So i was wondering wether our protagonists baby is stuck with the name Shaun or wether we are able to give another name to him? Does anybody have any information or thoughts on this? Cause it will svck if your supposed own son has a name you had no choice in. also is it going to be always a boy or can we have a girl? i sense that the baby will be important in the questline and is going to turn out to be the bad guy you have to fight or something but it would be alot more interesting if you could give your arch-enemy his name and perhaps gender that would be much more amazing.

I believe it's confirmed that it will always be a male named Shaun.

Jason?

Jaaason!?

Jason!

Bethesda really dropped the ball on naming the baby. Such potential.

Sole survivor after finding his son:

http://youtu.be/0t0uCWjQ6Og

Please dont step on my dreams

Which hints that the son will be involved in the story somehow.

that's what I'm thinking. It's oddly specific.

I'm laughing so much it hurts XD

Shaun of the dead.

I'm still going to call him the wee baby Seamus.

Or if could be because there's little point in having randomisation on what is effectively a starting 'prop' for the tutorial. Its not like they let you choose what Pre-War food is sitting on top of the dining room table either - is that going to be then same box of food Codsworth gives you?! Semi-confirmed rumours!

If he would be a girl I would call him Samus. And give her a power armor.

My name in real life is Shaun, so to me it's fine having a son named after myself.

Shaun of the Wastes. With his gang of idiots they somehow thrive in the post-nuclear apocalypse.

Seriously I find that to be more of a dealbreaker than the opposite six spouse simply because I would personally never came a kid Shawn

I need to find where i read it, but when talking about the Mr Handy robot as a companion, they said that "he will say the players name".. so apparently they have done something where he will say whatever name you choose for yourself...

If thats the case, then perhaps he will say the name of the baby as well etc etc?

My first thought after seeing the topic.

Also.. when I read this threads title of "shaun the baby" I thought this was going to be a flame thread complaining about some developer or something lol.

Shaun's kind of a stupid name to call a kid.

Um, no offense to anyone here actually called Shaun.

I'd have named him Gary.

He's not necessarily gonna be an enemy (though the chances are high). It could be that you meet him and then three quests later he dies in the most horrific way possible.

He could still be a baby.

If he's an advlt by the time you get unfrozen, then he grew up during/before the events of fallout 3, so he's seen the wasteland before purified water was a thing and after.

That's assuming he's alive, and hasn't been locked away in some laboratory for being the oldest man alive next to dear old dad.

Yes you get Codswallop at the start.

It also depends on when Shaun was awoken from his sleep. He could be an old man for all we know and his quest is just us reuniting with him one last time before he croaks due to old age.

My personal theory on the name (as I believe he will in fact always be a boy named Shaun), is that if we then call our male protagonist/father the same name then he will sometimes refer to his son as 'junior'.

Or perhaps he died and was turned into an android. could you care for an android as much as your own son?