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Apparently, Lots of People Think It's Okay to Name A Child After Miley Cyrus and Rihanna
By James Brady RyanDecember 22nd, 2009, 12:17 pmComments (7)
Oh, trend pieces. You're just the perfect mix of infuriating and made up. Baby naming website nameberry.com - a trusted source - said that this year, some of the fastest growing names for children who will resent their parents forever are inspired by celebrities - you know, people like Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and the dog from Marley and Me. I wish I could take credit for coming up with that joke, but that's actually real. So I guess the joke is on the babies. Poor, helpless babies.
But that's not all! You might think, "Wow, naming your son/daughter after the dog from Marley and Me should automatically disqualify you from being a parent, because it cannot get worse than that." You'd be wrong.
Fictional characters are also inspiring parents, with the website listing Sloane, the name of a character on TV show "Entourage" becoming more popular for girls while all the names from the hit vampire movie franchise "Twilight" — Edward, Cullen, Bella, Esme — were becoming favorites.
I have a proposal. There should be a test everyone must take before they can become a parent. There is only one question:
"Is it okay to name a child after a character from Twilight?"
And I think we all know there is only one answer.
Commentarium (7 Comments)
I remember reading that at one point, a bit less than a decade ago, that Trinity was like the 27th most popular girl's name in the country. And now it's Esme....
The pressure of naming a kid is enough to not have them. I know two different guys who whose first, middle and last names are all the same. You do that to a kid and you're almost guaranteeing meth addiction. Naming your kid after a Twilight character will likely have the same effect.
I don't understand the three initials being the same/meth addiction joke. How often would a person even be reminded that they have three matching initials?
There's a Juliette in our house because of a Dire Straits song. She turned out all right (though she doesn't like to be reminded).
I was named for a character in a book, and I do just fine with it. It was a 19th century book, but still.
my parents thought i was going to be a boy and never picked out a girl name. i got the boy name anyway. gee, was middle school lots of fun.
I doubt they're named after the dog so much as someone just was exposed to the name that way and thought it was nice. It's not near as bad as people who want to get creative and just stick in random extra letters (especially when they're x or z), or swap out i's for y's and all that nonsense.