It turns out our boy would share his name with a man convicted of financial fraud in 2008 and several images come up of a sleazy looking guy. He also happens to be a III, so there are two more before him with the same name. I can’t decide whether or not it matters. It’s not someone widely known although my husband remembers the story a bit.
We don’t know what we are having and we’ve narrowed our boy list down to three names, with this guy’s name being the top contender. Avoid it altogether and select a different name or decide it really doesn’t matter?
I think, it doesn´t really matter what kind of people have the same name that you would like to use on your future child. There will always be a person who did something bad and people might associate that name with a bad thing for a while. But that goes away quite soon. There are so many Michaels in the world that are nice people and there are also a lot of Michaels that aren´t, you know what I mean? Whatever the name is that you like, I´d say go for it (unless it´s something that due to history is a name that is truly associated with nothing but really bad things). I hope, I could help you a little
Thanks, it’s funny you mention [name]Bernie[/name] Madoff since he took everything from my in-laws… no joke. I think that’s why my husband is particularly sensitive to this guy. I think I’m okay with it but I’ll let him make the decision. I’ve been thinking about backup name #1 today and it’s making me happy
If you have to google the name to discover the similarity, it probably isn’t a big enough deal to worry about. Plus, it was already five years ago and will therefore be a 23-year-old story by the time your son reaches young adulthood. At that point, unless it the story became the subject of an [name]Oscar[/name]-winning film, NO [name]ONE[/name] will remember it.
I think it depends upon just how common your name combination is. If it’s something like [name]Patrick[/name] [name]Jonathan[/name] [name]King[/name], it’s not a big deal because that could be a very common, indistinct name. It would be obvious to someone who Google’s your son’s name years and years from now that there are probably several men with this name, and they are probably not at all related.
If it’s a more unique name like [name]Ulysses[/name] [name]Octavio[/name] St. [name]Germain[/name] (I don’t know where I am pulling this from?), it might be possible that one day, your son may encounter someone who may wonder if he is any relation to the swindler with the same name.
Most likely, it’s probably not at all an issue to stick with the name you love and that you’ve chosen. It really just depends upon its uniqueness.
you may be interested in this thread from a bit ago. I posted my experience with googling a name that came back with a fairly negative result-- we still used the name.
It doesn’t matter at all, I don’t think. I just googled myself and all it came up with was my Twitter…I think that if I were to find out there was some serial killer with the same name as me, I would have laughed. But I’ll make my own name.
I’ve run into that problem myself reccently. I googled one of my favorite name combos and it was the name of a big civil rights opponent back in the day… I also decided to ignore it… I guess I still have a few years to decide. I guess it all depends on how important the name you picked out is to you. If it has a very special meaning to you, maybe you should go ahead with it. I’m sure your boy will make it his own. If you have anothe name you like just as much… I guess my advice at this point would be to go with the name you love the most.
