Naming your children after video game characters
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If I have a girl, she is being called Tifa 
No. Children are people that will eventually have to live lives of their own and that includes dealing with the consequences of their names.
Robin Williams could name his kid whatever he wants because he was rich and his kid would never have the kind of life a regular person would have.
So naming a kid after a video game character wouldn't likely have as many consequences for a famous kid, as it would a regular kid.
A regular kid would be ridiculed for having a name like that and would likely be passed over for jobs and leadership roles in a company and not be taken as seriously, whereas, a famous kid wouldn't have to deal with that and would instead be idolized by the idiot parents who would go on to name their kid after a video game or worse.
If you want to have a living thing with a silly name then get a pet, or name a plant, but don't do that to a kid. They have enough crap to deal with growing up to day without adding a silly name to the mix.
That said though, Robin Williams isn't exactly the best example for anything requiring sound judgment, seeing as how he killed himself. However, the game creator took the name after the famed novelist, Zelda Fitzgerald.
So, while Zelda isn't the worst name for a girl, and has a famed namesake other than the game, it isn't likely that anyone would draw the association to the former, and would instead think of the latter, and unfortunately that person would be subject to the same or similar consequences .
Robin Williams could name his kid whatever he wants because he was rich and his kid would never have the kind of life a regular person would have.
So naming a kid after a video game character wouldn't likely have as many consequences for a famous kid, as it would a regular kid.
A regular kid would be ridiculed for having a name like that and would likely be passed over for jobs and leadership roles in a company and not be taken as seriously, whereas, a famous kid wouldn't have to deal with that and would instead be idolized by the idiot parents who would go on to name their kid after a video game or worse.
If you want to have a living thing with a silly name then get a pet, or name a plant, but don't do that to a kid. They have enough crap to deal with growing up to day without adding a silly name to the mix.
That said though, Robin Williams isn't exactly the best example for anything requiring sound judgment, seeing as how he killed himself. However, the game creator took the name after the famed novelist, Zelda Fitzgerald.
So, while Zelda isn't the worst name for a girl, and has a famed namesake other than the game, it isn't likely that anyone would draw the association to the former, and would instead think of the latter, and unfortunately that person would be subject to the same or similar consequences .
that's all assuming what name is used and how popular said name is.Black Angel said:
It doesn't matter, gaming has gotten to be big enough to the point where simple names like Mario and Luigi or Gordon Freeman might be met with a chuckle because of the Super Mario Bros and Half-Life franchises.
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I don't think naming a kid after a video game character is much worse than giving them a normal name. Most names are shared with celebrities or fictional people anyway, but I can understand why the most iconic ones would be avoided. A lot of kids get "normal" names that cause a lot of trouble for them because they're shared with someone or because they sound wrong, and I don't see how that's much better than sharing a name with a game character.
I don't think I ever will have kids, but I would maybe give them a video game character's name as long as it sounds good and is a name I think they wouldn't mind having.
I don't think I ever will have kids, but I would maybe give them a video game character's name as long as it sounds good and is a name I think they wouldn't mind having.
There's people with normal names, even in their own ethnicity that get scrutinized by the same people, even if, their name in their language, means the same as it does in English.
The Latino man named "Jose," won't get the job, because to some usually racist people, Jose sounds like he is fresh out of the truck after crossing the border, selling oranges in the Barrio.
But if he were named "Joe," then is is more likely to have gotten the job.
The messed up thing is that "Jose" means the same thing in Spanish that "Joe" does in English. Both names are short handed versions of Joseph. The same can be said for Pedro, Pablo and Miguel and religious or other ethnic, indigenous, native or aboriginal sounding names. Although, this doesn't usually apply to White people, even those that choose these names thinking that it makes them "cool" or "edgy" or "cultural" or "ethnic" or just want to be "different" unless they have a really off the wall name like "Blanket," or are given what's considered to be stripper names.
