We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer."

[Axtremus]

It‘s a sizable industry. In the Far East, there are many fortune tellers and feng-shui practitioners who also provide baby naming consulting services. They draw from history, literature, astrology, numerology, mysticism, etc.

While it’s not uncommon to find multiple Johns or multiple Matts or multiple Chrises or multiple Jennifers in a Western school classroom, its much rarer to find two kids sharing the Same given name in a Chinese classroom.

Having 50K+ characters to choose from, and the Chinese often use two characters to form a given name, there are (50K)^2 combinations for a given name, big enough a solution space to let consultants play.

There are also no lack of Asian parents who hire Western consultants to give their babies thoughtful English names, for example: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/beau-jessup-teen-pays-college-fees-by-naming-chinese-babies.html

[89th]

Both our kids have pretty traditional names, on purpose. For our 2nd we went in the hospital with 2 name options and left the hospital after picking a 3rd (previously unselected) name. Good story 89th.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K Somehow we wound up with the name Finley… Some people have trouble with names…

Although, I think my first options of Amos or Holden were pretty good…

[Doctor Phibes]

I wonder if the people who pay for this complain about the outrageous price of gas

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer.":

@George-K Somehow we wound up with the name Finley… Some people have trouble with names…

Although, I think my first options of Amos or Holden were pretty good…

Those are all good names IMO

[Copper]

Can you sell the naming rights for a baby?

[LuFins Dad]

@Copper said in We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer.":

Can you sell the naming rights for a baby?

No. There are three federal and multiple state laws against it. Let me dig through my files, I should still have the paperwork somewhere.

[taiwan_girl]

There was an interview with George Clooney (the actor), who was talking about giving his kid (or kids) pretty regular names.

He said something like - "So many Hollywood people give their kids really stupid names. There was no way I was going to do that. Growing up as the child of me is enough of a burden. I would not want to burden them with a stupid name on top of that!!!"

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer.":

"So many Hollywood people give their kids really stupid names."

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[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer.":

@taiwan_girl said in We are not a serious society. Behold, the "Baby Namer.":

"So many Hollywood people give their kids really stupid names."

Rumer
Moon Unit
Dweezil
Apple
Denim
Future
Honor
North
Racer
Chicago
Pilot Inspektor
Saint
Sir

I feel better about Finley, now. Still would have preferred Amos…”I am that guy”…