28 Really Geeky Baby Names
I happen to own the top Google search results ranking for the phrase “worst baby names ever”. As such, people occasionally come by and leave a comment on the related post with stories of bad baby names.
A good portion of these have geeky connotations, so I thought I’d generate a little list using that entry, the site it linked to, and a bit of creative searching. There’s no way to verify if these are all legit, but they’re all from reports I found on the web–I didn’t make any of them up.
Here’s the list thus far, feel free to offer additions:
- Strider - It could have been worse, he could’ve been named Pippin.
- Arwen - Again, it could have been Eowyn. Plus, it’s quite a pretty name.
- Lestat - “I can’t understand why junior keeps wearing all that white makeup…”
- Neo - You might as well name the kid “Jesus”.
- Keanu - See above.
- Nikita - Apparently from the Elton John song, not from La Femme Nikita, but we can hope.
- Nero - “Son, you’re named for a a Roman Emperor. No pressure.”
- Maximus - See above.
- Cosmo Ranger - I got nothing.
- Eaton - Last name Seamen. Not so much geeky as just plain cruel.
- Cleopatra Evita - Presumably she’s the daughter of drag queens.
- Corran - Apparently a character in the Star Wars books.
- Mara Jade - Another similarly non-movie Star Wars character.
- Anakin - Bound to be a mouth breather.
- Luke - Climbed the charts from 228th in the seventies to 42nd today.
- Ada - Destined to work in a cubicle among smelly coding boys.
- Wesley - Fairly common, but geeky when inspired by Star Trek.
- Jadzia - Apparently in 1998, there were 27 baby girls named after Deep Space Nine’s Dax.
- Ryker - In that same year, 80 baby boys were making Number One in their diapers.
- B’elanna - Well, at least the apostrophe will simplify things.
- Kirk - Apparently Kirk Cameron was named after the Shatnerian one.
- Moon Unit - Thank you, Papa Zappa.
- Amadeus - Retro geeky.
- Mars - I know, it’s also a Greek god. But it gets dodgy when his sister is named Venus. And what if you named a kid Pluto and he got downgraded to a mere dwarf planet?
- Ripley - Likes her machine gun with a flamethrower chaser.
- Dade - This one’s pretty obscure (but apparently legit). I mean, how many people saw Hackers?
- Damien - You know, like the Prince of Darkness? Rose in popularity thanks to The Omen.
- Version 2.0 - Obvious, and apparently true.
March 9th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Nice thing about “Arwen” is that it is geeky to those who are geeks, and flies under the radar for others. (Usual question after I introduce myself: “Is that an Irish name?”) I thought that the movie that ate the box office might change that. Nope. I don’t say I’m ARrrrrrrWhen like the elves did, and so no one makes the connection (who isn’t already a LoTR’s fan).
March 10th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Sure beats naming the child LaVodka, Velvetta or Kraft.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I know a family of five in which all of the children have names related to characters or actors from Star Wars. (Luke, Ewan, Liam….) I don’t know if the mother is aware of this, but I suspect the father is.
March 10th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
If you’re naming your kid ‘Nero’, be prepared to ante up for violin lessons.
Also - I’ll nominate the following for really geeky baby names:
Avro (yes, after the Avro Arrow)
Reagan (after Ronald. I know another couple that seriously considered naming their kid Trudeau)
March 14th, 2007 at 4:30 am
past the baby making age, but I was thinking ‘beta’ would be a good ‘un.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
lol Obi-won, ryan howell, these are the geekest names
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
and Jay Wilhelmy
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
Thirstun Howell the Fourteenth
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 am
“warsta” comes from “star wars” sorry bout all teh comments, i keep thinking of funny ones, also Runescape would be pretty geeky, gimli, and Macintosh are the last i have
July 7th, 2007 at 7:53 am
For me, on my real baby name list is the name “Jackson Carter”. Oh, boy, I’m bad. I’m not a Daniel, but Samantha did make our list for girls too! Of course Jackson doubles for daniel and Jack too.
This list is great, though. As long as I don’t name our boy Teal’c I don’t think anyone would be the wiser!
;-)
September 12th, 2007 at 8:50 am
I named my 7 year old daughter Ripley and have had nothing but compliments. It is a different name for sure…but what fun is it to have a name like 60% of the population D-A-R-R-E-N??
No offence…but Karen is pretty common as well. I got over it. It’s about setting yourself apart from the crowd, right?
September 27th, 2007 at 1:08 am
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October 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Please consider adding Cyrus or Syrus.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:39 am
You forgot Xena… No pressure, you’re just a HAWT warrior princess and all
March 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
i was in a resturant one day and the waitress came to my table and her name was spelled S H I T’ H E A D i was lauhing for a week straight
April 1st, 2008 at 7:23 am
my physics teacher actually named her son wilber-zeus and i remember asking her “is it going to be wilber hyphen zeus or wilber and then middle name zeus” and she said ‘oh wilber-zeus wilber on it’s own would be just silly’ of course cause wilber-zeus is normal! we also had an re teacher who’s surname was lord and he named his son noah. hence ‘do you no-ah lord’ we used to luv takin the mick out of that one.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
hey i happen to be a big star trek and star wars fan.i love these names(star trek,star wars at least)
May 26th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I work in a school and one of the kids is called Cleopatra Evita and his pairents are totaly sraight. (I think)