To think this is cruel from the parents? Child's name

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Recently been teaching in secondary schools and met a kid with the exact same name as a very well-known and and iconic male celebrity, along the lines of Brad Pitt, Harry Styles, Zac Efron.

I imagine the kid gets a lot of stick. A little divided by it, it's cool but the kid will forever be getting comments on it and I just don't think it's fair on them.

I know an older adult with the name of a very famous actor from the 60s/70s Apparently he used to get teased endlessly.

Wayne Eyre. I’m dead.

Depends on the name. Those aren't really equivalent. Zac Efron, Leo Di Caprio or Keanu Reeves are much more distinctives names than Harry Styles, Margot Robbie, Tom Hardy or Robert Redford. The latter list, you'd notice think of the famous namesake and move on. Your day to day association would be work or nursery Gary Oldman or Lea Sedoux.

If it was something distinctive in itself, I think it is much more unfair to the child. Especially if chosen to be a catchy stage name such as Tina Turner or Marilyn Monroe.

Wayne Eyre!! Love this!

Wayne Eyre is possibly my favourite name of all time. 🤣🤣🤣

Jane’s long-lost brother!

I went to School with a Paul Newman - at the time when he was in several high profile films. Never did him any harm!

I went to school with a Paul McCartney AND a Michael Jackson.

I share the same name of a famous person (first and last). Most people don’t notice but some people comment on it, I just smile and nod.

Also just seen on the news that police arrested a Jonathan Creak.

I couldn’t believe it when a little girl in my dc reception was Indiana Jones! Mean

A friend of a friend had a baby Sid James.

Brad's isn't common? Dozens of Brad's and Bradleys I knew

I have never encountered one.

I work with a Stephen Mulhern

Is it Engelbert?

See, one person’s ‘celebrity’ is another person’s ’Who?’ I had never heard of Stephen Mulhern (I looked him up just now), and it certainly wouldn’t stop me calling my child that.

Olivia Lawrence?

I was at school with a girl called Lesley Crowther. I doubt many people under 60 have even heard of Leslie Crowther but he was a big name on TV at the time we were growing up. Probably not when we were born in the very early 60s, though.

I do feel sorry for people whose surname can also be a first name. Once at work when we got an application for a course, without even noticing I was doing it, I logged the well-known name as the first name and the one I'd never seen before as the surname. I then wrote to Mr George Ellice. Mrs Ellice George wrote back. Oops. Never made that mistake again!

I remember a TV chat show they were talking about names someone said she knows a Jennifer Lopez. People don't believe it's her real name she orders taxis they think it's a prank when she says Lopez. They'll then ask if first name is Jennifer and hang up.

I work with a Katie Hopkins. So, so harsh.

It's always been like that - I taught in secondary in the late 70's and taught "Elizabeth Taylor", "Richard Burton" and "Anthony Hopkins".........

I once met an Adrian Mole!

Agreed. I do wonder why she didn’t keep her name or at least double barrel it as she hated it so much.

I think it’s ridiculous a teacher would make comparisons, are you the prick who has been mocking my DDs name at school? A so called teacher making out of date jokes about a child’s perfectly normal name just because it sounds like something else if you say it with another word.

Im related to multiple Edward Murphy’s, some called Eddie, some had the name first, others not but followed family naming traditions or WAIT liked the name Edward when naming their children. Shock horror the name was famous before the actor too!

My old boss, surname Knight named her child Michale, the reference never even occurred to her as she never watched the show.
There is an equivalent to a MP in Ireland called Michael Lowry also a rugby player of the same name.
I went to school with a Andrew Jackson his brother was Michael.
There are plenty of names of famous people who had other famous people with the same name before them or even at the same time, Jane Seymour, Anne Hathaway, Michael Collins, Micheal Douglas, David Jones….there are loads more.

Absolutely fucking ridiculous to think people should not give their children their chosen name just because someone with the same name happened to become famous. And teachers who are immature enough to point this out should not be teaching.

What is wrong with some people? Why do that to your child?