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As an offshot of the 2000ad parents thread, I was wondering if anyone has named their children after any 2K characters, or even any sci-fi characters?
I wanted to call my first child Darth, but wasn't allowed, so I finally got to call him Caleb, after the son of the evil sheriff in the series American Gothic, which was running at the time (he's 5).
My other one I was trying for Obi-Wan, or Bruce (Campbell or Springsteen), but got a compromise with Ewan (Now two).
What about you?

Well my daughter was gonna be called naimh, but we settled on Mhairi (pronounced VA-reee).  My son is called Ewan, after yes Mcgregor (Damn my wife) which is loosley linked to 2000ad as he appears in "A life less ordinary".

So I guess the answer is no.  Sorry!

Yer " a big explanation for a short answer" Slippo

I was one inch from being named "Merlin", so naturally I take a dim view of giving kids funny names.

Funny how the wife always seems to get her way on this subject, isn't it?

No funny names here art, just traditional scots ones.

Yer Slippo

Merlin is a cool name... Merlin, Arthur, same area innit.

same area, BIG difference. :-)

'same area, BIG difference. :-)'

true, true... Saved you a few hidings at school I would think.

My daughter Harriet's second name is Niamh. It was going to be her first name, but early test runs showed that no-one could pronounce or spell it properly so we had to settle on it for a second name.

Wanted to call my son either Joe (Dredd) or Rico (Dredd). Didn't do either.

Still, Tharg would make a great name. Must remember that when child no. two arrives (if that ever happens).

My son's name is Finlay, known as Finn for short. My wife found it in a baby name book and I immediately said I liked it, displacing Saul from the top of the list. I later (still before Finn was born) owned up to the 2000AD connection, but Emma said that was okay since she'd chosen it. Anyway, she watches Casualty and Finlay is one of the characters on that.

My niece is called Niamh, but she does live in South East Wales and the choice had nothing to do with 2000AD.

Wake

It was going to be her first name, but early test runs showed that no-one could pronounce or spell it properly

I had exactly the same problem. Caitlin was originally going to be called Niamh and before she was born I kept having conversations along the lines of...

Token numpty - "...What about if it's a girl."
Me - "Niamh."
Token numpty - "What a pretty name! How do you spell it?"
Me - "N-I-A-M-H"
Token numpty - "Huh? But surely that's spelt N-E-E-V-E or something? Are you sure you've spelt it right?"

In the end, I decided that if it was a girl she *was* going to be called Niamh, but she put the mockers on it when she was born, as she didn't look like a Niamh at all, but a Caitlin (choice #2).

A friend of a friend has a six year old son called Slaine
-and yes the galaxy's greatest comic was the source.

Saul was on my list of names (after the great Saul Bass) and WILL be in there somewhere if I ever have another boy.

He was nearly Issac (luckily my last name isn't Hunt - Issac Hunt - figure it out)

Wils I have the same conversation every day

Token numpty - "...What about is yer girls name?"
Me - "Mhairi"
Token numpty - "What a pretty name! How do you spell it?"
Me - "M-H-A-I-R-I"
Token numpty - "Huh? But surely that's spelt V-A-R-I or something? Are you sure you've spelt it right?"
Me - "The mh is like the bh in Siobhan"
Token numpty - "Oh you mean SI-OB- Han"
Me- "No, youre an arse!"

Yer Slippo

well slipps she'd be happy up here, where marys always get accidently called Mhairi.. tho i have 3 friends a mairi a mhairi & a mairi, i always get em mixed up.

I have fun with the prespyterian olde bags , who always ask about middle daughter 'talitha' my thats unusual, they say with a snide look which says 'goddam wierd hippys', wheres it from ?
the bible actually ...ha ha. ( tho my pagan credentials remain intact because its pre-summeric & part of the indo-europen word root 'Tali' as in talorgan, taliesin etc.

linguistically Bou'

Lancelot?

We almost called the (now dead) cat Merlin.
It's an anagram of my surname.

Mum's new cat is called Willow (Oddgirl & I suggested the name - either that or Tara)

Niamh is pronounced neeve! Glad I've finally been told that, I always thought it was neeumph for some reason.

Next some one will be telling me how to pronounce Slaine.  (I always thought this was pronounced in the same way as if you had just killed something i.e. slayed it, but with an 'n' sound instead of the 'd').

And for the record Mrs WoD said no to any of the 2000ad suggestions I put forward for the name of mini-WoD.

Slaine is pronounced Slawnya (until someone posts something different) but being Irish adds more weight to my suggestion. SO THERE!!!.

scots gaelic agrees so there.

Slainew is pronounced "Saline", because thats how people say it. Try pronouncing it any other way and they'll just think you're choking on porrige.

 My oldest sprog was to be Erin, (partner was convince he was a girl!), after 36 hours when he was turned out a boy, I managed to get the name Max in under the wire, for me after Max Normal, off course he hates it now, and thinks his Bro Jack is way cooler, go figure as the yanquees would say...

The Huffster

'A friend of a friend has a six year old son called Slaine'
I know a girl from an Irish-speaking area who told me that Sl?ine is a girl's name, in fact she knows a couple of female Sl?ines. Good thing your friend's friend's son doesn't live in an Irish area, or he'd get a good gaelic hiding at school.

I went the opposite way, and named two 2000AD characters after my kids.

It was preacher cain and resurection joe, wasn't it?

Chapter and Verse Rennie?