We all know Jalen Rose was a trendsetter leading to a current record 19 Jalen’s with variations. Will Kobe be next?
There are currently three Kobe’s.
Kobe Brown
Kobe Bufkin
Kobe Sanders
All in LA interestingly enough.
What will the total be in another decade?
it was weird dropping my son off at his first day of school only to find he was the only child named Metta World Peace
no, my son is also named Idris Elbow.
My son is named Bort
My son is also named Bort.
Your son would be good friend with my son, Panda Friend.
You son would be good friends with mine ron arrest
World B. Free
His first name is Lloyd, World is more of a nickname that just became what everyone calls him. But Artest really changed his legal name to Metta World Peace.
Lloyd B. World
Would Ja’Kobe Walter of the raptors count?
He is the perfect fusion of Jalen and Kobe
It’s actually supposed to be a fusion of Jordan and Kobe according to his parents 😂
He’s lucky he made the NBA…
Otherwise he’d have to be a shoe salesman
Or a minor league baseball player
“Kakarot and Vegeta make vegito” but in NBA terms
(I know it’s Vegito because kakarot is “kakarotto” in Japanese)
Doing tricks on it
Ja and Kobe. Every kind of shooter possible.
Lmao almost made me spit out my sheep’s milk
Not a fan of Kolen?
The Kobe in his name is because of the basketball player Kobe so it definitely counts.
There are nfl players and college basketball players named after Kobe too.
I thought he was named after thespian Derek Jacobi
GOAT Frasier appearance
His parents just adored I, Claudius.
Only if Coby White does too.
Not many people know Coby on the Bulls is a Jacoby.
you are technically correct
^the ^best ^kind ^of ^correct
We shouldn’t be far from the age of the LeBrons, right? Lol
Already got 2 of them
Amazing they’re on the same team too
Simulation Theory proved correct
LeBron is too unique.
Jalen Rose wasn’t a superstar so you could name your kid after him without it being like naming your kid Einstein.
Kobe was already a would (Kobe beef) and it is part of a known name. Coby White on the Bulls just goes by Coby but his full name is Jacoby.
LeBron is a full blown noun at this point. It would be like naming your kid Rolex or soemthing.
The other thing about Jalen Rose is his name didn’t feel unique if that makes sense. It sounds like a name that should have always existed. I didn’t even realize he was the first when he was playing.
Or Mercedes wait…
Wait till you find out who Mercedes the company was named after….
Well to be fair Mercedes was a name already. The brand was named after a girl.
But Einstein is his last name…
Ok Einstein
And yet people are named Jordan. Checkmate liberals.
There’s 1 player in the NBA named after LeBron already.
Nah, naming your kid LeBron would be like naming your kid Shaq
Jacoby, named after his parents favorite local linear approximation, the Jacobian determinant
What about all the kids named Jordan?
I know someone named Kobe born before Kobe started his career
Kleenex
I interacted with a customer service rep named Lebron yesterday
I teach and there’s a student at my school in central Ontario named Lebron.
Fuckin heat bandwagoners for parents
Based on his age, they’re Cavs bandwagoners. The impact of Lebronto was immense.
Are they 8? That 2018 LeBron run was insane. Especially against the Raptors.
I don’t wanna say the kids age, but you’re not far off.
Lebronto had societal and family effects I know my GOAT
Shit, my mom told me my Dad planned on naming me Lebron, glad that didnt pan out. I was born the year he was drafted, the fanfare was already crazy back then.
Getting named after a high schooler wouldve been crazy
My kid Kwame hasn’t ever forgiven me.
Me reading this as someone who watched LeBron’s HS games on ESPN
Dad getting in while the stock was low, mom should’ve let it
There is an Asian dude at my work called LeBron
LeBron Xie lmao
LeRep
He’s gotta retire first. Only one other so far.
All the kids named Jalen in the NBA now were born while Jalen Rose was still in the league.
It’s not like parents can look into the future and be like “no his career gonna way be too long. Can’t use his name”
Just more subtle is all. “James” is the name they would go with.
In the Philippines we have a lot of LeBron James “surname” lol
I feel like I see a ton of Shaquilles in sports now. Was that name a thing before Shaquille O’Neal?
Yeah, it comes from Arabic (usually spelled Shakil/Shakeel). Definitely has exploded in popularity among Black Americans since Shaq, though— just from a quick glance at Wikipedia, every other notable “Shaquille” was born in the 1990s
The uptick in Shaqs and Shaquilles was definitely from O’Neal.
Isn’t that what he just said
But why male models?
Robin Van Persie named his son Shaqueel. Currently plays for Feyenoord in Netherlands
Black people with Irish names was a thing back in the day
Is that how we got the name Desean?
