Top 5 Social Media Inspired Names

Mashable points to a couple naming their newborn "Like" after the one-year-old Like button on Facebook.

They join a couple that named their child Facebook.

Is this one of the seven signs that preceed the end of the world? No, it's not end times. It's just pop culture at it's best...or it's worst depending on your outlook.

So from the home office in Cincinnati, Ohio, here are

The (worst) Top Five Social-Media-Inspired Names:

5) Retweet** -- It's arguably not even that original. Remember Rerun?

4) Poke -- Again, unoriginal. A Pac-Man fan wouldn't blink(y) twice upon hearing this name

3) Tumblina -- Tumblr would be cool with it. But I'm not sure if the kid would grow into it or not.

2) Fail Whale -- You're pretty much guaranteeing the kid a life of therapy.

1) Viral -- Oh sure, the baby vids might rack up the views on YouTube. But try scheduling a play date for this kid. Srsly.

Honorable Mentions: Hulu/Boxee, Wiki/Widget, Meme, Geo, Bebo/Blip, DeviantARTIST, Orkut, Plaxo, Vimeo, Yelp and Micro-Blog

Care to add to the list? Comment below. But no celebrity baby names accepted.

**Hat tip to Chuck Gose for inspiring this post.

Comments

[Susanna K.]

Meme would be an awesome middle name! Just think of all the first names that could go with it: Nyan Meme, Lolcat Meme, Aybabtu Meme, Rickroll Meme...

[Andy S]

Nice.

Here's mine.

5) Hootsuite (use: "Hootsuitey, come to dinner")

4) Alltop (useful for promoting a social escort service, perhaps?)

3) Twellow (either a mild child's name, or a new form of greeting, like "Hi")

2) Bing (likely to croon Christmas songs)

1) Alexa (not the UCLA YouTube Library student)

[ja ja Ja]

WikiLeaks...that way no one is surprised when she/he wets the bed at a sleepover

[Renee]

It’s amazing how influential social media has become. While I admit to being drawn to more traditional names I just hope, for the kid’s sakes, these sites that the names reference stick around. Otherwise not only will the names be "unique" but also in a few years no one will even know that there is a reason behind the oddness.

[Kevin Dugan]

Andy: BING! Love it.
Susanna: Meme may already be inked on some birth certificates for all we know.
Wikileaks. A name they'd probably grow out of?

Renee: A previous employer got naming rights for a street at the office park they located in for some time. They named it E-Business Way. How often do you see that word used these days? It's the rough equivalent of calling a street Mullet Place.

All great stuff. Thanks everyone.

[Ivan Walsh]

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