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
I frequently see a cashier named "Link" at my local grocer. I've never brought it up in conversation because I fear they've been harassed relentlessly already over it.
I mean, outside of, well, *leaf twink Nintendo boy* , there is Link Larkin in Hairspray, and I’m pretty sure that’s like a shortening of Lincoln as a name. But naming a kid after a musical theater character isn’t much better than naming them after Sir Warrior Green Sleeves.
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!!!
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.
@@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!" 😆
i remember seeing one AITA from a guy who was named Optimus Prime. he always went by Tim, but he wanted to put his full name Optimus Prime on his wedding invitations
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.
@@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 :)
Ah yes, i'm naming myself: Simeon Shin Gayeon Mozzarella Lilac Aculeatus Neuvilette Jing Yuan Argentini and that one dude that look like Simeon from ''the Fate'' i think??/hj Imagine naming ur kid Focalor or any of the archons knowing they are actually Ars Goetia names aka DEMONS Focalor still slaps tho
@@MariluLaOvejaIf you pronounce Chara like “care-uh” then it sounds like a very normal name. Bonus points if you spell it like Cara so nobody knows your kid is named after a dead child (you could also spell it like “Cara” and pronounce it like “car-uh” too.)
@@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.
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.”_
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 😅
Can't wait for when some of these kids go to school. "Methamphetamine rules?" "Here." "Nagito Komaeda?" "Here." "Papyrus?" "Present!" "Martha Sue?" "Here, as always." "Sirius Black?" "Here..." "Charlotte?" _"oh, finally, a normal name"_ "Sorry, Charlotte Morningstar?"
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.
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)
Yeah, the "he thinks my beliefs are stupid" thing is a big ol' red flag. If your partner thinks your religious beliefs are stupid, they also think all your other beliefs are stupid. Not sharing your convictions is one thing, or having different levels of commitment to the same convictions, but the two of you have to fundamentally agree that both sets of beliefs are reasonable and valid or you can't live together. So honestly, no, the nursery school teacher is not the asshole, and that mother dodged a bullet. The husband is definitely the asshole, both for naming his kid Vriska (she is a serial murderer in the comic, wtf) and for lying about it.
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)
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.
As much as I think Zelda is kinda OK (especially in comparision to some other fandom names), the Robbie Williams example: It's one thing if celebrity does that. Many of them are naming their children some kind of... questionable names (as for ex. Kardashians do). Those kids will probably never have to deal with "normal" society or be bullied by other children. I think even fu-king Optimus Prime wouldn't mind them as long as they would be living lavish superstar life meeting other celebrity kids with crazy names. But having that name as a normal citizen attending basic school and applying for standard jobs... oh God.
Fun fact: My sister is named after a My little Pony. It was my favorite show while my mom was pregnant with the little gremlin and her and my dad, after sending me to bed, began joking about naming her after an MLP character. They laughed about most then when it came to Cadence they paused. It was Twilight's sister (In Law) and they knew I liked the character. Cadence wa a relatively normal name and most people wouldn't associate it with MLP. Years later Cadence (Insert middle and last name) was born. It wasn't my parent's fandom, but it was mine and most people don't think Bright colorful ponies when they think of Cadence, they think of a musical pattern. So I think they Fandom named right! I continued to call her Popcorn (I WAS THREE) and introduced her to my nursery class as such.
@@fillername6996Given that the older gens weren't as popular I feel like you could get away with using one of their names, it'd come off more as "hippie" than "fandom parent"
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.
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.
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
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- 😅
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
And those two names are because first of all your kids will probably be called weird as fuck and second that those names aren’t really normal or like a good kind of different
@@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
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.
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.
@@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
In fifth grade I knew a boy named Atticus, after To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a classic, so not _that_ fandomy, but they named a middle class Idahoan child _Atticus._
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.
@@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 🤷♀️
Honestly the most baffling fandom name phenomenon was when The Force Awakens came out and you had people naming their babies after Kylo Ren. The character that famously stabs his father in the chest. That’s like naming your kid after Oedipus.
People did actually name their kids that though. Oedipa, and Oédipe, were both common names around 1860. Also common at the time: Ophelia, Desdémoine (yes, after Desdemona), Uriah, and Polyphemia (after the cyclops in the Odyssey). And apparently in Mexico people are unironically named Ifigenia and Ifigenio. You know, after Agamemnon's daughter whom he MURDERS. Also Cassandra and Hyacinth, probably the oldest verifiable examples of cringe fandom names. Cassandra the priestess cursed to not be listened to, and Hyacinth who was murdered by his boyfriend.