Hell, I have gotten shit for my name, even though my name is actually German and in no way ethnic at all. I've gotten assumptions made about me due to my name that I was some baby making, gum snapping, hoodrat with not much more than a 6th grade education by the same White people would later be surprised at how articulate and educated I was, and that, yes, I do have a father who was married to my mother, who was stationed in Germany when I was born there, which was why he and my mom chose a German name (the irony here is these same people would then turn around and say that it is "pretty" usually after asking me a bunch of questions about my birthplace) and at the same time, I have gotten shit from boys growing up because my name sounds like a song featuring a similar sounding name by the group "Another Bad Company."
My point is that people will use any reason to discriminate against others, and be mean for no reason, especially kids, and as the suicide rate among kids and teens has shown, kids aren't any nicer now than they were 10 or 20 years ago, in fact, since juvenile suicide is now a thing, that would mean that kids today are actually worse.
So why would you knowingly give someone that something that they can use to relentlessly torment your child over? Especially since facing some form of discrimination and some kid being an asshole to you for some reason are essentially givens.
The kid will have to face more than their fair share of assholes as they are growing up, there is no sense in that kids parents being yet another. Serious thought should always be put into a child's name, because they are going to have to live that name for the rest of their lives, or unless they change it themselves when they're 18, or worse, the parents are court ordered to change it. (See: "Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii.") That was the actual girls name and her parents, facing child abuse charges, since she was bullied constantly, were ordered by a judge to change it.
It is bad enough that some kids are named after household objects, or completely illogical and longer misspelled common names that have an "ethnic twist" for originality.
That said though, nick names and even middle names are fine, same goes for should they decide to change it themselves, if they make the choice to do so themselves but the first name should be left alone.
The Latino man named "Jose," won't get the job, because to some usually racist people, Jose sounds like he is fresh out of the truck after crossing the border, selling oranges in the Barrio.
But if he were named "Joe," then is is more likely to have gotten the job.
The messed up thing is that "Jose" means the same thing in Spanish that "Joe" does in English. Both names are short handed versions of Joseph. The same can be said for Pedro, Pablo and Miguel and religious or other ethnic, indigenous, native or aboriginal sounding names. Although, this doesn't usually apply to White people, even those that choose these names thinking that it makes them "cool" or "edgy" or "cultural" or "ethnic" or just want to be "different" unless they have a really off the wall name like "Blanket," or are given what's considered to be stripper names.
Hell, I have gotten shit for my name, even though my name is actually German and in no way ethnic at all. I've gotten assumptions made about me due to my name that I was some baby making, gum snapping, hoodrat with not much more than a 6th grade education by the same White people would later be surprised at how articulate and educated I was, and that, yes, I do have a father who was married to my mother, who was stationed in Germany when I was born there, which was why he and my mom chose a German name (the irony here is these same people would then turn around and say that it is "pretty" usually after asking me a bunch of questions about my birthplace) and at the same time, I have gotten shit from boys growing up because my name sounds like a song featuring a similar sounding name by the group "Another Bad Company."
My point is that people will use any reason to discriminate against others, and be mean for no reason, especially kids, and as the suicide rate among kids and teens has shown, kids aren't any nicer now than they were 10 or 20 years ago, in fact, since juvenile suicide is now a thing, that would mean that kids today are actually worse.
So why would you knowingly give someone that something that they can use to relentlessly torment your child over? Especially since facing some form of discrimination and some kid being an asshole to you for some reason are essentially givens.
The kid will have to face more than their fair share of assholes as they are growing up, there is no sense in that kids parents being yet another. Serious thought should always be put into a child's name, because they are going to have to live that name for the rest of their lives, or unless they change it themselves when they're 18, or worse, the parents are court ordered to change it. (See: "Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii.") That was the actual girls name and her parents, facing child abuse charges, since she was bullied constantly, were ordered by a judge to change it.
It is bad enough that some kids are named after household objects, or completely illogical and longer misspelled common names that have an "ethnic twist" for originality.
That said though, nick names and even middle names are fine, same goes for should they decide to change it themselves, if they make the choice to do so themselves but the first name should be left alone.
