Couple Name Three Kids After Their Favorite Computer (Hint: It’s Not Dell)

Leander Kahney ()

Couple Name Three Kids After Their Favorite Computer (Hint: It’s Not Dell)

Steven Chan and two of his three kids, Megan and Matthew, who all share the same initials: M - A - C.

SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD 2010 — Steven Chan and his wife gave their three kids the same initials: M – A – C.

There’s Maxwell Alexander Chan, his brother Matthew and sister Megan.

“We’re in the printing and graphics business and we just loved the Mac from the very beginning,” said Chan. “Its the tool of our trade, so…”

In a dozen years reporting on Apple, the Chans are the first people I’ve met who named their kids after their favorite computer company. Although there have been rumors of kids named after Apple or the Mac — Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter Apple, for example — it has become an urban myth, often rumored but never verified (if ever). I don’t know of another documented case.

I met the Chans on the Macworld show floor. They’d driven up from Southern California for the Expo. The Chan’s printing business is in Riverside County.

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“We’re both fanatics,” Chan added, laughing. “There’s five of us but we have eight Macs in the house. There’s more Macs than people.”

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Leander Kahney

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  • Neon

    I like air also. Should I name my children after it?

    When people ask “Oh what pretty names. Why did you chose them?”

    “OH WELL, I REALLY LIKE MAC COMPUTERS LOLZ.”

  • http://meta.wops.de Stefan

    Oh! We’re two people but have also eight Macs in the house! Better ratio! ;-)
    And (almost) countless iPods, of course …

  • http://www.catpa.ws pawz

    While I did give my daughter a japanese name, it’s nothing to do with Apple. My cats however are named Macintosh and Darwin :”)

  • Seong-Hoon Lee

    Wow, that family will buy iPad for sure.
    Their dog’s name is i PAD.

  • Miguel

    my initials are M-A-C too but it wasn’t planned

  • edgarrios

    i named my cat leopard. ;D

  • Clucky1

    I use Apple as my pseudonym.

  • Joel

    @Neon-

    Right. It’s quite an embarrassing article, really.

  • Nathan

    At least they still have normal names. Hell, even a first name of Mac is normal.

  • Barry Wood

    I guess a Mac is the tool of his trade, and his M.A.C.’s are the trade of his tool.

  • http://www.twitter.com/gschan Gilbert

    Hey, that’s my uncle Steaven & cousins right there! Hey guys!

  • Steve

    When my daughter was born we named her Adele. My friend, knowing my appreciation for Apple products was quite surprised and jokingly said, “Why did you call her A Dell. I thought you’d call her Apple (like Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter).”
    D’oh! I wish I had of thought of that earlier.
    Oh well, we’ll just have to live with her being a Hackintosh :)

  • http://www.mac-guides.com macguider

    I don’t know is this a good thing or a bad :). To be so fanatical about a company!?
    P.S. – after reading the title, the first thought was about names like – iPod and iMac :D

  • http://www.1stwarez.com Thrown Dan

    That’s how it should be written!

  • http://1stwarez.blogspot.com Markers

    Thank you so much,As i’m interested a bit in thoose kind of things!