you are down bad for: based as hell

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

LEMRES LEMRES WO WO

[@clyde-or-monty]

would that technically be selfce/j

[@sully42O]

@@clyde-or-montyselfcest, self love, really what’s the difference?

[@clyde-or-monty]

@@sully42O selfcest is taking "go fuck yourself" literally/j

[@msmichellewinchester]

"This is my son." "He's adorable. What"s his name?" "Rude." "I was just asking!"

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

The worst part is they probably look you in the eye and say "Rudy" and then you see how they spelled it.

[@msmichellewinchester]

@@YourWaywardDestiny As someone who's hard of hearing, this sounds like something that would happen to me 😂

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

@@msmichellewinchester Everyone who doesn't have a bit of trouble hearing would probably fill in the blanks with hope and be crushed that, no, they DID say "Rude" and they DIDN'T mishear it. Their trust in humanity would be shattered in a new way.

[@obsidianstar9089]

Rudie..

[@symonitekelidou6668]

from FF7 ?? xD

[@baintreachas]

Gonna be honest, it’s kind of hilarious that people are like “it’s okay to call your kid Luke because it’s not obviously Starwars fandom inspired” but the only reason it’s not obviously starwars fandom inspired is the fact that it’s usually Bible fandom inspired

[@Mariasouza-um8cx]

People naming their kids over their fandons Brazilians: *Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power*

[@freckledghost3085]

What’s up with Brazilian’s?

[@firefly1993]

​@@freckledghost3085 a lot

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

can u elaborate? i dont get it lol

[@o-kiku3939]

Can someone explain this??😭

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

@@freckledghost3085 from what i understand, the fans there are a bit rabid. If i was famous in a fandom, idk that i would go there lol

[@noemieslife]

Nah Eddie would have been fine but the full Eddie-Munson is just too much 😭😭

[@TheCoffeeCrow]

especially for a girl! like im all for knocking down gender roles... but society is not ready for that yet im sorry! you're child is going to be bullied!!!

[@fidly4]

Munson could've been the middle name even and she would've avoided a lot of this family drama. Well maybe not, since it was a baby girl.

[@Mitzi_21]

Could've went with Edison too, it's much better than Eddie-Munson.

[@bethanbaker7066]

I was thinking the same. Eddie would have been fine, they could even pronounce it as (ee-dee) which would make it a more like Edie which I'm pretty sure is a real female name and very similar even though it is a little old fashioned.

[@EmmaPie13]

I know they stated they didn’t want the female version of Eddie but Edina could work

[@pompadorbz9168]

i can't wait for the year 2037 when a teacher will have to do attendance on their students; Nagito, Alastor, Miku, and Dream

[@anotherrandomperson9174]

Sorry I just threw up in my mouth Did take me a bit to place “Alastor” though it’s not an overly strange name

[@methraccoon]

Alastor isn't *too* weird, at least

[@Mitzi_21]

Dream isn't that bad in my opinion, it could be worse

[@pompadorbz9168]

@@Mitzi_21 but i mean. its the implication of a child named dream in the future. because for what reason are they named dream we may never know unless we ask the dreaded question

[@diputston]

Okay miku,​alastor are fine dream? Can be translated to fit better,​nagito? If you are jp sure or translated it to be normal yeah ig that's okay ish

[@Lilcuppy]

Naming your twins after brothers you ship is just like writing their fate before they're even born

[@EyreAffair]

For "Hazbin Hotel", series creator Vivienne Medrano has confirmed that "Alastor", is, in fact, Alastor's real-life name from when he was a human and alive in the 1920s-1930s. As Alastor is thought to have been born in the 1890s or 1900s, that means Creole mom literally named her baby boy "avenger", as in "avenger of evil deeds" in Greek. ("Alastor" is an epithet of the Greek god Zeus, as associated with Nemesis, the Greek goddess of vengeance.)

[@friskybitzboi]

The guy named Optimus Prime who goes by Tim is my favorite person

[@anarchomando7707]

Hahahahahahahahajahahahajshah

[@skootergirl22]

Meg Griffin would relate

[@junoniathesilkwing4221]

I once heard a story on reddit which involved a kid named Starscream Anakin [normal last name]. I distinctly remember the sentence “Of all the Transformers to name your kid after, why the f*ck would you make it _him.”_

[@abbycantrell1369]

If you really wanted to name a child after Optimus Prime, why not just name them Orion??? Then you could just say that they're named after the constellation or something 😅

[@friskybitzboi]

@@abbycantrell1369 very true

[@ithinkthereforeiamber]

A girl I went to high school with legitimately named her daughter Daenerys and I hope she knows the hell that child will soon experience.

[@devilinred3319]

That was one of the most popular baby names since GoT achive popularity, that kid will be fine

[@russellhunter363]

She can just shorten it to Dany or Dani.

[@ithinkthereforeiamber]

@@devilinred3319 I mean I hope for the best because she was a friend and no one deserves to be bullied. I honestly expect it'll become a classic like Leia but I guess we'll see 🤷‍♀️

[@ithinkthereforeiamber]

@@russellhunter363 true!

[@arklestudios]

I wish I could've seen the looks on the faces of people who named their daughters that during the series finale. *lol*

[@BriddgetteeChee]

it's one thing for pets. like, my cat is named callie after the splatoon character. relatively normal name but pets can have insane names that people wont bat an eye at.

