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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Shrug, I planned on naming my kids after X-men characters, if I was given any say from the future missus timetowaste (I just hafta find her). I think Elizabeth for a girl (psylocke) and while I was originally considering Warren for a boy, I don't want snickered incest jokes being ragged on my kids, so I'd have to go with Alexander (Havok) instead. Still working on the middle names, but Psylocke's last name fits well with the first name and my last name, so Braddock may stay for a middle, and I'm thinking Nathaniel for Alex's middle name (his nephew, Cable). Those are the thoughts so far.


First person to suggest 'Logan' is getting a baseball bat to the throat! Every idiot and their brother is naming boys Logan these days... (girls too)

Note, I read that after i made my first post.

Lmao. Come to NY Hotsauceman...I'd like to take you to a Yankees game...

Well, In california its not that popular.
But then we get weird names like "Hope" and "Olive Branch"
Although maybe i will just go the route of naming my pet Horus.
My son will have to be Frodo then.

One of my e-buddies named his real life son Rico after the leader of our corporation in Eve-Online.

True story.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So recently somehow i got talking about names with my warhammer buddies(despite many of them and me not planning on it for a long time)
I said How if i ever had a son i would either name him "Horus" or "Sanguinas."
Some friends who also play Warmahordes said they might name their daughter "Sorscha" or "Kaya"
So I was thinking. How appropriate would it be to name kids after characters from a Tabletop game?

Horus is a historical name. It's antiquated and would get some odd looks, but very, very few people would identify the name as coming from a wargame.

Sorscha and Kaya are also existing names, though uncommon ones. Very few people would identify them as coming from a wargame. I actually know a woman named Kaya.

Lastly, even Sanguinas has a presence in historical naming. "Sanguina" is a family name of origin in Romance languages. There are actually a number of Sanguina families in the USA based upon census records.

Other nerd names I'd consider:
Malcom (Reynolds)
Kaylee
River
Jean (for a male, getting the scifi and music nerd multiplier)
Rico
Ciaphas
Amberly

Any of those would be better then the closest thing I have to a GF right now's ideas... she's very into anime.

Last year I took one of my friends to a youngbloods gaming event and one of the guys participating was called Gabriel Seth (his actual name).

 Rampage wrote:
Last year I took one of my friends to a youngbloods gaming event and one of the guys participating was called Gabriel Seth (his actual name).

That's not a bad name. Gabriel isn't uncommon and could just as equally be named after the angel rather than a wargaming character.

No not at all. I thought it was quite a cool name to be honest. He may not have been named after the Flesh Tearers chapter master, in fact he probably wasn't. I just found it a strange coincidence.

Horus also has a variant spelling which has been historicalky popular- Horace. Most baby name books refer to it as the same meaning as Horus.

Also I have heard on more than one occasion kids being named "Khyron" or "Chiron", yep I'd bet dollars to doughnuts its a reference to a Final Fantasy character.

Or Jonathan Coulton fans.

It is about as appropiate as naming your child after a book character or video game character. It comes down to one thing, if your spouse will care with the decision.

 Monster Rain wrote:
Or Jonathan Coulton fans.

Actually this was about ten years ago, before anyone knew who Jonathan Coulton was or is. And beleive me, the families that named the kids that knew FF but wouldn't have known Jonathan Coulton from a hole in the ground.

Yoshidwyn wrote:
It is about as appropiate as naming your child after a book character or video game character. It comes down to one thing, if your spouse will care with the decision.

And whether you are willing to put your child through that grief I don't mind the idea of odd names if it has good reasoning, I wouldn't want to subject my children to the inevitable questions "Oh, that's an interesting name, where did it come from?", "My parents were nerds who played with toy soldiers", lol.

I actually got my wife to agree to naming our kid Jaina if it was a girl (Han and Leias daughter in the Star Wars novels).

We're naming our daughter 'Scout"

 Praxiss wrote:
I actually got my wife to agree to naming our kid Jaina if it was a girl (Han and Leias daughter in the Star Wars novels).

You Sir are awesome

My first child was going to be named either Jade or Jax, both are names from Mortal Kombat.
(we had decided not to learn if the baby was a boy or girl).

She ended up being named Jade. Jade turned 11 last year and both her and her mum have a necklace with the MK dragon logo.

Well, there's some truly ridiculous names in this thread, Im glad to be proved right again.

I'm also glad that my children will have a gak shield from the bullys at school.

I'm sure nobody is going to bother giving David any hassle when there is a little gak with a fictional deity as a forename behind him in the dinner queue.

I'm a Chris, and I got plenty of hassle (although it was more due to my surname).

Whatever name my prospective children get, they'll still be carrying around one which is fairly easy to take the piss out of anyway.

I think it's just important to be consideration about your child's future well being when you name them, because lets face it: kids are donkey-caves.

My name is Sean. Spelled that way. Which got turned into "Seen". Which coupled with my last name, got turned into "Seen Drooling." And I have pretty normal Irish name...

