I’m pretty surprised I haven’t seen a message here discussing the little girl dubbed Hashtag…maybe I missed it? Here’s a link to the article:
Here’s the text:
[i]Hey, you can name your baby whatever you’d like. [name]India[/name]. [name]Brooklyn[/name]. D’Brickashaw. [name]Apple[/name]. [name]Falcon[/name].
But if you’re going to give your daughter a weird name, at least roll with something that doesn’t imply you spent the entire pregnancy cycle staring at your iPhone.
[name]Baby[/name] Hashtag (not pictured above) popped into this world on [name]Saturday[/name] around 10 p.m., a precious little girl weighing 8 pounds and possessing at least seven pictures — the full extent of what the only identifying picture shows.
This isn’t the first time that parents have taken to the social media dictionary to outfit their child’s birth certificate. Last February, a man in [name]Egypt[/name] named his son Facebook in an effort to honor the role the website played in igniting the country’s [name]Jan[/name]. 25 revolution.
Hashtag will likely grow up to be a happy, healthy, beautiful adult woman, but we can’t help but think she’s going to face a great deal of scrutiny and teasing on the grade-school playgrounds.
Kids won’t care about her name being Hashtag, but her adult-life peers will likely. Especially since # are the it thing.
It’s parents who name their kids things like these that make me support the idea of having a government approved list of names that parents are only allowed to choose from.
[name]Sweden[/name], I believe, does this.
See I could see this on a boy. Hash, unfortunate but kinda like [name]Nash[/name] or [name]Cash[/name], or Tag, weird but still visible boys name.
It’s totally crazy, but I think it’s crazier that it’s a girl instead of a boy.
Well I think there have been cases in [name]America[/name] where they will deem a name as “child abuse” and it wouldn’t be allowed, other than that, I think numbers are the only off limit.
I kind of had a similar feeling–that it might somehow be workable on a boy. While I couldn’t help cringing when I first saw this, it’s no weirder than Espn and at least has some wiggle room for nicknames, like [name]Ash[/name]. I feel like imposing name restrictions is a slippery slope, since most names are a matter of taste, which is relative. I think those people that named their baby [name]Adolf[/name] Hitler had him taken away, but I don’t know if it was solely name related or if there was abuse or neglect involved.
I keep seeing the article and wondering (and by that I mean hoping) that the baby’s name is actually [name]Jameson[/name], and they put Hashtag in front because sometimes people jokingly say “hashtag xyz” when speaking. Not that [name]Jameson[/name] is my idea of a good name for a girl, but it certainly beats Hashtag.
I feel horrible for this little girl-when I heard about it, i thought it must have been a boy that was named Hashtag. This is absolutley ridiculous. I don’t think that it matters if the generation grows up with twitter and the “hashtag”, it still isn’t acceptable. I don’t remember anybody from my generation being called “Tamagotchi”-its just a fad-a name is for life people!!
I read another article that had her name as Hashtag [name]Jameson[/name], and the whole family is referred to as the [name]Jameson[/name] family. Really makes it sound like [name]Jameson[/name] is the last name. And makes me feel bad for the kid. Yikes!!
Dang, there goes that hope. Maybe she’s got a usable middle. I’m curious how old her parents are. While I know there are plenty of teen moms whose children have lovely names, it seems like someone really young would be more susceptible to using a name strongly influenced by pop culture.