2. Like



In May, 2011, an Israeli couple named their baby Like after the Facebook feature.
 
According to the parents, Lior and Vardit Adler, they wanted their daughter to have a name that would be extraordinary in a modern way when they hit upon the idea of using the name for the Facebook button.
 
They fell for the idea at once, and as soon as they had found that there was no such name in the whole of Israel, the little girl was saddled with the name Like. The parents do not look at it as a strange name at all, reasoning that it is a modern version of the common Jewish name Ahava which is the Hebrew word for “love.”

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.

6. Google



In 2005, a search-engine marketer and avid fan of all things Google wrote the company to alert them of the birth of his first child, Oliver Google Kai. "When we first knew that my wife Carol wass pregnant, I said, 'We will name our child Google,' " the elder Kai wrote in his letter. Surprisingly, his wife agreed to the name, since she "knows how much I adore Google services." Google responded by wishing the young boy "long life and good health," adding that they hope Oliver Google Kai's "schoolmates aren't too hard on him."
 
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