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Top 6 Baby Naming Oddities + 3,500 Chinese Parents Name Kids "Olympics" (SUPER GALLERY) Edit

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Top 6 Baby Naming Oddities + 3,500 Chinese Parents Name Kids
Published: Nov 4, 07
Comments: 2 Views: 2,801

“Hi, my name is Olympics, what’s yours?” Though it’s tough to imagine, there are thousands of Chinese children who could be saying those very words one day. Nearly 3,500 children were named in honour of the Olympics, a clear indicator that the 2008 Games are more than an event—it will be a cultural and historical phenomenon held very dear to the hearts of the Chinese.

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 Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing Daily reported, citing information from China's national identity card database. The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male, the newspaper said. Only six live in Beijing. The report didn't say where the others live. Names related to the Olympics don't just stop with "Olympics." More than 4,000 Chinese share their names with the Beijing Games mascots, the "Five Friendlies." (ap.google)

References:  ap.google

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Ravi Kalmady on Nov 5, 07  0 Trends   1 Comments
My name is Grand Prix. And you must be Space Shuttle? Haha.. ... really cute info here! Anybody remember that story about this couple who named their child "Yahoo!" cause they had first met on Yahoo chat and fell in love and got marrid? (However, later it was learned that a reporter had cooked up this story to make some quick money...lol)
Ravi Kalmady on Nov 5, 07  0 Trends   1 Comments 0
travelina on Nov 5, 07  0 Trends   3 Comments
I wonder how they would pronounce the @ sign in Chinese? The @ sign is called lots of different names in various countries: monkey, strudel, elephant's trunk, among others: http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2006/11/where_its.html
travelina on Nov 5, 07  0 Trends   3 Comments 0
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