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

160 replies

Darkling1 · 23/08/2025 12:38

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autienotnaughty · 23/08/2025 19:10

One of my dds in named after a character in one-of my favourite books.

autienotnaughty · 23/08/2025 19:09

ClassicStripe · 23/08/2025 12:46

Yes my daughter is named after a sitcom character. Think Who’s that girl…

My eldest had the same name but she was born before the sitcom.

Missey85 · 23/08/2025 19:07

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

Lockdownsceptic · 23/08/2025 19:06

maras2 · 23/08/2025 13:29

Youngest DC (43) has his 2nd name after the founder of the Socialist Labour Party.
Well, that's come home to bite me on the arse.
Guess who Smile

Poor man.

SouthLondonMum22 · 23/08/2025 19:01

One of my DD's is Matilda which I've always loved since watching the film as a child.

ImABitchImALover · 23/08/2025 18:59

My son is Jude, as in ‘Hey Jude’

Darkling1 · 23/08/2025 18:45

Campingisnexttogodliness · 23/08/2025 17:49

My mate's dd has Alice as her middle name. Poor kid thinks it's from Alice In Wonderland..
It's really after Alice Cooper!

I love it! 😂

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Bridget57 · 23/08/2025 18:42

My ds has the same name as a very famous person, same first name and same surname. We are constantly being asked if we specifically named him after this celebrity but we actually adopted him and he already had his first name, which we kept as he was an older child, and together with our surname it gives him the exact same name as the celebrity. He groans inwardly every time he meets someone new and they inevitably mention it, as if no one has ever mentioned it before!

buswankerbabe · 23/08/2025 18:28

I’m born in 1980. Lisa Marie. Guess who my dad was a fan of. 🙄

Plastictreees · 23/08/2025 18:22

Nope. We chose names that were totally fresh to us, that none of our family/friends/acquaintances had (nothing off the wall, still pretty classic names). Naming a child after a particular celebrity doesn’t appeal to me personally.

Devilsmommy · 23/08/2025 18:20

spookysoul · 23/08/2025 13:31

Not real people, but both of my kids first & middle names are taken from horror films.
Not having another girl, gutted I couldn’t get Reagan in there somewhere

Same, my DS is a character from a classic horror movie. Hence my username 😁

Millytante · 23/08/2025 18:19

Campingisnexttogodliness · 23/08/2025 17:49

My mate's dd has Alice as her middle name. Poor kid thinks it's from Alice In Wonderland..
It's really after Alice Cooper!

Not even that. It was in truth a Faustian deal hatched between your mate and his neighbours in the 1970s, one lot of whom were avid fans of Smokie.

Millytante · 23/08/2025 18:16

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 18:09

@Millytante you made me laugh 🤣

you need to just eradicate that abba earworm now 🤣

Edited

Damn, too late. I’m already screeching along to an interior ‘Waterloo’ 😹

XelaM · 23/08/2025 18:15

After Elizabeth Taylor 😻
My Ex-husband thought it was after the Queen 😬

Riverswims · 23/08/2025 18:10

ClassicStripe · 23/08/2025 12:46

Yes my daughter is named after a sitcom character. Think Who’s that girl…

It’s Jess!

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 18:09

@Millytante you made me laugh 🤣

you need to just eradicate that abba earworm now 🤣

Millytante · 23/08/2025 18:06

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 17:40

@Millytante chiquitita ?

Bless you….I was wondering why the record I was playing in my brain didn’t quite ‘scan’ properly! Thanks, that’s a big relief.
(Also, there’s geography to consider were some misplaced Nikita involved, but who’s counting 🤣)

Campingisnexttogodliness · 23/08/2025 17:49

My mate's dd has Alice as her middle name. Poor kid thinks it's from Alice In Wonderland..
It's really after Alice Cooper!

ConnieHeart · 23/08/2025 17:45

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 16:31

I thought it was funny when Nikita in the video was a (very beautiful) woman, was that before Elton came out ?

Probably, but Nikita isn't a love song anyway

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 17:40

@Millytante chiquitita ?

Millytante · 23/08/2025 17:06

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 16:31

I thought it was funny when Nikita in the video was a (very beautiful) woman, was that before Elton came out ?

Curses. Now I’ve that ABBA song on my brain loop.

Silverbirchleaf · 23/08/2025 16:47

@aloofandround Good spot.

aloofandround · 23/08/2025 16:44

This might be a totally innocent thread but have spotted two other threads today (different user names) asking for info like ‘to ask how you picked your username’. These are common tactics for phishers l/ low grade hackers as it typically tends to be the same sort of people who reply.

Like I said, might be totally innocent but given lots of people use their kids’ names for passwords…

Strokethefurrywall · 23/08/2025 16:39

Sullivan because I binge watched Strike Back when pregnant and thought Sullivan Stapleton was hot. Thankfully my husband liked the name!

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 16:31

Millytante · 23/08/2025 16:12

Little does the child know that the truth is actually more fiendish and fascinating: she’s really named after Nikita Khrushchev, late of the USSR.

I thought it was funny when Nikita in the video was a (very beautiful) woman, was that before Elton came out ?