People with real l337 speak names?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her. Anyway, it had me wondering whether there are any people out there with real l337 speak given names (or even just a digit in their name). Do you know of any? Other than people saying your dad is a l4m3r, What are the possible pitfalls of having a digit in your name? Is it legal to have a digit in a name? Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit? Am I the misfit?" Ask Jennifer 8. Lee.

oy

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'm going to name my first born son fr1st p50t!!11

That's nothing

[JohnGrahamCumming]

Imagine having a commonly used pr0n word in your name.

John.

Potential Problem

[PaintyThePirate]

One problem would be taking standardized tests such as the SATs. There are no numbers in the section where you bubble in your name. Your child could lose the 400 points given for putting your name on the test...

Epidural

[GMontag]

I can't help you on the new name, but to get the name you want make sure withhold the epidural until the little lady complies.

Skipping the episiotomy could be the next step, but let's hope your demands are met in good time.

let's set some priorities

[tanguyr]

I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her... considering you haven't even met her yet. Now move out of your parent's basement and stop posting April Fool's jokes.

Re:That's nothing

[CptChipJew]

"Hi sorry, I apologize, but could you tell me your name again?"

"Oh God, I'm Cumming!"

sorry...

In my family

[stoolpigeon]

all us boys got unusual names. Makes you tough.

Sue.

Re:Not a Joke

[ArmenTanzarian]

Well, we at least know of one bug in first version: bad naming conventions.

It's not that great...

[b12arr0]

My parents named me sc0. They thought they were so cool with their UnixWare server. I'm in therapy now.

Well ......

[lake2112]

I am going to name my first child :-) . Because he/she will the happiest child in the world with a name like :-)

f00lz, ph33r teh l337!!

[CharAznable]

EyE 4m 51cK of 4pr11 f00lz 570ri3z. tihs 4r71(13 is TEH SUX!!111!!!
8u7 1n (453 17'5 r34l,
g0 4 17!!!!
OMG!!! r0x0r!!11!!! j00 0wnz!!

Of course you can do it...

[LilMikey]

...stupid isn't illegal yet.

You are not the misfit...

[baudilus]

but you are the weakest link. Goodbye!

Re:oy

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously. Name your child FORTRAN. Absolutly *no one* will screw with a kid named FORTRAN. Most bad ass name in history. Peroid.

the Master is having one of his ... *affairs*

[senahj]

> Br4d
> J4n37
Dr. Scott!
Rocky!

Re:oy

[notque]

All I want is at least one Evil bit post. That's it.

Re:Potential Problem Non-issue.

[grub]

Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.

OMG, STFU n00B

[paroneayea]

|<L34rLy j00 |)0 |\|07 |_|nD3r574nD @d\/4||\|C3D l337 5p33k 17 1s m[]r3 t|-|3|\| j|_|57 d1g|7s, l0l!!!!!111@

Re:oy

[Otter]

Oh I dunno, I am fairly hot for someone with a Greek letter / Physics symbol as a middle name...

Dude, there's a whole country full of people whose full names are spelled entirely with Greek letters!

Real 1337 names

[BubbaJonBoy]

I have a grandson named Darren Andrew Terrence Anderson - initials D.A.T.A. - after the StarTrek android...
Does killing two genres with multiple names count?
Regards,
BubbaJonBoy

Re:That's nothing

[HiredMan]

That would suck. No one would be able to find you on any search engine query for all the results.

Of course, in the future the only way to remain anonymous might be to have a name so common that it can't be filtered from the noise of web page META tags.

I named my kids "Nude Portman Viagra" and "Spam Nigeria Warez" because if I can't keep them off the grid I can at least make the very, very hard to find.

=tkk

I had a pal years ago...

[Samurai Cat!]

...who went to high school with these two people, brother and sister. The guy's name was Chip, the girl's name was Cookie.

The dog's name was Chocolate.

I shit thee not.

Ihope this is an April Fool

[HarveyBirdman]

I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender.

Translation: I hate my child, and wish to see them get beaten regularly in school.

You don't have another child named Squee, do you?

Re:oy

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, there's a whole country full of people whose full names are spelled entirely with Greek letters!