@@sophiejones3554 In defense of some of those names, Ifigenia is incredibly common in greece and maybe the parents are su!c!dal or smth and Cassandra is just a hella cool name in my opinion (and by that I mean I'd genuinely name my child that)
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.
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.
Not really a fandom name, but there was a girl named Persephone in my middle school. I always thought she'd either get kidnapped or cursed by the actual goddess.
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
My middle name is the name of my dad's first girlfriend. They didn't agree on ti, he was in charge of the paperwork at my birth and just took the opportunity. My parents are childhood friends, my mom even knew her xd
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.
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
@@cherryblossombvlletyeah and ironically Calliope is a greek mythology name too but it's probably not even going to get a side eye unlike Persephone, Artemis, Athena or Zeus (I've literally met a kid named Zeus and he was an absolute menace even at 6ish, and ironically I also know of multiple people who changed their names to Artemis)
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!
@@רוניבןעזרא-ו6שpersonally I make it meta, I'll just make a piece of story pop culture with their name so I can shove in 'character is exasperated/annoyed/needs extra time to open up' *because* of the name
I once read a read a fate modern human au fic where Gilgamesh is still called Gilgamesh and he also acknowledges the existence of the historical Gilgamesh. Also everyone just calls him Gil
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
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
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.)
Alastor isn't... the worst name... I mean, it could be like "Allister" or "Alistair" and that could be ok. But imagine if someone names their kid Vaggie 💀
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.
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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
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
This horrifies me because I'm on the level of fandom brainrot where I couldn't even name a human child something normal like "Diana" because of how far into the trenches I am
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
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?
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).
@@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
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-
@@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.
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).
I knew a person named Hermione who did a lot of Shakespeare. She said it was really nice to get into that sphere because people would ask "Oh, like from 'A Winter's Tale?'" about as much as they would ask, "Oh, like from 'Harry Potter?'"
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.
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.
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!
Dude as a homestuck fan sometimes naming your child after a troll is cool like sollux (which in translation is basically sunshine) but then there’s name like Eridan or Gamzee which if you didn’t know did mass murder :3 (but still I think I’d name my kid sollux or Eridan either way :p)
My baby broth has a fandom name technically! Parker, named after Peter Parker, because my mom didn't like the name Peter but Spiderman and comics in general are a big part of her husband's life
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...
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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
@@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
The thing that always bugs me, is when people associate "normal" names with fandom first. I love the name Phoebe and Violet and they are old family names, but I don't want people to jump to thinking I named my kid after Phoebe from Friends or Violet from Incredibles.
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
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"
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.
also, assuming its real, the kid was 16. its entirely possible she didnt fully understand the weight of that sort of decision and the impact itd have on the child. grieving or not, the mother was the adult in this situation and shouldve known how ridiculously unfair it is to have a kid grow up being named something so stupid to honor someone that, to them, is essentially a stranger.
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.
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
@@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
As someone with a fandom baby name (was named after a disney princess) I wouldn't change my name for the world but it messed with my sense of self as a child in so many ways, which only compounded with looking similar to the character in question. Wound up defining my favorite colors & such based on it and though its definitely an earnest interest now, I was doomed to be a Disney Adult truly from birth. It was definitely a case of my parents both having a connection with the movie (it was the theme of their wedding), but yeah, definitely just a bit to consider. Edit: I hadn't finished the video yet when I commented and got jumpscared. I was named Aurora (and Rose as my middle name to reference Briar Rose) after the princess. Definitely a pretty name and not too obvious, main thing to contend with is Aurora Borealis jokes more than people recognizing it as Sleeping Beauty for some reason. I found it pretty funny that the Twisted Tale novel lifted my name wholesale at the partway point, felt like reading self insert fanfic a bit too much.
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.
I technically am this, but fortunately it wound up being: 1- A name that could be incorporated into an actual name 2- The result of my parents letting my older brother name me. 3- I wound up being a bigger fan of the series the character came from than my own brother. 4- It's not obvious, but it now allows for a fun story.
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
The one about the Raiden Shogun gets me. Raiden Shogun is a title. Carried by at least two different characters.The characters have names already that are usable. Not only that, but the Raiden twins are variants of another character WHO ALSO HAS A USABLE NAME. I feel like Mei and Makoto are real names that they can use if they want to make a reference to those characters (no idea if Ei means something or is an actual name). Mind you I know nothing about japanese so maybe they have a very specific double meaning but there's a restaurant named Makoto down the street I live in so I doubt it. And Raiden is just their last name. That's sad
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?'
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.
If you HAVE to pick a baby name from a fandom, you should choose Thomas The Tank Engine. Almost all of the engines have regular names: James, Henry, Emily, Hugo, Molly, Millie. Just don't name your kid Flying Scotsman. Please.
