Is It True Love To Name Your Baby After Your Car?

Is It True Love To Name Your Baby After Your Car?
Congratulation's you had a baby! Priorities change, and that shiny beast in your driveway must now take a backseat to the new bundle of joy that demands every spare minute.

But how you you best carry on the memory of your first true love forever? Simple your name your child after your car!

Crazy as it seems the national baby name database show quite a few baby names taken from the auto makers. This makes us wonder what would drive a parent to name a child after their car?

Popular Boy Names
1. Lincoln
2. Royce
3. Ford
4. Bentley
5. Chevy
6. Kia
7. Benz
8. Scion
9. Beemer
10. Chrysler

Popular Girl Names
1. Mercedes
2. Lexus
3. Lotus
4. Chevy
5. Kia
6. Royce
7. Porsche
8. Infiniti
9. Chrysla
[only 9 girl names]


Read Article

SilverAeroSilverAero - 4/11/2007 1:18:04 PM
+2 Boost
Thats pretty stupid, but i met an Elise


S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 4/11/2007 11:00:40 PM
+1 Boost
Elise is really a name. I know someone by that name.


Agent009Agent009 - 4/11/2007 1:52:30 PM
+2 Boost
Hmmm Mercedes sounds like an exotic dancer. How about Phaethon?


cl0wncl0wn - 4/11/2007 1:29:03 PM
+6 Boost
Scion... are u kidding me? that's depressing, especially if your middle name is xA or xB :(


phischphisch - 4/11/2007 2:30:34 PM
+5 Boost
if your name was Scion, and your middle name was xB, i'm pretty sure your highschool nickname would be "Lunchbox"


VinnyPVinnyP - 4/11/2007 1:30:40 PM
+5 Boost
Name your kid Hyundai and see the respect she gets,

Name your kid Toyota and see all the flaming they get.




BMW_DRVRBMW_DRVR - 4/11/2007 1:43:57 PM
+3 Boost
Its not called love. Its called stupidity.


BMW_DRVRBMW_DRVR - 4/11/2007 1:45:30 PM
+3 Boost
I am pretty sure that some of these were people's name before the car companies came along.


rockets_r_usrockets_r_us - 4/12/2007 9:48:09 AM
+3 Boost
Shelby Alison. I couldn't sneak in the "correct" spelling of Allison, but I took what I could get. Wife said it was more feminine this way.

Lots of Shelby kids, both sexes. True even before the emergence of the auto world's famous friend (50's & early 60's for you young'ns).


Agent009Agent009 - 4/11/2007 1:53:23 PM
-2 Boost
Better than Bubba


BillBill - 4/12/2007 4:59:05 AM
+4 Boost
Daimler didn't name his cars after his daughter. Neither Karl Benz or Gottlieb Daimler had a daughter named Mercedes and what many people don't know is that Benz and Daimler never met and both founded two separate companies: Benz & Co. and the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft.

Daimler had a loyal customer named Emil Jellinek (an Austrian businessman and enthusiastic racedriver) who had a daughter named Mercedes. Jellinek referred to his personal Daimler racecars as "Mercedes" and soon enough, all of Daimler's cars became known as Mercedes. That's the short version.

In 1926, when the companies Benz & Daimler merged, the cars became known as "Mercedes-Benz".


JUGNUJUGNU - 4/11/2007 4:21:03 PM
-3 Boost
How about Rio(Kia) a boy name.

JUGNU



lexusis350lexusis350 - 4/11/2007 6:10:19 PM
-1 Boost
I would name my daughter Lexus and call her Lexie.


kart1kart1 - 4/11/2007 8:41:06 PM
+4 Boost
I had this girl in my class and her name was spelled "Celica" yet she wanted to be called something like (I am not good at phonics) Saleeka, to differentiate herself from the car name.


kart1kart1 - 4/11/2007 8:42:03 PM
+3 Boost
and she mentioned that she wasn't named after the car after the professor pronounced the name as the car is pronounced.


kart1kart1 - 4/11/2007 8:42:34 PM
+2 Boost
I wonder how many name their kid after Rover???


2JZSoarer2JZSoarer - 4/11/2007 10:22:33 PM
0 Boost
What about "Aristo"(aka GS300/400),that sounds like a good name...


AMGC55AMGC55 - 4/11/2007 10:33:43 PM
+3 Boost
Im sorry but anyone who is passionate enough about a scion to name there child that is repulsing


S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 4/11/2007 11:05:46 PM
+1 Boost
I hope I meet a kid named Infiniti some day. That would be interesting.

As Roller said, Mercedes was actually a classy name for a female before the brand came along.

However, I don't believe Mercedes was the daughter of Daimler. I'm pretty sure it was the daughter of one of the main investors of the company... and Karl Benz took a liking to her.

I have actually met one or two people named Mercedes. It's an elegant name. Of course I wouldn't name my daughter that, but I can understand why you would.

I also agree with Roller about Lexus-- LEXUS?!!! How about Alexis?


JCF110JCF110 - 4/12/2007 12:02:22 AM
+6 Boost
I once knew a girl named Alexis... but if you ask me... she looked more like "Abuick"!


no1listensanywayno1listensanyway - 4/12/2007 12:15:29 AM
+1 Boost
My cousin's name is Bentley. It had nothing to do with the car but its still a nice name.


AutophileAutophile - 4/12/2007 12:16:26 AM
+1 Boost
Baby Prius!


narmeen13narmeen13 - 4/12/2007 3:00:32 AM
+2 Boost
if i gave birth to a bastard i wouldnt call him FORD!!!!


i named my cat Mini though if that counts!
Mercedes and Modena are not bad..


aussie2uaussie2u - 4/12/2007 10:23:52 PM
+2 Boost
"Hummer" would be appropriate because maybe he could have avoided naming the child altogether had he settled for one... :)


2003TCSignature2003TCSignature - 4/13/2007 7:34:39 AM
+2 Boost
And if its triplets, H1, H2 and H3... One, Two and Three for short!


njshiftnjshift - 4/14/2007 12:57:47 PM
+2 Boost
Great names if you want your kid to be a stripper.
Copyright 2026 AutoSpies.com, LLC