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Warped and borderline evil parents are turning to Apple products for inspiration when it comes to deciding what to call their doomed-to-fail babies, with the likes of Apple, Mac and even Siri showing increases in popularity as baby names.
According to stats reported by Baby Center, the name Siri showed a five per cent increase in usage among parents of the 450,000 babies born to users of the site during 2012, with the incidence of kids called Apple up 15 percent and even the use of Mac rising by 12 per cent.
Happily, it doesn’t appear that the rise in popularity of Android has led to babies being called Optimus or Nexus in any significant number.
In other sad modern naming news, the site claims the success of adult porn novel 50 Shades of Grey has resulted in a 20 per cent increase in kids simply called Grey, while other poor girls are being lumbered with the name Anastasia, which is up 10 per cent supposedly because pregnant mums spend their maternity leave lounging around reading erotic S&M books. [Baby Center via Techradar]
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Sad Apple fanbois.
Bet my lovely daughter, Surface, is the only one in her class when she stays school.
I welcome these stupid names, I shall find it easier to pre-judge people on the basis of the name of their child.
I shall add this criteria to my list of: 4×4′s, Beats headphones and quilted jackets. Anything which makes it easier for me to despise people is a good thing.
i admire your list and shall adopt it as my own too
+1
I will just leave this here as I feel you may be amused by it:
http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/
How rich do you have to be to wear rode broek?
Siri would be quite a nice name….
IF it wasn’t the name of an apple product and rather just something that someone came up with (like Tom Cruise’s spawn, Suri)
absolutely ridiculous, things like this piss me off, as my kids nokia3310 and sonyJ5 can confirm.
So there’s going to be a rash of problems in schools in a few years with children having poor language comprehension skills? Mind you the couples younger child, Maps, won’t even make it to school.
Imagine 17 years from now, what the highschool year book will look like, First from top left : Hashtag Jones – Siri McDougall – Surface Williams – DonkeyPunch Stephens – Bieber Cameron – Gangnam Richardson – Redbull Divine
Hahaha excellent
“Hahaha Excellent” would make for a great name – what is that deed poll stuff all about?
Sir Hahaha Excellent – Sounds so noble
I call my girlfriend Vita, she is small and compact, has a multiuse connector, you can touch her bottom with zero-latency response times and every boy in town has had a go on her. I told her it was because she is so full of life, she brought it…
Hahaha Excellent
I hate people….
I would refuse to call anyone siri
Don’t be siri.
Are you siri-ous?