Yeah, I saw that Star Trek episode, too...

Re:Of course you can do it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Stupidity will never be outlawed.

Too many people in office would get arrested.

my first born'll be called 904753

[GillBates0]

goatse, darling! can you come here a minute?

coming dad! (@) *shudder*

Re:That's nothing

[Garion911]

I recall on usenet year ago, a student, whose school policy was first 6 letters of last name, first initial, last initial..

Her name was something like Mary Elizabeth Cummings..

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cumminme&hl=en &l r=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=19990609210912.29320.000 01319%40ng33.aol.com&rnum=3

I've known worse...

[Anonymous Coward]

I went to college with an &erson and dated Christian Dick.

Sue

[Quill_28]

Is this the modern day version of a boy named sue?

Yes, I know it's April 1st.

Re:Real 1337 names (obligatory joke)

[shadowcabbit]

Depending on when the kid watches the Matrix, all he's going to ever hear when he comes home is "Mr. Anderson, welcome back... we missed you."

Re:oy

[dasmegabyte]

I'm naming my first born "omg new baby ^_^"

True Story

[Anonymous Coward]

A friend of mine gave his son the middle name "Danger".

The theory was that his son would only have to say "Well, Danger is my middle name" once in his life to make it all worth while.

(Brad, if you are out there, give Mike a call)

Re:That's nothing

[gnu-generation-one]

"That would suck. No one would be able to find you on any search engine query for all the results."

FBI agent: "We've got the Echelon data on Mr Cumming, sir. Results 1-10 of 413,770,400 are on your screen now. They're mostly emails mentioning his name"

Re:Not a Joke

[Flamingcheeze]

So if the kid gets a bionic implant, will he then be Jon Cusack 2.1?

kindergarden

[tasinet]

"Hi! I'm 212.90.0.89! Want to come to 127.0.0.1 and h4 | R-0uND?" -or- "Honey, look at that! our kids are so alike! They have the same class C ip address! How sweet!

Re:Ask the guy who used to be Prince.

[Anonymous Coward]

What? The guy who used to be prince is a guy?!

Re:It's not that great...

[billimad]

sorry man but you also owe someone $699 too.

H Joke

[twitter]

I'd like to make a joke about H, but it would take too much Perparation. I get sore just thinking about it.

Re:That's nothing

[johnkoer]

Since the link doesn't work, I think this is whar Garion is referring to:

Many colleges and business's tend to strip the last name down to 6
characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end
to make up an e-mail address..

For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or
fergusml. They are just now beginning to realize
the problems that may happen when you have a
large and diverse pool of people to choose from.

Add to that a large database of company/college
Acronyms and you have some very funny addresses.
Probably not funny to the individual involved, however:

Top ten actual E-mail Addresses

10. Hellen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

9. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

8. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

7. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

6. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

5. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical,
Northern Division, Overton, Canada) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

4. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

3. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

2. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

but at No 1, it had to be...

1. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) -
[e-mail] mailto:[e-mail]

Re:oy

[Fnkmaster]

How about naming your baby "Oops"?

alright, that's it...

[andrewcone]

i'm going to head home tonight and concieve a child with my girlfriend, just so he or she can grow up and beat up your kid for having a dumb name.

Re:oy

[Ateryx]

I'm an admin for a underground filesharing hub at a major midwest campus, and while registering people I came across a kid whose name was ______ McLeet.

It looks like while some people learn to be leet, others are just born that way.

Re:oy

[ArsonSmith]

self forfilling post

Re:oy

[cayenne8]

Gonna name mine 'Houdini'.....

For somehow managing to escape that damned rubber.....

i'm so 1337, i'm 2448

[WormholeFiend]

april fool jokes aside...

if you want to give your child an unusual name, at least give him or her something s/he can abbreviate to something less unusual if s/he turns out to be more conservative than you, otherwise, s/he could have some problems, among other things, with finding a job, people assuming the name has typo or is a joke name (but I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus!).

even some foreigners are starting to modify their names due to embarrassing phonetic correlation in English... like this Vietnamese person I know: real name "Phuoc". (side note: a friend of mine who is a native French speaker took her child to the Toronto zoo once, and she was teaching her to say the animal names in French. The people around her were evidently scandalized to see this mother teach her daughter to point at a seal and to say: "un phoque!")