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.
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
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.
The good thing about being a Fire Emblem fan is that most characters have actual real world names albeit rare/old-fashioned ones. So, since I will need to name my child something that sounds good in Polish, English and Spanish, Lucina is a solid choice/hj
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 😂
even if i want to name my child after a character, i could NEVER choose the name of a character I have a crush on. toooo weird. I also could never choose a name I used for an oc.
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.
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 😎
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
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?
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
My dad named my now four year old sister Korra because he's big on the whole Avatar And The Last Airbender series. After watching this, I'm glad that he chose that name because it's common enough to be considered a normal name.
I'm trans and technically named myself after a character, but it's subtle enough that no one except for people who knew me before I transitioned have figured it out
A friend of mine subtly named herself after a character and back when I was looking for a name I looked at character names (in my case from mythology not fandom)
Even if it wasn't subtle, there's a huge difference between deciding for yourself that you want a name related to something you love, or giving another person a name that's inescapably linked to something they may grow up to not care about or even hate
I named myself after a character too, I'd like to add that I'm not from a english speaking country, i was adamant that i didn't want a religious name, anyway i found out that my name is the english translation to a bible name, at least my parents still have the kids with bible names they wanted ig
I do love a good fandom name on a pet though. One of my friends named his cat Mr. Anderson. He usually just calls him Andy, but he said he named him Mr. Anderson so he can use the ominous tone with that name when he's angry at the cat 😂
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)
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
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
Like genshin names that would be less recognizable at least that I think so would be Layla and diona but a little more recognizable names would be Rosaria or navia
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.
Just think going to school and your classmate is named Hatsune Miku
AHAH THAT WOULD BE AWESOME
I mean Miku alone is cute at least 😭
I would be jelly
That would be cool tbh
I would immediately ask to be their friend
In ten years: my baby ranks fanfiction tropes
Coley just lifts a toddler up to the screen and has them point to whichever ones look shiny
peeps the silver spoon pfp
"What's A/B/O?"
@@milesgoering3755"Well, when an Alpha and an Omega love each other very much, or if it's that time of the year..."
"Mom, what's sex pollen?"
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
my brother has that name and it inspired after the hockey player (it’s just spelled not the french canadian way)
We need to start calling Christians bible fans
@@odin9628 ey ey, they’re not the only Bible fans around
Naming my child Luuke so they have to explain obscure fucking Star Wars Legends lore when someone asks 😂
Matthew, Mark, Luke Skywalker and John
guys, don't name your kids after fictional characters. if they're trans enough, they'll do it themselves.
😂 as a trans person I feel called out
@@sotragespacefullgacha1430me too....me too.
REALL I RENAMED MYSELF AJAX AND THAT INTRO JUMPSCARED ME SO BAD😭
Omg yes my best friend named himself after Nico di Angelo
Honestly considered naming myself angouleme it’s obscure enough and could be shortened to something
Hot take: We should normalize people renaming _themselves_ after their favorite characters instead of forcing that on their children.
This has inspired me
I will now name myself "Papyrus Undertale"
(Kidding obviouslyyy)
*raises hand* I named myself after Vanitas from vnc 😭
that's what i did 😭thankfully no one knows where i got Tobias from
it’s giving that one guy who named himself Lucius Malfoy and tried to adopt Tom Felton 😂
@@animal8006too bad I know exactly which manga and anime you are thinking of lmao
I frequently see a cashier named "Link" at my local grocer. I've never brought it up in conversation because I fear they've been harassed relentlessly already over it.
I mean, outside of, well, *leaf twink Nintendo boy* , there is Link Larkin in Hairspray, and I’m pretty sure that’s like a shortening of Lincoln as a name. But naming a kid after a musical theater character isn’t much better than naming them after Sir Warrior Green Sleeves.
Their boss, meanwhile: it's dangerous to go alone, take THIS- *Hands wet floor sign*
Link was more common in the 50s and 60s as a short version of Lincoln, there were several celebrities named Link back then like Link Wray
Nah Eddie would have been fine but the full Eddie-Munson is just too much 😭😭
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!!!
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.
Could've went with Edison too, it's much better than Eddie-Munson.
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.
I know they stated they didn’t want the female version of Eddie but Edina could work
Gonna name my daughter Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way ❤
THE FORBIDDEN NAME
Shorten it to Dementia. Gonna name my little baby girl Dementia Raven Smith ❤️❤️.
@@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!" 😆
You spelled Dark'ness wrong
i remember seeing one AITA from a guy who was named Optimus Prime. he always went by Tim, but he wanted to put his full name Optimus Prime on his wedding invitations
"My friend named his kid after his favourite archangel."
