Expectant parents were left howling with laughter after stumbling upon a comical entry in a baby name book. The amusing find was shared by an X (formerly Twitter) user, known as BrookishLex, who posted an image of the name along with the caption: “Just found an Easter egg in my baby names book and I am dead.”
The excerpt from The Baby Name Wizard, Revised 4th Edition: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby by Laura Wattenberg, reads: “Gax (GAKS). Popularity: Very rare. Nicknames: FatMan. Sisters: Moo, Spamela, Beer, Soup, John. Brothers: Flax, Vilx, Clax, Eleanor, Xax.”
The book humorously advises: “Gax is a name you should not give to your child at all. It’s only in the book because my kids are beside me and I’m writing and they absolutely insisted. Keep this in mind, prospective parents, if you’re planning to work from home.”
Reddit users chimed in on the ‘Easter egg’, with one saying: “That’s magnificent! I own that book, got to check if my edition has the same Easter egg for Gax.” Another suggested: “An in-joke, and probably also a way of discouraging (and identifying) plagiarism and plagiarised content.”
Meanwhile, others couldn’t help but laugh at the sibling names, especially the brother named Eleanor, prompting another comment: “Can we talk about the brother named Eleanor? “.
Another user added: “This is hilarious! I love this baby name book- we borrowed it from a friend while naming our first. I was amazed that every name we looked up that we liked had other sister/brother names we loved too.” A final user said: “Oh my goodness, I have the same book, and I just looked, and there it is. That’s pretty darn funny.”
It comes after a woman slammed her brother for naming his daughter after a body part because he thinks the word sounds ‘beautiful’. She now fears the poor girl will be “torn to shreds at school” over her name and claims it’ll make her life a living hell.
Speaking on Reddit, she explained: “My brother just announced they’re naming their daughter Areola. They plan to spell it Ariolla, and want it pronounced with a bogan Aussie accent, Air-ee-oh-la. But lets be real here, kids are cruel. This poor child is going to get torn to shreds in school by her peers. But apparently ‘It sounds beautiful.'”
Justifying the name, he says “everyone else makes up names by putting other names together” so he should be able to do the same. He also wants his daughter to have a unique moniker so she stands out in her school and work life.
Unable to get through to him, she said: “I really wish I was making this up, I already feel sorry for this poor kid. I finally admitted defeat and responded that I hope they like the nickname Ari, because that’s what I’m calling her.”