While some of the points Black Angel makes might be true, it's not always the case. There are situations when having an unique of unusual name can draw attention upon yourself in a positive way and may make your potential employer want to meet you for an interview more than the other people who sent their résumés. Personally, I would be more inclined to hire someone with an unique name than someone with a common name.
Alakazam, you have shown yourself to be the exception, and not the rule, so Kudos, to you. 
However, as someone who has dealt with this, and have seen others go through the same even when their names aren't as unique, I can honestly say that most people would just go on and judge that person by their name and sadly, there are statistics that back up this mindset. Think about the girls with names that are spelled with an I instead of and y or those named after cars. Most people would go on to assume that the girls were strippers or something like that. They would assume that Brittani or Mercedes is a stripper or a bimbo and go on to assume that Mary-Jane or Alice graduated Yale with a 4.0 GPA.
Meanwhile, Brittani owns her own business, and Mercedes has graduated from both Harvard and Yale with a 4.0 gpa and speaks 12 languages, while Mary-jane and Alice have seen more cock than a chicken farmer and never graduated junior high let alone high school.
It unfortunately happens with people who have come here from other countries. The first thing they do is change their name to something more "Americanized" in and effort to avoid discrimination.
While I would like to believe that there are more people like you out there who would look past the person's name and be more open-minded, and be encouraged by their name to get to know them, unfortunately, life experience and even real-world statistics has shown that that is not the case.
Case in point, there is a viral picture of a woman named "Airwrecka McBride" wherein she is made fun of as an example of how ghetto and uneducated Black people supposedly are, and yet, in the news story that her picture came from, she is one of many parents talking about the importance of charter schools for their children. This woman has become the subject of a racially insensitive meme simply because her mother either didn't know how to spell "Erica" or worse, wanted her name to be unique.
That said, I know that my kid will have more than their fair share of assholes to deal with, and facing discrimination is inevitable, so I am not willing to provide any fodder for these people. My kids will have hard lives already, not from me, but from how society will treat them, so why would I intentionally do something that can make their lives even harder? Fact of the matter is that I would love and respect my kid enough not to do that to them, so, I'm not going to do it.
However, as someone who has dealt with this, and have seen others go through the same even when their names aren't as unique, I can honestly say that most people would just go on and judge that person by their name and sadly, there are statistics that back up this mindset. Think about the girls with names that are spelled with an I instead of and y or those named after cars. Most people would go on to assume that the girls were strippers or something like that. They would assume that Brittani or Mercedes is a stripper or a bimbo and go on to assume that Mary-Jane or Alice graduated Yale with a 4.0 GPA.
Meanwhile, Brittani owns her own business, and Mercedes has graduated from both Harvard and Yale with a 4.0 gpa and speaks 12 languages, while Mary-jane and Alice have seen more cock than a chicken farmer and never graduated junior high let alone high school.
It unfortunately happens with people who have come here from other countries. The first thing they do is change their name to something more "Americanized" in and effort to avoid discrimination.
While I would like to believe that there are more people like you out there who would look past the person's name and be more open-minded, and be encouraged by their name to get to know them, unfortunately, life experience and even real-world statistics has shown that that is not the case.
Case in point, there is a viral picture of a woman named "Airwrecka McBride" wherein she is made fun of as an example of how ghetto and uneducated Black people supposedly are, and yet, in the news story that her picture came from, she is one of many parents talking about the importance of charter schools for their children. This woman has become the subject of a racially insensitive meme simply because her mother either didn't know how to spell "Erica" or worse, wanted her name to be unique.
That said, I know that my kid will have more than their fair share of assholes to deal with, and facing discrimination is inevitable, so I am not willing to provide any fodder for these people. My kids will have hard lives already, not from me, but from how society will treat them, so why would I intentionally do something that can make their lives even harder? Fact of the matter is that I would love and respect my kid enough not to do that to them, so, I'm not going to do it.
I don't think I would ever get that obsessed.
But apparently people do like video games a lot.
But apparently people do like video games a lot.