Comments on: Parents Want Unique Names for Baby to Increase Googleability

By: Jacki

Jacki — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:39:42 +0000

My name (Jacqueline) was randomly chosen after my parents realized I wasn't a boy lol. Even with my last name, I'm ungooglable. My older sister has a googleable name with just her first name. : (

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:26:17 +0000

Alastrin sounds straight out of a Harry Potter book!

By: L

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:14:19 +0000

Alastrin? When I Googled that, I found a type of smallpox.

I'm sure she'll love that name when she's older.

By: Callista

Callista — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:25:34 +0000

My daughter's name doesn't return to many hits but that's certainly not WHY I chose it! (Alastrin)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:30:41 +0000

I'm kind of glad that my name is so common it returns millions of hits.
How long before somebody names their kid "Neatorama?"

By: Cuimhne

Cuimhne — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:05 +0000

I just googled myself (first time!) and I couldn't find myself.... When I use just my first and last name I get some woman who does business management and has published a couple of books. When I use my middle name I get no hits at all Oh well, I don't really use my real name online very much!

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:55:39 +0000

I pretty sure you cant search google for the @ symbol. But I think they've shot themselves in the foot because if you could im sure its would return more results than most names! Also online forms and databases usually validate to not allow symbols in names, that kids life is gonna be spent mostly buried in red tape.

By: John

John — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:49:20 +0000

See, the problem with having a high googleability is that if they DO find stuff about you, they might not like what they see.

It'd be pretty easy to find a pornstar named @.