[@spacekid9680]

Your cat sounds cute

[@cherryblossombvllet]

Callie is a perfectly normal name tbh, for example: I went by Calliope and shorted it to Callie since people would incorrectly pronounce it as “Cah-lee-ohp” and I lost my mind

[@BriddgetteeChee]

@@cherryblossombvllet CALLIOPE IS MY CATS NAME WE JUST CALL HER CALLIE

[@RadiationAngel]

I unironically always liked the idea of the name Parker for a girl. As in, Peter Parker.. Not even in the Marvel fandom much anymore, but I still really like it. I couldn't imagine ever naming a kid after a character's FULL name, though, or as anything too identifiably fandom related.

[@user-dw2tr2pm8k]

Bro this name is giving pick me or maybe im just getting flashbacks from that one wattpad story

[@becauseimafan]

Dude, I love the TV show _Leverage_ and the greatest thief in the world is named Parker, just Parker, and she's the coolest 😁 watch a couple episodes, it's an older show but a good one! A whole team of Robin Hoods 😎

[@xstarsystemsx]

Parker IS a cute name for a girl. The trick really is not to be too obvious about it.

[@Wintermute01001]

RE: The Vriska story. I highly doubt that lying about the name was the only, or even primary, cause of the divorce. Almost certainly there's a LOT of other stuff going on and this was just the last straw.

[@voidtectonic]

Being a homestuck fan is a pretty big red flag, though. I would know because I am one.

[@vee2736]

@@voidtectonicREAL

[@oh-seecreations6308]

honestly it sounds too perfectly written to be true, like it *sounds* plausible but also i cannot fathom the existence of an adult male homestuck fan who waifus vriska *that* much to name a baby after her (especially with how controversial and memeable vriska is as a character), much less marrying an astrology-obssessed woman who apparently wont do her own research on the scorpio-inspired name (not to mention that the poster deliberately casts the husband in a bad light by using loaded language, which pretty much reveals their biases)

[@Someguyhere111]

Imagine naming your baby Mary Sue. Putting a lot of expectations on them. Not exactly a "fandom name", but my parents (or mum at least) initially wanted to call me Freddie after Freddie Mercury. They didn't in the end though.

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

That would've been cool! What did they go with instead?

[@Someguyhere111]

@@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 Dale, which I didn't particularly care for until KH2 came out and I realised my Organization name could be Xelda

[@clemente3966]

​@@Someguyhere111 Talk about a good coincidence then. Personally, for me it would be Xemnlect, so I wonder if I would get a bit of sympathy from Xemnas compared to the others, and that aside, that sound slike the Pokemon Genesect

[@kingnightmarevin]

​@@Someguyhere111welp you just helped me name one of my OCs, thanks for the idea

[@eddie-roo]

I mean, Mary Sue is quite literally THE fandom name, originating in the Star Trek fandom

[@CakeofRage]

"Cynthia Rika, you're named after the two strongest women I've ever known"

[@greenmushroom2126]

Cynthia is a very normal name tho. You can always say that it is derived from Hyacintus.

[@thetraitor9890]

I would name a child Cecil. It's not really subtle, but it's already a real name and I think that not many people would recognise it as fandom-inspired.

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

invincible?

[@annajensen7360]

@@AmyCherryLMAO I thought Welcome to Nightvale

[@Winter_bomb10]

Black Butler?

[@shadowthephoenix1]

My first thought was Cecil from ff4, not sure if thats the reference or something else lol

[@thetraitor9890]

@@annajensen7360 Yeah! That was the inspo haha

[@kitkat108]

I'm Norwegian-American, and I've got a little cousin named Thor (pronounced Tor). It's fine now because they live in a small very Norwegian town where people get it, but I know someday he'll go out into the world where everyone will think it's a fandom name. The amount of people I've met who only connect Norse mythology to the MCU is startling.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Namin my kid Nidhoggr

[@mggardiner4066]

That’s fine in Norway or if you clearly have Scandinavian roots, I’m sure that was a common name there before comics got big. I have a cousin who named their daughter Freya because they are big viking/norse fans. It stands out though as they aren’t at all connected with that heritage or even in a part of the USA that Nordic names are common

[@PosiWritesStories]

"Thanos" is also a relatively common name in Greece. A Greek guy I used to talk to on Discord claimed he's known a few different people named Thanos.

[@fangirl38]

I’m Canadian, but whenever I overhear my friends talking about Loki I immediately think of Loki from the myths. I keep forgetting that the MCU basically highjacked mythology- 😅

[@typoriver3651]

I always wonder how the few people I know named Rudolph get around being associated with the western "red nosed reindeer"

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

I’m with you, Coley. Naming a kid after a fandom should only be done if it’s subtle enough to maintain plausible deniability. If you’re a Heroes of Olympus fan and you name your kid Frank, you’re probably fine; Frank’s a common name among both real people and fictional characters. If you’re into Circle of Magic and you name your child Rosie, the fact that Rosie is Lark’s nickname for Rosethorn almost certainly won’t be the first thing that comes to mind even among other Circle of Magic fans. However, if you name your baby Buffy, no one’s going to think of anything but Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Little baby Anakin is going to be followed by Star Wars references for the rest of their life or until they get sick of it and change their name. The thing more people need to think about when naming babies is that they don’t stay babies. Imagine having to go through high school as Optimus Prime, or apply to jobs as Twilight Sparkle. Imagine being saddled with a name from a fandom that your parents love, but you yourself don’t care about or even actively dislike. Expectant parents should think really hard about whether that’s what they want for their kids.

[@Ostralucia]

:0 heroes of olympus mentioned

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

Funny story-my mom always wanted to name a daughter Hermione after the queen from The Winter’s Tale, but the Harry Potter books came out five years before I was born, so she gave up on the name because she didn’t want it to look like she’d named me after the Harry Potter character, and I was named Tsifira instead, which is a name I’ve never heard of anyone else having. My little sister’s name is Adara, and it wasn’t until years later, when I started reading the Belgariad, a fantasy series my mom read as a kid, that she realized she’d accidentally named my sister after the main character’s cousin.

