Dammit. Ingo Rademacher stole my baby name!

Do you remember Ingo? He is an Australian actor who has been in General Hospital for a few years now. I think maybe once he was in Baywatch. Care factor about Ingo would be low EXCEPT that you need to know he and his girlfriend Ehiku just had a baby.
AND THEY NAMED IT:  PEANUT JAI RADEMACHER

This is a huge bummer because Peanut Jai was my first choice if I had a boy. Or a girl. Or a sandwich filling.

Celeb Baby Blog says:

General Hospital's Ingo Rademacher, 37, is a new dad after his fiancée Ehiku gave birth to son Peanut Kai Rademacher on Friday, July 11th.  The couple's first child weighed 7 lbs, 6 oz. and was 20 ½ inches long.  A spokesperson for the show stated that "dad, mom and baby are all great."

Ingo himself told People magazine: "We were calling him that when he was in mommy," Rademacher told PEOPLE about the unusual name. "It kind of represented joy and happiness to us. It puts a smile on everyone's face."

I look forward to the day when Peanut decides he want to become a bank manager. Or a politician. Or anything other THAN A BABY. The whole wacky celeb baby names situation requires a longer post so I've done one for this weekend's Sun-Herald and Sunday Age columns. Will post here late Sunday.

Comments

[s]

mmm... i can just see the "joy and happiness" that will bring to little Peanut when he starts going to school. Though it is true that it will probably put a smile on all his friends' and teachers' faces...

i don't get it! don't they love their kids? don't they THINK AHEAD a little when they name them...

i guess he can always go by Kai. and change his name when he's old enough. imagine if he becomes a dr or something. dr. peanut is ready to see you now. Gosh! the credibility that inspires...

[Mel]

I wonder if Apple, Sunday, Peanut, Honor, Knox and Moses will end up playing together. The kids of kooky names.

[melanie]

Get this...Jason Lee named his kid PILOT INSPEKTOR (yes, with a k).

I'm thinking of calling my son Brik-head. You like?

[Dreamqueen]

These poor kids ... but you know who it really hurts is the regular mum and dads who follow suit and call their kids those names ... these are the kids that get ribbed and bullied in the school yard. The celebrity kids not so much because they are cool and different because they have famous parents!!!!

[gigdiary]

Dreamqueen, that is so true. The Knox Grammars and Piloh Sh*ts, I mean Shiloh Pitts, will go to celebrity school, where all the kids are named after vegetables, esoteric concepts or ancient Aztec planting seasons. It is the poor kid at Toongabbie Primary who'll cop it. Then again maybe not.

Today, outback here in the west there would be more Somali or Hindustani names at Girraween Public than there would be John Smiths. More Xzen Ngos than even Kylies. Heck, back in my day, there weren't even any Kylies. Going to school as 'gigdiary' was a real challenge I can tell you. Thanks, Mum!

[Cerry]

I think people over estimate kids sometimes - not saying Apple, Sunday, Pilot and Peanut won't get paid out. But Honor probably won't, because in the US, that's what you do (Hope, Destiny, Charity...ringing any bells?). And I'd say that Knox and Shilo won't have many problems either. Yeah, they're unusual names, but I've grown up with Ceiridwen, and aside from the fact that no one can spell pronounce it, it hasn't been too bad. Most people tend to be fascinated by people with unusual names (to a point, of course. Apple and co are past this point), and the only people who ever gave me crap with my brother and his friends, which is pretty much what brothers and their friends do.
But seriously, if I were Peanut, I'd be telling everyone my name was Jai for as long as I could get away with it.

[Richard]

Until now, I didn't realise that I had Peanut allergy. It makes me want to vomit at the thought of these people breeding again and again.

[Richard]

Wait! With a little more thought and by changing just one letter, they could have called him:

"Peanut Jar"

Now that has a ring to it!

[Liz]

Well Coco is not exactly an ordinary name..

[lu]

With 4 kids at school I have heard some really shocking names inflicted upon innocent kids. I think thats it says a LOT about the parents.

Most people think of a name that a child will carry for life that suits them and will not make them stand out like a freak. For the rest it actually says mum and dad are looking for attention and will get it any way they can even if it means giving their kids crazy names. So for the celebs, they are in the business of seeking attention (though not all of it on their terms) so the freaky names serve a purpose and feed their egos.