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At least Rei with an I is an existing name.
Japanese, unisex (predominately for girls), it can mean anything from beautiful or wise to zero or oyster …depending on how it is written.
Naming a kid Rey is almost as bad as naming a kid Khaleesi. And as far I’m concerned, naming any kid after a popular fictional character is technically child abuse.
I’ve gotta know what the conversation with the wife was like. Is she also an Evangelion fan? Did he just float ‘Rei’ as a unique name?
Honestly, that’s probably what happened. My kid has a somewhat unique name that’s a derivative of a fictional character, and I brought it up randomly as an idea and it stuck.
Thought about Theo for my son. Short for Theoden. Wife was on board (with Theo) but we ended up going with something else
I approve, to a certain degree (because life ain’t easy for Rei in NGE, to put it mildly, and shit gets pretty weird between her and her husband dad). At least it’s short and sweet, I’ve seen way worse. And, if my name had to be inspired by popular media, I’d also rather be named Rei from an actual show written by adult human beings instead of Rey from nu-SW. 🤷
Exactly what I was thinking. I’d take being named after an NGE character any day of the week over being named after a SW sequels character.
husband dad
I’m gonna hope that was a typo for “husband’s dad”.
So the thing about Evangelion…
What, have you never seen a man clone his dead wife into a half-angel, half-teenager?
(Yeah, weird stuff happens in NGE)
My neighbors daughter’s name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.
Her mom swears she wasn’t named after Arya Stark. She’s half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don’t want to press to much about her husband…but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.
Arya / Aryan is a valid name in many* parts of India. (* It would be rude in Tamil Nadu and rare in the northeast.)
You can’t just say it would be rude in one region without elaborating.
Now my curiosity is piqued and I don’t even know how to get a brief answer without engaging an LLM or spending hours learning about regional discrepancies in Indian culture…a subject I had very little interest in, just a few minutes ago.
My ADHD brain has got blue balls, man.
Okay not at all what this is about, but what is a white widow? If you don’t mind explaining. Looking that up brought me to a particularly strong strain of weed and a british terrorist.
She’s a British terrorist. Go with that one. That’s perfect.
A couple years ago I met a teenager for whom Evangelion was her namesake. It didn’t really hit me that NGE was nearing 30 years old until that moment. We’re reaching the point that the (non-Japanese) baby Narutos and Sakuras are adults now
I have a friend who named his kid after a character from the Star Wars EU.
The friend in question was very upset when the EU was declared noncanon.
I went to school with a Belana (no apostrophe), who didn’t like Star Trek. Mostly because her dad loves it (obviously).
still a lovely name.
I really hope there’s some kid named after Canderous from KOTOR.
Having seen neither, I gotta say Neon Genesis Evangelion looks more appealing to me than Star Wars. I might even watch it someday.
It’s free on internet archive can even switch between dub and sub with VLC.
Yeah star wars is nothing special. The best thing that came of it is definitely Andor.
I mean, you’ve got to appreciate star wars for coming first. Without Star Wars, there’s probably no Gundam (and I’m not just talking about the knockoff lightsaber) and in turn no Evangelion as we know it.
Rei is a German detergent manufacturer.
Evangelion
This poor daughter gets to look forward to so many types of abuse…
“I named her Rei because I’m hoping she will be very, very tall.”
I think Rei in Evangelion is named after Rei Hino in Sailor Moon
Why not Rai because of Valiant Comics?
Hell yeah bro.
Doesn’t Rey mean king in Latin?
Rey is king in Spanish
Rex
I think I’ve seen it as Rey in old timey Latin, like early Renaissance.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Ray and she’s named from Ghostbusters.