Today, my husband and I were talking about names for our expectant child. I told him since I named our daughter he could name our son. He's decided on a name from 'God of War'. My son is going to be named after a make-believe cartoon character - Kratos. FML
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Today, my boyfriend has had name ideas for his future son and daughter even before I met him, but so have I. He disregards my ideas and suggestions, and is hell bent on giving our kids names because he likes "the way they sound." 'Hippopotamus' sounds good, but who’d name their kids that? FML
Today, my husband and I agreed that he would name our first born and I would name our second. He's dead-set on naming our child "Raindropp" no matter whether it's a boy or girl. FML
Today, me and my husband are having our first big marital argument. Our baby still doesn’t have a name, all because I want to call her a normal name and he wants to call her some obscure name from an anime he really likes. I’ve never seen him this stubborn about anything this stupid. FML
Today, I found out that my wife named our son after her ex boyfriend. FML
Today, I found out my wife named our son after her ex-lover. FML
Today, I learned that I'm expecting twins. A boy and a girl. My husband, upon finding out about this, immediately suggested that we give them Star Wars names. But not Luke and Leia. Oh no. He wants to name them Darth and Vayda. And he is absolutely serious about this. FML
Today, I heard my brother and sister-in-law discussing whether they should name my soon-to-be-born niece Annabelle or Samara. My nephews are named Jason, Freddy and Chucky. See the pattern? FML
Today, my father-in-law announced the name of his new son, my husband's half-brother. The first name and last name is the same as our son, who I gave birth to 4 months ago. FML
Today, I found out that my 6-year-old son was named after my wife's "Favorite Uncle" because he might also be the father. FML
Today, I learned that the hardest part of marrying a historian is choosing baby names. His top choices derive from two Roman magistrates, two abbesses, a tenth-century author, and an obscure Greek official. I already let him name our pug, for whom he chose the name "Tertullianus." FML
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finn_fml 0
i dont get the "i name one kid, you name the other" mentality. why dont you just work together to find a name you both like?
Shiniku 0
"Make-believe cartoon character"?! Whoa whoa whoa, you've gone too far, there. Besides, it's a totally cool name, you must admit.
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Holden_Caulfield 0
Maybe you should have had him pick another name. I mean not all names from games are bad, my mother let me pick my 7 year-old sisters name: Aeris from Final Fantasy ^_^ and she's pregnant again and I already named it Kairi from Kingdom Hearts ^_^ So don't discriminate against game names most of them are kick ass, but YOU are the one that actually let him name your son that, so deal with it.
angelsnarrows 0
that kid will never get a date. unless he's unbelievably hot and charming. and #207 that is hilarious!!!
Emico_fml 0
I wish I was called Kratos. Seriously. And Kratos was an actual Greek god, by the way. Just like naming your kid Venus or Minerva (although those are Roman god names, they are the same as Aphrodite and Athena from Greek mythology). In my opinion, I don't see what's so bad. Better than some of the celebrity child names there are nowadays.
GeekN 0
You have veto power, you are carrying the child. As a member of the name police I can't allow you to do this!
Agarwel 0
You are averreacting. The Kratos is not "nake-believe" cartoon character. It is person from Greek mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratos and the game just borrowed it. It is strange name. But not a worst one. Are you sure, the nome you picked for you daugher wasnt ever used in any game / movie / book for some stupid character?
gbaby4ster 0
I don't really think this one classifies as an FML cause that kid is going to be the coolest kid in school.
ddddcccc 0
Re: Interviews Alternatively, at 25 he gets an interview at the next-pre-IPO-google because the 45yr old manager has good associations with the name since he loved playing GoW in his 20's and the name sticks out from the stack of ordinary names on the resumes. He gets a cool story to relate in the interview, making him stand out further and making him memorable - as comments attest, a good proportion of people think it's cool, and even if half of the commenters are teenagers, in 25 years they're going to be the ones making hiring decisions. He's a multi-millionaire by 30, retired by 40, and doesn't give a crap what people think of his name at 45. Plus, it's not like it's some totally weird name that would prevent him from making anything of his life, like say, Barack.
suckstobeyou3 0
I went to the hospital a few days ago to see my new baby cousin Carson. I wasn't really of a fan of that name choice. But then there was another lady that was sharing the room. And she named her new daughter A-La. But you don't say it how you think. It's pronounced "Adashla". You actually say the word 'dash'. F that girl's life. And people, the father isn't naming the kid after a badass Greek god. He's naming him after the video game character. I'm sure if his wife never posted this, they may have never known Kratos was even a god.
iambean 4
your talking down on that name? Why?
liveitlearnit 0
I feel so bad for you. Tell your husband no.