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Is It True Love To Name Your Baby After Your Car?
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submitted on 04/11/2007
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Is It True Love To Name Your Baby After Your Car?
Congratulation's you had a baby! Priorities change, and that shiny beast in your driveway must now take a backseat to the new bundle of joy that demands every spare minute.
But how you you best carry on the memory of your first true love forever? Simple your name your child after your car!
Crazy as it seems the national baby name database show quite a few baby names taken from the auto makers. This makes us wonder what would drive a parent to name a child after their car?
Popular Boy Names
1. Lincoln
2. Royce
3. Ford
4. Bentley
5. Chevy
6. Kia
7. Benz
8. Scion
9. Beemer
10. Chrysler
Popular Girl Names
1. Mercedes
2. Lexus
3. Lotus
4. Chevy
5. Kia
6. Royce
7. Porsche
8. Infiniti
9. Chrysla
[only 9 girl names]
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SilverAero
- 4/11/2007 1:18:04 PM
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Thats pretty stupid, but i met an Elise
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S4cabriofoxone
- 4/11/2007 11:00:40 PM
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Elise is really a name. I know someone by that name.
Agent009
- 4/11/2007 1:52:30 PM
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Hmmm Mercedes sounds like an exotic dancer. How about Phaethon?
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cl0wn
- 4/11/2007 1:29:03 PM
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Scion... are u kidding me? that's depressing, especially if your middle name is xA or xB :(
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phisch
- 4/11/2007 2:30:34 PM
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if your name was Scion, and your middle name was xB, i'm pretty sure your highschool nickname would be "Lunchbox"
VinnyP
- 4/11/2007 1:30:40 PM
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Name your kid Hyundai and see the respect she gets,
Name your kid Toyota and see all the flaming they get.
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BMW_DRVR
- 4/11/2007 1:43:57 PM
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Its not called love. Its called stupidity.
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BMW_DRVR
- 4/11/2007 1:45:30 PM
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I am pretty sure that some of these were people's name before the car companies came along.
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rockets_r_us
- 4/12/2007 9:48:09 AM
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Shelby Alison. I couldn't sneak in the "correct" spelling of Allison, but I took what I could get. Wife said it was more feminine this way.
Lots of Shelby kids, both sexes. True even before the emergence of the auto world's famous friend (50's & early 60's for you young'ns).
Agent009
- 4/11/2007 1:53:23 PM
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Better than Bubba
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TheSailor
- 4/11/2007 4:58:56 PM
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No Agent009... Not if you're a hick! It's the only name you can pronounce if your father is your brother!
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Bill
- 4/12/2007 4:59:05 AM
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Daimler didn't name his cars after his daughter. Neither Karl Benz or Gottlieb Daimler had a daughter named Mercedes and what many people don't know is that Benz and Daimler never met and both founded two separate companies: Benz & Co. and the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft.
Daimler had a loyal customer named Emil Jellinek (an Austrian businessman and enthusiastic racedriver) who had a daughter named Mercedes. Jellinek referred to his personal Daimler racecars as "Mercedes" and soon enough, all of Daimler's cars became known as Mercedes. That's the short version.
In 1926, when the companies Benz & Daimler merged, the cars became known as "Mercedes-Benz".
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JUGNU
- 4/11/2007 4:21:03 PM
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How about Rio(Kia) a boy name.
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TheSailor
- 4/11/2007 4:56:03 PM
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Hmm... Girls with car names... Those are the kind of girls you expect to run in red light districts!
Some of those boy names are also just ridiculous! They might make do as last names, but imagine the teasing during the first 10 years of school!
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lexusis350
- 4/11/2007 6:10:19 PM
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I would name my daughter Lexus and call her Lexie.
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kart1
- 4/11/2007 8:41:06 PM
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I had this girl in my class and her name was spelled "Celica" yet she wanted to be called something like (I am not good at phonics) Saleeka, to differentiate herself from the car name.
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kart1
- 4/11/2007 8:42:03 PM
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and she mentioned that she wasn't named after the car after the professor pronounced the name as the car is pronounced.
kart1
- 4/11/2007 8:42:34 PM
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I wonder how many name their kid after Rover???
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2JZSoarer
- 4/11/2007 10:22:33 PM
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What about "Aristo"(aka GS300/400),that sounds like a good name...
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AMGC55
- 4/11/2007 10:33:43 PM
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Im sorry but anyone who is passionate enough about a scion to name there child that is repulsing
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S4cabriofoxone
- 4/11/2007 11:05:46 PM
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I hope I meet a kid named Infiniti some day. That would be interesting.
As Roller said, Mercedes was actually a classy name for a female before the brand came along.
However, I don't believe Mercedes was the daughter of Daimler. I'm pretty sure it was the daughter of one of the main investors of the company... and Karl Benz took a liking to her.
I have actually met one or two people named Mercedes. It's an elegant name. Of course I wouldn't name my daughter that, but I can understand why you would.
I also agree with Roller about Lexus-- LEXUS?!!! How about Alexis?
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JCF110
- 4/12/2007 12:02:22 AM
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I once knew a girl named Alexis... but if you ask me... she looked more like "Abuick"!
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no1listensanyway
- 4/12/2007 12:15:29 AM
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My cousin's name is Bentley. It had nothing to do with the car but its still a nice name.
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Autophile
- 4/12/2007 12:16:26 AM
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Baby Prius!
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narmeen13
- 4/12/2007 3:00:32 AM
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if i gave birth to a bastard i wouldnt call him FORD!!!!
i named my cat Mini though if that counts!
Mercedes and Modena are not bad..
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aussie2u
- 4/12/2007 10:23:52 PM
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"Hummer" would be appropriate because maybe he could have avoided naming the child altogether had he settled for one... :)
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2003TCSignature
- 4/13/2007 7:34:39 AM
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And if its triplets, H1, H2 and H3... One, Two and Three for short!
njshift
- 4/14/2007 12:57:47 PM
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Great names if you want your kid to be a stripper.
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