LeBron James's Baby Name Choice Slammed In Cleveland

June 15, 2007

LeBron James's Baby Name Choice Slammed In Cleveland

It’s not often that local media weighs in on the baby name choices of local sports heroes. But that’s just what happened in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer.

As we reported yesterday, LeBron James’s girlfriend Savannah Brinson gave birth to their second son, naming him Bryce Maximus. We chose to focus on the real news, pointing out that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and girlfriend Connie Nielsen chose the same name a few weeks ago.

A writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer did a story on the name today, beginning with the headline: “Cute name, but no slam-dunk“. He wrote that it’s “a solid name, strong with a nice cadence,” but “not exactly creative.” He thought LeBron ought to have named his second son LeBron, just like his first, so as to help push the name LeBron into the top 1000 most popular names.

I think he misses the point. He assumes that Bryce is just a run-of-the-mill name. Not anymore. Not when two celebrities as different as LeBron James and Lars Ulrich chose it. Something must be going on.

Bryce may just be the hot new boys’ name of 2007.