The Geekiest Baby Names

3. Bane (Batman’s Villain)

British rugby player Jamie Jones-Buchanan and his wife have named their new son after Bane, the masked villain from the Batman franchise. The Leeds Rhinos’ player said he and his childhood sweetheart always intended to give their future children unusual names.

This isn’t the first baby name that Jones-Buchanan has taken from fiction. His son Lore is named after Data’s evil twin brother. Kurgan gets his name from the primary antagonist of the first Highlander movie.

The Sun also reports that one child is named Dacx from Star Trek, which I think actually refers to Dax.

4. @

A Chinese couple seeking a distinctive and modern name for their child chose the commonly used @ symbol, much to the consternation of Chinese officials.

The unidentified couple and the attempted naming were cited by a Chinese government official as an example of bizarre names creeping into the Chinese language.

The father said, “The whole world uses it to write emails and translated into Chinese it means ‘love him,’ ” Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference. The symbol, pronounced in English as ‘at,’ sounds like the Chinese phrase “ai ta,” or “love him.”