"Let me guess, Michael, Gabriel?"
"Lucifer."
Even though the name Lucifer has some bad connotations to it, it's genuinely such a badass name lol
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.
@@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 :)
@@Horaxusare you my cousin?? hello???
Ah yes, the angel of ‘fuck you, all powerful tyrant!’
*gets bodied*
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
LEMRES LEMRES WO WO
would that technically be selfce/j
@@c0zmozysselfcest, self love, really what’s the difference?
@@sully42O selfcest is taking "go fuck yourself" literally/j
Ah yes, i'm naming myself:
Simeon Shin Gayeon Mozzarella Lilac Aculeatus Neuvilette Jing Yuan Argentini and that one dude that look like Simeon from ''the Fate'' i think??/hj
Imagine naming ur kid Focalor or any of the archons knowing they are actually Ars Goetia names aka DEMONS
Focalor still slaps tho
I know someone named “Asriel” like the fucking goat from Undertale. I’m not kidding.
A real fan would mash up their partners name with their own
I met someone that was named Chara lol
At least that's also an angel's name, it's just a spelling variant of Azriel.
@@sophiejones3554 True, it’s not the worst fandom baby name ever
@@MariluLaOvejaIf you pronounce Chara like “care-uh” then it sounds like a very normal name. Bonus points if you spell it like Cara so nobody knows your kid is named after a dead child (you could also spell it like “Cara” and pronounce it like “car-uh” too.)
"This is my son."
"He's adorable. What"s his name?"
"Rude."
"I was just asking!"
The worst part is they probably look you in the eye and say "Rudy" and then you see how they spelled it.
@@YourWaywardDestiny As someone who's hard of hearing, this sounds like something that would happen to me 😂
@@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.
Rudie..
from FF7 ?? xD
The guy named Optimus Prime who goes by Tim is my favorite person
Hahahahahahahahajahahahajshah
Meg Griffin would relate
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.”_
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 😅
@@abbycantrell1369 very true
Can't wait for when some of these kids go to school.
"Methamphetamine rules?"
"Here."
"Nagito Komaeda?"
"Here."
"Papyrus?"
"Present!"
"Martha Sue?"
"Here, as always."
"Sirius Black?"
"Here..."
"Charlotte?"
_"oh, finally, a normal name"_
"Sorry, Charlotte Morningstar?"
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.
Being a homestuck fan is a pretty big red flag, though. I would know because I am one.
@@voidtectonicREAL
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)
@@alpha1solace IDK abt your ex but the biggest vriska stans were always women, vriska is way more controversial among male fans
Yeah, the "he thinks my beliefs are stupid" thing is a big ol' red flag. If your partner thinks your religious beliefs are stupid, they also think all your other beliefs are stupid. Not sharing your convictions is one thing, or having different levels of commitment to the same convictions, but the two of you have to fundamentally agree that both sets of beliefs are reasonable and valid or you can't live together. So honestly, no, the nursery school teacher is not the asshole, and that mother dodged a bullet. The husband is definitely the asshole, both for naming his kid Vriska (she is a serial murderer in the comic, wtf) and for lying about it.
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)
Literally came down to the comments looking for this.
That's actually really interesting.
The fan name to end all fan names.
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.
As much as I think Zelda is kinda OK (especially in comparision to some other fandom names), the Robbie Williams example: It's one thing if celebrity does that. Many of them are naming their children some kind of... questionable names (as for ex. Kardashians do). Those kids will probably never have to deal with "normal" society or be bullied by other children. I think even fu-king Optimus Prime wouldn't mind them as long as they would be living lavish superstar life meeting other celebrity kids with crazy names. But having that name as a normal citizen attending basic school and applying for standard jobs... oh God.
Fun fact: My sister is named after a My little Pony. It was my favorite show while my mom was pregnant with the little gremlin and her and my dad, after sending me to bed, began joking about naming her after an MLP character. They laughed about most then when it came to Cadence they paused. It was Twilight's sister (In Law) and they knew I liked the character. Cadence wa a relatively normal name and most people wouldn't associate it with MLP.
Years later Cadence (Insert middle and last name) was born. It wasn't my parent's fandom, but it was mine and most people don't think Bright colorful ponies when they think of Cadence, they think of a musical pattern. So I think they Fandom named right! I continued to call her Popcorn (I WAS THREE) and introduced her to my nursery class as such.
If my little brother was a girl, my mum would have called him "Autumn Sky" after an earlier gen pony.
