Geeky Child Names? 142
kerrys_1999 asks: "Good friends have just given birth to their first child, Ashton Tate Rogers, named after the heroes of dBase 3. I know Dr Bob, a Delphi fanatic, has children called Erik Mark Pascal and Natasha Louise Delphine.
Finally there's the story that Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda after the legendary video games. Anybody know more?"
Skeletor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Skeletor (Score:1)
Re:Skeletor (Score:1)
I assume you are joking, but just in case you aren't, and to anybody out there who thinks this might be a good idea, remember that this is a good way to make your kids hate you.
From DS9... (Score:1)
One of my all time favorite names, though I can't actually stand the guy, is "Wolf Blitzer". Now that is pretty cool.
Re:From DS9... (Score:1)
Re:From DS9... (Score:1)
I might have to name my kid "Woz".
Re:From DS9... (Score:2)
Jean Chretien is clearly the more manly Frenchman. French-Canadian, anyway. But that just means he has lumberjack gear to fuck Jacques Chirac up. :)
Re:From DS9... (Score:1)
Odo
-m
There's a gorilla named that! (Score:1)
Re:From DS9... (Score:2)
Saxifrage (Score:3, Interesting)
For those who don't know, its from the terraforming scientist in KSR's Red/Green/Blue mars series.
I've seen the nick Saxifrage registered on some webboards (like space.com's discussion board), but he hasn't been posting lately.
I just think the name is awesome.
D.
Re:Saxifrage (Score:1)
Good series of books, if anyone hasn't checked them out.
Re:Saxifrage (Score:1)
I love those books! Sax would be a great nickname for either a boy or a girl.
My aim name is based on the name of Sax Russel from the Mars trilogy.
Re:Saxifrage (Score:2)
Re:Saxifrage (Score:1)
I really wonder why I just did that now...
Zappas (Score:3, Funny)
There's a fun article on rock stars naming there kids here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_4470
Not geeky, but cool nonetheless.
Re:Zowie Bowie (Score:1)
When Marc Bolan heard the David Bowie named his son Zowie, he liked the idea so much that he called his son Rolan Bolan.
Ashton? (Score:1)
Re:Ashton? (Score:1)
dBase was produced by the company Ashton-Tate. But there was never a Mr Ashton, ony a Mr Tate. But he reckoned that "Tate" didn't have enough gravitas, so he invented a partner, and called his company "Ashton-Tate". (Another version has it that he did have a partner, but the partner's name didn't sound corporate enough).
Similarly - their first product was dBaseII. There never was a dBaseI. They thought that the "II" made it sound like a mature product in its second major release. Who ever buys version 1.0 of anything?
Back (nearly) on topic - I have a dog called Grep!
Re:Ashton? (Score:1)
Vulcan.
I want that brain cell back.
Re:Ashton? (Score:1)
I spent a large perportion of my childhood playing Iron Ox and LORE on two local BBS's. The first modem I used ran at 1200bps.
My first two OS's were Minix, and DOS 3.2
My first games were animal, and ttt, on Minix, and Space Quest on DOS.
The computer this all ran on was a 12Mhz 286 with 2MB of RAM. (The next computer was a 486 DX2/66 with 8MB RAM. Next was a P3/500 with 128MB RAM. Now I have my own computer... Duron 1.2Ghz
I never actually used dBase, but knew the name Ashton was used in it because my father used dBase, and I had read the intro's of some books for it.
BTW My father had nothing to do with my name. If he had his way I would have been named after one of many car model/brands. His first choice was Austin.
My mother got my name from a character in a very religious novel.
prefixes and sufflixes (Score:3, Funny)
Discipiles of rms ... Gmike
... Mikezilla
... Kmike
... eMike
... iMike
... Pymike
... XMike
... .Mike
... Jmike
... OMikel
... '(name Mike)
Lizards
Konquerors
Marketroids
Marketroids 1998
Snakes
"Human readable"
Borg
Debugging everywhere
Object-functional
Jerks
Re:prefixes and sufflixes (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't that be GNU/Mike ?
Re:prefixes and sufflixes (Score:2)
SMIK (Score:2)
There was a book I read years ago, called "The Ultimate Computer" or something along those lines, and the two hackers in the story went by the handles WORM and SMIK ... for some reason the system was limited to four characters, and words beginning with M were reserved or something like that. SMIK was for "super Mike", IIRC.
Does anyone else remember this?
Re:prefixes and sufflixes (Score:1)
Twins... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Twins... (Score:2, Funny)
should be named Awk and Sed!!!
Mod that post up!
...then consider "Lex" and "Yacc"
h2g2 (Score:1)
Re:h2g2 (Score:1)
(For those of you who haven't, try working them out phonetically. Yep, that's right. Phonetics actually work for once.)
Re:h2g2 (Score:1)
What else... (Score:2)
What about what one is Drinking... (Score:1)
T'Kela
Shardinay (not sure about the spelling on this one)
Both named after what their paraents were drinking the night they were conceived.
Of course, in this crowd we'd get "CodRed" and "Bawls."
Nevermind. This is not the naming scheme you're looking for.
