Parents Name Babies After Hunger Games Tributes

[IPunchWithMyFists]

But Hunger Games is already on the way out! Seriously, this is going to be one of the shortest goddamn fads ever, the writing's all over the walls and...

Dammit.

I have to stop being angry on websites. Can't be good for my health.

 

[Thyunda]

Ugh. As usual. Somebody uses names that aren't in the standard baby-names book and suddenly half the population of the Escapist want to leave the planet. Fuck me, for a community notorious for being non-conformist and individualistic, this is ridiculously hypocritical.

Criticising a parent for giving their child a unique name is like criticising them for wanting to raise their black child in a predominantly white neighbourhood. Oh, think of how the other kids will bully them for being different. Shocking. I discovered halfway through college that people legitimately believed my name was 'Thyunda' because my friend had been secretly introducing me as such.

As much as I don't like the names 'Katniss' or 'Peeta' (Surely Peter would have sufficed) I wouldn't call somebody a bad parent for using them. Well maybe Peeta. We already have a name for that. It's Peter.

My name's fairly normal. Didn't stop me getting bullied all the way through highschool (by a guy whose nickname was 'Snip' of all things) and, really, the response on these forums is demonstrating EXACTLY why people insult unusual names.

Bloody ridiculous.

 

[mental_looney]

Shrug flowers are always going to be names for girls in and out of popularity, poppy heather laurel daisy violet primrose rose hyacinth bluebell iris jasmine lily flora ivy petunia the list goes on and on and cato aint bad, it's like marcus and julius and all the old roman names that have also been in and out of popularity it's not the end of the world...

 

[Proverbial Jon]

People name their kids after made up characters in books all the time.

Michael, Peter, John, Matthew, etc.

What you did there, I see it.

You sir win +1 Interweb and my eternal respect!

OT: If you end up frequenting name meaning websites as much as I do in search of symbolic names then you soon realise that a lot of the names we use these days were made popular because of the various examples of literature and media at the time.

For example the name Lorna became popular after it was used for the heroine in the novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore in 1869... apparently.

This is hardly a new thing and it's a damn sight better than these stupid celebrity names as everyone has been pointing out.

 

[sabercrusader]

Could have been worse is all I can say.

 

[RJ 17]

Still not as bad as the single WORST name given out in human history.

Answer? K-A

Yeah...

K-A

That's not a typo.

Pronounced ka-dash-ah

Why?

As the mother put it

"Because the dash ain't silent nigga!"

Yep... true story...

I remember hearing about that one, actually. Forget where from, but someone told me a story regarding it.

As for one of my favorite cases of naming gone awry, look no futher than George Foreman who has something like 8 kids...ALL named George...even the girls. Not variations like "Georgey" or "Georgette"...just straight up George, George, George, George, George, George, George, and George.

 

[octafish]

These names are fine. Although Cato reminds me of Kato Kaelin, and nobody should be associated with him. My daughter is called Scout, and that is "worse" than Cato and Rue.

 

[Diplian]

Ive seen some parents call their daughter Usnavy.
they saw it on a ship and thought it was a cool name for a ship.

 

[mattaui]

I'd feel bad if people named their pets after such rubbish. Their actual children? That's horrific.

 

[Michael826]

People name their kids after made up characters in books all the time.

Michael, Peter, John, Matthew, etc.

I found this genuinely hilarious. Thanks for giving my day a lol-tastic start.

OT: I don't know why parents do this, to me it reeks of un-originality and will only come back to bite the child in the ass later on in life...but what do I know?

 

[X10J]

I wonder if my kids will think "Ryuzaki" when they hear the name "Rue."

 

[omicron1]

Oh, for peeta's sake... pick something sensible for your kids! Like Aragorn, or Hermione!

 

[Frozengale]

People name their kids after made up characters in books all the time.

Michael, Peter, John, Matthew, etc.

Oh haha I get it. You are a free and independent thinker because you like everyone else on the internet makes jokes about someone else's beliefs. Good on you. I hope to see more of the same over done joke from you.

OT:

Am I the only one that thinks this when I hear Rue

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

It's strange to think that parents think about their children's names less than an author thinks of their characters'. Being an occasional author myself, I guess I can understand, names are hard to come by, but I think it's best if the kid at least gets the chance to make a name for himself, instead of inheriting one from a fictional character.

 

[theLadyBugg]

Oh my god, someone named their child a name that isnt widely used and is a little bit odd! Lets all lose faith in humanity and ***** about it!

Names are boring, if there was more people called Starblood Deathadder, the world would be a better place. Instead we call our children Paul, or Carl, or Jane. What the fuck is wrong with this world when Jane is a better name than Starblood Deathadder? A wrong world, thats what it is.

To be fair, if everyone had names along the lines of "Thunderhawk Deathblade" or "Starblood Deathadder", we'd see those as boring and bland, and "Paul", "Jane", etc would be the exotic and unusual names.

It really wouldn't change a thing. A name is pretty irrelevant, in the grand scheme of things. As they say, you can call a cat a fish, but that doesn't mean it can swim. What syllables you use to address someone doesn't change anything about them, thus everyone having different names would make absolutely no difference.

I guess "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" still holds true. Though Starblood gives an image of blood and space travel, while Paul gives you an image of some Jewish guy.
I know which naming conventions id rather have.

That is so assuming and not fair of you. Not all guys named Starblood are space travelers, okay? Some just want to be earthbound accountants.

OT: We're all named after something. If it's not recycled family names, it's places, plants, or fictional characters. I don't see what's so noteworthy about this. Although, I'm not entirely opposed to implementing a name-generator system for kids from here on out -- nobody's going to get name-related bullying if we all got labeled by the same program.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

While naming your kids after a popular thing is a bit childish and stupid, I guess it wouldn't be bad as long as the name was decent, and for names you could do worse than Cato or Rue.

Also, call me a hypocrite, but while I'd love to call my future daughter (here's hoping) Alice, I'd be lying if I wouldn't try to get Mami or Reisen to work.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Young parents today are fuckin' idiots.

 

[MrTwo]

Well, it could be worse.

Someone called their child ab-see-def

Spelt abcdef.

WHYYYY!