Popsugar Parenting Twitter Lol Baby Names Ruined by Pop Culture Moments PSA: Consider Pop Culture Moments Before Naming Your Baby Something Like Alexa or Zelda 28 September 2019 by Alessia Santoro What piece of pop culture has ruined your first name?— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) September 25, 2019 Even when choosing a trendy or popular name for your baby, it's impossible to fully predict how that name will serve them through life, especially where pop culture is concerned. For me, pop culture — well, a celebrity music artist — has actually helped me to love my name, Alessia, more (thank you, Alessia Cara!). For some, pop culture — from songs and memes to TV commercials and movie characters — has definitely made it easy for their name to be the butt of the joke or subject to annoying references. Take every single person named Alexa, for example. Since the birth of the Amazon Echo, the name Alexa has become synonymous with asking what the weather will be. Writer Jesse McLaren has his own gripes with his name, which he feels is tainted by the Rick Springfield song "Jessie's Girl." Whether or not he was born before or after that song was released in 1981, as a popular song, it's not hard to make the jump from "Hi, I'm Jesse" to scream-singing, "You know I wish that I had Jessie's girl!" Interested in finding allies, Jesse asked his Twitter followers, "What piece of pop culture has ruined your first name?," and some of the responses are too good not to share (even Zelda Williams responded to the thread!). Scroll through for some of our favourites. Jesse's Response to His Own Tweet About How Pop Culture Ruined His Name Mine is Jesse’s Girl which is about A GUY WHO WANTS TO *STEAL* JESSE’S GIRL. Screw that guy.— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) September 25, 2019 1 / 20 Responses to Jesse's Original Tweet With Names Pop Culture Ruined Ruined isnt the word I’d use... but I could do without all the ‘rescue’ pickup lines or sword-based innuendos! pic.twitter.com/WHCZCO8smz— Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) September 26, 2019 2 / 20 pic.twitter.com/8IVUToTnon— #1 Rachel (@rachel) September 25, 2019 3 / 20 My name is Kiki... no, I don’t love you, I’m not ridin, and I’m probably gonna leave you...— Sh*t somebody says (@kikibrew) September 26, 2019 4 / 20 Damn Daniel ruined my life— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) September 25, 2019 5 / 20 pic.twitter.com/llchR24e4N— Aaron Bader (@aaronsbader) September 25, 2019 6 / 20 My name is Karen. Do you really have to ask?— Karma's Fed Up Bitch (@karenlytle711) September 26, 2019 7 / 20 My middle child’s name is Alexa. She was born in the 1990’s. I’m very bitter.— ∂αиιєℓℓє🦄 (@luckysaabola) September 25, 2019 8 / 20 pic.twitter.com/pp3iiA7AE3— Jeff Ramos (@ohjefframos) September 26, 2019 9 / 20 ............— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) September 25, 2019 10 / 20 My name is Nick.The Nickelodeon theme song did irreversible damage to me from grades 1 - 8 🤣— Skyquake (@SkyquakeLive) September 25, 2019 11 / 20 Did you know that the real actual “Jake from State Farm” guy’s REAL ACTUAL NAME is really actually Jake Stone?I found this out semi-recently and it added an entirely new layer to the nightmare I’ve endured since that commercial first aired.— Jake Stone (@jws4220) September 26, 2019 12 / 20 2016 Presidential Election.— Mike Spence (@ItsMikeSpence) September 25, 2019 13 / 20 pic.twitter.com/kw3b4m1nTP— Austin (@AustinTMcCarthy) September 25, 2019 14 / 20 All the time! pic.twitter.com/tjm37UkZ2E— Marsha Snavely (@ohsnapitsmarsha) September 26, 2019 15 / 20 Take a guess..... pic.twitter.com/0VfI5rE7KU— Harrison Fox (@HarrisonRFox) September 26, 2019 16 / 20 Do you really need to ask?— Forrest Hall (@villagecryer) September 26, 2019 17 / 20 Imagine having the first name of a cartoon superhero and the last name of a yogurt— Shira Danan (@srdanan) September 26, 2019 18 / 20 For some people, however, pop culture has been good to them. Nothing pic.twitter.com/fPnl3CzB9J— Mariah Leonard (@mariahlleonard) September 26, 2019 19 / 20 Jesse's Original Tweet Asking How Pop Culture Ruined People's Names What piece of pop culture has ruined your first name?— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) September 25, 2019 20 / 20 Twitter LOLBaby NamesTwitter