[@ariesaxis1682]

@@tsifirakiehl4250 Its been a while since I've heard of the Belgariad

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

Canadian people might think of Buffy Saint-James

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

@@tsifirakiehl4250 my mom's birth name is adara!

[@edtheturtle]

I know a family with the LAST name Batman. Yes, its pronounced the same way.

[@Byrdffv]

To be fair batman IS just a name, in australia theres several places named after John Batman, and he was from the 1800s.

[@bigjedimullet]

Isn’t Batman a Turkish word?

[@cosmicredpanda2420]

This reminds me of the couple who named their baby “Dragonborn” to get free Bethesda games for life

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

i sure do wonder where baby dovahkiin is now

[@cosmicredpanda2420]

@@AmyCherryLMAO Probably in middle school. I feel old

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

@@cosmicredpanda2420 he's my little brother's age, so yeah he is actually lmao

[@cosmicredpanda2420]

@@AmyCherryLMAO there’s a little but non-zero chance that they’re class mates

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

​@@cosmicredpanda2420He's got a normal name now, luckily for him

[@8bitgalaxy98]

People: “who names their baby Aziraphale??” Human AU authors: 🧍

[@user-wm1yc2gk2w]

I love when they go 'well my parents told me it's biblical but I couldn't find it anywhere in the Bible...

[@Moocow2003]

real ones have everyone else assume his name is Ezra

[@clarissarojas7959]

Gonna name my daughter Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way ❤

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

THE FORBIDDEN NAME

[@uncommonusername]

Shorten it to Dementia. Gonna name my little baby girl Dementia Raven Smith ❤️❤️.

[@becauseimafan]

​@@uncommonusername "and this is our daughter, Salmonella! Why yes it is a unique name, we just thought it sounded pretty, and only learned you can get very sick from it long after filling out the paperwork, so the name stuck!" 😆

[@amelieh9499]

i had a classmate in high school named hedvig. this was not a hp ref bc we were several years older than the book but ofc people constantly kept making the reference. she literally introduced hereself as "hedvig. no, not like the owl" every time and was so obviously sick of it. poor girl.

[@nyoaeuikhoudu]

I have a two friends (twins) named Elsa and Annabella, they're 19, so the were in elementary school by the time frozen came out, but I know they always get questions about it (moreso Elsa, because Belle doesn't go by her full name)

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

i mean elsa is a very popular name in nordic/scandinavian and slavic countries like finland estonia and denmark for example so it isn’t that too out of place, maybe it’s just me being used to growing up in a town with a large dutch majority population tho

[@kitkatkk2543]

There's a girl named Elsa a few years younger than me at my school. She was born before Frozen ('09), but the jokes were incessant.

[@valentine8409]

I think fandom names work best for pets, but something classy like Darcy might work for a human child.

[@Chosen_Cartoons]

Yes 100% cheesy book names for pets/plushies/ even nicknames for your loved ones are completely acceptable and cute! Personally I side with you on fandom baby names classier names that doesn’t immidiatley sound like a fandom name names like Peter, Stephen, Jason even a more unique name such as Clay, Penelope, and Flyyn you could get away with but the second you whip out Perseus, Skywalker, and Bucky EVERYONE Is gonna know

[@VanNessy97]

Or Marcy and Darcy for identical twins

[@Someguyhere111]

@@VanNessy97 Marcy: *chuckles* I'm in danger

[@skootergirl22]

My sister named all her pets after bands, singers, actors, book authors, three gerbil sisters called misty, dusty, gypsy, two Russian hamster brothers Frank and Dean, one Syrian blonde hamster who's name was Marilyn Monroe and a dachshund mix called bronte

[@kristhedumbass6281]

But does Darcy dancr, though?

[@wolflee6618]

While watching this I had a cursed thought…… Warrior cats baby names….. “This is my son, Fireheart.”

[@jadethenidoran]

Even that has a few that wouldn't be too bad. Probably way more if you shortened them. Cinder from Cinderpelt/heart, Jake, Barley might be a little odd, Raven from Ravenpaw, Jay from Jayfeather...

[@anikbrinckerhoff1037]

Yeah you could get a few of the prefixes as decent names (Holly, Ivy, Heather, Rowan) and since the prefixes are all just words you could presumably get names that when translated mean the prefix otherwise.

[@bigjedimullet]

hello my name is Smokeweed Riverclan

[@stormSeven]

@@anikbrinckerhoff1037No we should all name children like warrior cats. Crybaby, Paleskin, Bigfoot, Shortleg would be common

[@rightsock_asock5574]

Naming my kid firekit, he’ll have to get the rest of it as he grows up

[@theletters9623]

I remember seeing a tierlist of how normal homestuck names would seem if you named a Real Child that, all the kids names at the These Are Just Human Names tier (John, Rose, Dave, Jade, Dirk, Roxy, Jane, Jake), followed by names like like Aradia and Eridan where people are just gonna assume you're being Pretentious or something, then "uhhhh" tier with Equius and Caliborn and names that a standard person wouldnt necessarily clock but would definitely gawk at, followed by Vriska and Karkat in the "DO NOT NAME YOUR CHILD THIS" tier

[@Chimervera]

My sister was named Tegan after the Dr Who companion, which honestly is on the more reasonable side of fandom names. My mum chose that one specifically because that companion was Australian, and so are we. On the other hand, one of my mum's friends has a grandkid named Atreus, from God of War

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Not Atreus from Greek History?