It’s how we got Tyrone
It’s an Arabic name. Fairly common name in the Muslim world
I was 12 when Shaq became a sensation and I’ve never heard this name before him. And I also never heard of an Arab with that name, although it is a word in Arabic.
Shakeel comes from an Arabic word but I think (definitely not an expert on this) most Shakeels are not Arabs. Name pops up in Pakistan and Bangladesh fairly often.
Coby White too
The bulls had Coby white and shaquille Harrison on the same roster at one point
his name is Jacoby
Oh!
We need more David’s out there named after the admiral
I agree but who looks at a baby and thinks
“Dave. Ima call you Dave.”
Davey the Baby is kinda cool though.
Every old man named Ralph or Frank or Gary was once a baby named Ralph or Frank or Gary.
♫ These are the Daves I know, I know ♫
David, Tim, Tony. Such…fundamental names.
You can throw Ja’Kobe Walter onto the list. His name is a combination of two people (try and take a guess).
Unfortunately for the post the Ja isn’t short for Jalen, it’s short for Jordan (and Kobe)
LeBryan Nash was an nba player once. 3 players.
JamesOn Curry sends his regards lol
Jaco Pastorius and Bea Arthur?
I’d watch that sextape
Ja Morant and Walter White
I mean Jacob/Jacoby has always been a popular name for boys which makes it easier for parents to name their kids Coby/Cobie or other variations of the name.
I know the name Kobe originated from Kobe prefecture of Japan but at least it pronounces the same
Technically it’s not. Kobe from Japan is pronounced Ko-Bay whereas Kobe Bryant is pronounced Ko-Bee. Slight but very noticeable difference.
I know.
Im saying Kobe Bryant’s name originated from Kobe prefecture but is pronounced as “Coby”, a nickname of a common biblical name.
Had Kobe pronounced his name as ko-bay, many parents probably wouldn’t name their kids after him since it’s not a common name.
Kobe being pronounced as “coby” makes it a lot easier for parents to name their kids after him since it pronounced the same as a common name.
Yep, it’s close enough to work. Kobe might be derived from Japanese cuisine but I doubt they would’ve tried to make something like Sapporo or Teriyaki fly as a name.
If you’re a psycho you can call your kid Teri and it could me short for Teriyaki, like calling a girl May but having her name be Mayonnaise on the birth certificate.
lol ive always called it Ko-Bee Beef haha
And it’s come around full circle. I was watching an episode of Kamen Rider Zero-One the other day, one of the side characters for the episode was named Kobe, and he was a grade school basketball coach. And his name was pronounced as “Ko-bee (Kobi), not “Ko-bay” like the prefecture.
Kamen Rider Zero-One aired in 2019. It’s a deliberate reference.
Colby/Cobie and all their variations are an interesting case in names because the pronunciation is the same, so instead the spelling is used to differentiate between sexes. Colby tends to be masculine (eg Colby Covington), where as Colbie (eg Colbie Caillat) or Cobie (eg Cobie Smulders) tend to be feminine.
It’s like Aaron vs Erin but for a way less common name
Not nba, but Falcons have a Cobee Bryant
Only looking at professional franchises sorry
Rams have Cobie Durant
This is coming from a New Orleans fan lol. Thanks for the pick bud.
Enjoy Dyson and CJ lol.
And super excited about Stefanski too!
Witnessing a mid off in real time
Seahawks also have a defensive back that is a homophone of Kobe Bryant (Coby Bryant, Strong Safety) in their starting defense. Cobee is a much worse spelling imo but funny to see all these homophones popping up
Eagles have a NaKobe Dean
NBA Class of 2043: The Rise of the Chets
Is one of the only celebrities actually named just Chet? Because most of the other Chets are actually named Chester or similar.
Disrespect to the great Chet Hanks smh
Still waiting on the Zydrunas renaissance.
Good one. The one I am putting my hopes up is Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo
where my Ekpe (Udoh)’s at?
Who’s naming their sons Timothy these days anyways?
No Timothys, only Timofeys.
Named after, of course, the MozGod.
Why wouldn’t you name your kid after the player with the second highest scoring game in NBA history?
That reminds me, there’s not very many Wilts out there
I read this as “We all know Jalen Rose was transgender…” and I did a pretty hard double take. DID WE ALL KNOW THAT!?
Big trendsetter in the transgender movement
FWIW he wasn’t just a trendsetter. His mom invented the name. It was unheard of before him.
Tons of football players named after Kobe.
Coby Bryant is a safety for the Seahawks
i woudlnt name my kids after a rapist but thats just me
All three of these players were born before the Colorado incident, fwiw.
So naming your kid Trump Bigly is out?
Sean, Jeffrey, Donald, Kobe are off the table.
Tim Duncan also sexually assaulted a man in the back room of a comedy club.
They were drafted a few years a part. I feel like they would have set the trend at the same time.
