Would you name your child after a famous person/character deliberately?

[Glamourcide]

I definitely would. I'm big into music so looked to my favourite bands/song names for my girls - DD1's name Emily is after the song by From First To Last (check it out, it's a beautiful song - written by the singer for his long-distance girlfriend, but the lyrics worked for my baby girl - 'There's no-one in the world like Emilyyyyy...').
And DD2 very nearly got christened Blair after the character from Gossip Girl, which is one of my favourite shows, but it didn't go with our surname (which starts with R, so it kind if ran together when said out loud, kwim?) so we looked at it for a middle name, but then decided Nicole sounded better (no famous association there, I'm not a Kidman fan at all lol, just liked the name).

I'm also big on Shakespeare, but although Desdemona and Juliet are my favourite characters, I was really taken with the name Ophelia (I fancied shortening it to 'Phil', as people shorten Charlotte to 'Charlie'), but DH told me I was out of my head for even considering such an unusual name

So yes, I definitely would look to my favourite books, movies, music, TV shows etc for inspiration!!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I wouldn't go for Ophelia, despite loving it, because it sounds too much like "I'll feel ya."

I did have Jareth on the name list for DS, after David Bowie's Goblin King in Labyrinth. And I suggested if our fourth child was a boy, we could call him Ivor. But with a Welsh accent (I'd been watching Ivor the Engine) so it would be eye-four, and he'd be the fourth child... but DH had already freaked out about more children, let alone three more by then. And I'd already named a computer i4 before after Ivor the Engine.

Oh yes, with the Dr Who link, I suggested Brigadier for DS too.

[wysiwyg]

My DD is sort of so yes think is fine. While I was pregnant we were watching the West Wing, and both liked the nickname CJ as in CJ Craig in the show who we also thought was quite a cool lady - so we decided that daughters initials would be CJ and then worked backwards to the names. In the show she is Claudia Jean (had to look this up on Wiki as is hardly ever mentioned what the CJ stands for) we weren't so keen on that but we went for Cerys (as my mum is Welsh) and then couldn't think of the J so DH said why not just Jay for J and there is apparently a Simpsons episode where Homer spends ages trying to find out what the J stands for but just stands for Jay. Of course all this is so convoluted that it isn't obvious she is named after anyone. (Found out after had decided on this that Pamela Anderson's character in Baywatch was called CJ, and someone in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin which has made MIL hate the nickname CJ - but nevermind I still really like it)

[NaeNae]

We considered Ella for a little while coz DH is a jazz musician and I was a swing dancer (1940's style) He also likes Nina but I am not so much a fan of Nina.

Unfortunately another band member fell in before us and had a girl and they named her Ella so we have opted for something else.

Nae x

[Snacks]

Probably. I'd have to really like the name though, I wouldn't just use it because I liked the person I was naming my kid for IYKWIM.
IRT whether it's Ianto Jack or Ifan Jack... I think Jack is a derivative of John as well So I don't think it matters: either way it's John John, LOL! But doesn't matter of course. Most of the John derivatives sound nothing like John!

[TeniBear]

There's a comedy skit I remember seeing on TV, the comedian pretty much picked on variations of John that sound absolutely nothing like it - Esecially picked on Giovanni (something along the lines of "John has one syllable, and Giovanni has four!") and Jan ("The J is prononced as a Y and spelt out it looks like a girls' name")... I'll have to try to find it on YouTube

I didn't even think of the John-John thing, I always forget that Jack was originally a nickname

I told DH about Ianto being a dirivitive of Ifan, but he said he likes Ianto better and it flows with our surname a little nicer, so we're sticking with it. Here I was thinking it was just on our list, but no, apparently it's been decided - if we're having a boy it's Ianto Jack [surname]. Now to choose a girl's name What other TV shows do I like? Hmmmm....

[Arimeh]

DS's middle name is Michael - from Michael Jordan - cos DH is a HUGE MJ fan. At least his first name is original.. lol

We got Miss M's name from the guy that played Bubba on Forrest Gump - except he spelt it slightly different - and pronounced it "Michael-T". So we changed the spelling and pronounciation to Mehkelti ("Meh-kel-tee"). One of her middle names is Addisyn though - which we sorta got from Grey's Anatomy though.. hehe...

Um so yes, I would deliberately name my child after someone/some character. I love the name Arwen (lord of the rings) for a girl, but DH isn't so keen on it