# Name names his son "Version 2.0"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-names-his-son-version-2-0/227261>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 3, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-names-his-son-version-2-0/227261 "2004-02-03T01:04:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-names-his-son-version-2-0/227261/1 "2004-02-03T01:04:49Z")

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> _From [http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/02/01/offbeat.baby.version2.0.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/02/01/offbeat.baby.version2.0.ap/index.html)_  
> Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy’s name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son. …
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> Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.

I know we have a lot of geeks here on the board, so you may like this. But… that’s just a bit too different, IMHO. Sometimes I think there should be laws about baby naming.

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-names-his-son-version-2-0/227261/2 "2004-02-03T01:08:42Z")

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Wow. I don’t know how I did that. Title should read:

Engineering geek names son version 2.0

Mods… fix please?

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**Author:** ![j\_kat\_251](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@j\_kat\_251](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_kat_251)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-names-his-son-version-2-0/227261/3 "2004-02-03T01:51:51Z")

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How is it any different to people who have Jr, III or IV after their names? And how unoriginal do you have to be to keep the exact same name for 4 generations running? I’ve yet to hear of anyone with a V that wasn’t an inbred monarchist type lad, but even so version 2.0 isn’t really that terrible. What would be worse is being named John Cusack. Imagine all the jokes about Neve Campbell. What the hell happened to her anyway?