Has a film character inspired your baby/child's name?

[rackhampearl]

As the title says. Were you watching a movie and fell in love with a name. Both my LO names are movie character names. So I'm curious :)

[iklboo]

Erm, yes

[rackhampearl]

Hehe iklboo glad I'm not alone. Must to after my dad cos if he had his way I would have been 'Isabow LadyHawke' lol

[SingingSands]

Yes it would appear so, subconsciously. Only realised when I got home from hospital and saw the book I'd been reading on the kitchen table. It was a pretty trashy blockbuster too
(Although in my defence it's a classic name that I've always liked )

[NapQueen]

Not a film, but a book for dd's first and middle name. Both got made into films so....

Dss name was inspired by a friend son but no idea if they got it from anywhere.

[rackhampearl]

Heeee. I'm so curious of these names now lol.

[SingingSands]

Well I'll tell you what mine was, it's a pretty popular one - Sophie. I was reading The Da Vinci Code . DH wanted Hermione (after the actress Hermione Norris) but there was too much Harry Potter hype around at the time.
We thought we were getting a boy anyway, we were going to call him Louis!

[rackhampearl]

Ah I agree SingingSands, what a lovely classic name.

[WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup]

After a book character here too!

[Shockers]

DD's first and middle names are both characters from books.

[NapQueen]

My dd's first name is the eldest sister in Little Women, and her middle name is the girl who followed the white rabbit.

[iklboo]

Although, to be fair, my name is also part of a famous actor's name. I'd I had been a bit I'd have been called Christopher Lee.

DH is also named after two TV characters.

[SteviebunsBottrittrundle]

Yes, after a character in a book.

[SteviebunsBottrittrundle]

It's a Jane Austen book Fwiw.

[babyblabber]

Yes. Was looking for a boy's name that was unusual, easy to spell, sounded nice. Watching a movie and the baddy had a name with a surname similar sounded (ish) to ours. Repeated the name out loud with our surname and although it took me months and a 2 days induction from hell to convince DH, that is DS's name.

[rackhampearl]

That's awesome. My LO names are Gia (after the late model Gia Carangi) Angelina Jolie starred in the biopic and DH and I fell in love with the name. And my youngest is Andie named after the cheerleader in The Goonies. Strangers tend to love our girls names. I'm a massive reader I've read everything from Lord of the Rings to Madam Bovary but I've never taken to names like I did those two. I love Andie since the 80's lol.

[n0ne]

DD's middle name is from a book.

[Pab78]

My DD is named after the Penelope Cruz character in Vanilla Sky, I just loved her character and the name.

[elQuintoConyo]

One of the characters from the film The Odd Couple. It suits DS down to the ground.

[exLtEveDallas]

DD was named after a horse! It's also a cartoon character, but that wasn't part of it.

Neither DH or DD know how I came up with her name.

(I also vetoed DHs choice of boys name because it was a film character - even though DH has never seen the film, he just liked the name )

[NoTractorsAtTheTable]

Film/comic book for DS - and rather apt it is too!

DD isn't named after anything/anyone as far as I'm aware

[VeganCanBeFabulous]

Yes. My husband and I fell in love with the name Amelie after watching the film. We wanted a French name to honour my French heritage but couldn't find one we like till we saw this film. It has become much more popular since but I still love it. I also loved the name Anouk (short for Anoushka) from the book Chocolat but DH wouldn't go for it.

[rackhampearl]

Amelie is so lovely. Beautiful. I can't say I've heard it much, Amelia and emilia I have.

[ExcellentWorkThereMary]

I have a Jacob

[AdorableMisfit]

My daughter is an Ellen, as in Ellen Ripley from the Alien films...

[isitseptemberyet]

one of my daughters is called Alba , from the novel (then film) The Time Traveller's Wife :-D
One of my other daughters was Astoria, nn Storie from a book i was reading called The Story Sisters (we later changed it)!