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

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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.

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

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!

I love it! 😂

My son is Jude, as in ‘Hey Jude’

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

Poor man.

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

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

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

I’m 99.9% sure I could guess it right! Great name.

I called my dog Ripley for this reason.
Terribly outing but I also have a son named Cameron (James Cameron the Director and a little bit Cameron Poe from Con Air)

@MeringueOutangPlease tell me their names are Hercules and Beowulf.

no but my dog is, shares a birthday with this particular olympian

@SunsetOverEasterIsland Sven?

My child is named after a Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse!

Yes. After Bram Stoker

I really wanted to call my ds Hector (from Greek mythology) but it was vetoed, I was gutted but got my next favourite name!

Yes! Named DS after a member of our favourite Madchester band which also matched the first names of our Dads so everyone was happy 😊

Eldest daughter was named after the character in a children’s book. I read this book as a 12 year old and always said that if I ever had a daughter I would use the name, luckily my husband liked the name and so that was that.

The dog is Ralph Fiennes. It had to be an actor’s name starting with R.
His littermates are Rita Hayworth, Ruby Rose and Rupert Grinch.

DH would NOT have accepted Jeremy (Irons, my lifelong crush) as he’s madly jealous of him!

Grint.
Sorry, Rupert!

My daughter is named after the female character in The Tempest.

Not deliberately but looking back I think I was very much influenced by many watches of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as a child.

One of my school friends was named after her Mum's favourite film, "Thoroughly Modern Millie". Quite unusual in the 70s.
Our harridan headmistress could not be doing with "shortened names" so every Kate was called Katherine (even if they were Kate), and Millie became Mildred - which she hated. She loves being a "Millie before her time".
As a side note: at one point, the headmistress became totally deranged about names and our schoolmate, Alice, became Alison; and Trudy (a frequently decorated sports captain) was once called Ermentrude! (Only happened once, as Trudy threatened to stop playing any sports which led to a PE department intervention).