Beyonce and Jay-Z’ newborn baby girl Blue Ivy Carter is let’s just say, “different”.
Thor and his wife
(Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky) named their brand new baby daughter India. I’ll never understand the
fascination with naming a child after a country or city.
And we will
forever wonder what Gwyneth Paltrow and Cold Play's lead singer, Chris Martin, were thinking when they named their
baby girl Apple.
So where did this
crazy baby name trend come from? Do celebrities have some secret competition or
agreement that they must give their newborn child the most insane name they can
possibly think of? I’ll admit some of them are cute, like little baby Bingham (Kate Hudson and her fiance's little one). But baby
Bingham won’t always be baby Bingham.
That poor baby is going to grow up to be a man and have to introduce himself as “Bing” or “Bingham”
to his future employer and to his girlfriend’s parents.
I guess I will
never know or understand the motive behind naming a baby Moon-Unit (Frank Zappa's daughter), but I’m sure my future
children will be grateful.
So true, I do not understand these crazy names either.
ReplyDeleteOh good God this is hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI think the only thing that goes through their minds is that the baby is the product of fame. Those kids will most likely grow up on the tabloids. Take Katie Holmes and Crazy Cruise's kid for example, she practically grew up in the spot light.
Perhaps it is more of a 'my kid is probably going to be famous, he/she should have a fun and fabulous name! A unique one for them to remember! Something to talk about.'
This type of naming is crazy I mean Michael Jackson's kid is called Prince (Blanket). I just do not understand naming your child after inanimate objects. I feel that it is cute as a baby but when they are school I do not think it would be so awesome.
ReplyDeleteThese famous kids will probably never go to a normal school but for parents who are not famous why!? Why put your child though that? It will never make sense to me.
I agree with the comments suggesting how naming a child will influence them as they age, but at the same time do you think this shift into unique names is reflective of new parenting strategies? Now more than ever before parents are realizing how important it is to stress the importance of differences in their children, instead of ostracizing differences which has the potential to lead to self esteem difficulties later in life. Each parent wants to view their child as special and different from other children, so why shouldn't children all have different names from one another?
ReplyDeleteWait, someone already used moon-unit? Damn it..back to the drawing board!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I'd rather stick to the norm and blend in when it comes to my name...
ReplyDeleteI'm all for creativity and uniqueness. But I do feel some limits need to be considered (Sorry Pete, Moon-unit is definitely one of them... hahaha)
ReplyDeleteand Apple - can you imagine that poor girl in high school? the boys will torment her like CRAZY (think of all the innuendoes that could be made with a name like "apple")
I defiantly think that giving you child a bizarre name is like giving putting a neon sign over there head saying “please beat me up”. I herded somewhere that when you’re picking a name you have to think about all the life stages and consider whether it will be appropriate in all of them. I also like the idea of a name that can have nick names or be shortened. Calling your child apple or anything that makes one question whether or not the parents where on drugs when picking names is just wrong.
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