@@fillername6996Given that the older gens weren't as popular I feel like you could get away with using one of their names, it'd come off more as "hippie" than "fandom parent"
Woah weird, I also know a girl named cadence in my grade
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.
they haven't met.. Yet.
Lol
And then Drarry happens
@@expandong erm.
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.
Namin my kid Nidhoggr
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
"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.
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- 😅
I always wonder how the few people I know named Rudolph get around being associated with the western "red nosed reindeer"
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
And those two names are because first of all your kids will probably be called weird as fuck and second that those names aren’t really normal or like a good kind of different
If I remember correctly the final tier for that list had one name and it was “Andrew Hussie”
i can't wait for the year 2037 when a teacher will have to do attendance on their students; Nagito, Alastor, Miku, and Dream
Sorry I just threw up in my mouth
Did take me a bit to place “Alastor” though it’s not an overly strange name
Alastor isn't *too* weird, at least
Dream isn't that bad in my opinion, it could be worse
@@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
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
"This is my son, Firestar Warrior Cats and my daughter Pomi Digital Circus."
I WANNA THROW HANDS WITH SOMEONE THAT DOES THAT
HELP FJGJGHJ
Firestar is unironically cool as a middle or last name tho
@@QuantemDeconstructor yeah it would
Oh no XD
I have two stepsisters who are named Anna and Elsa and were both born before the movie came out.
Also they used to have a dog named Olaf.
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.
I know several Zeldas from school 😂 I’ve actually considered it for my daughter in the future
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)
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
im sorry are we just gonna ignore the elementary schooler names kakashi
One of my great great great grandmothers is named Zelda and my grandfather was named Burk
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.
That would've been cool! What did they go with instead?
@@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 Dale, which I didn't particularly care for until KH2 came out and I realised my Organization name could be Xelda
@@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
@@Someguyhere111welp you just helped me name one of my OCs, thanks for the idea
I mean, Mary Sue is quite literally THE fandom name, originating in the Star Trek fandom
In fifth grade I knew a boy named Atticus, after To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a classic, so not _that_ fandomy, but they named a middle class Idahoan child _Atticus._
Atticus can pass as a white person name. It's also a name used by a white character in Yugioh GX's dub. So I could see it working
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.
Sara Crewe is a pretty cool character to be named after imo, I love that book (and I hope you do too haha)
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.
That was one of the most popular baby names since GoT achive popularity, that kid will be fine
She can just shorten it to Dany or Dani.
@@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 🤷♀️
@@russellhunter363 true!
I wish I could've seen the looks on the faces of people who named their daughters that during the series finale. *lol*
Honestly the most baffling fandom name phenomenon was when The Force Awakens came out and you had people naming their babies after Kylo Ren. The character that famously stabs his father in the chest. That’s like naming your kid after Oedipus.
People did actually name their kids that though. Oedipa, and Oédipe, were both common names around 1860. Also common at the time: Ophelia, Desdémoine (yes, after Desdemona), Uriah, and Polyphemia (after the cyclops in the Odyssey). And apparently in Mexico people are unironically named Ifigenia and Ifigenio. You know, after Agamemnon's daughter whom he MURDERS. Also Cassandra and Hyacinth, probably the oldest verifiable examples of cringe fandom names. Cassandra the priestess cursed to not be listened to, and Hyacinth who was murdered by his boyfriend.
@@sophiejones3554 In defense of some of those names, Ifigenia is incredibly common in greece and maybe the parents are su!c!dal or smth and Cassandra is just a hella cool name in my opinion (and by that I mean I'd genuinely name my child that)
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.
:0 heroes of olympus mentioned
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.
@@tsifirakiehl4250 Its been a while since I've heard of the Belgariad
Canadian people might think of Buffy Saint-James
@@tsifirakiehl4250 my mom's birth name is adara!
Real ones name themselves after their fav characters lmao
REEAAAL
Trans fandom nerds rise up. /o/
Ayyyy trans memes lesgo
Sadly I chose basic ass name Alex (Alexis actually) instead of something cool af like Loki
I literally named myself "Vex" after the hot lady from the Skyrim Theives Guild.
deadass named myself Zagreus because of hades game and i like mythology
Not really a fandom name, but there was a girl named Persephone in my middle school. I always thought she'd either get kidnapped or cursed by the actual goddess.
Lmao Persephone is such a pretty name tho
No way a FATHER named their CHILD after a character the have a CRUSH on. THAT'S the biggest issue here.
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
Vrischika/vrishchika does actually mean scorpio zodiac sign in hindi though. And i also think its fake story
My middle name is the name of my dad's first girlfriend. They didn't agree on ti, he was in charge of the paperwork at my birth and just took the opportunity. My parents are childhood friends, my mom even knew her xd
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.
