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

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@Millytante

Amazingly you guessed the correct programme and first letter of her name but her (not) character was the one found ‘all dead and wrapped in plastic!’

Or is that you, DD?

I named my cat after a Star Wars character if that counts.

OMG I did the exact same, unless you're talking about me then there must be two of us.

DS is named after a famous bear who has all sorts of exciting adventures and lives in Nutwood.

A friend called his firstborn son Hector, and everyone, to his vast disappointment, assumed it was in honour of some cartoon dog on the telly.

Arkle! Excellent.
My old headmistress at boarding school had a commanding portrait of Arkle in her study, next to a lurid Sacred Heart, and an obligatory JFK. She was a fiend for the horses, that nun.

There’s a Keanu and Phoenix in my family. I think it’s mad, but not as bad as someone naming their dc Khaleesi, which I’ve seen on here.

Yes, she was a Downton Dame.

No, Darth, Luke and Yoda are all common names in this area.

Not exactly a celebrity but my son is named after a Power Ranger that I loved as a child/early teen 😂 although no one in real life actually knows that that’s where the name came from!

Ah, of course. And a heavily mythologised name it is too (in a good way). She’s an immortal muse, for a start.
Then the classic Noir movie haunted that first series, even unto the damn minah bird’s name, and in TP itself, your girl is nothing less than the force of Good overcoming Evil. She’s the actual, ‘heaven’-sent saviour. Wow!

If she took the fancy of the next Oasis bruv to get a divorce, she could become a beloved Blues guitarist.
(smashing name for a girl, is Rory)

I was named after a character from a very popular Disney animated film that came out a few years before I was born.

Same for my DS.

Yes and no. This was 25 years ago and when I mentioned the name I liked to dh, he said ‘having a child with the name of the future king of England is not a bad thing’. So for dh it was after the royal family. I just liked the name.

Over 20 years ago I was reading a huge book made up of the fascinating letters between a British PM and his wife.
When I had a girl after 2 boys I knew that was her name- I was smitten.
Still love it to this day although wish it wasn't gaining in popularity-I liked it better when it was much less common

My middle son is Ciaran because of the character played by Keith Duffy in Coronation Street.
My youngest is called Aidan after Aidan Quinn. He would have been Quinn if I could have had my way.

Tara?

I’ve lost count of the amount of Lisa-Marie’s I know born in the 70s including my SIL @buswankerbabe

We have a number of “famous names” in my family, both my Grandad and Uncle the same name after a famous American actor, they were born first. My DB had the same name as a character played by a particular famous “ heart throb”. One of my DDs name my Nan always loved, there was an actress with the same name that my Nan always commented on saying o it’s “X” every time she came on TV.

im always being asked if I’m named after a movie, but I’m not.

@Millytante
Just been down a rabbit hole ( in a good way) googling all your information. I shall pass this on to my DD. Wow! Though she may know all of it anyway.
Her middle name is a Greek mythological goddess name ‘ to whom men sacrificed their manhood’.
Her name means’ victorious Mankiller’ which actually turned out to be very apt. She is beautiful outside and in.

is your niece named after a fairy tale character?

DD is named for a Goddess, but not with the Goddess name.

@ruby1234

Dawn? From Dawn Run?

No but my cats are 🤣

Jessica after Jessica Vye in A Long Way from Verona.

I would assume you named him after con air