Zelda is a name like any other. Its just extremely rare.
Zelda is a name like any other. Its just extremely rare.
Woulda been different if he named his son Ganondorf or just Ganon (although Ganon would be awesome.)
Zelda is a VERY old name, with both Germanic and Yiddish variants. (The Yiddish version means "Luck.") By contrast names like Sylvanas and Elune (and most other references to the WoW universe) are not that old and they don't have any real-world origins.
Now would I, personally, do it? No. But that's based strictly on personal preference. I'm more likely to name my child after some historical figure. In fact my fathers side of the family has a long tradition of naming children after great leaders.
Zelda obviously has been a name far longer than just from legend of zelda...how about zelda fitzgerald anyone (of whom the zelda character is named for).
Honestly if my girl was ok with it I would love to name my daughter after Sylvanas... :P
Most likely as a middle name but possibly a first name, honestly I would hate to have a daughter named "Jill" it would just seem too bland a name...
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Zelda was a much more popular name 80 years ago, but it's not like it's that unusual now. I'm pretty surprised that some people in this thread weren't aware of that.
On topic: I've thought about naming a future son Michael because of its meaning of savior or protector, which is one of the translations of Go'el. I don't think I have the balls to name a kid Go'el, but I wish I could. Alistair has almost the same meaning and I, like everyone who played DA1, am totally in love with him, but I don't think I could name a kid that either. For awhile, I wanted to name a girl Sylvanas. Then Cata came and Sylvanas turned crazy and dumb, soooo no thanks. I'm going to name my kids something game related though, I'm sure.
Also, I knew a girl in elementary school who was named Trillian after the Hitchhiker's character. Always thought that was awesome.
To quote the great sage Ook Ook, "you can take the derk out of the jib, but you shouldn't put the jib in the derk."
His beard would've rivaled Shay from the Shaytards.
Too bad Shay shaved his beard..
I am curious how many of the people saying that Zelda is an old name watched the clip. He flat out says he named her after the Legend of Zelda.
Robin Williams is one of my favorite actors and I want to be named after my Popa, and have my author names like WAR C, and Zelda is a nice name. Robin's daughter is really sexy I just got to say and I lol'd at this video when they started to laugh.
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Skelington likes his decision. Zelda is a nice name, and not everyone will realize he took it directly from a video game, which is more awesome than naming people the average way.