[@cramerfloro5936]

The Zelda discussion is really funny to me. Because Robin Williams called his daughter after the games. And game Zelda is named after Zelda Fitzgerald. And Zelda gained popularity because of the famous character Grizelda (Griselda) from Boccaccio’s Decameron (she later also appeared in Petrarch’s writings and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales)

[@Rathdrgnknight]

Literally came down to the comments looking for this.

[@miralang8149]

That's actually really interesting.

[@lanagomisc.6005]

The fan name to end all fan names.

[@chrisheartman9263]

Honestly Zelda fucks as a name. BUT, as a person with a deadname of a Princess (from a mythology), I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Everyone will put inhumane expectations on you or will make fun of you for having an awesome name. At the end I landed on "Chris" as a chosen name. Literally one of the most "just a random dude" name. Hell, I met a person named fucking "Chris" in my home city and we're NOT in an English speaking nation.

[@anonymous_jewels2186]

I’m a Good Omens fan and I could not IMAGINE reading the book and thinking “ Aziraphale and Crowley are definitely just best buddies” WHATSOEVER (they go on dates like daily)

[@anonymous_jewels2186]

Also meeting a human Aziraphale is crazy

[@FerretKibble]

Comp-het brain is a thing...

[@starlydonati2008]

The fact they saw it as best buddies is significant evidence that they were purely straight

[@anonymous_jewels2186]

@@starlydonati2008 Aziraphale and Crowley or the parents?

[@starlydonati2008]

@@anonymous_jewels2186 the parents. The fact the parents saw Aziraphale and Crowley as just friends is evidence that the parents are straight because if they were any flavor of queer, I’d expect them to at least see some merit to the idea even if they personally didn’t like that interpretation

[@drowsy_aster]

When I was five, my mom was pregnant with my sister and asked for name suggestions. I told her to name her “Abby Cadabby” after the character from Sesame Street. Thankfully my parents just named her Abby, but she still isn’t happy with me for it to this day.

[@kitkatkk2543]

My old cat was named Abby Caddaby. I was like 5 when we got her, and I don't think she was too broken up over the name, being a cat.

[@frostboi77]

tbf she asked a 5y/o, what was she expecting? some astrology-related name with a buttload of symbolism behind it?

[@sophiahawkins2241]

My brother’s name is technically fandom inspired. His initials were done so he’d share them with an author/poet they like (can’t remember) and his name is pulled from a book they like, but other than being a generally niche name, it’s not too out there.

[@saraayala7283]

I asked my mom her opinions on this topic and she said “let the parents name their child whatever they want, but they should be forced to pay for the name change when the child asks for it.” I was named Sara after The Little Princess, but it’s such a common name that you would never guess that’s where it’s from. I love my name though so I won’t for her to pay.

[@aliciam6145]

Sara Crewe is a pretty cool character to be named after imo, I love that book (and I hope you do too haha)

[@finleychaplin2945]

As an asexual person who grew without internet or civilization. Your videos are fascinating and horrifying. Thank you for delving into the abyses of the human psyche for our entertainment

[@black_nerdy]

I'm asexual too and social awkward 🍰

[@YumnuP]

That is the best and most accurate description for Coley's channel I've ever heard of.

[@CHEESEPUFF_7]

As an Asexual who did grow up with the internet, this channel helps me understand what on earth is going on

[@miralang8149]

Hey there! I'm asexual too, all my favorite baby names are most likely going to be given to cats.

[@naoki5579]

I'm AroAce, but I kinda don't like how high maintenance pets can be so I'll probably completely miss out to name anything after fandom.

[@obiwan-in-a-pudding2909]

My cousin has a 9 year old son called Destiel. I'm sure if she had twins they might be called Dean and Cas like that one lady.

[@arcticg7644]

A now estranged cousin and her husband named their son Gotham after the city where Batman lives. I would be willing to bet money that the kid gets called “got ham” on the playground. Yes, this was intentional. They took a family photo right after his birth where they all wore Batman shirts. Thankfully he has a normal middle name so maybe he’ll just switch to that one day.

[@mrh8142]

An ex-friend had the last name "Walker" and her parents gave her the middle name "Sky" - honestly, I appreciate her parents for making it her middle name instead of first

[@blackgirlmagicc]

One of my best friends last name is walker and her dad is a huge star wars fan so she got the middle name sky too she also got the first name Liea luckily she also loves Star Wars maybe even more than her dad so she’s pretty happy with it

[@spaghetti4659]

that's kind of awesome actually

[@zeynepnaztuzun4125]

Look, they didn't create a new name out of nowhere. They saw an opportunity and honestly mad respect.

[@junoniathesilkwing4221]

I’ve heard another story like this about a set of twins, thankfully they both had “normal” first names iirc

[@thepaninpanic]

okay but mario is a classic italian name, nintendo can't take that from us! my zio (uncle) is named mario, along with a cousin of mine. i'm sure any people from italy can vouch that it's a completely normal name

[@BJGvideos]

Yeah and the character is named for Mario Segale, a landlord.

[@Alias_Anybody]

It was actually very common in other European countries too, at least pre 1980. If you are a big Mario fan but want to be more subtle, what about Marius and Ludwig?

[@lemonace6695]

Mario is common on Brazil too. The one problem of being a brazilian child named Mario is that there's a common teen joke about Mario fucking you behind a closet (because closet is armário and it rhymes).