Your cat sounds cute
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
@@cherryblossombvllet CALLIOPE IS MY CATS NAME WE JUST CALL HER CALLIE
@@cherryblossombvlletyeah and ironically Calliope is a greek mythology name too but it's probably not even going to get a side eye unlike Persephone, Artemis, Athena or Zeus (I've literally met a kid named Zeus and he was an absolute menace even at 6ish, and ironically I also know of multiple people who changed their names to Artemis)
Growing up, my mom had a pet cockapoo (cocker spaniel + poodle mix) named "harry" after harry potter
Naming your twins after brothers you ship is just like writing their fate before they're even born
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!
Seiya is a normal Japanese name actually! It's my friend's husband's name actually
"Astroboy of god" 😂🤣 why thooo
does this mean you can still name your child Astroboy, just not Astroboy de Dios?
Should add angel dust onto that list
@@machinegunlamentthat’s totally fair lmao! I think the comment is just talking about how it’s not as common in Mexico
People: “who names their baby Aziraphale??”
Human AU authors: 🧍
I love when they go 'well my parents told me it's biblical but I couldn't find it anywhere in the Bible...
real ones have everyone else assume his name is Ezra
@@רוניבןעזרא-ו6שpersonally I make it meta, I'll just make a piece of story pop culture with their name so I can shove in 'character is exasperated/annoyed/needs extra time to open up' *because* of the name
I once read a read a fate modern human au fic where Gilgamesh is still called Gilgamesh and he also acknowledges the existence of the historical Gilgamesh. Also everyone just calls him Gil
"they seem to be encouraging 'snape behaviors' in him" hit me like a fucking throat punch
I think fandom names work best for pets, but something classy like Darcy might work for a human child.
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
Or Marcy and Darcy for identical twins
@@VanNessy97 Marcy: *chuckles* I'm in danger
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
But does Darcy dancr, though?
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.)
Alastor isn't... the worst name...
I mean, it could be like "Allister" or "Alistair" and that could be ok.
But imagine if someone names their kid Vaggie 💀
That is a Welsh diminuitive for Margaret, but in proper Welsh ortography it is written as Fagi@@autumn_sunday
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.
Levi and Leon are both really cool names in isolation
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
Levi is actually a really cool name icl
that’s honestly a really great name
My chosen name is William. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been called “purple guy” or “the man behind the slaughter”….
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
i thought about for a time going with samantha for my chosen name, glad i didnt! :3
I used to go to school with a William and now i'm mad I never thought of that lol
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.
@@than_487 purple guys unite ‼️‼️‼️🟣
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)
Also meeting a human Aziraphale is crazy
Comp-het brain is a thing...
The fact they saw it as best buddies is significant evidence that they were purely straight
@@starlydonati2008 Aziraphale and Crowley or the parents?
@@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
As one of my wiser friends once said…”We should really normalize changing names, especially at a younger age.”
Imagine some poor poor kid gets named "Vaggie".....
V A G I A N A
“This is why I named you after the best thing ever…”
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
@@jasperjazzie I mean Anthony could work...
@@lord_alex12 you could nickname the kid angel aswell
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
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
that's kind of awesome actually
Look, they didn't create a new name out of nowhere. They saw an opportunity and honestly mad respect.
I’ve heard another story like this about a set of twins, thankfully they both had “normal” first names iirc
This horrifies me because I'm on the level of fandom brainrot where I couldn't even name a human child something normal like "Diana" because of how far into the trenches I am
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
Yeah and the character is named for Mario Segale, a landlord.
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?
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).
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
Used to work with an italian guy who was fairly old, named Mario
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
Same man, I knew exactly what the series was like half way through describing it
@@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
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-
@@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.
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).
I knew a person named Hermione who did a lot of Shakespeare. She said it was really nice to get into that sphere because people would ask "Oh, like from 'A Winter's Tale?'" about as much as they would ask, "Oh, like from 'Harry Potter?'"
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.
This is a cool insight, thank you for all this information.
Some fandom names fall under the category of "not okay until enough people start to use it, then it's a normal name"
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.
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!
With Zelda there is also the name Griselda/Grizelda.
Seeing "baby Vriska" in the thumbnail and then the context right at the beginning of the video has me mortified 😭😭😭
Dude as a homestuck fan sometimes naming your child after a troll is cool like sollux (which in translation is basically sunshine) but then there’s name like Eridan or Gamzee which if you didn’t know did mass murder :3 (but still I think I’d name my kid sollux or Eridan either way :p)
My baby broth has a fandom name technically! Parker, named after Peter Parker, because my mom didn't like the name Peter but Spiderman and comics in general are a big part of her husband's life
While watching this I had a cursed thought…… Warrior cats baby names…..
