Naming your dc after your favourite character.

[MiaWallace]

I believe that Demi Moore named her daughter Scout after the character in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Just wondering if any of you have been inspired by a book/film character when choosing names for your children

DS's middle name is after a crusty old Country & Western singer.

DD's middle name is after a film character , Amélie..

we both adored the film and have watched it umpteen times and Dh listens to the soundtrack a lot...

DC2 will be Jude after Jude Fawley from "Jude the obscure' if he's a boy. Always loved the book and the name (just trying to block the image of Jude law out..can't stand him)

DD1-named after a Star Trek captain,an actress and a Canadian actress

DD2-named after a childrens show actress,a character in NCIS and a character in Farscape

They have 3 names each lol

My son was named after the little boy in one of my favourite videogames

I have a couple of boys named after George MacDonald characters.

Though I wasn't allowed Curdie!!!!

LOL Hkz, Jude the Obscure is precisely why I wouldn't go for the name Jude!

My little Spongebob isn't named after a character, I just like the name.

LOL Kbear

Would quite have liked Ferdinand after Ferdinand the Bull but it's a lot to deal with really. Would have made more sense than naming ds after a minor and extremely apocalyptic prophet, which is what we did.

I named our DD after the hero of Exodus by Leon Uris - it was going to be Ari if she was a boy and Arielle (Ari for short) if she was a girl. It means little lioness of God.It really suits her!

My ds is Jem after the boy in To Kill a Mockingbird. Only one person has made the link.

Buckets- I know he's not exactly a happy go lucky sort of character! I just love a good tragic hero!

My DD's name is from the series 'Six feet under' at least thats what I think. DH maintains he got it from the sci fi series 'The 4400'

DS is named after Steve Buscemi's character in the film Ghostworld - which appears in the film but not the original graphic novel story. Another contender was Tiberius after Captain James T Kirk as DP is a major trekkie.

The inspiration for DS name came from Tea With Mussolini (Luca.... NOT mussolini!) but I didn't exactly name him after it, I just liked the name.

Ooh, frazzledmama, Arielle is what I want to call my DD (if I have one!)

No but if i ever have another DD she WILL be named Aeris after the heroine in Final Fantasy VII.

Ok so she dies but there is a cheat where you can get her back...

Whoops

But seriously Aeris is a nice name.

my lil girl was named after a character in rugrats, after chuckie's stepsister actually... she looks remarkably like the character too! i think it is the perfect name for her... if i have another i like the name yuna for a girl or shuyin for a boy. both final fantasy names!

Called our DD Kitty after character in P & P but everyone thinks after Calista Flockhart's character in Brothers and Sisters

if we had had a boy i would have called him Frederick. After the Patti Smith song, but conveniently also DH's deceased dad's name.

as for a girl, DH vetoed the names of all the Sex and the City characters otherwise we'd already have Carrie and Miranda

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis named their daughter Scout after his movie The Last Boy Scout - nothing so cultured as To Kill a Mockingbird.

If DP had had his way the dds would have been Xenia, Gabrielle and Callisto

As it is, their names are minor characters in a variety of books I like.

dd1 appears in Barbara Trapido and Margaret Drabble.
dd2 in Saki and J.D. Salinger.
dd3 in Margaret Atwood.

I quite like the cape thing. I'm possibly not a great judge though.

The tradgedy is that I never buy myself new clothes, and NEVER never in Monsoon price-range. Buying a new item of clothing for me is a massive treat. I bought that, and a beautiful blue patterned top with a tie under the bust... that I've since realised is a maternity top .