[@Hani-fk1qb]

i knew a kid named mario in middle school and he wasn’t italian, can’t imagine how many "like the nintendo guy?!" comments he got LOL

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Used to work with an italian guy who was fairly old, named Mario

[@AngieEnder]

When the kpop segment started I immediately thought Stacy for STAYC as it's the only kpop group I listen to and I always have to explain to people that the c is at the end. Glad to see that a fellow internet user had the same idea later on

[@LaPrincipessaNuova]

That knocking sound effect scared me. I jumped up and pulled off my headphones and ran to the window thinking someone had just knocked on my bedroom window.

[@wishley2004]

SAME lmao

[@becauseimafan]

Same!! 🤭

[@sakuraemerald3288]

The janitor at my grade school’s last name was legitimately Skywalker so his parents named him Anakin. He used to dress up as Darth Vader for Halloween and we all thought he was awesome.

[@orenda1502]

Fun fact! "Madison" wasn't a first name until the 80s movie Splash. The main character sees Madison Avenue and decides that's gonna be her name. The male lead also says "you can't be thay, that's not a name" now it's one of the most common girl names. All feom people who liked the movie!

[@raeganj6744]

Splash has a ridiculous amount of cultural impact for a movie I’ve never heard anyone mention irl

[@squarefrog7932]

@@raeganj6744 well you could say that it. Made a splash….

[@treekangaroo.7691]

It was a first name, but it was a masculine one used mostly in the south

[@valdi4748]

My uncle is a really big anime and video games guy who grew up in the early 2000s. When he got married, he and his wife choose to name their first born son Levi Leon Lopez. Levi from AOT and Leon from Resident Evil. He had both characters painted in the wall of the nursery. Very cool uncle.

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Levi and Leon are both really cool names in isolation

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

I think Levi is ok, like it is ridiculously popular right now even without Atrack on Titan so he might have to deal with being like one of multiple Levi’s in his class

[@Moocow2003]

Levi is actually a really cool name icl

[@mouhitorinoboku9655]

their was a couple when i worked at walmart years ago, who named their kids: Lilith, Lucifer, and Azazel... just wtf, i got being a fan of supernatural, but you could have chosen angel names and avoided traumatizing your children with foul name choices. i would choke on air if i met a kid named Vaggie... good lord. my aunt has a cat named loki, he lives down to his name... he's a fluffy troublemaker.

[@andromeda_va39]

I can see Loki working very well as a name for a cat

[@sebthesmoll]

The fact that I instantly recognized the Good Omens baby names story, since I read about the post when it first came out, is kinda funny to me lmao

[@ItzMuffinzz]

Same man, I knew exactly what the series was like half way through describing it

[@lilyhawthorne1196]

​@@ItzMuffinzzSame 💀 I unfortunately did not get to read the post as I make a habit of staying as far away from reddit as humanly possible but I clocked it almost immediately and I am actively shitting myself

[@SmerkyRandomised]

Howww, i didn't even clock it despite being really into the fandom, my first thought was supernatural (maybe because it was talking about incest lol-) and then i was like nahhh, can't be Can't believe they actually named their kids after an angel and a demon though, and they're such complicated names too, like whatt-

[@ItzMuffinzz]

@@SmerkyRandomised What confuses me is how they thought nobody would question the names Crowley and Aziraphale. Ignoring the fact that people in the fandom would DEFINITELY notice, even if you aren’t in the fandom it’s clear the names are from something.

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

Omg i was 3 sentences into that explanation like... please tell me you did not name your kids after an angel and a demon lol. And saying that the book was obscure seemed weird to me, as Neil Gaiman has been very popular for decades?? Everyone i knew that read the book back then felt it was queer coded (we were sadly closeted against our will back then).

[@luiscorte8]

List of forbidden baby names according to the Mexican Civil Registry (Registro Civil de México): Seiya, Goku, Vegeta, Astroboy de Dios (Astroboy pf God), Gohan, Naruto, and the list GOES ON!

[@machinegunlament]

Seiya is a normal Japanese name actually! It's my friend's husband's name actually

[@olivinemage4233]

"Astroboy of god" 😂🤣 why thooo

[@mysticrose2000]

does this mean you can still name your child Astroboy, just not Astroboy de Dios?

[@scarlet5122]

Should add angel dust onto that list

[@Suited_Nat]

@@machinegunlamentthat’s totally fair lmao! I think the comment is just talking about how it’s not as common in Mexico

[@august.pathetic]

thinking about the kid who's parents named JOHNKARKET AFTER THE SHIP!!! the original post is 12 years old so johnkarkat is probably old enough to discover homestuck now

[@CelestialSushi]

According to the date, last year he turned 13, so he was finally given his name. ...wait

[@august.pathetic]

@@CelestialSushi oh my gog…

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Oh no...

[@itsjustme6334]

We should save the really unique fandom names for our pets. If it fits, I will totally name my next cat Pidge.

[@georgeaber4113]

You should get a pigeon and name it pidge

[@Mars127]

Seeing "baby Vriska" in the thumbnail and then the context right at the beginning of the video has me mortified 😭😭😭

[@thekaticorn99]

it’s always wild to me when a piece of media has names that can pass as non-fandom names but the parents still choose the obvious names, like naming their son spider-man when they could have just gone with miles or peter

[@trickstab7903]

There's plenty of normal sounding Fandom names Alastor Millie Luke Rey Finn Peter Miles Patrick Mario & Luigi(only if your Italian tho) Bruce Clark Barry But nah they have to go with the most obvious ones like "Optimus Blitzø Skywalker" or "Batman Bowser Banner"

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

​@@trickstab7903 awesome duuuude

[@owenjolley351]

*I’m convinced that my cousin named her daughter Daphne after Daphne Blake from Scooby Doo because it is just such a rare name nowadays.*

[@fusetunes]

i like daphne as a name because of frasier, so i get that one lol

[@mayaenglish5424]

At least that's a normal sounding name. And people won't AUTOMATICALLY assume it's because of Scooby Doo, even if they associate the name with the show.