OpenBSD Rulez! (Score:1)
Xyzzy ... no, really! (Score:4, Interesting)
A former coworker (Score:2, Informative)
Speaking of hockey... (Score:1)
Meg Murry from "A Wrinkle in Time" (Score:3, Interesting)
My daughter is named after Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
Re:Meg Murry from "A Wrinkle in Time" (Score:1)
That was a fun set of books, worth reading again once you're out of grade school. I lost interest about halfway through Many Waters, but I guess that's just not my sort of story.
My son will be named... (Score:2, Funny)
IRC to the Rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
Suggestions:
- Sweet16Hot
- M0un7a1nD1ngu5
- H4xPR0f3554r
- cybergrrl38
- FR33K3\/1N
Re:IRC to the Rescue! (Score:1)
Re:IRC to the Rescue! (Score:1)
Paula2003432
Gary228 (obviously one of the more lucky ones)
etc., etc.
I'm wondering who'd dare call their child CowboyNeal?
How about (Score:1, Funny)
q3.. (Score:2, Interesting)
crash
keel
mynx
sarge
uriel
biker
doom
klesk
orbb
slash
visor
bitterm
grunt
lucy
ranger
sorlag
xaero
bones
hunter
major
razor
tankjr
i thought this would be obvious (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i thought this would be obvious (Score:1)
Re:i thought this would be obvious (Score:1)
;)
RMS's kids (Score:1, Funny)
The obligatory star wars reference... (Score:2)
-Sean
Re:The obligatory star wars reference... (Score:1)
A few (Score:2, Funny)
For girls:
The first programmer (Score:2)
Re:The first programmer (Score:1)
Harley Quinn (Score:1)
Geeky Enough for ya?
ellen (Score:2)
Erik (Score:2)
Re:Erik (Score:2)
2. You must have a Moustache
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Re:Erik (Score:2)
How about... (Score:1)
Or, how about, Dirk Gentley, Arthur Dent, etc..
Well, (Score:1)
I know a person who... (Score:1)
Re:I know a person who... (Score:2)
After the difficulty my wife and I had naming our son (8 weeks ago), I think I might get to use a geek name on the second, since we're out of options. I'm thinking Ed Lynn or maybe Juan Octal. At least they look like real names, sorta...
Girl's Name (Score:1)
weeber
root (Score:1)
The spelling is important too!
There can only be one. (Score:1)
There can be only one (Score:1, Funny)
Or, if you're kinda evil, The Kurgan.
good idea (Score:1)
Give them another reason to hate you later in their teen age years.
How about... (Score:2)
- A.P.
Colorful names (Score:1)
Re:Colorful names (Score:1)
Jr? (Score:2)
I'm considering naming my firstborn "3.0" instead of the Gatesian "III".
I'm also considering getting a life and choosing a name, instead of defaulting one.
Re:Jr? (Score:1)
Shanda Lear (Score:2)
Crystal Shanda Lear (Score:1)
My dog (Score:2)
Future dogs not named Pepper will be named after other scientists. I have Maxwell Clerk Loukas (after James Clerk Maxwell) and Bruno Giordano Loukas (after Giordano Bruno) already reserved. When I need more names, I'll just draw from the large number of scientists with neat names.
Re:My dog (Score:1)
Re:My dog (Score:1)
He's not the great of a warrior though...
best game to name kids after (Score:1)
Re:best game to name kids after (Score:1)
Names for twins, (Score:1)
The following is just a sig.
Re:Names for twins, (Score:1)
Highlander (Score:1)
King of Planets (Score:2)
Bill Gates (Score:1)
Pascal (Score:1)
Re:Pascal (Score:1)
"Okay class, I'm going to call the roll now. Euler? Euler?"
Guaranteed to get your kid's classmates confused.. (Score:1)
Certainly won't be called on in class much.
how about... (Score:1)
How cool is this? (Score:2)
Dante Alexander Johnson.
It's not _exclusively_ classics geek material- there's a ballplayer for the Red Sox named Dante who also gets a nod this way- but bottom line, cool brother, cool name :)
Geeky names (Score:1)
My youngest nephew is named Connor, for the Highlander
How nice... (Score:1)
Four Great Names (Male biased) (Score:1)
Zaphod Beeblebrox (if you are moderately vindictive)
Slartibartfast (if you positively hate them)
Tricia McMillian isn't a bad first+second name for a girl, then you can call her Trillian for short
The list to check (Score:1)
Second, check here:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/note139.h
Lucidly titled Acturarial note 139, it is a summary of names given to children in the US by year, based on SSN applications (need the SSN to claim them as deductions, so most get them as newborns now). Just pick things at the bottome or not on the list.
Then, don't tell anyone until it's committed to a birth certificate. People steal.
Not obvious geek names best. (Score:2)
how do they go to school then? (Score:1)
Names from Sci-Fi Books (Score:1)
Foo and Bar (Score:2)
Why not Foo Bar Lastname?
Video games? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Just a friendly reminder if you're religious (Score:1)
If it's a girl that doesn't leave very many options. [nfl.com]