“This is my son, Fireheart.”
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...
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.
hello my name is Smokeweed Riverclan
@@anikbrinckerhoff1037No we should all name children like warrior cats. Crybaby, Paleskin, Bigfoot, Shortleg would be common
Naming my kid firekit, he’ll have to get the rest of it as he grows up
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.
Not the person naming her lil sister Primrose, deadass the MC lil sister that fucking DIES horribly in the last book.
But at least it is a flower name. Flower names aren't all that strange. So, that's something at least.
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!
Splash has a ridiculous amount of cultural impact for a movie I’ve never heard anyone mention irl
@@raeganj6744 well you could say that it. Made a splash….
It was a first name, but it was a masculine one used mostly in the south
@@treekangaroo.7691it was def more common as a last name than a first name though
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
I'm asexual too and social awkward 🍰
That is the best and most accurate description for Coley's channel I've ever heard of.
As an Asexual who did grow up with the internet, this channel helps me understand what on earth is going on
Hey there! I'm asexual too, all my favorite baby names are most likely going to be given to cats.
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.
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.
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.
Pick one black and one white
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.
Ralsei is such a cute name for a cat I love it!! (I say this as an avid Deltarune fan lol)
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.
@@aino-kaisav5504 I LOVED BARBAPAPA it was the one show my sister and me both liked as children :') The nostalgia
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
🤢
Oh noooo
At least if they're not with each other it will come off okay, they're all normal names individually
@@mintbrownieangelfish-6114 idk what the three names mean together
good job
@@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
The thing that always bugs me, is when people associate "normal" names with fandom first. I love the name Phoebe and Violet and they are old family names, but I don't want people to jump to thinking I named my kid after Phoebe from Friends or Violet from Incredibles.
People naming their kids over their fandons
Brazilians: *Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power*
What’s up with Brazilian’s?
@@freckledghost3085 a lot
can u elaborate? i dont get it lol
Can someone explain this??😭
@@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
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
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"
@@trickstab7903 awesome duuuude
Brb naming my child VENOM 😂
naming a kid after a fictional character really only works if it's an actual name tbh
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.
Ettie too, without munson its completely different
or Edie pronounced ee dee
also, assuming its real, the kid was 16. its entirely possible she didnt fully understand the weight of that sort of decision and the impact itd have on the child. grieving or not, the mother was the adult in this situation and shouldve known how ridiculously unfair it is to have a kid grow up being named something so stupid to honor someone that, to them, is essentially a stranger.
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
Not duchess Satine from Star Wars? A shame.
Wait, two fictional prostitutes...?
is/was your dad a theater kid by any chance?
What did they go with instead?
This is just like when Peter named Meg "Megatron"
with the names i've overheard some of these cursed baby names wouldn't be too out of place
The baby named Eddie Munson is wild 😭 that story just kept going
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.
@@PineappleLiar also the baby being a girl was unexpected
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
@@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
@@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
As someone with a fandom baby name (was named after a disney princess) I wouldn't change my name for the world but it messed with my sense of self as a child in so many ways, which only compounded with looking similar to the character in question. Wound up defining my favorite colors & such based on it and though its definitely an earnest interest now, I was doomed to be a Disney Adult truly from birth. It was definitely a case of my parents both having a connection with the movie (it was the theme of their wedding), but yeah, definitely just a bit to consider.
Edit: I hadn't finished the video yet when I commented and got jumpscared. I was named Aurora (and Rose as my middle name to reference Briar Rose) after the princess. Definitely a pretty name and not too obvious, main thing to contend with is Aurora Borealis jokes more than people recognizing it as Sleeping Beauty for some reason. I found it pretty funny that the Twisted Tale novel lifted my name wholesale at the partway point, felt like reading self insert fanfic a bit too much.
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.
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
@@AmethystLeslie oh i never played champions or quest
also fellow puyo fan?
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!
I technically am this, but fortunately it wound up being:
1- A name that could be incorporated into an actual name
2- The result of my parents letting my older brother name me.
3- I wound up being a bigger fan of the series the character came from than my own brother.
4- It's not obvious, but it now allows for a fun story.
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
now they have to form a heavy metal band, there's no other choice
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
Why this sounds as Wei Wuxian telling his husband jokes about how he will name their children.
I was named Trinity after Trinity from the matrix. And I absolutely love my name because of that.
