This came up at my work recently because some kid's first name was Anakin. So I got curious and looked up a few in my work database (which doesn't cover the entire state). Turns out there's a few Anakins, Padmes, and Leias in Arizona. I forget what else I looked up, but I kept it to just the obvious ones. Except for exactly one Leia, they're all within the last 22 years. And except for a couple, they're all within the last 12 or so years. It's almost exclusively just people who were kids when the prequel trilogy came out doing this. I suspect because Gen Xers and older Millennials had enough common sense to name their kids the less conspicuous names like Luke and Ben.
Leia is a real name, but I don't think it gets used much outside of fandom anymore.
Agreed. I wouldn't use it on a human, though. It's begging for serious bullying.
This is a thing in the South/general trash culture. Go by your first and middle names. Amberlynn Reid's full name is actually Amber Lynn Reid, she just liked being called Amberlynn to make her more special.
The U.K. has a Lord Adonis & as the comedienne Linda Smith pointed out, the name writes a check that the face cannot cash.
*googles* accurate
I'm half convinced that nearly every country has stripper names. At least in China's case, it might be the parents seething about the son that they never got
The problem is it's pronounced in some ridiculous sounding way like Alowishus so it just sounds ghetto.
