Page 2 | To ask if you named your DC after a celebrity/famous person?

HelpMeGetThrough · 24/08/2025 08:12

AnythingLemon · 23/08/2025 13:17

A couple of relatives have been named after a Beatle.

I thought they did that with Popes.

We’ve had John Paul, I was hoping the new one was going to be George Ringo.

InterestedDad37 · 24/08/2025 07:38

Olive from 'On The Buses', anyone? 🤔😀

ThisRareFox · 24/08/2025 07:29

I know a Hayley named after Hayley Mills.

Twilightstarbright · 24/08/2025 07:24

Yup captain of my favourite football team.

Applebun · 24/08/2025 01:58

I am named after a famous person

Millytante · 24/08/2025 01:55

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 22:28

@Millytante
Just been down a rabbit hole ( in a good way) googling all your information. I shall pass this on to my DD. Wow! Though she may know all of it anyway.
Her middle name is a Greek mythological goddess name ‘ to whom men sacrificed their manhood’.
Her name means’ victorious Mankiller’ which actually turned out to be very apt. She is beautiful outside and in.

Yowza, is that Cybele? A religious goddess cult (something to do with crops? Prob. mixing up my deities) wherein men would voluntarily castrate themselves in her service?
I’d say there’s room in our modern world for a revival, tbh. Maybe it could replace National Service!
Laura really is a beautiful name. Not all names suit us from cradle to grave. (I think my own expired in terms of suitability in my teens, for example, and is ludicrous at nearly 70) ‘Laura’ though sits well on all the stages of a girl’s life.

PS: if you have access to Paramount or Apple TV, seek out Twin Peaks: the Return, episode 8, and bear witness again to the celestial creation of Laura, in a time of direst peril. Madly thrilling and glorious stuff.

nice to meet you. Toodlepip!

augustusglupe · 23/08/2025 23:41

No, but I named my daughter after a character in a film played by Jane Fonda. Its not Barbarella 😄

Chilliandbanana · 23/08/2025 23:35

Yes my DD is named after an English actress. I love reminding her when she comes on the screen!

WetArm · 23/08/2025 23:24

I watched a lot of Peaky Blinders when I was pregnant so DS ended up with one of the Shelby brothers' names. 😁

mumisfull · 23/08/2025 23:21

Dd is named after my favourite author L M Alcott

CAMHShelp · 23/08/2025 23:09

Campingisnexttogodliness · 23/08/2025 12:51

My ds has the surname as a first name of a famous female singer and her df...

I would assume you named him after con air

Judiezones · 23/08/2025 23:06

Jessica after Jessica Vye in A Long Way from Verona.

SwankyPants · 23/08/2025 22:40

No but my cats are 🤣

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 22:36

@ruby1234

Dawn? From Dawn Run?

Worldgonecrazy · 23/08/2025 22:35

DD is named for a Goddess, but not with the Goddess name.

Worldgonecrazy · 23/08/2025 22:34

Princessbananahamock · 23/08/2025 12:50

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

is your niece named after a fairy tale character?

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 22:28

@Millytante
Just been down a rabbit hole ( in a good way) googling all your information. I shall pass this on to my DD. Wow! Though she may know all of it anyway.
Her middle name is a Greek mythological goddess name ‘ to whom men sacrificed their manhood’.
Her name means’ victorious Mankiller’ which actually turned out to be very apt. She is beautiful outside and in.

AliceMcK · 23/08/2025 22:12

Princessbananahamock · 23/08/2025 12:50

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

Tara?

I’ve lost count of the amount of Lisa-Marie’s I know born in the 70s including my SIL @buswankerbabe

We have a number of “famous names” in my family, both my Grandad and Uncle the same name after a famous American actor, they were born first. My DB had the same name as a character played by a particular famous “ heart throb”. One of my DDs name my Nan always loved, there was an actress with the same name that my Nan always commented on saying o it’s “X” every time she came on TV.

im always being asked if I’m named after a movie, but I’m not.

hazelowens · 23/08/2025 22:07

My middle son is Ciaran because of the character played by Keith Duffy in Coronation Street.
My youngest is called Aidan after Aidan Quinn. He would have been Quinn if I could have had my way.

MrsMitford3 · 23/08/2025 22:01

Over 20 years ago I was reading a huge book made up of the fascinating letters between a British PM and his wife.
When I had a girl after 2 boys I knew that was her name- I was smitten.
Still love it to this day although wish it wasn't gaining in popularity-I liked it better when it was much less common

TowerRavenSeven · 23/08/2025 22:00

Yes and no. This was 25 years ago and when I mentioned the name I liked to dh, he said ‘having a child with the name of the future king of England is not a bad thing’. So for dh it was after the royal family. I just liked the name.

SouthLondonMum22 · 23/08/2025 21:59

sparklychair · 23/08/2025 21:19

DS is named after a famous bear who has all sorts of exciting adventures and lives in Nutwood.

Same for my DS.

Ga66le · 23/08/2025 21:56

I was named after a character from a very popular Disney animated film that came out a few years before I was born.

Millytante · 23/08/2025 21:56

Missey85 · 23/08/2025 19:07

A friend of mine named he'd daughter Rory after Gilmore girls 😊

If she took the fancy of the next Oasis bruv to get a divorce, she could become a beloved Blues guitarist.
(smashing name for a girl, is Rory)

Millytante · 23/08/2025 21:50

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 20:27

@Millytante

Amazingly you guessed the correct programme and first letter of her name but her (not) character was the one found ‘all dead and wrapped in plastic!’

Or is that you, DD?

Ah, of course. And a heavily mythologised name it is too (in a good way). She’s an immortal muse, for a start.
Then the classic Noir movie haunted that first series, even unto the damn minah bird’s name, and in TP itself, your girl is nothing less than the force of Good overcoming Evil. She’s the actual, ‘heaven’-sent saviour. Wow!