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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PetiteBlondeDuBoulevardBrune · 23/08/2025 12:58

Middle name Theodore after Fiodor Dostoyevski.

YankSplaining · 23/08/2025 12:56

Even if I’d wanted to, I would have been afraid to do it in case something unsavory about the celebrity later emerged.

dizzydizzydizzy · 23/08/2025 12:55

I was reading one of the broadsheets when I was pregnant with DC and decided to look at the journalists' names. I did use one of those names and luckily DC1 loves their name.

ProudCat · 23/08/2025 12:54

yes, a basketball player with a huge franchise so he could always have t-shirts and trainers with his name on :)

x2boys · 23/08/2025 12:54

Not really but watching Alexander the great a few months before my oldest son was born inspired us...
A friends daughter us named Kayleigh after Marillions,Kayleigh .

MissyB1 · 23/08/2025 12:53

Middle ds is Joel, named after Billy Joel.

x2boys · 23/08/2025 12:52

Princessbananahamock · 23/08/2025 12:50

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

Scarlett?

Campingisnexttogodliness · 23/08/2025 12:51

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

Princessbananahamock · 23/08/2025 12:50

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

ClassicStripe · 23/08/2025 12:46

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

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