Geek Baby Names [Archive] - Revision3 Forums

viscountradu

11-10-2006, 03:23 PM

If you were ever given the option to reproduce what would you name your kid?

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I am thinking Justin Jame, so we can call him J.J. for Just Jim.

glenndanzig

11-10-2006, 03:27 PM

if i meet one more baby named aiden, im going to kill it.

xxxthundercatxxx

11-10-2006, 04:22 PM

Well if it's a big fat fucking crybaby how about Seumas?

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 04:29 PM

Baby Boy = Derek 2.0

Baby Girl = Hermione

bigyanks

11-10-2006, 05:09 PM

i would name my son Optimus Prime

masherscf

11-10-2006, 05:38 PM

You guys must really hate your future children.

However, I must admit dabbling with the geek names. When my second child was born we had picked out two possible names, Alexander (Xander) if it was a boy and Kaleigh (Kaylee), if it was a girl. Thank you, Joss Wedon.

Of course, we named our first child Emily for Emily Procter and Emma Watson. That wasn't quite as geeky.

iggystar

11-10-2006, 06:02 PM

I wanted to name my daughter after a character in Star Trek. I thought that Kira or Jadzia was pretty and not easily recognizable as a ST name. Plus, Jadzia has a little ghetto ring to it that would fit right in with some of the Keisha's and LaQuisha's in our neighborhood

Well, Jadzia was nixed. My then husband didn't make the connection and thought it sounded ghetto. Then I mentioned Kira, he sat and thought about it..."Wait, aren't these characters on DS9? I don't think so."

We settled on Alexis and I tell my daughter she's named after Alexis Carrington on Dynasty. :rolleyes:

madripper1

11-10-2006, 06:04 PM

I named my son Danny thats the geekiest i could find.

abacusand13south

11-10-2006, 06:10 PM

Robert Kirkman named his kid Peter Parker Kirkman and thats pretty kickass but if I had one I have no idea what id call him/her but thats probably because most of these pre thought out names very rarely come to fruition.

bird603568

11-10-2006, 06:14 PM

what if i named my kid umbrella or didnt give him a name or named him a number or even his SS?

no but in all seriousness what if you dont name your kid?

masherscf

11-10-2006, 06:35 PM

what if i named my kid umbrella or didnt give him a name or named him a number or even his SS?

no but in all seriousness what if you dont name your kid?

They name your kid in the hospital. The nurses and doctors need a name to keep track of the child and to be able to generate a bill later. In your case, the kid would be named "baby girl/boy Bird603568". If you don't replace that name with one of your own, the child will grow up with it.

viscountradu

11-10-2006, 07:08 PM

what if i named my kid umbrella

...or Soda.

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 07:26 PM

...or Soda.

stay gold poney boy..stay gold

redrum

11-10-2006, 07:50 PM

My fiance is pregnant, so i am still thinking about baby namds. i was thinking Mayumi for a girl. still comtemplating on the boys name. i need feed back.

losojosdemuerte

11-10-2006, 08:10 PM

The best geek name but not a geek name is "Logan." My friend named her second son Logan and well I love it. That kid has the great F**KING name.:D

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 08:14 PM

The best geek name but not a geek name is "Logan." My friend named her second son Logan and well I love it. That kid has the great F**KING name.:D

i agree, but i worry about all these soccer mom types naming kids that how it will ruin it.

anyone read freakonomics? there is a story in there how a guy named his first son "winner" and the second son "loser". the first son ended up in and out of jail. "loser" became a cop and all everyone just calls him lou.

divadawg9234

11-10-2006, 08:41 PM

My fiance is pregnant, so i am still thinking about baby namds. i was thinking Mayumi for a girl. still comtemplating on the boys name. i need feed back.
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ariastar

11-10-2006, 08:44 PM

no but in all seriousness what if you dont name your kid?

If you didn't name your child, you can't take the child out of the hospital. Once upon a time you could though. My mom's birth certificate (born in December 1960) has no first name. Just a middle and mast name. The first name part is completely blank. Not even "baby girl."

ariastar

11-10-2006, 08:46 PM

They name your kid in the hospital. The nurses and doctors need a name to keep track of the child and to be able to generate a bill later. In your case, the kid would be named "baby girl/boy Bird603568". If you don't replace that name with one of your own, the child will grow up with it.