Jalen and Kobe’s careers largely overlapped why do you think all of a sudden there will be a bunch of Kobe’s
It didn’t even though it did. Jalen got drafted in 1994 however his popularity was from college. So there’s more years separation than you’d expect.
Because all of a sudden there were a bunch of Jalens like 6 years ago.
When our OBGYN delivered our son, he cut the umbilical chord, spun and did a beautiful APGAR test, dribbled a few times and then yelled “KOBE!” and swished him right over my head to the nurse.
SMH so disrespectful….<This was the look on my face after it happened>
No love fot Koby Altman?
And I get it if we dont count Coby White since its short for jacoby
You missed Koby Brea on the Suns.
I feel like everyone just named their dog Kobe and called it good.
Spelling is a little off but there’s also Koby Brea on the Suns.
Sounds like they were asking the mother what the baby’s name will be, and before she could get the whole name Kobe Bryant out of her mouth, an assassin took her out, and the doctor wrote down what he thought she was saying.
I don’t know how they name babies.
Kobe beef.
Don’t forget Coby White. He should count when people normally count Jalen’s and Jaylins
Eh, his name is actually Jacoby
What ?
I don’t think it had anything to do with Jalen Rose.
I thought the same thing. Went to Wikipedia to find some other famous Jalens. Outside of a Slovenian soccer player, there aren’t any born before 1990 other than Rose. And there almost all of them were born in the 90s and early 00s when Rose was in his prime. It’s almost impossible that’s just a coincidence.
I didn’t think so either but if you Google it, he was apparently one of the first people named Jalen, and was “undeniably the figure who brought the name from obscurity to mainstream recognition in the U.S.”
Maybe but I know for fact that I knew Jalens that were born before the Fab 5 became known.
He was the second born Jalen of record there were 14 Kobe’s
The effects of Kobe beef
Clippers out there already with 2 Kobes and a Jordan. Who needs a Kawhi when you got the goats already.
So what you’re saying is we’re 18 years away from seeing some college kids named Luka, Nikola, or Shai
We might be 6 years away from there being 5 Konnipples in NBA
Just 6 years? How old are they? We don’t even have the second one in college yet…
I know he was and still is beloved by many people, but naming your son after a rapist is rough.
i’m gonna go out on a limb and assume that’s not the aspect of him that they thought of when naming their kid
I wouldn’t take this stance because the whole circumstance of it all is funky but good for you for speakin up ig
The suns have Kobe Brea
The Baracks are beginning to pop up too
Already started my Nephews name is Cobey and the older brother also has a unique name. My brother would definitely name his daughter a fucking weird as spelling of a name if he ever gets a daughter. My kids have regular names and my niece from my other brother asked why my kids names are so American? love my niece but her name is a mix of her dad and moms name. Narcissism definitely runs in the family I’m glad i didn’t get it.
Are we not counting Koby Brea or Ja’Kobe Walter?
Their is literally a coby bryant on the seahawks
There’s a Kobe Durant on some team too
Surprised that there weren’t more Shaqs or LeBrons or LeShaqs
Maybe their parents just really like the beef and it has nothing to do with Kobe Bryant?
where my Shaqs at?
My homie just named his son Luka a few months ago
Wtf is this off-season ass post? God this sub blows
jaylen who?
Bobert or Rob for short
How many LeOnards are there?
Anytime you can name your child after a rapist you have to do it! I expect an influx of “Donald’s” as well in the coming years!
I’ll name my sone Covfefe
Kobe is region in Japan that is famous for their beef that apparently Kobe’s father really liked so there isn’t an actual reason to name someone like this. It’s like calling some Inglewood or Champagne because you like local products it’s not as similar of a process as the name Jalen is just a first name with no real connections except athletes
Oh yeah who would ever name a kid after a famous location?
Besides Dallas, Houston, Paris, Boston, Rome, Vegas, Charlotte- wait…
Jalen didn’t rape anyone so that helps
Who said Jalen Rose was a trendsetter? Is this objective?
I guess technically his mom should get credit, but yes, he objectively was the first Jalen of note. Iirc there was one other random guy in like Iowa in the 50s, but other than that he’s the first recorded Jalen in history
It’s actually really interesting, if you look at the Wikipedia list for “famous people named Jalen” they are all born 1991 and after. Rose was born in 1973.
Yes, it’s actually kind of well known at this point
Yes. Look up the Fab Five.
Jalen claims that, but folks really weren’t watching fucking Jalen Rose like that. The phrase though “fake it till you make it” though is 100% correct as since he’s been touting that for over a decade now folks really believing him…
Everyone watched the Fab 5, what kinda revisionism is this
yes they were, in college
if they weren’t, how do you explain the name Jalen randomly being invented one day and becoming so popular?
Casually dropping how little ball you know in public like this is crazy
The Fab 5 were crazy popular