There’s a New Werewolf Trend and it Involves Babies

It’s true, there is a huge werewolf trend sweeping the nation – Apparently every other new parent out there is naming their newborn babies after werewolves. Seriously, this year’s big trend is naming your child after a big bad werewolf.

According to Social Security Administration records, Jacob was the most popular name for boys this year. And as everyone in the universe knows, Jacob is the name of a werewolf in the ridiculously popular Twilight series of books and movies.

But it doesn’t end at just Jacob, other Twilight werewolves were on the top 100 baby name list of 2010 – Quil, Embry, Seth and Paul were all there.

And I’m not done yet, for it doesn’t stop at Twilight, in fact, Tyler and Mason, werewolves from the show The Vampire Diaries, were also on the top 100 list.

However, none of the True Blood werewolves made the list, no Alcide babies.

Now, is this really a werewolf trend or are people looking WAY too much into this? I mean, most of the names mentioned above are very common, totally normal names. Just because they happen to be the names of popular werewolves doesn’t mean that that’s why parents chose them. After all, Jacob has been the most popular boy name for 10 years now.

What do you guys think? Is it really a werewolf trend, or are people stupidly tying werewolves to it?

Also, how do you feel about naming your child after your favorite fictional character? Is it a good idea or bad? Personally, I don’t think it’s a bad idea if you really love the character and the name. However, I wouldn’t name my kid after a super popular character with a boring name just like everyone else. Because first off, I love unique names and second, having the same name as so many others sucks! Trust me, I was once one of four Amanda’s in the same classroom. It was awful.

– Moonlight

By moonlight

One of the writers for werewolves.com, as well as vampires.com.

10 comments

    1. I’m going to agree with you on that one. I’ve known other parents to name their children after favorite characters… even my own mother is named after a character from a play.

  1. Must be a girl thing. notice their all from books that are the more girl friendly romance types? Besides if I were going to name my son, say… Paul for example, it would be purely for my own vanity and NOT cause some author gave some book character my name. ;) Besides if you are attracted to an image of a character or the actor playing them why the hell would you then name your own kid that name…creepy!

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  3. To tell the truth i’d name my son/dauther after a famous werewolf if i was a werewolf person.This naming your child after a werewolf stuff is getting out of hand an Paul i know your getting sick of people naming their children after you.

  4. Names like Paul and Seth and Jacob were common names before Twilight but were more popular after it which I hate.

    1. seriously people werewolf names are as common as the trees arounds us like the name stormy is a common werewolf name as is sam,brad,zac,leelee,clare.
      but personaly im naming my baby faith

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