Haven't been in the hospital much, have you? They keep track of you by medical record number, not by name. Your name is used only as a way to double check that they have the right medical record for you. "You're number 123456, name for verification?" Seriously. There could be 10 Jane Does or John Smiths, but only one in the system with your number.

ariastar

11-10-2006, 08:48 PM

The geekiest name I know of actually being used is what Shannyn Sossamon (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815370/bio) named her son:

Audio Science

bravestarr

11-10-2006, 08:53 PM

all i know is when i get married and my old lady & me somehow manage to have triplet girls they will be named Celeste, Mindee, and Phoebe, respectively.

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 08:54 PM

what if i named my kid umbrella or didnt give him a name or named him a number or even his SS?

no but in all seriousness what if you dont name your kid?

when my best friend was 11 he went to sign up for pee wee football. during the sign up someone noticed his birth certificate was blan k where his name should be. they wouldn't let him sighn up for it. he went to get it sorted out at the proper place and they told him he actually got to pick his own name...

tokenuser

11-10-2006, 08:59 PM

when my best friend was 11 he went to sign up for pee wee football. during the sign up someone noticed his birth certificate was blan k where his name should be. they wouldn't let him sighn up for it. he went to get it sorted out at the proper place and they told him he actually got to pick his own name...Teller ... of Penn & Teller, had to get special permission from the state to have his name legally recognised as a single word, but it happened, and his drivers licence now just says "Teller". I thought that was kinda cool. I am betting Prince (symbol) has to go by his given name.

So, in your friends case, his parents were just thinking ahead to the day when he was famous, and would only need a last name.

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 09:08 PM

Teller ... of Penn & Teller, had to get special permission from the state to have his name legally recognised as a single word, but it happened, and his drivers licence now just says "Teller". I thought that was kinda cool. I am betting Prince (symbol) has to go by his given name.

So, in your friends case, his parents were just thinking ahead to the day when he was famous, and would only need a last name.

his first name was howard and his middle name was cecil.

he changed it to "howie" for his first name and his middle name was just "c".

cut to 2000 and he now sounds like a backstreet boy.

divadawg9234

11-10-2006, 09:25 PM

The best geek name but not a geek name is "Logan." My friend named her second son Logan and well I love it. That kid has the great F**KING name.:D
that's a great name!! I have had names for my first 4 children picked out for a long time... I'm not giving them away here because I don't want you guys to steal them :)

I've never seen so many men actually think ahead about their childrens' names... most men I know only think they'll name their first son after themselves and slap a Jr on it. I must say... there are a few of you that I'd never have children with if you're going to insist on some of these names...

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 09:29 PM

that's a great name!! I have had names for my first 4 children picked out for a long time... I'm not giving them away here because I don't want you guys to steal them :)

I've never seen so many men actually think ahead about their childrens' names... most men I know only think they'll name their first son after themselves and slap a Jr on it. I must say... there are a few of you that I'd never have children with if you're going to insist on some of these names...

Derek 2.0 is a joke....

Mal...that would be a good geek name. If someone actually saw firefly they would get it. ;)

divadawg9234

11-10-2006, 09:33 PM

Derek 2.0 is a joke....

Mal...that would be a good geek name. If someone actually saw firefly they would get it. ;)
get it or not, I'd never name my child Mal

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 09:34 PM

get it or not, I'd never name my child Mal

after seeing the show u would..malcolm reynolds...

divadawg9234

11-10-2006, 09:39 PM

after seeing the show u would..malcolm reynolds...
in Spanish, Mal means bad.... so, no

soundwave2-0

11-10-2006, 09:44 PM

a man they call jayne?

madripper1

11-10-2006, 09:47 PM

i want a son named woot or leet

bravestarr

11-10-2006, 09:48 PM

oh, and one of my boys will be named Flint.

paulsaves

11-10-2006, 10:56 PM

A friend of mine named his son Bryan, like the character from the Tekken games, and his daughter Kaylee, from firefly of course.

losojosdemuerte

11-10-2006, 11:25 PM

oh, and one of my boys will be named Flint.

I would name my son Shipwreck, just so they could battle. Or do, "Knowing is half the battle," commercials.

sinclairtyler

11-10-2006, 11:32 PM

Zaphod all the way.

sinclairtyler

11-10-2006, 11:48 PM

xxxthundercatxxx

11-11-2006, 12:17 AM

I had a friend in highschool named Franklin Norman Stein. Of course on everything official it reads Frank N Stein.

psbp516

11-11-2006, 12:32 AM

I was going to be named tiger, but instead I was named peregrine. How gay.

