Naming your children can be a daunting task, because you are essentially deciding the path of their life with that one big decision. Jerry Seinfeld spelled it out in one of his stand up moments on his show: “I think when you name a baby Jeeves, you've pretty much mapped out his future, wouldn't you say? Not much chance he is gonna be a hitman I think after that”. In fact, studies have shown that there is a correlation between weird names and crime. In the professional journal Social Science Quarterly, Shippensburg University professor David Kalist says giving newborn boys unusual first names makes them more likely to land in jail. Kalist and his associate, Daniel Lee looked at 15,000 names given to baby boys between 1987 and 1991. The more unusual the name, the more likely that boy is to commit a crime. So, why do we subject our little ones to this type of unfair treatment? Celebrities are the biggest culprits for this strange behavior – they love to give the weirdest names to their offspring, for example: Nicholas Cage named his son Kal-El Coppola; Penn Jillette from comedy/magic duo Penn and Teller named his daughter Moxie CrimeFighter; and Puck from the Real World called his son Bogart Che Peyote. Seriously, why would you subject your children to that kind of torture??
Here is our list of strange baby names from some of our favourite musicians: