Parents Name Baby "2.0"

[Cush]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/02/02/332823.html

HOLLAND, Mich. -- Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son. Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.

[Skittles]

1. why do men name children after themselves??

unbelievable egos. This is just plain f***ing demented.

[Xithras]

3. Of course it's ego

Our biological programming plants into us a desire to sire offspring so that a small part of us will survive after we die...it's almost like a biological drive for a little piece of immortality. A father naming his son after himself is just a progression of that concept. It CAN also have some interesting side effects: In my family, there is a tradition that the firstborn male be named Alan. There haven't actually been any Alan's born into the family since the 1920's (it's used as a middle name now) but it's still neat to trace back over 200 years of Alan's in my family line. Passing on that piece of tradition to my own son connects him to his, and our, shared history.

Disclaimer: My son has my dad's first name, not mine.

[Skittles]

4. your son

how about your daughter?

[Xithras]

5. What about my daughter?

She took her first name from my wifes grandmother, and I gave her a nice traditional Gaelic middle name :)

[Wickerman]

2. Oh, that'll be funny as hell in about, say

15 minutes. Serious, that will mean nothing in 20 years. I imagine naming conventions will change drmatically and kid will be stuck with a name that means nothig and is stoopid.

[Wonk]

6. Parents name baby "2.0" thread version "3.0"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=711331
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=713556