That being said, I also know a guy named Richard Hertz, who everyone calls Dick. No joke.

I wouldnt be surprised if one day someone starts an agency to research names that have absolutely no bad connotations in any language.

Re:That's nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

George Bush?

Re:That's nothing

[Analogy Man]

Straight up my wife went to high school with a Richard Wacker. I understand he lived up to his name too!

Re:Ry4an

[Anonymous Coward]

It's spelled Ry4an but is pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.

Re:oy

[Mr. Piddle]

What about Asskickotron the Destroyer?

Re:oy

[Captain Nitpick]

Seriously. Name your child FORTRAN. Absolutly *no one* will screw with a kid named FORTRAN. Most bad ass name in history. Peroid.

"FORTRAN? Wasn't he the one that turned into a dump truck?"

Re:oy

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's work on getting laid first, hm?

Re:one of my first CS TAs in college

[Anonymous Coward]

'allo Ha (aloha)

Re:oy

[sg_oneill]

I had a friend seriously (admitedly when drunk) claim to be calling his soon-to-be-born kid "Incredible 3D monster".

Of course he changed his mind when he sobered he said he was just talking about graphics cards.

So he settled on "Zebulon" for a boys name. Fortunately he got a daughter and mother got to chose the (sensible) name.

eek.

Re:oy

[VivianC]

Almost forgot about Frigga. Nice girl, I spent a whole day teling her what her name means.

Telling her or showing her? Oh yeah, this is slashdot. Telling her.

Re:Real, almost l337 name; numbers not allowed

[Dissenter]

So instead of Br4d he could be Brfourd or instead of J4n37 she could be Jfournthreeseven. That would bo 0s0 c00l. Teachers would be like WTF?!?!

Re:Not a Joke

[JonGretar]

So the first child with a cyber implant would be Jon Cusack 2.1.2??

Guess an abortion would be given Jon Cusack 2.1.RC1

Re:That's nothing

[dfung]

My junior year roommate in college was Peter Wang. At the end of the year, when we gave out the "house awards", he won "Most Redundant Name".

I thought he had it bad, but it's nothing compared to you, John.

Re:oy

[swordboy]

Most bad ass name in history.

Umm... I think that you are forgetting TROGDOR!!! [homestarrunner.com]

Re:That's nothing

[Ralph Wiggam]

In Indianapolis? I went to high school with his son, Peter Wacker (I'm not kidding). If your name was Richard Wacker, why in the world would you name your kid Peter? I heard Pete changed his name a couple years ago.

I was in a bar with some friends talking about people we know with goofy names like Peter Wacker and Claire Annette Reed. My friend's gf was being quiet and I asked her what was wrong. She said "Do you know what my name is?" and I said "Mandy" which is all I had ever called her. She informed me that her name was Amanda Mount. Tough break.

-B

Re:Well ......

[Captain Nitpick]

I am going to name my first child :-) . Because he/she will the happiest child in the world with a name like :-)

* Captain Nitpick walks up to the mic.
Captain Nitpick: *cough*
Captain Nitpick: That's because he/she will be the only child in the world with a name like that.
* Captain Nitpick bows and leaves the stage.

Re:That's nothing

[Alkaiser]

My sophomore year, UC Irvine went from choose your own UID to First Initial, Middle Initial, 6 letters of last name. Freshmen got them auto-assigned like that.

I was making a database of club emails, and there was a girl in there named Serena Tan...middle initial, A.

The school had a policy of allowing you to change something that was blatantly horrible, so she didn't have to bear with "[e-mail]" for more than a week or so.

Re:kindergarden

[Tantrum420]

"Hi! I'm 212.90.0.89! Want to come to 127.0.0.1 and h4 | R-0uND?"

"Hmmm... I dunno... According to your DNS Server at 212.90.2.112, you're named Venom. That doesn't sound like somebody my admin would like me playing with."

Re:oy

[Tired_Blood]

I came across a kid whose name was ______ McLeet.

Well, I'm more impressed that the kid's first name is "______".

Re:for fucks sake..

