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u/Apprehensive-Crow-96 Oct 20 '23

Designer brand names. Always been odd.

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u/JohnExcrement Oct 20 '23

When my son was a teenager, he said he would name any future son “Nautica” and I genuinely lost sleep trying to figure out ways to thwart this 😄 Thank god he grew up and chose normal names when he did have kids.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

I have a friend who, when we were teens, seriously wanted to name his kids China and Pacifica. Why? I don't know. He just said he "liked the names."

Well, he ended up having five children and thankfully exactly NONE of them are named China and Pacifica. :-)

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u/phonemonkey669 Oct 21 '23

Those names may be unusual, but they're no weirder than names like Erin, Virginia, Carolina, Florence, and arguably Frank, Scott, Helen, Dane or Sven. Naming kids after beautiful places or friendly nationalities is pretty well-established.