Couple Names Their Baby After Facebook's 'Like' Button

They say it wasn't a publicity stunt. But the news that an Israeli couple named their baby girl after Facebook's "Like" button is drawing plenty of criticism on Mashable, which spotted the item at the Hebrew-language Israeli news site Galgaletz earlier this week.

Lior and Vardit Adler wanted to call their daughter "something unique," according to Mashable's Brenna Ehrlich.

Naming a child after a something associated with a corporation isn't exactly a new thing—though whenever it happens, groans can be heard across the Internet.

Back in February, an Egyptian couple went the distance and named their daughter "Facebook."

There's also the option of giving the child a more traditional first name and using the middle name as a repository for one's peculiar loyalty to a faceless multinational. That's what one Swedish couple did a a few years back when they named their son Oliver Google Kai.

NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson was even more subtle. His daughter Genevieve Marie has the initials "GM" — as in "General Motors." Johnson's No. 48 car is a Chevy Impala, naturally.