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Would You Name Your Baby After a Fictional Character?
November 14th, 2011
Photography by Katie Tegtmeyer, via Flickr (CC)
From Meyer’s website:
Well, I couldn’t call her Jennifer or Ashley. What do you name the most unique baby in the world? I looked through a lot of baby name websites. Eventually I realized that there was no human name that was going to work for me, so I surrendered to necessity and made up my own. I don’t approve of such shenanigans in real life, I don’t even believe in getting creative with spellings for real kids! But this was fantasy, and no human name fit, so I did the best I could. I named Renesmee so long ago—fall 2003—that the name now sounds really natural to me. It wasn’t until people started mentioning it that I remembered, “Oh, yeah, it is a weird name, isn’t it?”
Despite Meyer’s feelings on giving “real life” babies weird names, we’re fairly certain that there are at least a few babies-to-be who will share the name of this fictional child.
Would you consider naming your child after a fictional character, even if the name was a little bit quirky? If so, don’t miss this collection of Girl Names from Old Hollywood and these Modern Vampire Baby Names.
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I wanted to name my first-born Scout, after the To Kill a Mockingbird character. So the answer for me is yes…the answer for my husband, clearly, is NO.
When I think of the kids named Chastity and Apple and Peaches and Hitler, the big questions that come to mind are:
How will this name affect my child?
How will she or he feel about it in Grade 1? When he or she is 10 or in high school? Would I have been comfortable with that name growing up?
Is this a name with which my child can feel confident?
P.S. I love the name Scout, too, after To Kill a Mockingbird, so I’m not sure my answers to those questions would be valid. : )