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank God, we were all on pins and needles waiting to see which way you would go on this.

Re:Housing director at my college

[sporkums]

It was a silent "3", I assume. Otherwise, just how do you pronounce that?

Opt for BrainF*ck

[WyldOne]

why use just numbers? Besides you know they are gonna need counciling anyway after that

Re:oy

[sherms]

Heres one for coffee on your screen I think I'll name my daughter Riaa (Ree ah')

Although then she will probably get beet up alot by Nerds.

Sherm

Re:That's nothing

[Snowdog668]

Back when I was in the service we had a new LT come into the unit. At the morning formation they announced the addition of LT. Dick. The whole company lost it. He had his last name legally changed to Dickson. Unfortunately I ended up working for him for about a year and a half and yes, he did live up to his original name. He was a complete wanker with zero people skills.

Re:oy

[red floyd]

I thought names with two consecutive underscores were reserved?

Re:oy

[red floyd]

I worked for 10 years with a guy named "Dick Bender".

Re:That's nothing

[Webmoth]

Teacher in my high school was named Jack Head. Another one named Gaye Wood. My cross country coach was Brad Pinkstaff.

go ahead... do it...

[Transcendent]

... there's no way he'll get is ass kicked in school.

Seriously, are you retarded?

SF double feature

[Doc Ruby]

You are the misfit. And, with kids named "Brad" and "Janet", your family problems will be astronomical [rockyhorror.com].

Re:oy

[Old Wolf]

And your second-born, "Oops I did it again"

Re:oy

[Anonymous Coward]

So he settled on "Zebulon" for a boys name. Fortunately he got a daughter and mother got to chose the (sensible) name.

eek.

eek is an even stranger name, even for a girl. those people..

Re:Housing director at my college

[blackfacetwin]

One month, out of the blue, my long distance carrier began spelling my name "3cott" instead of "Scott." I phoned customer service to correct the change. Before I'd identified myself by name or explained my problem, the woman who'd answered the phone asked me for my account number. I told her, she tapped audibly on her computer keyboard, and after a pause she asked, "And am I speaking with Three-cott?" as if it were the most common name in the world.

Re:oy

[zerocool^]

Which is funny, because I've tried to convince my wife that we need to get this shirt [tshirthell.com] for little Sean Kevin when he pops out in less than 2 months.

She said "no" of course, she doesn't want to be pushing a stroller around with a baby with a shirt that says "broken condom".

So, I just opted for this shirt [tshirthell.com]. I figured "Daddy drinks because I cry" was a little better.

~Will

Re:oy

[pizza_milkshake]

That's "Underscore McLeet"

More April Fool's Garbage

[ThresholdRPG]

Oh boy.

Another stupid April Fool's news item.

April 2nd cannot come soon enough.

Can't we just add a day to February and get rid of April 1?

Re:oy

[The_dev0]

Absolutely no word of a lie, there is a car dealership in Brisbane, Australia owned/run by a guy called Mike Hunt. If that was your name, wouldn't you prefer to be called Mick or Michael or something?

A Great Opportunity Missed

[jbm]

Years ago, I worked with a guy whose last name was Meth. When his wife became pregnant with a girl, I tried my best to convince him that their daughter should be named Crystal, but it didn't take. I don't think he ever got the joke, though.

Re:Must clarify...

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe she just had a boyfriend named Lee?

another funny name

[Anonymous Coward]

In the country town where I come from there is an electrician called Rod Tickle. ie Rod Tickle Electrical.
I have not lived there for about 10 years but was suprised when my mother sent me a newspaper clipping from the Births & deaths section of the local paper.
The have just had a beatiful baby girl and named her "Tess". I believe it is short for Tessa

Just for those who have already forgotten the first part of the story, there is a 3mth old baby girl called Tess Tickle.

Maybe they werent thinking??

Re:oy

[brendan_orr]

Could always make a shirt "I fork()'ed with my spouse"

Re:oy

[rastos1]

Yeah. I read once about simillar attempt. The guy chose the name "Ford Perfect".

Andrew Peacock

[geofpick]

Peacock is a pretty dodgy surname,
but what possessed the parents
to call their son Andrew?
Poor kid.
We all called him droopy .