Agreed. Although if they do dress him as Sephiroth, I demand pics.

Mmhmm! There is a problem about naming kids at times. I did hear, from HH, someone naming her daughter Kagome, since she was a big big fan of Inuyasha. Poor girl - she may think she had a Japanese father who was never there, or worse, adopted! (You'll never know what kind of things kids can think of.)

But I had heard of funny names. There was a boy called 'Worth'. You don't need to name a kid 'Worth' to make him have value. And I knew a junior whose name was 'Jezebel'. She hated it.

Gotta tell the parents how far name creativity can go.

-<dd>

Yeah, read that in the newspapers the other day.

Poor girl, must have been embarrassed.

~ Bioran

My kids are going to be named Yoho and Bottlorum.

Why? Why do people do this?

I read about a kid whose parents named her something like 194y2894573822-o57u-[p435d]yvans8. Yep. They had to change it, but do you ever think to yourself, "Is evolution supposed to work like this?"

It's a good thing someone (that someone being the Court Judge in New Zealand) is doing something about improper naming. I've seen two previous articles about babies with unusual names. One was about his parents naming their child 'Superman'. Another was about parents who wanted to name their child '4 Real' (They weren't allowed to do this due to the number '4' in the name). Actually, come to think of it, they might have been the same story, as I recall 'Superman' might have been the couples second decision. Can't recall at the moment.

They may think it's cute now, but I seriously doubt they want their child going through life having to be embarrassed by a name like '4 Real'. I'm all for names that are different and original, or mean something special to the parent (in English or other language), but there's a point where you shouldn't just name a kid the strangest thing you can think of. 'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii' for example.