March 30, 2007
Celebrity Baby Name of the Day — “Hopper”
“Hopper”
It’s Friday afternoon, a good time for clicking around the web looking at other blogs and celebrity gossip sites.  I came across a very funny website called Innocent English. Their “humorous signs” section alone is worth a visit.
Naturally, being a site about English language mistakes, they have a page dedicated to celebrity baby names. Actually, I’m surprised they don’t have a whole page dedicated to Penn Jillette, but that’s another story.
Which brings me to the name Hopper. Not surprisingly, the name chosen by actor Sean Penn and actress Robin Wright Penn for their son in 1993 makes an appearance on the Innocent English list. And why wouldn’t it?
I admire Sean Penn tremendously as an actor. I think he is an absolute genius at his craft. But when it comes to naming a kid? Forget about it.
As it says on Dictionary.com, a hopper is a person or thing that hops. Or it’s a funnel-shaped thingy that you can pour grain through. It can even be the name of an insect, or a kangaroo. But not, most definitely not, the name for a child. I dread to think what he went through in grade school. The only thing that might have saved him is that most of his Hollywood classmates have weird names also.
photo by Photorazzi
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I feel like I read once that Hopper was so named in honor of Dennis Hopper (and given the middle name Jack for Jack Nicholson), but that’s still a poor reason to saddle a poor, defenseless baby with a name like Hopper. :/