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App Lets Your Baby Choose Its Own Name

By Adrienne Crezo in Baby & Kids, Science & Tech on Jun 1, 2011 at 10:28 pm

The worst thing about being a future parent has to be picking a name, right? Because who really wants to do that? (Insert eyeroll here.)

The new Kick to Pick app lets your unborn baby pick up the grunt work by choosing the name he or she would like to carry through life. No, really. Sort of.

The app randomly generates thousands of baby names. All parents have to do is launch the generator, place the phone on the baby bump, and wait for the little guy – or gal – to give a big kick. The app monitors the baby’s movements, and any large kick detected will stop the generator and reveal what the baby has chosen.

And if you feel like you’re probably throwing 99 cents down the proverbial drain, the app’s creator wants you to know that this is a legitimate problem, this parents-naming-the-baby thing.

“The idea for Kick to Pick came from a discussion about baby’s choices and the fact they had no influence over the name they go onto keep for the rest of their lives,” said Nathan Parks, the creator of the app, in a statement.

I would roll my eyes again, but then I remember that there are children named Pilot Inspektor and Petal Blossom Rainbow in the world. So maybe we should just sell the app to pregnant celebrities.

Tags: apps, baby names, kick to pick

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Geoduck
Jun 1st, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Some(?) Native American tribes had the right idea, give the kid a temporary name at birth then when they grow up change it to something that reflects their actual personality or achievements.
Mr. Awesome
Jun 2nd, 2011 at 12:46 am
We need something like this so people will stop naming their children stupid made up names like mukweesha or kwandana (I know people with these names).

It can have a negative effect on your child’s ability to excel. Have you ever met a bank manager named Pepsi or Hiiakaikapoliopele (Two more people I know).

That last name is suppose to be a hawaiian god…. why a white girl from Alabama was named it I’ll never understand.

Here is a good rule….. If literate people can not pronounce your name there is something wrong or if you were named after a car, a popular consumer product or something from pop culture that noone will get 10 years from now you have a right to slap your parents.
Manticore
Jun 2nd, 2011 at 1:32 am
Pepsi? You sure you didn’t watch Idiocracy a few too many times?
Jessss
Jun 2nd, 2011 at 2:10 am
If I hear of one more parent calling their daughter Ava Grace…
Ryan S
Jun 2nd, 2011 at 5:40 pm
This reminds me of the time N?gasena was called to the attenion of King Milinda and King Milinda asked Nagasena’s name Nagasena renounced his name as a mere empty word. (http://www.jonathantan.org/handouts/buddhism/Buddhism-H04-Milinda.pdf )

They don’t mean anything but as symbols how attached to them can you really be? If I didn’t like my name “Ryan” and preferred something like “Man-with-head-in-books” or Swami-Rayananda-El-Bhodiccita, I could just change it.

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