Michigan couple Jamie and Jon Blake Cusack welcomed a baby boy on January 27, 2004. The baby’s name? Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
The baby’s father, a “self-confessed engineering geek,” said it took him months to persuade his wife to use 2.0 — which, in software versioning, denotes the second version of a piece of computer software — instead of a traditional suffix (like Jr. or II).
Mr. Cusack told the Holland Sentinel newspaper he got the idea from a film called The Legend of 1900, in which an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to celebrate the year of its birth.
“I thought that if they can do it, why can’t we?” he told the paper.
Jon also noted that, if his son one day has a child, “he could name it 3.0.”
Sources:
- “US father names son ‘Version 2.0’.” BBC News 2 Feb. 2004.
- “Engineer’s newborn named Version 2.0.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 3 Feb. 2004.
Image: Adapted from Go-64! Version 2.0 loading screen by The Maddestman under CC BY-SA 4.0.
