Lol, to be honest this is the kind of thing that helps turn me into such a complete bastard. When I see people naming kids after pop culture phenomenas or to win contests, I believe it's a sign that we need to start taking rights away from people. I believe that before you should have control over any other person, even your own offspring, you should meet certain minimul requirements of responsibility. Something that feeds into my occasional declarations of saying that we should sterlize the population and then reverse it only for people approved to have children, reducing the population is a big part of it, but also it can be used to put an end to this kind of crap.
Barring that, I'm wondering if perhaps there should be some kind of approval process in hospitals which baby names are approved through before they go onto birth certificates. Kids don't stay these little, cute, borderline objects forever, and names can have a huge impact. Some pop culture referacen, contest, or whatever is a very short term thing that can ruin an entire life, as can Mr. and Mrs. Hooker deciding to name their daughter "Ima" for whatever reason.
As time goes on the "sacred right to name your kids whatever you want" increasingly comes into question as people prove themsevles unworthy of that "right". There were attempts back in the day to say force Indians to assume proper english names, and so on, which have reinforced the reasons why people should have this right, but as time goes on I'm increasingly questioning this being an untouchable right. Ultimatly I don't think an approval process would matter to 99% of the people out there naming their kids, anyway as most people don't do garbage like this, but you have to be concerned about the welfare of children where parents DO engage in this kind of thing.
Of course to my way of thinking as soon as parents showed up and named their kids something crazy to win a contest or whatever, I'd see that as justification to call social services. As bad as that system is, it's probably for the best given that I doubt the parenting abillities of someone who would name their kid Trogdar or whatever.
All kidding aside, and while there is no guarantee it will happen, if we find the teenage "Baby Dovakin" engaged in a school shooting rampage or something, it's not like there will be much question as to what drove him to it.