Anyway. I would change my last name to Bolton. And have my son's name be Michael.

masherscf

11-11-2006, 12:46 AM

Haven't been in the hospital much, have you? They keep track of you by medical record number, not by name. Your name is used only as a way to double check that they have the right medical record for you. "You're number 123456, name for verification?" Seriously. There could be 10 Jane Does or John Smiths, but only one in the system with your number.

I've only been to the hospital to "collect" my two children, both who were processed and billed exactly as I described. The pediatrician doesn't share the hospitals records. He or she generates a new files using the name Baby Girl (insert last name). If you're child doesn't have a name yet, that's the one they use. This practice is a very recent response to infamous cases of baby swapping at the hospital.

r3v

11-11-2006, 01:24 AM

Well if it's a big fat fucking crybaby how about Seumas?
haha, thundercat's kid ran away.

sinclairtyler

11-11-2006, 03:03 AM

I just had an even better idea have a few kids and give them all normal names but make it so when you say all the names at the same time it turns into some sort of mad gab. I can't think of any right now but I'm working on it.

This is a lot harder than i thought it would be. So far all i have is part of a sentence.Weevil,...........,Vick, Tory. I can't think of a name that sounds like "have"

weebl

11-11-2006, 04:29 AM

Kevin Smith has named his daughter Harley Quinn Smith...

btw. Iggy, Alexis is a stripper name...just saying ;)

briangilmore

11-11-2006, 07:38 AM

I'm going to try my best to have a boy and a girl. I'll name them Luke (after my father , hehehe, SNEAKY!) and Leia.

AGH, that's my dream!!!

Also, if that doesn't work out, I like Aurora for a girl. Really pretty. If I had a choice, I'd just have a little girl, to just once throw someone out ala Bundy.

If none of that works out, I'll just name my son "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" and my daughter "That's So Raven"

fluxcapacitor

11-11-2006, 06:53 PM

briangilmore

11-11-2006, 07:10 PM

Aurora Borealis Gilmore. Sweet!

I was thinkin Aurora Funbags Gilmore, but Borealis I think would cause less problems in her life. Good call, Flux. Most helpful human being on earth. :o

vegasgeek

11-11-2006, 10:02 PM

If I ever have a boy and girl Twin- Jacen & Jaina

Just a girl- Jill Valentine ___________

Boy- Anakin, Luke, Mel Brooks

atomusk

11-11-2006, 10:47 PM

if its a boy i'd name him Rufio

slowmtnsilhouette

11-11-2006, 11:50 PM

you know, ive never thought of geeky names for my kids. and i cant believe that anyone forgot the geeky nic cage. he named his son kal-el.

ofcgrl

11-12-2006, 03:42 AM

Cornelius and Bif.

Oh wait, no, that's my if I get dogs names.

Ok, kids names, kids names...

Aleksandria for a girl
or
Nikolas for a boy

Geeky in the sense that they involve my family heritage.

ariastar

11-12-2006, 04:02 AM

all i know is when i get married and my old lady & me somehow manage to have triplet girls they will be named Celeste, Mindee, and Phoebe, respectively.

Why?
......

ariastar

11-12-2006, 04:03 AM

Kevin Smith has named his daughter Harley Quinn Smith...

btw. Iggy, Alexis is a stripper name...just saying ;)

You wanna talk stripper names? Two of the most common stripper names are my first and middle names. I once went to a strip club (men on stage) and was pulled up to participate in a fake-orgasm contest, and then I had to prove my name because they thought I was joking.

ariastar

11-12-2006, 04:07 AM

For a girl:

Aria Alexandria Rose
Emily Lily
Victoria Rose

For a boy:
Tristan David
Christian Brian

But, since I can't conceive nor carry (a fact which I've accepted, though devastated me to find out), it kind of doesn't really matter.

(Adoption may not be possible - those with severe medical histories are often black-listed.)

So I may have to get some fishies. I've got a cat named Yoda, a lizard named Anakin, and I've been taking care of my ex-roommate's cat, Kenya. Yoda and Anakin are decent geeky names, right?

iggystar

11-12-2006, 04:53 AM

Kevin Smith has named his daughter Harley Quinn Smith...

btw. Iggy, Alexis is a stripper name...just saying ;)

Well, then there's gonna be alot of strippers born in '98...that happened to be the number one girl name for that year.

bird603568

11-12-2006, 05:09 AM

what about ray don get it radon or ray dios hack get it radio shack :o

terminalsikosis

11-12-2006, 06:07 AM

And when you look back after 30 years, your gonna be full of gigglehurtz.
How about "Ray Diactiv", I like that, thats gonna be my son's name. for a girl, hmm... Lacie, its a pretty name, never heard about it till I started working in pharmaceuticals, She is my co worker.:D

masherscf

11-12-2006, 03:05 PM

what about ray don get it radon or ray dios hack get it radio shack :o

You can name the girl "Rae Dawn".

tokenuser

11-12-2006, 03:09 PM

diela

11-12-2006, 03:14 PM

you know, ive never thought of geeky names for my kids. and i cant believe that anyone forgot the geeky nic cage. he named his son kal-el.

