Californians are naming their kids after ‘Game of Thrones’ characters
Not The Onion!
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/10/09/californians-are-naming-their-kids-after-game-of-thrones-characters/
These trend predictions always seem far-fetched — what parent would give their kids the “difficult to spell and pronounce” names Khaleesi or Daenerys?...
SFGate took a close look at the California Department of Public Health‘s (CDPH) baby name data and found that a small yet increasing number of parents have an affinity for fantastical names inspired by the television hit.
One of the more convincing examples we found: Before 2011, the ‘Game of Thrones’ name Khaleesi wasn’t included in CDPH data. In 2011, the name popped up five times. There were 31 instances in 2012 and 38 in 2013. In 2014, parents named 54 babies Khaleesi. In comparison, only 21 babies were named Betsy.
Alas, dwarfism is not diagnosed until well after birth, so there will be no Tyrions.
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names that were popular. There's nothing at all wrong with those names, I just can't wrap my head around an 80 old grandmother called Grandma Tiffany or Grammy Brittany. The names just doesn't fit the image. There's other but those 2 just came to mind and I mean no offense to anyone with those names. 
I am looking at it from my perspective, whereas those that come after me will think nothing of it. Oh heck, you took all the funny out of it.
Hope I live to a hundred. This I gotta see. 
All we knew was that there was a baby on the way.
For whatever reason that seemed logical at the time, we decided that we shouldn't wait until the baby came to name it in the hospital.
We decided on a 'uni-sex' name.
'Lee', if it was a boy.
'Leigh' if it was a girl.
Happily, it was a girl, because now I really don't like the name 'Lee'.
Is it actually short for Leonard?
We named our new kitten Tyrion because we liked the name and character so well. 
There is, in fact, a dwarf breed of cat. The first one that we know of was found cowering under a station wagon in Louisiana.
He's a black and white Siberian (Tuxedo) who probably should have been more aptly named "Jon Snow" because he looks
like he's wearing a black cloak! We all just liked the name Tyrion so much and were binge-watching the shows when we got him. At first Tyrion seemed like it would be too long a name for a pet (usually prefer 2 syllable names) but it's really grown on me and rolls off the tongue easily now.
