Parents who attach their own sparkling name such as 'Google' 'Vista' 'Like' to their children appeared

I can not decide my name by myself, it is given by my parents when I was born, I will follow my whole life. Good part of the name is largely influenced by the sense and education of the parent, and sometimes a child is given a strange name when the bad word passes, and in Japan it is called " glitter name " and it is a ridicule ) It tends to be. Meanwhile, overseas, parents who attach " technological glitter names " derived from technology companies, products and services have appeared.

Kids named after Google and Windows Vista and why their parents did it
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On September 12, 2005, a boy was born to Mr. Walid Elias Kai who lives in Sweden. Mr. Walid, who was in charge of search engine marketing at the time, valued Google's search engine, so I named my child "Oliver Google Kai".

Oliver Google Kai, who was 13 years old as of 2018 as of the age of interview, "I sometimes feel embarrassed sometimes, I was asked why the name of" Google "is attached from other people, I explained each time I am replying ". "Google" is not the first name so friends do not often call me with Google's name, but others say that there are times when it is said that someone else says "I know everything like Google like" "smart guy" about.

Meanwhile, Mr. Walid proudly says, "My son is smart." Also, Karen Wickre, a former Google employee who contacted the Kai family at the time, said, "It's like an indicator of Google's famousness and familiarity at the time, but we are proud of it There is nothing I thought. "

Software engineer Bil Simser named Dev as his son's first name and took the middle name from the constellation as Orion. Dev Orion Simser will take "Initial" and it will be " DOS ". And in 2007, when Mr. Bil gave birth to Mr. Bil he said that his daughter named him " Vista " with a couple with a couple saying "My son was DOS, so my daughter should" upgrade ".

"At that time Windows Vista was not yet released, but I saw the name" Vista "in the newspaper, I like the sound of that word.Of course it's the name I'm using from Microsoft's operating system, We can also ask for the etymology for Italian Visto (which I have browsed), "Bil says.

Also, Mr. Vardit Adler, who works as an algorithm engineer in Israel, named his daughter born in 2011 as "Like." Mr. Vardit said he did not have a Facebook account at the time, but he seems to name it as "wonderful" meaning "giving a good feeling to others" held by the popular "good". Furthermore, both fathers Vardit and her daughter Like liked themselves to Instagram as of 2018 exclusively.

It is said that such "technology glitter name" already existed in the time of the Internet bubble . For example, in 2000, Internet Underground Music Archive , which distributed music on the Internet , declared to give 5000 dollars (about 500,000 yen) if I attach the name of the group's initial "IUMA" to my baby And some couples received that offer.

However, there seems to be a doubt about the increasing technological glitter name, and in 2014 Sonora State in Mexico, a law prohibiting parents from naming their children "Facebook" has been enacted . Moreover, since "Alexa" which was popular as a girl's name from old days was adopted as the name of Amazon's voice AI assistant, "My daughter got into school" Alexa, turning on the TV "" Alexa, There is also a mother who sent a letter of protest to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, saying "Today's weather is being told by classmates".