Named after a character

[Littlelilylily]

Been inspired by another thread!

Anyone here named their DC after a character? Or was tempted to?

My name is technically a made up name from a book... I hate it but not because of the book but because it gets mistaken for other names. If I had a girl I always said I would name her Evelyn after the heroine in the Mummy because she's a kickass Librarian. Awesome.

DS is named after a character in a Neil Simon film.

My DSis is named after a character in a film who was hypnotised and regressed back to a former life.

Mine was just one of the most popular names of the mid-70s!

A friend named her DS2 after the pink fella from Spongebob

My dd is named Megan, after the character from the original my little pony

Arwen is a girls name. It is Welsh.

My DS name may just have been a ‘little’ influenced by a certain Mr Potter.
My DD was definitely not named after Lara Croft or the Lara in whatever book/film (Dr Zhivago?) but people always ask.

I have a Logan who is not named after bloody Wolverine.

He was named after the guitarist of a band we both liked.

Laura Ingalls Wider from Little House on the Prairie

I wasn't named after a girl on a TV show s such but it is where they first heard it.

We named our DS after one of my fav female characters, I didn't tell DH that's how I came across the name till a while later though.

My youngest is named after a character from the Dragon Age games 🙈

My DD is called Daphne- Daffy for short.

@RedDwarves I bloody miss OTH!

Ex chose the name Luke for our son it wasn't till he was about a year old I realised he was named after Luke Skywalker

I've often thought I'd like to call a baby girl Amelia (after the Joni Mitchell song) or Clary (after the character in the Cazalet Chronicles, although she's actually a Clarissa)

DS named after a casualty character, DD2 named by a film character for first name and DD3 middle name after a Dr Who companion

DD1 is named after one of my favourite childhood books (which she refuses to read).
I taught a Loki, which I thought was an unusual choice!

screwthepyramids

Please say you named your child Varric

Cole was at the top of our boys list (as DP vetoed Cullen).

Apparently I'm named after a TV character but my mum can't remember which program it was

If i had my way id have a Sabriel, a Lirael and a Sameth but dh is too boring for that so just harry potter names which he is okay with

Ive actually met one of the Khalessi- in an a and e room. Wasnt sure that was her name but her dad had it tattooed quite large on his arm so that was definitly her name

Three kids shamelessly named after Harry Potter characters.
My husband has no idea.

Haha I love it!

I told my husband that if we have daughters I will name them after famous feminists and then only tell him once they've been registered.

It’s not like the names from Harry Potter, LOTR or most other book series in that they’re classic or folk names. It’s just a made up word

So was Wendy, invented by JM Barrie. It lasted a while!

But the ridiculous thing about Khaleesi is that it isn't even anyone's name, it's a title; for the wife of the Khal.

I named my dog Tyrion, after the GOT character!

Yes. Ds is named after a tv doctor. Well we got the inspiration from there and I looked it up and it met our criteria.

My birth name was Tessie after the Enid Blyton character. That's what happens when you tell a grade one student that she can name her new baby sister...

DD has a Shakespearean name, I'm not a particular fan of the play though.

Yes

Ds1 is named after a character in the film Catholic Boys

And dd after a character in the tv series Angel

Technically ds2 is named after a character in Buffy...but his is quite a well known/common name