Who or what were you named after?

[Joey1471]

I don't think I was named after anything , Just a random name

My first name was just one my parents liked. It's been around for centuries but was also quite fashionable when I was born in the 60s. As far as I know, they only knew one other person with that name when they named me, and she went by a short form they don't like at all and discouraged me from using. I don't think she inspired them! My middle name is my mum's first name, but I'm not sure I'm "named after her" as such. I think both parents like it just as a collection of sounds, and it goes well with my first name in terms of length, style and "feel". They didn't give my brother my dad's name as a middle name so I don't think it was a policy they felt they had to follow.

I was named after Natalie Wood.

My sister was named after a Beatles song.

My mother is the fifth in a line of women with the same name, a name which she dislikes and always used a diminutive of. So she was very keen to give me a name of my own.

She then threw a massive strop when I didn't call either DD after her

A famous 70s rock song

My names made up. I’m named after my dads sister but not actually her name. When younger my dad had a lisp and couldn’t say my aunts name which changed the sound of the beginning & everyone added ie on the end too. It’s Pretty unheard of I don’t know any others but have found a fair few googling. It’s a male name with ie on the end and is always mispronounced.
Can’t think of a better example but here go’s - aunts name being Pam but called pammy mispronounced because of the lisp as Sammy. This, except mines a male name with ie on the end.

One of The Avengers.

My first name is my great grandmothers middle name. And I don’t think my middle name has any significance 🤔 my uncle did want to call me Whitney, after Whitney Houston 😂🙈 so kind of grateful my mum didn’t Go with that.
I named my brother after a dog I knew.
My DP is named from the just william books
When my cousin was born I was 12, his dad wanted to call h8m Stanley. I was like no way I’m having a cousin called Stanley.... and suggested a better name, his middle name is Stanley. He always thanks me when he sees me for not letting his dad call him Stanley 😊

Bob Dylan song

Tom Paxtons daughter (he wrote a song about her)

Tragic Greek heroine and my husband was named after a tragic Greek hero!! Which is sort of lovely but also awful because the story my husbands name is from is pretty horrific.... I think they just liked the sound of it and didnt look too deeply into the actual outcome for that character.... I hope

A gold medallist at the 1968 Mexico Olympics

I was named after my mum's favourite footballer's daughter who was born a couple of weeks before me.

The eighties equivalent to be being named Harper Seven

I'm named after a member of the Romanov family.

I was named after my Dads favourite football ground 😂 Victoria Ground

I was named after a french woman my mother met when she was six years old, she had a massive impact on my mother and influenced her career choice too. Middle names are after my grandmothers, although they are desperately boring.

Dead queen and Bronte heroine.

First name = mythological creature

Middle name = female version of my fathers name

My maternal great grandmothers. One was called a short form of my name, the other a longer version of my middle name, with a different diminutive of my first name as her middle.

I got my name because my dm thinks it's festive and I was born at Christmas. It's not particularly festive and nobody really associated it with that! My middle name is my mum's first name. She hates it and has since changed it!

I was more selective with my children's names but admit my ds is named after a tv character. A doctor I am very fond of.

I was named after a woman who used to work in a hotel, that my grandad used to go to every year. I wasn't named for her, my mum just heard her name and liked it.

My parents had settled on the name Victoria for a girl. However I ended up being born on my great-grandfather's 85th birthday ("the best birthday present ever," his words), and they decided to bestow the feminine form of his name on me instead. That decision is one for which I forever grateful, because I loathe the name Victoria.

Great-grandpa lived until the age of 101, so we got to share sixteen birthdays together!

That's so lovely CheeseTheDay

A character in a book (a comic book I think) - my dad decided long before he met my mum that he'd either marry someone with my name or have a daughter with my name.

Two characters in a classic children's book.