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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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Millytante · 23/08/2025 16:14

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 15:47

I’m named after a film that was released in the late 60s. At secondary school one of my best friends was also named after a different character in the same film.
My mum had wanted to call me Truly Scrumptious from Chitty chitty bang bang. Luckily my dad vetoed that.

My eldest is not named from an iconic TV series in the early 90s but a lot of her friends are. Ironically it has turned out to be her favourite tv thing ever- to the point of honeymooning where it is set!

OMG! She’s called ‘the Log Lady’! 😹

Millytante · 23/08/2025 16:12

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 23/08/2025 15:38

A friend named her child Nikita after the Elton John song of that name. Child loves it now.

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.

sunshineandshowers21 · 23/08/2025 16:07

i’m a huge history nerd so my girls are named after georgiana cavendish & emmeline pankhurst. both famous in their time!

LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand · 23/08/2025 16:04

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 16:01

@LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand Neil ❤️

Definitely. My ex and I were at his concert in Glasgow in the early-ish 70s- but not with each other!

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 16:01

@LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand Neil ❤️

LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand · 23/08/2025 16:00

My son is named after a famous Canadian rock star of the 70s who is still touring these days. He's a political activist too and a bit of a grumpy old man. My son is very similar 😂

Lockdownsceptic · 23/08/2025 15:49

My daughter was named after a character n a book.

x2boys · 23/08/2025 15:48

My sil was named after a character in Peyton place.

Moonflower12 · 23/08/2025 15:47

I’m named after a film that was released in the late 60s. At secondary school one of my best friends was also named after a different character in the same film.
My mum had wanted to call me Truly Scrumptious from Chitty chitty bang bang. Luckily my dad vetoed that.

My eldest is not named from an iconic TV series in the early 90s but a lot of her friends are. Ironically it has turned out to be her favourite tv thing ever- to the point of honeymooning where it is set!

thornbury · 23/08/2025 15:39

Sort of, she's one of the Bennett girls.

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 23/08/2025 15:38

A friend named her child Nikita after the Elton John song of that name. Child loves it now.

GrumpySparkler · 23/08/2025 15:38

I think I've posted this before but, unbeknownst to me at the time, both my DC are named after characters from video games that my DH loves. He suggested both their names with no context to them and I really liked both of them. It wasn't until a few years after our youngest was born that he came clean and told me. I didn't care. I still love their names.

Ekkekkkeekkkekk · 23/08/2025 15:34

My DD has the same first name as a famous Kiwi actress.

I didn’t know until my father’s best friend pointed it out. I’d never heard of her!

SunsetOverEasterIsland · 23/08/2025 15:33

My DS has a name I’d loved for years but by coincidence was the name of the England men’s football manager at the time he was born. Never occurred to us not to use it and we all still love his name, people who meet him think it’s cool and he was always the only one with the name in school.

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Darkling1 · 23/08/2025 15:29

CoffeeCantata · 23/08/2025 15:01

Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I loved the name Lauren - after L Bacall. I thought it was a really unusual and original variation on Laura. I was after an unusual name. When I was expecting my first, I decided that if I had a girl she’d be Lauren. One day in a big department store I heard 3 different women calling to their toddlers - all Laurens. I chose another name and when later teaching in a primary school, I had no shortage of little Laurens!

it’s a lovely name - haven’t changed my mind - but it was VERY much in vogue in the 90s.

That’s so funny. I was born in the 90s and had four Laurens in my secondary school year group.

I too, adore Lauren Bacall.

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EilonwyWithRedGoldHair · 23/08/2025 15:24

DS is sort of named after an author - I can't remember now if the name came first and the link to the author came second as an explanation.

It was that or DH's idea of naming him after Robin van Persie...

Millytante · 23/08/2025 15:21

MeringueOutang · 23/08/2025 13:36

Yes one is named after a famous Greek hero and the other is named after a famous Old English hero (which coincidentally is also the name of one of my favourite sitcom characters). For middle names, they're named after actors who have played iconic characters.

Hector and Hereward?

spoonbillstretford · 23/08/2025 15:06

With both of their first names, I definitely Googled to see if most of the associations were positive.

spoonbillstretford · 23/08/2025 15:04

Rose Tyler in Dr Who definitely made me think "Rose, that's a nice middle name," in 2005. Me and everyone else having girls then apparently. DD1 likes it though and her Dr Who loving best mate thought it was so cool when she found out.

CoffeeCantata · 23/08/2025 15:01

Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I loved the name Lauren - after L Bacall. I thought it was a really unusual and original variation on Laura. I was after an unusual name. When I was expecting my first, I decided that if I had a girl she’d be Lauren. One day in a big department store I heard 3 different women calling to their toddlers - all Laurens. I chose another name and when later teaching in a primary school, I had no shortage of little Laurens!

it’s a lovely name - haven’t changed my mind - but it was VERY much in vogue in the 90s.

ClassicStripe · 23/08/2025 14:19

MeringueOutang · 23/08/2025 13:36

Yes one is named after a famous Greek hero and the other is named after a famous Old English hero (which coincidentally is also the name of one of my favourite sitcom characters). For middle names, they're named after actors who have played iconic characters.

Robin?

meisafairy · 23/08/2025 13:56

My son is Evan as I was pregnant at the time when Tyson bit off Evander Holyfields ear! We were toying with names, joked about Tyson then Evander then realised shortening Evander to Evan was the perfect name for him.

CalzoneOnLegs · 23/08/2025 13:42

AnythingLemon · 23/08/2025 13:17

A couple of relatives have been named after a Beatle.

Ringo ?

ConnieHeart · 23/08/2025 13:39

My dd1's middle name is Jewel. I watched a forgettable film during pregnancy with a character of that name in it 🤣

MeringueOutang · 23/08/2025 13:36

Yes one is named after a famous Greek hero and the other is named after a famous Old English hero (which coincidentally is also the name of one of my favourite sitcom characters). For middle names, they're named after actors who have played iconic characters.