Did he spell it with the dash in the middle, or just Kalel?

WTF am I saying? Either way is stupid.

slowmtnsilhouette

11-12-2006, 08:31 PM

Did he spell it with the dash in the middle, or just Kalel?

WTF am I saying? Either way is stupid.

lol. im pretty sure its with the dash...

comradelazyman

11-13-2006, 12:41 AM

Kal or King

my surname is Kong

masherscf

11-13-2006, 12:42 AM

Kal or King

my surname is Kong

How about "Hong".

comradelazyman

11-13-2006, 12:43 AM

How about "Hong".

Too obvious and not geek related

popltree2

11-13-2006, 03:10 AM

Son's name will be Logan Randall.
Logan because of Wolverine. Randall has a dual meaning: it was my wife's dad's name (RIP) and also the obvious Clerks reference.

Wife and I are also planning on getting a black cat and naming it Annoying Customer.

big-doze

11-13-2006, 07:02 AM

This is rrrl long and self indulgent, and if you don't care just skip it, but I had to post it.

From my blog (ugh... it sounds so dirty when I say that...)

That's not to say we didn't have our disagreements, however. Eventually, with all of our talk about the future, possible childrens names came up. We already have a girls' name picked out (shut up yo face, it's perfect [and no, I'm not telling here. It's a surprise]), but just for fun we kicked a bunch around. Robocop was always high on my list, while Julie had promised her friend Lauren that the name Pancrazio Keechabrese would be her first sire's moniker (don't. ask.). As we talked and laughed, I recalled a Dane Cook bit in which he joked about naming his kids after Transformers. At first this sounded silly, until I realized that Optimus Prime is actually the most badass name for a kid EVER. Think about it: Prime's the middle name, the kids call him OP, and... it's just BADASS, man! Julie did not agree, offering the possibility that our child might not like Transformers. With me as a parent, I ignored this impossible scenario.

This got me thinking, however: Why limit my kid's names to only one classic cartoon when they could all have different awesome throwback names! By the end our home would be the proud lair of Optimus Prime, Skelator, Snake Eyes, Cheetara, Donatello and She-Ra. As I reached a fever pitch, excited by this utopian wonderland I'd conjured up, I described a typical morning in the household: I'd begin by blaring the Thundercats theme through a speaker system installed in every room in the house. The kids would jump out of bed and prepare for school with the theme pumping them up for the day! "Thundercats are on the move! Thundercats are loose!" Then they'd run downstairs, each dressed like a little kid version of their namesake, and--

It was at this point that Julie, who was driving, cut me off with the sternest look I'd ever seen, looked me straight in the eyes, and said:

"Casey, I'm not going to have an army of children just so you can name them after 80's cartoon characters!"

Beyond the fact that the very necessity of this passionate declaration had us cracking up, I felt a great surge of pride in eliciting such a gloriously hilarious statement from my girlfriend. I feel like I should get some sort of geek trophy or something. She still loves me, by the way. Yeah, I'm surprised too.

In the end a compromise was reached, being that I could name all the pets in our future household. That's fine with me, since a house with a tabby cat named Voltron is still the most hardcore house on any block. Ever.

satori

11-13-2006, 07:06 AM

Lord Humungus

abacusand13south

11-13-2006, 04:51 PM

all i know is when i get married and my old lady & me somehow manage to have triplet girls they will be named Celeste, Mindee, and Phoebe, respectively.

I dont beleive anyone has any idea what your talking about and thats just said. Very nice reference.

bullgator2255

11-13-2006, 05:17 PM

Not geeky, but my ex-gf and I, in discussing baby names, easily came up with a girl's name. But for boys, I just started going the list of US presidents' last names, and the only name we agreed on was Grant, who was an alcholic and hugely corrupted. The middle name would be my grandfather's, who was also a bit of a drinker. Ironically, I don't drink at all.

For pets, my cat's name is Riley Charlemange (previous owner gave her the first name). My family is also notorious for giving our pets names that when abreviated, become music genres, i.e. Jasmine = Jazz, Punkin = Punk, Soliel = Soul.