[@Spider_hun-]

Funny story actually, my parents are BIG anime geeks, like REALLY big. And they loved all of the ideas that came with naming their child after a fandom, anime, and/or characters. So when my mother got pregnant, (and when they found out I was going to be a girl) they had their hearts set on Josephine, (Jojo for short) form Jojo’s bizarre adventure. And it’s funny because everyone used to think it was a play on from jojo siwa 😂 so that’s how I got my name! 🤣🤣❤

[@juliannesl]

The concept of naming kids (directly or indirectly) after fandom characters is actually older than you might think. * Shakespeare is credited for inventing the names Jessica (from The Merchant of Venice), Miranda (The Tempest), and Imogen (Cymbeline). * Pamela was also invented by the novel of the same name in 1740. * Mercedes is often credited to Alexandre Dumas using it for the female lead of The Count of Monte Cristo. * The video mentioned Wendy being invented by Peter Pan, which isn't exactly true (it had previously been an obscure nickname for Gwendolyn) but it is fair to say that it popularized it as a name on its own. * Shirley was previously an obscure boy's name until Charlotte Bronte named one of her books after a girl named Shirley. * Amber as a girl's first name was largely introduced by the 1940's book Forever Amber, although interestingly it didn't really take off until the 70's, long after the book had fallen into obscurity. * The meteoric rise of Jennifer in the 1970's is credited to the movie Love Story, although it had been coined in the 1900's by George Bernard Shaw. * Tiffany is often credited to the success of Breakfast At Tiffany's, although ironically that's not the name of Audrey Hepburn's character (it's Holly). * Zelda has had a several step journey - originally a variant of Hilda, it was used in two novels in the 1860's-70's, which inspired the name of Zelda Sayre (later Fitzgerald, who may have one of the earliest on-record "fandom names"), who in turn was the namesake of Princess Zelda of the Legend of Zelda, and the continued popularity of that name into the present (most notably Zelda Williams). * And to say nothing of the spikes that happen around popular movies/tv shows/etc. all the time (like Elsa around 2013). And no, I have no idea why it rarely happened to boys until the age of the internet. The biggest example I can think of is Finn getting a huge boost in the 2010's thanks to the triple whammy of Adventure Time, Glee, and The Force Awakens in only, like, five years.

[@conlon4332]

This is a cool insight, thank you for all this information.

[@Someguyhere111]

Some fandom names fall under the category of "not okay until enough people start to use it, then it's a normal name"

[@BrandonVout]

Tiffany is actually a really old name, derived from the Greek name Theophania, meaning "God appears," or "Epiphany." Girls born during the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6th) often got saddled with it (or its variants, Tiffanie, Tiffany, Tiffania, etc.). There are records of people named Tiffany or a variant going back to the 12th century. "The Tiffany Problem" is a known shorthand for history not lining up with perception, often due to viewers/readers thinking something is newer than it is.

[@pheonixrises11]

man I love the name Finn, but I wouldn’t have the guts to name a kid after popular fictional characters do love that name though. didn’t know it was in Glee, too!

[@gokbay3057]

With Zelda there is also the name Griselda/Grizelda.

[@lottie_olv]

I'm planning to have two cats and name them Asriel and Ralsei. Never will I EVER name my very-unlikely-to-be-born human child after characters tho.

[@greenstarlover1]

Pick one black and one white

[@miralang8149]

I remember discussing baby names with my older sister, who was pregnant at the time, and casually mentioned that I like the name Tulip. She just gave me a look and said "well don't put me down for little Tulip's lesbian christening". She needn't worry. I'm an atheist and Tulip's gonna be a cat.

[@Cage-CatYT]

Ralsei is such a cute name for a cat I love it!! (I say this as an avid Deltarune fan lol)

[@aino-kaisav5504]

The fandom naming of cats has been a thing in our family for years. When I was little, we had cats called by such names as Master, Darkside and Katana, for example. I myself have named several cats after Touhou characters, such as Chen and Nazrin. And when I was five, I named our dog Täplä after the Finnish name of a dog character in a kids' series called Barbapapa.

[@lottie_olv]

​@@aino-kaisav5504 I LOVED BARBAPAPA it was the one show my sister and me both liked as children :') The nostalgia

[@blueberryy4702]

I've met two people named Leia, one of them is a massive Star Wars fan and works at EB Games, the other one HATES Star Wars and resents her parents for naming her that.

[@AngelaCSpears]

Plot twist! Trek Solo could also be a Lord of the Rings reference. "Not all who wander are lost." Ha ha. Loved the little brother name, though.

[@jinx8627]

The baby named Eddie Munson is wild 😭 that story just kept going

[@PineappleLiar]

I know, right??? Like the child ended up catching the strays of a family drama and have the triple whammy of 1. Fandom name 2. Dead relative drama 3. Tangentially caused parental estrangement. Pro tip if you can see your kid bringing up their name as a talking point with their therapist, probably don’t choose that name.

