Anyone named their kids after cars?

[Riley Blue]

I was in a registrar's office a couple of weeks back and according to a poster on the wall 'Riley' is the 7th most popular boy's name in that area. On another list I saw, 'Lucas' is in the top 20 - why would anyone what to name their son after the Prince of Darkness?

[Mikebentley]

F1GTRUeno said:

You'd hope the children would grow up to be right tts if they're named after cars.

Seem to remember an Auto Express article from years ago with someone naming their daughter Lexus. She'll probably get endless amounts of stick and then wind up being a second rate stripper in a bar where the star is called Mercedes.

Nice comments you have made, maybe you should have been called Friendlee Bongo then you might not be speculating on kids futures so negatively .

[vx220]

Negative Creep said:

I named my daughter Cougar.

I think we need to see the birth certificate!

[HustleRussell]

A couple of weeks ago my mate got rear ended by a Mercedes who was driving a Daihatsu.

[Parsnip]

Thinking that "Nismo" is a good name for the doggie.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

I think we need birth certificates with custard for half of these!

[AC43]

JamesYates said:

Can't decide between Escort or Probe

Normally it's Escort for girls and Probe for boys.

HTH.

[standardman]

Our son is named Riley spelt like the car. We did list through car names when we were choosing.

[AC43]

I just looked up Austin Healey (rugby player) and his parents really did name him that. Always thought it must have been a nick name. I find that a bit odd tbh but it certainly didn't seem to affect his rugby.

[Jasandjules]

Don't have kids but have cats named after cars...

[chr15b]

There's plenty of Mercedes' out there 'named after the car'

[mark morris]

Both my daughters middle names are Opel
Mark

[GroundEffect]

Colonial said:

Nothing makes you out as sadder than naming your kids after your hobby.

Sad-As-fk.

[nails1979]

We've called our son Jenson. But not after Mr button or the car. We liked the name for about 8 or 9 year's. Hadn't heard of either of them then. It was an article I was reading about some one who climbed loads of mountains and it was either him or the author called that.
Of course every one still thinks it's after Mr button. I'm not even a fan of F1

[sc0tt]

My 2 cats are called Jenson and Button.

Nothing to do with the topic.

[Tuvra]

My ex gf's mother fell pregnant and they both loved the name Aston for a boy, I said "You can't name him that with your second name!" they looked confused and asked "Whats wrong with Aston Martin? It sounds really nice" I agreed and left them to it, we split shortly after, luckily it was a girl...

[crofty1984]

Well my last name is Croft, so they'll more likely than not have a motorsport-related name!
I do like Mallory and Morgan as girl/boy first names though.

[V8RX7]

My daughter is called Tasmin

I was looking for names for months and whilst browsing the classifieds I saw the name and loved it - still do.

(Bit of a rubbish car though)

[renrut]

HustleRussell said:

A couple of weeks ago my mate got rear ended by a Mercedes who was driving a Daihatsu.

Thats probably the worst bit about naming a kid after a car. That and girls named after a 'prestige' brands always sounds like some sort of high class 'escort'. Which thinking about it is a good direct parallel with not prestige brands.

I guess it depends on how obvious a 'car' name it is. Most people wouldn't even realise Jensen or Austin were cars but call them Porsche,Mercedes,Ford,Audi or Ssangyong and it starts to look ridiculous.

Surely the best thing is to have cars named after your kids i.e. Dino...

[crofty1984]

bristolracer said:

RyanDD said:

my girlfriend's middle name is Mercedes. her sisters were due to be given car names too, but her mum put the foot down so no more car names after that

Think you may find that a certain German car company is named after the founders daughter !

Who the fk would name their Daughter BMW?