College football coaches inspire baby names

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According to sports columnist Wendell Barnhouse, at least six babies born in Ohio have been named Tressel after Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel since 2003.

Barnhouse also knows of Alabaman babies who’ve been named Saban and Bryant, in honor of current and past University of Alabama coaches Nicholas “Nick” Saban and Paul “Bear” Bryant.

Update, Oct. 7, 2015: The 20th-annual Bear Bryant Namesake Reunion was held recently in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, according to the NYT: Where Bear Meets Bryant, Again and Again

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Image: Adapted from New Meadowlands Stadium: Mezz Corner (cropped) by section215 under CC BY 2.0.

Baby’s name suffixed “2.0,” like a software release

"Version 2.0" of a piece of software
Example of “Version 2.0”

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.”

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Image: Adapted from Go-64! Version 2.0 loading screen by The Maddestman under CC BY-SA 4.0.