Names after famous people/singers/musicians?

Hi all

We have had babys name picked since i was about 3 months pg (Jade) but have been undecided on middle names....every name i like DP doesnt like and vice versa.:wall:

We had a name picked out for a boy (which it isnt) which was Noah Davis, we both liked Noah and Davis was after Jonathan Davis from the band Korn...my favourite band and i have 2 large Korn tattoos....anyway....:rolleyes:

DP and i both like Devin Townsend (a singer from band Strapping young lad and other solo projects) and we are now thinking Jade Devin would be nice for our future DD.

What id like to know is if any of you have named your kids after famous singers, actors, etc, or if you were named after someone famous and how its affected them/you....and also what you think of the name weve picked (she will be taking DPs surname, Arbon)

thanks :)

oh and BTW the singer Devin is a guy but we thought Jade Devin sounds nice and balanced, not too girly or too tomboy ish??

Yep...

*sighs* lol

We named our son after a very well known V8 Super car driver ....

Now, it suits him to a T, everywhere we go we get such good response and people love it. But 80% of the time, people know where it has come from, which frustrates me BUT my Mr loves....

It was my own fault as to how it happened... lol

But honestly, i do love it and we havent had anything bad of it yet. It is different, strong and suits him! :D

I have already decided if our next is a girl one of her middle names will be 'Dixie' after the Dixie Chicks as i just LOVE them! lol

As for your names... i love them all... and they have meaning for you guys and thats all that matters! Jade Devin is gorgeous AND, (i am obsessed with this) you can call her J.D for shirt :p

Yep... my eldest DS was named after Jimi Hendrix & Eddie Vedder :)

I know someone whom named her twin girl's Ava & Sofia ... after actress Ava Gardner & Sofia Loren :D

My DD has a friend who is named Ned after Ned Kelly !!

I wanted to name my DD's middle name Desire after the U2 song Desire but she already had two middle names ;)

(Not the same topic ... but i met someone many years ago who had named his 7th child Sara Lee after the frozen desserts ... no kidding :rolleyes:)

We were going to call DS "Reznor" after Trent Reznor cos both me and DH are HUGE Niners fans.

However my kiwi friend at work pronounced it Riznah - and yup - turned me off.

Not exactly the same - but our dogs name is keenan - after the most gorgeous vocalist of Tool ;)

OMG Mel ... Keenan ... you are the 1st i have ever heard to mention that name ... Way back in 1986 (me thinks) was watching MTV as we all did back then ,,, and one night there on the TV screen was the most gorgeous looking African-American ... needless to say his name was Keenan ... and yeh, it was on my boy's list when pregnant (along with every other boy's name starting with a "K", LOL) :dance:

... Might have to name a pet it too ;)

Arimeh thats cool as!!
i was a bit annoyed when i first found out we were having a girl cause i was so dead set on Davis lol, jonathan davis just makes me melt

I love Jade Devin. Its pretty and mysterious at the same time. My ds name is Jack Daniel so make what you will of that.....

LOL Devin Townsend, finally someone else who knows who he is hahah :D my ex was all into SYL and the rest of that kind of music, nobody else I know has ever heard of them :D

We didn't name DD after a singer/musician as such, but I picked 'Emily' because of the song by From First To Last... when I was 16, my daughter was going to be Cailin after the song by Unwritten Law, and I still have a bit of a fancy for Magdalena after the A Perfect Circle song (albeit, 'Judith' is a wicked song but I just don't like the name Judith lol), etc :D
And I'm still set on naming any future son I have Drazic after the character from Heartbreak High lol, the name is totally rad as well so I refuse to consider anything else :D DH doesn't like it though, so good thing we're not having any more :D

ftr I think Jade Devin is mad pants, especially as it's after Devin Townsend lol :D I think growing up with parents like you guys she will appreciate it no end, you guys have good taste in music!!

just wanted to say i love the name Jade Devin and was wondering how things are going as you still baking her? hope she comes out very soon!

Love the name ;)

I always wanted to use Bon for a boy. After the obvious, Bon Scott (huge ACDC fan here :rolleyes:), but one of my dad's friends got in first with Jack Bon.
Then Axel. After Axel Rose, but DH was never sure about it. After DS was born he decides to suggest Axel! But DS was 2 months old by then! I was so devistated! Lol! (I guess I could say thats where DD2's middle name came from ;)) They are the only ones I like. Because they are different, & just coz I really like them.

A friend was gonna call her DD Seth Deagan if she was a boy. After 2 skate boarders.

Love Jade Devin too!!!

And on the topic we were considering a Jacob Damien Danger ..(surname)...

We liked the names for one, but then came JD from that. Love scrubs, and Danger...
Well that was a contribtuion from a friend and I hate to say it but I absolutely LOVE it. I think it's cruel for a child (I think I would be too ashamed to put it on school enrolment etc) but for an adult, whoa what a pick up line :rofl:

Cookie lol at danger except id be worried ppl would not think of the word danger and pronounce it Dang-er (as in dang ending like gang).

After all of that were not too sure about Devin! Lol ....we are quite keen on another name but all will be revealed in my BA (4 days overdue so hopefully this week sometime!)

Didn't some Foxtel guy give his son Danger as a middle name? I love it - so cute!

Off topic - but my girlfriend got a new dog and has named it Cuba - which is our boy name! I was devastated because it is so unique, everyone will thing I named him after her dog!

