game names

[drunkontea.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the double post, but this just came to mind.

What do you think about naming your child/ren after video game characters?

My boyfriend and I have talked about this before, and I'm not opposed as long as it's not completely-off-the-wall and not obviously a video game character's name. For instance, I love the name Leon, which happens to be one of the main character's name is Resident Evil. My boyfriend likes the name Samus (from Nintendo's Metroid), and I do too, but I feel like that name will only be associated with that character. If anything, I think I'd reserve it as a middle name.

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[samaside.livejournal.com]

See, I don't even know who Zelda Fitzgerald is and I have a feeling that if I were to ask random people on the street they'd be more likely to say, "Isn't that a video game?" than make that connection.