Why give children bizarre names?

@MorbidCynic he will spend it all on mental health problems.

@fddlpej a name doesn’t cause mental health issues and people don’t bully the super rich. ;) people want to be close to them.

@MorbidCynic I went to a boys military prep school in the 70's with many very rich kids, even though i wasn't and believe me, bullying isn't a scourge solely reserved for the poor. Bullying happens regardless of social standing and/or wealth when parents aren't around and the 2 things kids pick on the most is what your parents do and your name. Kids are cruel and will pick on the least little details to bully other children about.

@spjennifer I was bullied just for existing. haha trust me, if they want to bully him, his name will have nothing to do with it. His name can be John and he will still be treated that way.

You are hating for absolutely no reason. It’s just a name. Get over yourselves.

@MorbidCynic It is not only the "super rich" who give their children silly names. Whilst so-called "celebrities", or fiction-writers, who start such crazes, those who pick up on it because it makes them feeling somehow connected to the "celebrities", are showing only their own shallowness.

for example, Blaze and Sky are the offspring of a former work-mate of mine, and though well-paid, he and his wife were hardly celebrities or international money-traders. Or town names, as I overheard some young Mum in a supermarket addressing her little darlings.

The children have no choice. They have either to like or lump this parental ego-trip, though once adults can have them changed.

Whether some children do suffer from bullying or mental problems as a result, you and I may not know but we must recognise the hazard; though as you say bullies and mental problems also afflict children with real names.

Even some of those can be difficult. I disliked mine and hated having to quote it even though it is a real name, until my late-teens or early-twenties, as it felt soppy and indeed is sometimes used by comedians and soap-opera writers to denote soppy characters.

Nevertheless, why do parents even do it in the first place? They must know it is not for their children's sake and names can carry at least some risk of bad results.

It is not "just a name".

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I mentioned previously it would not happen in France. I don't support their law, but it states that you may give your children only names from an approved list of genuine, long-established, French personal names. I am not sure how they cope with immigrant families having different-language names - presumably by extending the approvals to cover those languages.