Again, kids are jerks to each other. Giving them an easy path to making fun of your kid is selfish and egotistical.

With that being said, the list of 40k names I'd think would be appropriate are:

Boys
Pedro (based on your culture, obviously)
Logan
Lukas
Dante
Cato
Gabriel
Seth
Bjorn (again, based on your culture)
Ragnar (see above)

Girls
Valeria
Lelith (I really dont 'get' the problem here)

There are plenty more that I think would be fine from Warmahordes, including Coleman (Cole), Augustus, Sebastian, etc. I do not include Sorcha on that list.

 mattyrm wrote:
Well, there's some truly ridiculous names in this thread, Im glad to be proved right again.

I'm also glad that my children will have a gak shield from the bullys at school.

I'm sure nobody is going to bother giving David any hassle when there is a little gak with a fictional deity as a forename behind him in the dinner queue.

Your child, and every other child in the world is going to be picked on at some point. Everyone talks about silly names being "fodder" but really, unless it's something like the "iron hands" thing, I've never seen anyone care. We had a girl named Rainbow and another named Sparkle, they maybe got a giggle at most and even some other pretty bad male names got no response. The only person who ever caught flakk for a name was a guy with the last name "Glasscock", and by the point that we knew that name was something bad, we were already more distracted by each other's moms/sisters jokes.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

Yoshidwyn wrote:
I. It comes down to one thing, if your spouse will care with the decision.

And whether you are willing to put your child through that grief I don't mind the idea of odd names if it has good reasoning, I wouldn't want to subject my children to the inevitable questions "Oh, that's an interesting name, where did it come from?", "My parents were nerds who played with toy soldiers", lol.

Agreed,
Respect for the child and how the name will affect them should be foremost in a person's mind. Definitely ahead of what either spouse thinks is cool.

The whole premise of this thread seems a bit flawed to me. Naming a kid is such a great opportunity to bestow upon a great gift of a connection to history, or family past, or a title bearing a deep meaning. A sort of blessing or empowerment (depending on what your religious views may be) that will stay with them for the rest of their life. Why would someone want to miss that opportunity by short-sightedly naming their child after a bit of pop culture that is by it's very nature ephemoral, impermanent, and will likely quickly be outdated?

I'm mostly referring to the more odd names, as many folks have pointed out, much of gaming draws on names that have historical or literary significance, and that they appear in a game shouldn't discount them from considerations. I would simply hope that folks would at least examine what the meaning of a name rather than simply choosing it because it sounds interesting.

If one can think of a name as a gift to be given rather than simply a parent's choice to be made it might change the way they go about choosing a name.

I named my Dog Pendragon but i would never name my child after a character from my hobby
To me that just seems stupid and.childish and shows a lack of responsibility on the paremts part.

 RatBot wrote:
and "Ferrus Manus" should be grounds for child abuse.
.

my names manus........

pffftt if i have a kid i am calling him COMMANDER COOL - ps: i wonder if they let capslock on the birth certificate.

 lucasbuffalo wrote:

Your child, and every other child in the world is going to be picked on at some point.

Nu-uuh!

Cos my kids Daddy will be much harder than their Daddy! Ill wait for the fether outside the bike sheds and take all his pocket money off him.

On a serious note, just because a little bullying is inevitable, there's no need to start the kid off with a disadvantage by calling the poor little fether Jackmerius Taktheratrix because Daddy is a hipster douche and he wants to look cool in front of his nerd friends.

Ill reiterate. A name isn't that important, in the grand scheme of things, you don't have to call a kid something unique, because your kid isn't unique, its one of countless billions. Humans breed like rats, there's nothing magical or special about having a child, it just happens, usually when pissed.

But you aren't calling your kid Hingle McCringle or Marneus Doomhammer Calgar third of his name because you think its going to make him look good, your doing it because you think it makes YOU look good.

Ergo, its shallow, its self absorbed, and its basically a watered down version of child abuse because Daddy is more bothered about looking good in front of his friends than he is about his kids wellbeing. How selfish and stupid is that?

I really don't think I'm making a mountain of a molehill here, its a big deal. Why do you think governments are making ridiculous names illegal? Professionals have obviously pointed out that this type of gak matters.

Im fething glad I am called Matthew and not Weinerschnitzel or 4REEL or any of the other ridiculous things I've read in the papers lately (I think the authorities actually banned that last one in Holland or somewhere) and if any of you have really ridiculous stupid fething names, PM me your parents email address and Ill call them stupid bastards as well.

How about La-a 'ti?

It's pronounced Ladasha Apostropheti, of course!

 kronk wrote:
How about La-a 'ti?

It's pronounced Ladasha Apostropheti, of course!

I would, of course, insist on calling the little brat Lahyphena

 kronk wrote:
How about La-a 'ti?

It's pronounced Ladasha Apostropheti, of course!

What did I just say?!

"Say bye bye Ladasha... Uncle Matty has to take Daddy to the emergency room!"