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Why do people hate ferris manus and Magnus, my name is in both of them!

Legitimate names: Bjorn, Lukas, Ezekial (Zeke),Harald, Pedro, lelith Uriah. to name a few.

I grew up with a kid named Pickle ..I have a friend at work who has a sister named Pancake his name is Shortty , My girlfriend is a tattoo artist who tattooed a childs name on the mother what was the name Orangejelo yeh only one l i know so you couldnt do much worse than that

Had a friend in High School who's first name was, like, Christopher or something normal, and his middle name was Turtle. Guess which one he chose to be called by.

I have now decided to name my son Archaon because of this thread.

I can see it now..

"Dad, what does my name mean?"
"Lord of End Times, Son... You are the herald of the Apocalypse."
"Cool!"

What about the name Lucius?

Well, my oldest is named for a character in a *very* old GW novel (although there were other reasons for giving him that name, too), and my youngest's middle name is Orpheus and his first initial is M.

R.

 precinctomega wrote:
Well, my oldest is named for a character in a *very* old GW novel...

Lexandro?
Draco?
Grimm the Squat?

Seems a lot of of the names coming about in wargaming are just slighly adjusted names from history/ mythology which will look wrong but be said the same. I love Gabriel as a boys name ( ever since i saw it on the Patriot) but then really I should have been born in another century I'm told. 90% of people wouldn't even know if you named them from a wargame but would definately look at you funny as it may not have been used since medieval times. All this GW stuff is mostly cod Latin and seen through by anyone with a modicum of education so fire away, so no-ones gonna understand anyway

Not a gaming name, per se, but my daughter will be getting the middle name Arwen next week if we fail to agree on a different one before then. It was basically a place holder for us until we thought of a better name, but now 4 months later it's kind of sticking, and we're at a loss to think of anything different.

Ah well, It'll certainly highlight my geek credentials

I was not surprised in the least who the OP was.


I have a friend who named his son "Magnus" - He does play 40k, but he also has an uncle and a cousin named Magnus with a complicated eastern europe sounding last name. I've also met a Horus - apparently this isn't a super uncommon name either.



Naming a child "Calgar" however.... ehhhh - you need to rethink a few things

paul - i'm sure someone in the 40k has that name

Not wargaming related but i do know of people who named their kids after Star trek Charcters. I keep waiting on the oldest who has a normal name to tell the younger one"number one i order you to take a number two.Or the daughter whos named after a Warcraft Charcter... I think they smoke to much of that green funny stuff....Hippies..

Went to school with a kid named Usmail...

Don't curse your kid with a crazy name. I used to work in a "gentlemen's establishment" and one of the entertainers told me her stage name, Ocean (pronounced O-She-on). The conversation went like this.

Ocean: My name is Ocean.

Me: Come on, pick another name.

Ocean: What's wrong with Ocean?

Me: That's crazy who the ###$# is named Ocean.

Ocean: That my baby name. You don't like my baby name?(yes, her exact words not a typo)

Me: Where the ##^% did you come up with that name? Is it in a baby name book?

Ocean: After I had my baby I woke up and saw a picture of a beach and it said Ocean(pronouned O-SHE-On) on it. So, that what I name my baby.

Me:..........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

Please DON'T SCAR YOUR CHILDREN!...........Having said that, I named my son John Wayne..lol!!!

Your last name isn't Gacy is it?

 Alfndrate wrote:
Your last name isn't Gacy is it?

No but his was almost Western......

We named our son Dashel, not too crazy but still pretty cool. The mispronouncements are pretty hilarious though. Its a failry simple name and can be sounded out easily but people keep reading it as Da-shell or DA- She-el or Day-shel. Unfortunetly everyone just thinks of Dashel from the incredibles, which is cool but not even my wife knows about Dash Rendar. Or the Raymond E. Fiest connection.

Not wargaming names, but still good.

There was a couple, one Asian, one white; they compromised on their children's names.

So now there's Temudjin Irwin Bonaparte, and his little brother Hannibal Tzu Bonaparte.

I went to school with a Theresa Green.

Parents can be so unthinking sometimes.

A mate's nieces are Crystal dawn and Summer Breeze (yes, their mother is a hippy).

I know twin-girls who are named "Snow and Pearl", if you translate them. In finnish they sound a bit more suitable.

If I will be rich bastard, I name my boy "Ursarkar Creed".

Having had to name a child recently my wife and I went through a number of baby name sources. the Scandinavian ones were the best for weirdness and unpronouncability.

We did manage to come up with Everhard Lovejoy as an example of child abuse taken straight from historical manuals. I was rather taken with Oberon as a middle name, but got outvoted

What about Urien? I mean, yeah there is the obvious slight change to "urine" but I think it is a pretty good sounding name. Better than Sathronyx anywho

 tumblebomb wrote:
Seems a lot of of the names coming about in wargaming are just slighly adjusted names from history/ mythology which will look wrong but be said the same. I love Gabriel as a boys name ( ever since i saw it on the Patriot) but then really I should have been born in another century I'm told. 90% of people wouldn't even know if you named them from a wargame but would definately look at you funny as it may not have been used since medieval times. All this GW stuff is mostly cod Latin and seen through by anyone with a modicum of education so fire away, so no-ones gonna understand anyway

Plus as a girls name you could change it to Gabrielle.
I know a few gabbys and Gabriels. Really not uncommon among the brazillian Americans in my area.

I always thought about naming one of my kids Caleb. I forgot is there a 40k character named caleb? I hope not. Or else my child will never forgive me.

 Asherian Command wrote:


I always thought about naming one of my kids Caleb. I forgot is there a 40k character named caleb? I hope not. Or else my child will never forgive me.

http://warhammer40kfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Caleb_Harlan

Unlucky

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:


I always thought about naming one of my kids Caleb. I forgot is there a 40k character named caleb? I hope not. Or else my child will never forgive me.

http://warhammer40kfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Caleb_Harlan

Unlucky

Hahahah, poor you asherian.

 Asherian Command wrote:
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I always thought about naming one of my kids Caleb. I forgot is there a 40k character named caleb? I hope not. Or else my child will never forgive me.

I wouldn't worry about it. As long as it's a "normal" name in your area/culture/ethnicity, your kid won't care if it also shows up in some obscure (as seen by the wider world) wargame.

Names in 40k are only looked at as being weird when they are unique to 40k and not already present in the wider world.

A couple of years ago I had to stop for gas on a camping trip. The gas station clerk had a name-tag that said "Joyvodka". I asked how it was pronounced. She said sarcastically, "Just like it reads baby, my Mom hooked me up."


On another note many of the names that have been discounted here due to wargames correlations are quite popular in the states because they are biblical/religious names. I know many people named:

Caleb
Ibrahim/Abraham
Gabriel
Elijah
Uriah (Only known one of these)
etc.
Old Hebrew names are pretty common here. I had an Army buddy named Abimael (biblical/Hebrew)

What about Fabius?


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What about Fabius?

Ilgoth wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:


I always thought about naming one of my kids Caleb. I forgot is there a 40k character named caleb? I hope not. Or else my child will never forgive me.

http://warhammer40kfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Caleb_Harlan

Unlucky

Hahahah, poor you asherian.

Warhammer40kfanon
Well fan fiction doesn't count.
So i am safe.