I know someone named trinity its a beautiful name
it’s not a name you hear and think they’re named after a character for sure
The one about the Raiden Shogun gets me. Raiden Shogun is a title. Carried by at least two different characters.The characters have names already that are usable. Not only that, but the Raiden twins are variants of another character WHO ALSO HAS A USABLE NAME. I feel like Mei and Makoto are real names that they can use if they want to make a reference to those characters (no idea if Ei means something or is an actual name). Mind you I know nothing about japanese so maybe they have a very specific double meaning but there's a restaurant named Makoto down the street I live in so I doubt it. And Raiden is just their last name. That's sad
This reminds me of the couple who named their baby “Dragonborn” to get free Bethesda games for life
i sure do wonder where baby dovahkiin is now
@@AmyCherryLMAO Probably in middle school. I feel old
@@cosmicredpanda2420 he's my little brother's age, so yeah he is actually lmao
@@AmyCherryLMAO there’s a little but non-zero chance that they’re class mates
@@cosmicredpanda2420He's got a normal name now, luckily for him
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?'
Aslan is a legitimate name! My cousin is called Aslan, its a (commonish) turkish Muslim baby name. Typically pronounced like Uz-laan.
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.
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!
@@lovetolovefairytales Edmund is a GREAT name! (though I'll admit the definite Narnia influence in thinking that!)
Aslan means lion in turkısh ❤ and It's not very common but perfectly acceptable name here
If you HAVE to pick a baby name from a fandom, you should choose Thomas The Tank Engine. Almost all of the engines have regular names: James, Henry, Emily, Hugo, Molly, Millie.
Just don't name your kid Flying Scotsman. Please.
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.
CARLLL THAT KILLS PEOPLE!
Devious. I adore it.
Time to name my kid Luh-Lloyd, then leave to get the milk until he’s completed a centuries old prophecy.
I’ve had that my head all week 😭😭😭
HAHAHAAHAHAH
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
THIS
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.
i think some kids would be like "oh like steve minecraft" but ehh
The good thing about being a Fire Emblem fan is that most characters have actual real world names albeit rare/old-fashioned ones. So, since I will need to name my child something that sounds good in Polish, English and Spanish, Lucina is a solid choice/hj
Whe I read Sylvain's middle name was José y choked because thats a super classic spanish name that usually have men 50+ yo.
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 😂
even if i want to name my child after a character, i could NEVER choose the name of a character I have a crush on. toooo weird. I also could never choose a name I used for an oc.
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.
Bro this name is giving pick me or maybe im just getting flashbacks from that one wattpad story
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 😎
Parker IS a cute name for a girl. The trick really is not to be too obvious about it.
I knew a girl named Luna after the Harry Potter character. But that’s pretty tame.
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
Imagine finding out your namesake was a dumb as nails physio that has helped with baby murder. Ouch, that poor kid
naming your kid after HARLEY QUINN, of ALL THE DC CHARACTERS, is honestly a little insane
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?
Harleen Quinzel (which I believe to be Harley Quinn’s actual name) was RIGHT THERE.
There's a problematic family vlogger here on YT that named her daughter Harlee Quinton. I just roll my eyes.
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
Not Atreus from Greek History?
My dad named my now four year old sister Korra because he's big on the whole Avatar And The Last Airbender series.
After watching this, I'm glad that he chose that name because it's common enough to be considered a normal name.
I'm trans and technically named myself after a character, but it's subtle enough that no one except for people who knew me before I transitioned have figured it out
A friend of mine subtly named herself after a character and back when I was looking for a name I looked at character names (in my case from mythology not fandom)
SAME. i subtly named myself after Aziraphale from Good Omens. My name is Ezra
Even if it wasn't subtle, there's a huge difference between deciding for yourself that you want a name related to something you love, or giving another person a name that's inescapably linked to something they may grow up to not care about or even hate
I named myself after a character too, I'd like to add that I'm not from a english speaking country, i was adamant that i didn't want a religious name, anyway i found out that my name is the english translation to a bible name, at least my parents still have the kids with bible names they wanted ig
@@ineffable_ezra i’m a gomens fan called ezra too💞💞
"Cynthia Rika, you're named after the two strongest women I've ever known"
Cynthia is a very normal name tho. You can always say that it is derived from Hyacintus.
I do love a good fandom name on a pet though. One of my friends named his cat Mr. Anderson. He usually just calls him Andy, but he said he named him Mr. Anderson so he can use the ominous tone with that name when he's angry at the cat 😂
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)
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
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.
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
Like genshin names that would be less recognizable at least that I think so would be Layla and diona but a little more recognizable names would be Rosaria or navia
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.
invincible?
@@AmyCherryLMAO I thought Welcome to Nightvale
Black Butler?
My first thought was Cecil from ff4, not sure if thats the reference or something else lol
@@annajensen7360 Yeah! That was the inspo haha