Wackiest Baby Names and Why People Pick Them
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This video from Off The Great Wall takes a lighthearted look at some of the most unusual baby names in China, from characters meaning thunder to names inspired by celebrities. The host interviews parents and experts to understand the motivations behind these choices, whether for uniqueness, luck, or personal meaning. The tone is playful but respectful, mixing humor with genuine curiosity. It is a fascinating exploration of how names reflect changing social values and individual creativity in modern China. Perfect for viewers who enjoy cultural insights with a touch of humor.
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hey guys welcome to otgw and for lack of a better word talk yeah that's what we're going to name this for right now until forever or until you guys give us a better suggestion if you guys are joining us for the first time these two lovely ladies are F fell is short for fell down hard that's her actual name or fail or fail that's going to be a new name and that's important I'm damn by the way because today we're going to be talking about names what's in a name what's in a name what's the rest of that phrase what what's in a name I ever that sounds so
sweet isn't it Elanor Roosevelt oh I don't I don't know man you just got like super poetic what it is a phe I am you think I'm smarter than I actually am so guys we all know that uh celebrities name their babies some of the weirdest names possible Right like Blue Ivy Northwest so we're we'll tell you guys about um a recent Trend which people have done an actual study on they're saying that since 1950 U more and more kids are becoming less named after common names like George David Michael but now they're getting really the vanilla names yeah the I don't
think the vanilla and I want to I want to know what you guys think but yes they're less named Michael and David and Dan and more named um strange names like C the crazy celebrity names or apple like apple yeah or like a parent will take a name and just like completely spell it differently so the study is saying that because Millennials who are doing these they want to stand out um there do you guys agree with that like why do you think people are doing this well it's definitely linked to Identity cuz you know a person as their name obviously and then I
guess they're more colorful and vibrant that name is it kind of paints a picture of that person right but then when you're a baby how would you know how your baby's personality is going to be that's a good point I think it's because they want to stand out because right now Millennials are taught to be different from one another you have to you know find out about your individuality you have to stand out from the crowd and that's how you get ahead in society or whatever so I think that plays a big part into naming their kids and they want their kids to
stand out in Chinese naming sort of practices it's more individualistic but I feel like it's more like Poetic like no one has the same name but it's not like it's random like it's full of meaning as well exactly because a lot of these to me like they're just doing something arbitrarily like spelling Jackson with an X because no one's done it before you know what I mean so to me like when you start paying attention to Pure individualism you lose track of reasons and traditions why they were put so I want to ask you guys what would you name your children
like do you like do you want something individualistic but traditional or you want to just go all tradition I think I'm a pretty conservative person I would stick with like traditional names but I would do some something different maybe like a different spelling I'm open to that okay or using um two first names that line yeah so or I would Venus flat trap bubble SL oh that's good going like you really like Jasmine jasine oh that's it oh my God that's funny because I would want to name my child if they were a girl Tia right okay but I don't know how to
spell it like t e a or t i a and then so jasine T it was oh my God no one would pronounce it as Tia I don't mind a name where at first you mispronounce it but it's kind of like after you you tell people yeah so how would your child feel though like when they go to Starbucks you you want like a kind of a normal name but something unique but you're not going to go like super crazy not super crazy and not super like mainstream okay yeah for me like I associate names with people I know in real life so for example if I don't like a David yeah you will never
be a never because in your mind it's like grain that that's a bad name yeah you know what I'm saying so if I like a certain name memories exactly and I don't okay I would never name my son LeBron because I don't like LeBron James but I would name him Stefan cuz you love so we've already seen like okay Apple right apple is um the kid of um cpls cplay if uh gwenneth p and Chris Martin had another kid if they were still together they should name it pineapple what I me pineapple and the third one would be pen pen actually there someone named pen the magician
