Indiana Jones

[BarryBarryTaylor]

Just watching Milkshake with my dd and the presenter was reading out the birthday cards and one of them was for a girl called Indiana Jones, even the presenter giggled. I think it’s a great name.
Unfortunately we have a really long unusual surname, but has anyone else known or named their dc after someone famous?
I would love to hear!!

Near enough quintella
Just need a letter change on the y, I kid you not.

I had clients called Paul McCartney and Isla Whyte

Isn’t Danny a Michael Jackson song? About a rat?

Goodness (Jenny) Taylor

Dd2 went to school with a
Aston Martin and a Dean Martin also
Ronnie and Reggie Kay

I know a Lee Harper

Ah, too young for the one I know then OP - which means there must be two

@anothernotherone the ones I know were an... interesting pair.

I went to Uni with Walter Disney

My daughter had a boy in her class called Jack Daniels.

My daughters name is Indie and our surname is very close to Jones so she likes to call herself Indiana Jones x 😂

I knew a William Hare.... his name was shortened to Willy..his nickname was pubes

The guy behind the Guido Fawkes website is called Paul Staines.

P.Staines.

He deserves that name.

I know James Bond Jnr and the theme from the cartoon is all I can think about every time

William Hare = pubes 😂 oh lord

These names are fantastic!

If my surname was Disney I would have to use Walter/Walt also.

Wouldn’t pick Reggie and Ronnie if my surname was Kay though 😆

I know someone who shares their name with a murderer. He would have been about 10 when this EXTREMELY high profile murder happened.

It is two fairly normal and common names, just an unfortunate combination. First time I met him he made a joke remark about how he "didn't do it". I bet he had a hard time as a teenager.

@BarryBarryTaylor Ooh maybe I've no idea lol

But in terms of fictional characters there is a pretty well known family lawyer called Rupert Bear, he's used his unusual name to his advantage though as part of his business name.

I used to work with a 50 year old Harry Potter (in a school) - he had 30 years of normality before JK Rowling ruined his life!

Ooo I do love Harry Potter but I can appreciate how once that book appeared there must have been endless supply of jokes!

I know a Jayne Eyre and lots of Tom Joneses. It’s not unusual here.

diana 😂😂

In Russia I ran into a guy named Nikita, who called his son Dobrinya - thus making the poor kid's full name and patronym "Dobrinya Nikitich" (an extremely well-known folk tale hero in Russia)

It was obviously on purpose because Dobrinya isn't exactly a common name in Russia (or anywhere that I know of).
And that's my cat's name, after the same folk tale hero...

I taught a Luke Walker. Perfectly unremarkable except his parents had thought it bloody hilarious to give him Sky as a middle name.

A friend attended an all boys' school with the Ness twins, Andrew & Peter. Again, fine, except the register was called by surname unless there were two Smiths or whatever, in which case the convention was initial + surname.

Apparently waiting for a new/supply teacher to innocently call out 'A Ness, P Ness' never got old...unless you were Andy or Pete Ness, of course

I taught an Indiana Jones years ago. Also a Jack Sparrow, a Phil Collins and a Penny Lane (who, unbelievably, was not named after the song I know this because I set an entire class a homework on how they got their name to find out)

I went to school with Lewis Carroll. Which seemed a little unfair although it’s a nice name.

First choice boys name + DH’a surname would have led my son to share the name with a moderately famous sportsman (DH often gets asked “any relation?”). So it didn’t happen.