[@jinx8627]

@@PineappleLiar also the baby being a girl was unexpected

[@carelesswhispersofagoodfriend]

my thoughts during the whole story was NAME YOUR CHILD NANCY like u dressed up as nancy when you met him its so perfect and u can have plausible deniability

[@jinx8627]

@@carelesswhispersofagoodfriend or name the child after the dead sister who also loved stranger things and have Eddie as the middle name. Edit: forgot that a female version of Eddie is a subtle option

[@carelesswhispersofagoodfriend]

@@jinx8627 if i died and a relative of mine named their baby after the fictional dude i simp for i'd crawl out my grave

[@raezing16]

As a teenager in the early 2010’s, I was a swim instructor that specialized in teaching kids who were between 6 months and 5 years old... I’ll never forget the session where I taught a set of 3-year-old (fraternal) triplets named Bella, Edward, and Jacob

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

🤢

[@mintbrownieangelfish-6114]

Oh noooo At least if they're not with each other it will come off okay, they're all normal names individually

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

​@@mintbrownieangelfish-6114 idk what the three names mean together good job

[@thisisavivistanaccount7866]

@@lorelaimorace-kk1xzwell those are the characters of twilight characters. Bella and Edward are together and at some point Jacob has feelings for Bella. it’s weird to name siblings after characters that had romantic implications

[@beccaowl7452]

Fandom names that aren’t disguised in a trench coat of dissolution are wild, just go with a normal sounding name from the show or the most obscure (but still not obvious) and let the mystery of a lifetime unravel from there. Not a single soul in my life knows I named my cat “Neal” after Link Neal of Rhett&Link fame, my very first fandom.

[@taroanon3]

My mom had 3 name choices for me: Sam, Dan, and Cas. Luckily my siblings got completely normal names so no one blinks an eye when my two older brothers call me Sammy. My mom is a HUGE fan of Supernatural. Luckily my older brothers were born before Supernatural came out though sometimes my mom likes to jokingly call my oldest brother "Dean"

[@dennysdonuts4918]

Edith would have been better than Eddie Munson. It's way too weird and grief is a force of nature but it's incredibly unfair to the sister, who likely was delusional at death (or just dreaming about an easy entry into the afterlife, and pulled for comfort). She wouldn't have seen the baby at her death, assuming the afterlife and the source of souls are different (not sure about that but whatever, not religious). Edith is a subtle but fitting nod, and allows the child to grow up without the weight of their aunt's death, and mother's grief, on their shoulders.

[@soofiesss]

Ettie too, without munson its completely different

[@Moocow2003]

or Edie pronounced ee dee

[@Spartacus005]

I feel like with your story about Zuko, if the teacher is asking a bunch of 11 year olds, she's almost kind of asking for it!

[@marykateharmon]

With the Transformer things, I don't see why people don't at least translate/extrapolate the names. I came up with a couple when coming up with names for possible Human AUs because I kept being annoyed by how many transformers human aus just acted like the transformers names were something a human would actually be named.

[@marykateharmon]

Some examples: For Optimus Prime, I just went for him being Orion Pax as his original name works well enough as a regular human name. You could even do Orionis. Megatron became Donald, due to Donald meaning King. Ratchet became Jason Ratch as Jason means healer and Ratch is a real last name (and a Nurse Ratch was the source of Ratchet's name in the first place). Jazz became Artie Armstrong, referencing Artie Shaw and Louis Armstrong, both major Jazz musicians. Starscream I'm especially proud of because I was able to translate it to Aster Schieher, with the german last name meaning "town crier". Then in an interation of him I came up with where he became Catholic, he took on the patron saint name of Joseph for the flying monk, the patron saint of pilots.

[@TheDimensionDweller]

The Sam and Dean twins one can't be real.

[@itzpluuto]

My dad's two options for my name were Satine and Fantine. Both fictional prostitutes thankfully my mother stepped in and named me something nicer

[@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere]

Not duchess Satine from Star Wars? A shame. Wait, two fictional prostitutes...?

[@variablecheesecake]

is/was your dad a theater kid by any chance?

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

What did they go with instead?

[@nuclearkid5201]

I met a guy at university named Aslan. And I've always wanted to write a scene where the protagonist meets a character named Bilbo. The protagonist says 'Hey, like the hobbit!' and Bilbo says 'like the what?'

[@Ali-mv3jc]

Aslan is a legitimate name! My cousin is called Aslan, its a (commonish) turkish Muslim baby name. Typically pronounced like Uz-laan.

[@lovetolovefairytales]

I was a HUGE Narnia fan girl as a teen and I'd probably squeal if I ever met someone named Aslan not gonna lie. My bio dad once pissed me off by saying I couldn't name my future hypothetical child Edmund because it was a Narnia name and so I threatened to name his future grandson Charlie Bilbo instead. That shut him up.

[@starlillip]

I'm actually named after Aslan from Chronicles of Narnia. I was scrolling and hoping to see if anyone else was on a similar boat!

[@Spartacus005]

@@lovetolovefairytales Edmund is a GREAT name! (though I'll admit the definite Narnia influence in thinking that!)

[@OnePieceOfEt]

Aslan means lion in turkısh ❤ and It's not very common but perfectly acceptable name here

[@jojoyjules]

I was looking through a list of names given to babies born in my city in 2021, and there was a baby boy named Brandon Goku. I often wonder how that kid is doing.

[@elliotangie381]

As one of my wiser friends once said…”We should really normalize changing names, especially at a younger age.”

[@xstar4698]

Imagine going to class and your classmate was named Charlie Morningstar Richardson 💀💀💀

[@scarlet5122]

Worse Angel dust

[@xstar4698]

@@scarlet5122 "May I have your passport?" "Sure, here" "Uhm, your name is *Angel Dust* Davidson, correct?" 💀

[@methraccoon]

​@@scarlet5122Just Angel by itself wouldn't be so bad. Anthony would also pass as a super normal name with plausible deniability about what inspired it. You just know some people out there will do it in a completely unsubtle way, tho

[@littlelionheart]

With the recent popularity of Hazbin Hotel I look forward to hearing how Alastor is suddenly the most popular baby boy name of 2024 😂

[@littlelionheart]

Also I really hope that people don't name their children after demons like Lucifer, Asmodeus, Stolas, etc.... 🫠

[@Asmanidoesnotexist2]

@@littlelionheart Lucifer, Asmodeus and Stolas are commonly known as real demons, so hopefully that won’t happen

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Alastor? As in Alastor Crowly?

