What’s in a Name? Ask Google

[pinkysmith.livejournal.com]

KALIA is a stripper name, but Kaleya is not, her parents-to-be concluded.

No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting a Google search of names they were considering for their first child.

A search for Kalia pulled up several images of scantily clad women. “I didn’t want there to be a Google identity for her to wrestle with,” said Ms. Kaslofsky, a corporate investigator in San Francisco. So the couple, who wanted an uncommon name, came up with a creative spelling that sounds the same as kah-LEE-ah: Kaleya.

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Comments

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Either spelling looks fine, honestly, and it's a cute name. I probably wouldn't have called it a "stripper name" upon hearing it.

What amuses me is that the father's name is Thor, and of course, that has no connotations whatsoever.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

Maybe that contributes to why they're so concerned about the connotations of their child's name...? It's not as though the father asked to be named Thor, after all.