Boing Boing » baby names http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:24:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The worst unusual baby names of 2012 in one place so you can forget them more easily http://boingboing.net/2012/12/13/the-worst-unusual-baby-names.html http://boingboing.net/2012/12/13/the-worst-unusual-baby-names.html#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:10:46 +0000 Jamie Frevele http://boingboing.net/?p=200334 "Ace: It's bad enough when people name a boy Ace. Ace the boy has long bangs and the world's most punchable face.]]> "Ace: It's bad enough when people name a boy Ace. Ace the boy has long bangs and the world's most punchable face. Ace the girl is stuck with a name that screams out to the world, 'Daddy wanted a boy, and he wanted that boy to be a fighter pilot.'" Drew Magary at Gawker has compiled some of BabyCenter's extra-specifically weird names that actual people gave their actual babies in the Year of Our Lord 2012. Hint when naming a baby: Don't use the wrong part of your brain to name a child. I'm talking to you, parents of Kaixin and Pawk. (via Gawker)

Previously: Top Baby Names of 2012 include "Mac," "Siri," and "Mars"

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