During the 18th century parents began to give their children distinct names. By this I mean that they stopped recycling names from their dead children for their new children and started to use names from books written by authors such as Rousseau.
In today’s society people have taken this concept to a whole new level. They LOVE to give their children “unique” names. But when does “unique” just become strange? Is it Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee’s child)? How about Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone’s kid)? North West (Kim and Kanye’s baby)? Diva Thin Muffin (Frank Zappa’s offspring)? Moxie Crimefighter (Penn of Penn and Teller‘s daughter)? And I’m not making any of these up.
The thing is, it’s not just celebrities giving their children strange names anymore. A list of baby names from average parents for 2013 includes girls’ names such as Blip, Viggo, and Nyx and boys’ names like Cheese, Thirdy, and Hurricane.
Names today have become so odd that my brother and I came up with a game to pick names for our future children, which we are convinced is how some people MUST be picking names for their children. We opened the dictionary to a random page and without looking pointed our finger to a word. My brother’s future child is Op-Art (I think this name is unisex so at least it has that going for it). My lucky future child’s name is Matriculant.
Can we somehow find a happy medium so that a child’s name is unique but not so strange that they could be made fun of in school? THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
Family: Link to Our Past, Bridge to Our Future 