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To ask if you named your DC after a celebrity/famous person?

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Darkling1 · 23/08/2025 12:38

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Dontcallmescarface · 25/08/2025 12:56

Wasitabadger · 24/08/2025 08:43

James? Excellent band.

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Don't want to brag, but I've hugged Tim Booth.

Anyway, as you were.

Dontcallmescarface · 25/08/2025 12:53

When she was born in the early 90's, DD was named after a male actor. It was a name that (other than said actor), I had never heard before and growing up she was the only person in both primary and secondary school with that name. It's used more now and seems to be viewed as a girl's name.

Derrymum123 · 25/08/2025 12:43

Yes, I have a Gina from the song Living on a Prayer. Also one named after Sinéad O'Connor. Another after Enya. They all suit their names.

BuntyBeaufort · 25/08/2025 12:28

DS is named after the heroes of practically every book I ever read as a child.
It was also the name of a character on one of my favourite sitcoms from the 70s, although with hindsight he was a bit of an arse.

lifetourist · 25/08/2025 11:35

DS middle name is after a character in BBC TV show that aired for 5 series and ended in 2012 just before he was born. The actor who played the role in question is still my favourite and I go to see him whenever he is on stage.

DS refuses even to watch the show!

JackJarvisEsq · 25/08/2025 11:30

No but I am named after some actress my dad liked the look of 🤣

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything she’s in, don’t think she was ever a box office smash

Catpiece · 25/08/2025 11:25

MrsMitford3 · 24/08/2025 18:01

I am so hoping he is called Phantom or Grizabella 😂

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How funny 😂 He’s Joseph x

TabbyBeast · 24/08/2025 18:45

Wasitabadger · 24/08/2025 08:43

James? Excellent band.

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Happy Mondays 🤣

MrsMitford3 · 24/08/2025 18:01

Catpiece · 24/08/2025 15:00

My youngest son is named after a fab Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

I am so hoping he is called Phantom or Grizabella 😂

Catpiece · 24/08/2025 15:00

My youngest son is named after a fab Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

AnythingLemon · 24/08/2025 14:52

WetArm · 24/08/2025 12:22

Alan Pawtridge? 🥹

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Brill

WetArm · 24/08/2025 12:22

AnythingLemon · 24/08/2025 08:50

I love this.

My next boy dog would be Alan after Alan Partridge.

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Alan Pawtridge? 🥹

Moonflower12 · 24/08/2025 11:45

@Millytante

Spot on!

We always joked we would wake one morning, to the lawn covered in severed penises.

Lovely to meet you too!

Divorcemakesyoustressedandpoor · 24/08/2025 11:38

Yes I named my daughter Evie after watching house of Elliot when I was younger

ruby1234 · 24/08/2025 11:29

Millytante · 23/08/2025 21:32

Arkle! Excellent.
My old headmistress at boarding school had a commanding portrait of Arkle in her study, next to a lurid Sacred Heart, and an obligatory JFK. She was a fiend for the horses, that nun.

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No, not Arkle!

Trumpthecant · 24/08/2025 08:54

Princessbananahamock · 23/08/2025 12:50

Big fan of Gone with the Wind guess what she is called.

Same. My daughter is named after a character in Gone with the Wind.

TheGrimSmile · 24/08/2025 08:52

OhDorWheresthesalad · 23/08/2025 13:34

Not a celebrity, but dd's middle name is the same as the title of my favourite book.

Anna?

AnythingLemon · 24/08/2025 08:50

Snapespeare · 24/08/2025 08:17

Potentially not helpful. One of my cats is called Dolly Purrton. Future cat will be named Alan Rickcat. If there were ever another dog, he would be named Albus Dumbledog.

Kids are all named after no-one

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I love this.

My next boy dog would be Alan after Alan Partridge.

HelpMeGetThrough · 24/08/2025 08:46

Wasitabadger · 24/08/2025 08:43

James? Excellent band.

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Was listening to them the other day. Bloody brilliant.

Wasitabadger · 24/08/2025 08:43

TabbyBeast · 23/08/2025 20:02

Yes! Named DS after a member of our favourite Madchester band which also matched the first names of our Dads so everyone was happy 😊

James? Excellent band.

Lincslady53 · 24/08/2025 08:27

Silverbirchleaf · 23/08/2025 13:11

i know someone who babes her daughter after Hayley Mills, because they said she (the mother, that is) looked like her.

On EastEnders, Heather named her baby after George Michael.

Our daughter is called Hayley, after the girl in Metal Micky. DH was watching at the time we were trying to find a name we liked that hadn't already been used by friends or relations.

LittleMi55Nobody · 24/08/2025 08:21

fleetwood mac lead singer

SleepWalkingtoSeville · 24/08/2025 08:20

My daughter is somewhat named after a character from Angel. Not in the sense that I’m a die hard fan - just that it’s the first place I heard the name.

Snapespeare · 24/08/2025 08:17

Potentially not helpful. One of my cats is called Dolly Purrton. Future cat will be named Alan Rickcat. If there were ever another dog, he would be named Albus Dumbledog.

Kids are all named after no-one

Whaleadthesnail · 24/08/2025 08:14

I joke that mine was named after a labour MP just to wind up my daily mail reading dad