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@littlelionhearti know a kid named Swindle

[@starlydonati2008]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@littlelionheartI honestly don’t think Stolas is too bad. Maybe I’m just too used to hearing it as someone who keeps up with but isn’t in the fandom. I also think because lots of them have biblical origins, you can get away with them more.

[@_stardustcolors]

i actually knew a kid named luigi once back in primary school

[@ieatbo0k]

My older cousin got into alien stage bc of me, and she joked that she would name her kid after ivan to show he's not dead 😭

[@werthenimratfanclub]

theres a girl in my class called harlequin. shes named after harley quinn. her parents couldve named her harley or quinn as a subtle nod but they picked the worst option. thankfully she goes by harlee

[@jim-bob3093]

Imagine finding out your namesake was a dumb as nails physio that has helped with baby murder. Ouch, that poor kid

[@auliamate]

naming your kid after HARLEY QUINN, of ALL THE DC CHARACTERS, is honestly a little insane

[@michaelcheng9987]

If they did indeed spell it like that, then they very much knew it was a real word, probably knew it refers to a mute performer in some garish suit, and still chose tom call her that?

[@gnocchinope]

Harleen Quinzel (which I believe to be Harley Quinn’s actual name) was RIGHT THERE.

[@NHarts3]

There's a problematic family vlogger here on YT that named her daughter Harlee Quinton. I just roll my eyes.

[@chiitopia]

with the names i've overheard some of these cursed baby names wouldn't be too out of place

[@EyreAffair]

True story: 'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyer said in an interview "please don't name your baby 'Renésmé' (Renée + Esmé), that was a name I made up specifically for the fourth book". However, people named their kids 'Renésmé' anyways, because it sounded exotic and French.

[@ruiqing7]

had a roommate named Jadzia (jadzhya? I can't remember the spelling) which was apparently a violent misspelling of a star trek characters name from her father

[@hiitscupid3504]

im not in the good omens fandom so i didnt immediately recognize the first story and i was gonna be like "oh yeah that sounds innocent" and then i saw what the names were

[@shimaspawn]

I do have a friend who named their kid after their favourite comic book character because that’s actually the reason they met their spouse. In their defense, the kid’s name is Steve. It doesn’t actually read as a fandom name.

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

i think some kids would be like "oh like steve minecraft" but ehh

[@clairegibson8673]

My math teacher gave his baby the middle name ‘Wolverine’😭😭and he constantly refers to the kid as both his first and second names…

[@CrazyAboutClassics]

My little cousin was named Violet because her mother liked Pixar so much. Thankfully, it's such a common name that no one cared.

[@w00rmz]

I do technically have a fandom name, it's Ciel, I'm trans and decided on it myself using a website of french names, somehow completely forgetting that Ciel from Black Butler exists.

[@AmethystLeslie]

I'm sure there's gonna be some people who's just gonna assume the name comes from the angel girl from Puyo Puyo Champions/Quest. /hj

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

​@@AmethystLeslie oh i never played champions or quest also fellow puyo fan?

[@basementdwellercosplay]

To me, fandom names are perfectly fine if they are accepted by wider society. If I'd ever had a kid, I'd go with the name Julian or Julia and part of that is cause I love Julian Bashir from DS9 and that character means a lot to me. But Julian is a pretty normal name where i live, and that goes with a lot of fandom named. Names like that wont raise eyebrows from others and wont be made of if they had a name like Katniss or Sasuke. Otherwise give the fandom names to your pets

[@kuraraShotai9]

Whats funny is that the name Zelda is that LoZ Zelda is named after Zelda Fitzgerald, & Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda AFTER LoZ Zelda, the true triforce of names 😂

[@furryfurry8477]

Unrelated to fandom names but in 1st/2nd grade I was friends with a kid who was literally named Chaos. My parents have confirmed that I was not misremembering and her name was actually chaos. She had a sister named Mayhem. I wish I was joking

[@spaghetti4659]

now they have to form a heavy metal band, there's no other choice

[@clockworkmonsters8590]

That's right up there with Rebel Wilson and her siblings, Liberty, Riot and Anarchy, no I'm not kidding, those are their actual names

[@trin_rex0417]

I was named Trinity after Trinity from the matrix. And I absolutely love my name because of that.

[@Chosen_Cartoons]

I know someone named trinity its a beautiful name

[@pheonixrises11]

it’s not a name you hear and think they’re named after a character for sure

[@megantimmer8971]

I knew a girl named Kal-el growing up (not sure if it was hyphenated or not) and she went by Kallie. It was actually fairly subtle with the nickname, especially for me since I didn't know about Superman's other name at the time lol

[@purple4216]

Met a baby girl named "Hades" A few days later, I met a young adult named "Zeus" Both unrelated.

[@Moocow2003]

Baby girl named Hades???

[@bookishnewt8468]

Got a name story and it involves the Llamas with Hats videos. One of my brothers and a sister had watched those videos. It became their inside joke to call each other Carl. I now can not hear the name without thinking about that joke. Jump ahead 10+ years later my brother has a son with another on the way. For those 9 months the entire family, his wife included, had our sister believing they were naming the kid Carl.

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

CARLLL THAT KILLS PEOPLE!

[@firefly1993]

Devious. I adore it.