![Harper Seven Beckham: The Celebrity Baby Naming Game [Guest Post]](http://www.busybeeblogger.com/wp-content/image-headlines/2d812728dbed967bb33729b67d2ee9dc.png)
On July 10, 2011, Soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria announced the birth of their 4th child, a baby girl. Well, this is great news for them, especially since it’s their first girl after three sons. However, you would think they would have done the new kid better than to have named her Harper Seven Beckham.
Name Interpretation, Harper Seven Beckham
Now, you need a David Beckham interpreting tool to try and break apart this crazy name. This is all guess work; perhaps Harper is in reference to Harper Lee, reclusive author of To Kill or Mocking Bird or Harper’s Bazaar magazine. The Harper part of the name isn’t too bad by itself, I think. However, when you add it to the middle name, Seven, then things get a little odd. Seven is considered a lucky number by the baby’s mother, Victoria. It could also be in reference to the proud soccer playing poppa’s football number when he played for Manchester United and England.
Is It About Creativity or Celebrity?
Our society puts celebrities on a separate level where expectations are different. Sometimes, this separate level does seem to go to their heads, which may help explain the tendency to give their children some very different names.
Baby naming expert, Laura Wattenberg and founder of babynamewizard.com has found that it’s common for unusual baby names to emerge among populations of highly creative people, in an interview with LifesLittleMysteries.com. Most of our celebrities would fall into this category of the “highly creative.”
But are these names really about being creative or are they just about getting more attention for the parents? Take a look at some of the following “highly creative”baby names and judge for yourself:
Unfortunate Boy Names:
• Thijs
• Audio Science
• DiezelKy
• Johan Rilet Fyodor Taiwo
• Pilot Inspektor [Editor's note : this has to be my favorite "unfortunate" boy name]
Unfortunate Girl Names:
• Daisy Boo
• Poppy Honey
• Bluebell Madonna
• Fifi-Trixibelle
• Peaches
• Honeyblossom
Baby Names-Practice Yelling it out the Door Three Times
Obviously, no one has taught these celebrity parents the ultimate baby name test. Go to the back door and try yelling the baby name three times at the top of your lungs in quick succession. Try doing this with a celebrity whopper name like the one picked by Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence, Heavenly Hiranni Tiger Lily. It’s a simple test, and could end up saving celebrity parents millions in averted psychoanalyst fees.
Kids Live with Names, not Parents
Here’s what it all comes down too, kids live with names long after their parents are gone, even the children of celebrities. So, what kind of a name are you leaving your kid to live with? Do parents, even celebrity parents, know what happens to kids on the playground when they have an awful name? Even normal non-celebrity parents need to ask themselves this question.
So, the celebrity naming thing may be a creativity thing or it may be just another attempt at getting more attention, not that celebrities need it. Let’s just not leave children with names that will hamper life, let’s leave them with names that will enhance it.
This guest post is by Edwin Daniels, you can follow him on Twitter: @TheCelebutaunt.
