Names inspired by songs

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My daughter was nearly Martha thanks to Tom Waits.

What songs have or could inspire you to name a baby after them?

My son would have been Rhiannon, inspired by Stevie Nicks' song had he been a girl.

Rosanna - toto

Iris- goo goo dolls
Lola- kinks
Ruby- ruby Tuesday, The Stones
Saffron- Mellow yellow
Penny- penny lane, Beatles
Sweet caroline
Angie- the Stones
Polly- nirvana
Proud mary
Martha my dear
Errrrm sharona.....

Jennifer juniper- Donovan

Maria is one of our options

how do you solve a problem like....
and Blondie

Joshua Kadison - Jessie
Amie: Damien Rice
Kate: Ben Folds Five
Natasha: Rufus Wainwrigh
Lovely Rita: The Beatles
Valerie: The Zutons

Ben: Michael Jackson
Bobby's Girl: Marcie Blaine
Hey Jude: The Beatles
Malcolm: The Arrogant Worms
Mickey: Toni Basil
Ozzy: Beck
Rocky: Ben Folds Five

Zak and Sara: Ben Folds

Interesting thread!! I thought I was dead set on Georgia... until I heard the most recent one direction song which I think has put me off slightly....?! :(

Surely 'Georgia on my mind' would piss all over a soon to be forgotten 1D song? ( It would put me off too though...)

Delilah

Emmeline, Grace, Walter, Alice, Adelaide, Julianne - ben folds five

Though I'm not named after a song there is a song that has my name. It's a bit disturbing when people I've just met sing about making love to me. Ugh no. It's a song from the 60's so hopefully not too many people remember it.

Adrienne

So Long Marianne - Leonard Cohen
Carey - Joni Mitchell
Alison - Elvis Costello
Ballad of Ole Betsy - The Beach Boys
Michael - Franz Ferdinand
Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits

And the trillions of ace songs with Johnny in the title!

I'm named after a marrillion song from the 80's I quite like it and surprisingly less people know it than i would have thought

I loved Rio for a girl but the drink and footballer put me off.

Looking back I'm glad DS1 was a boy. I blame pregnancy hormones.

Ha ha, when I was in hospital having DS1, the woman in the next bed told me she had named all three of her daughters after a place and a song. So Georgia, by Michael Bolton; Vienna by Ultravox and Chelsea..... by the Chelsea Football club[hmmm]
I am very horrid and could barely keep a straight face at that one.

Suzanne - from Fire and Rain by James Taylor

I came very, very close to calling DD Ruby, with a middle name of Tuesday.

DH vetoed it. Boring bugger.

DS would have been Eloise if he'd been a girl. Because of the song.

My ds is jude......inspiration from the beatles song :)

My sis is named after a Bob Dylan song, Visions of Johanna. My name is in there too!

My dd is also a Foo Fighters song, although she wasn't named after it (or the fecking Disney princess).

I love the name Judy purely because of the Belle and Sebastian song 'Judy and the dream of horses'.