pen The Magician's name uh son's name is actually Moxy crime crime fighter or Moxy crime something that's his real name so I'll give that one to you guys I'm not going to test you on that one okay that's like meta World Peace that's like meta World Peace but he just did that to himself or like or like Chad Johnson in NFL changed his name officially to chat ooo 85 cuz his number was 85 officially not his real name you thought that was his real name you thought his last name was oo what it is is I give you guys two names and one of them is definitely real
okay so you both have to decide and tell me someone exists with this name correct and I'm going to give you two all right so the first one is first name is OD Mountain so o d like o to something versus the name s space cop pay is that actually a wood copia is a name of a constellation right or a star s cop p is named after the yellow super giant star and is the daughter of cold place drummer Will Champion in in his wife Maryanne cuz they wanted something symbolic so like a burning star I think that's a viable explanation when you said Cold Play is
actually not that strange OD OD it's not even old it's just ODed like I owed you something word mountain is just I'll go with s yeah and no but what's OD Mountain who OD mountain is actually the the son of hunger gam star Jenna Malone so the entire kid's name is OD Mountain Del Lorenzo Malone oh my gosh maybe he maybe it was like a thing where they were conceived on Mountain ConEd like Brooklyn yeah so if you were on an airplane bathroom you conceived an airplane bathroom so labatory no even like the vessel ship uh here's the next one ger Majesty or the
one ger Majesty I've heard of ger Majesty the one have you who's named ger Majesty I think it's some athlete ger Majesty j e r m a j s y or the one no you the one N I think that's a very viable name what a jerk stop trying to no I'm I'm pretty sure that it's ger Majesty okay it is ger Majesty yeah where did I hear that from it's Michael Jackson's brother Germaine Jackson who was part of the Jackson there you go maybe they pronounce it differently the only other way it could be pronounced is your majesty cuz the J would be like a why your majesty oh my
God that would be your your majesty what if oh my God that's brilliant pilot inspector versus crack how spell that good question spell with a k k r a K crack pilot inspector are they the actual names or is it nicknames no no these are all real birth certificate names that's why I'm like on their passports and IDs and everything yes you they might be called something different in real life as a nickname but these are real names okay all right crack spelled with a K is named after the famous volcano catoa which erupted in 1883 in Indonesia and it was one
of the deadliest eruptions in history history killing over 40,000 people and who named it was may or may not be producer extraordinaire just blaze because he wanted some he wanted a kids to blow up like he did the second one pilot inspector may or may not be the name uh of act may not may not be the name of the son of actor Jason Lee he was in M rats or My Name is Earl he's that guy he named his son that because he he heard an obscure line from a band and the line was went he's simple he's dumb he's a pilot and he and he said the line blew his mind so
he's like I want my kid to mean pilot but it doesn't explain the inspector part I'm just going to go with pilot inspector cuz it's too damn weird man okay what about you Mia I'll go with crack it's pilot inspector out of his mind okay no sorry not out of his mind I'm just you know no it's like legit the name ocean spelled like the ocean may or may not be the the name of the son of actor Forest wh Ur and he named his son ocean because he wanted to him to be vast and expansive uh like the ocean pikasa may or may not be the name of child star mcau kulin son
named after his F favorite Pokemon and childhood creature dude wait moli culen has a son dude's like almost D's like 30 something like with heras anyways which one you think I like ocean yeah I would take ocean okay it's actually not that weird of a name final answer I just didn't even know he had a sun so no yeah it's ocean hey baby the name audio science spelled audio spelled science actual name or to legit one word t o o l e g i t to legit one word and then is his last name to quit or audio science this is madness this is what I'm talking about if you
if the audio science is real why can't I name my kid like microphone reveal audio science anyways uh celebrities are kind of crazy and um we learned that uh anything goes and I'm kind of afraid that one day we will have names like voice record yeah I really didn't know to that extent it's well the door open you know or like SD card you can name your kid SD card in America you can name your kid anything and I'm kind of afraid that eventually you will have kids being like dude I hate my name so anyways guys let us know if uh you know any crazy names that
we left off let us know why you think people are continue and will they keep naming their people kids weirder and weirder names or do you have a weird name do you actually have a and not a nickname a real weird name yeah so thanks again for watching guys see you later bye bye edit down you see my you are no but you're like up in there like half your finger is up in there actually you know I could shove my pinky finger all the way up oh my God so she posed this question earlier like if you what are you doing will your no bigger my finger is do you think
when you're young and you pick your NOS too much that like your nostrils will expand I don't think so Dam