One of my best friends is currently pregnant with a boy and her and her DH are seriously considering the name Cash after Johnny Cash (the country and western singer) who her DH just loves. I dont personally love it but it really suits them as a family.

My BIL and SIL were going to call their child Vadar/Veda after Darth Vadar if it was a girl. Thank goodness it was a boy is all I will say!

As for us, for a while the middle name of Richie has been considered both last pregancy and this one after DH;s fave guitartist Richie Sambora. It hasnt been ruled out of contention cause I think it is quite a cute name.:)

Oh and BTW I think Jade Devin sounds really nice.

i lurve jade devin! it sounds so powerful and devine all at once. especially with your DPs last name.

i remember a few years ago JJJ was doing a name thing and they went through the strange but true names around the world. one boy was called 'rogan josh' after his mums fav curry; a girl was named 'Australia' as she was born on australia day; and the best was a kid named "anon" after the 'famous' poet LOL!!!!!!!!! what a scream!

when we named our DD Leila we loads of eric clapton comments :rolleyes:. so didnt think of that!

If our DD was a boy she was going to be named Ayrton (after the late F1 driver Ayrton Senna)

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the best was a kid named "anon" after the 'famous' poet LOL!!!!!!!!! what a scream!

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i lurve jade devin! it sounds so powerful and devine all at once. especially with your DPs last name.

i remember a few years ago JJJ was doing a name thing and they went through the strange but true names around the world. one boy was called 'rogan josh' after his mums fav curry; a girl was named 'Australia' as she was born on australia day; and the best was a kid named "anon" after the 'famous' poet LOL!!!!!!!!! what a scream!

when we named our DD Leila we loads of eric clapton comments :rolleyes:. so didnt think of that!

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:rofl: Anon that is bloody hilarious!!!

I know a little dude called Neo, like the Matrix character.
I named my bike Layla after the Eric Clapton song (we have 9 bikes inthis house, and it's easier to keep track if they all have names)
Since we are not Brisbane long-termers we have thought about using a middle name that reflects this wacky town - not sure what yet though.
And who is it -some Aussie C-grade celeb- that has a kid called Jagger?
My dad wanted to name me Kelly after one of the Charlie's Angels at the time. My surname was even the same. I would have been OK with that.
Plenty of people were named Shirley after Shirley Temple, back in the day....

Go For It!

Love the name Jade Devin :)

When I was working, I knew a stack of girls named Shania after Shania Twain. Hmmm....

I had always wanted to use a name from U2 so thought Clayton would be good (after Adam Clayton the base guitarist) but DH wouldn't have a bar of it. We had a girl anyway!

Friends who are about to have a baby wanted to call it Vincent if it was a boy after Vin Diesel!!!! (Its a girl- their 5th and they all have B names!)

I've already got my names picked out for my first two boys and first two girls... 90% of the names are favourite book characters and one is a character in a moive.
For me the meaning of the name is more important that the actual name.
When it comes to my name i find it so boring that my parents just thought of it and went why not...so i make up stories that i'm named after a brand of cigars, or even better, I'm named after Spocks mum in startrek....but also not the case.
I really want my kids though to be able to say 'i'm named after such and such' is it just me or do people think the same?

DH suggested DS's name "Jesse" and i loved it as its one of Jon Bon Jovi's son's name. His middle name "Tyler" i wanted after Steve Tyler from Aerosmith. Then when we had "Keira" who was named after Olivia Newton John's character in Xanadu and i wanted her middle name to be "Ava" as its my favourite guitarist Richie Sambora's daughters name.

Manda: same here my names Emma can u get much more boring? My sister was named Verity cause my dad had the hots for Verity James off the ABC and our dog got named Xena cause dad had the hots for Xena warrior princess... but we have a uncommon surname (no others in Australia, and from what my cousin tells me, its only our family in england too) which has caused a lot of grief trying to spell it to people over the years, so I guess a boring first name was easier for me lol.

My mum doesn't like Devin cause it reminds her of devon ham..

My son was named after Peter Brock. My ex always admired him & I used to think he was the most handsome racing car driver when I was a kid so when my ex suggested it I was happy to go with it. I'm glad we chose it as it really suits him.

I was named after one of my parents favourite artists in the 70's - Renee Gayer. They just decided to remove the 'r' from my middle name which I hated as a teenager - for obvious reasons!! In saying that, Gaye didn't have the meaning it has now back in the 70's, it meant happy and I am a very happy person so it really does suit.

Makes me laugh thinking about my parents choosing my name though...they weren't full on hippies but I do have images of them in my head sitting around the record player (remeber those things?!), sharing a joint thinking in a spaced out way 'wow, that's a beautiful name'. LOL!

PS: I should point out, they weren't smokers - well not that I'm aware of anyway!

taurean -thats what they tell you! :lol:
my brothers name is tom after david bowies major tom....major stoners more like it haha

DH is Daniel afetr the Elton John song!

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I really want my kids though to be able to say 'i'm named after such and such' is it just me or do people think the same?

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Depends on who your kids are named after lol, I'm named after my mum's best friend since her high school days and personally, I don't really like it... I mean, I don't have a problem with the chick I'm named after, she's an awesome 'auntie', but the name itself I *do* have a problem with lol (but that's just me, I'm sure we have all hated our names at some stage and cursed mum and dad for thinking it was a good idea hahaha)... the story behind it is pretty boring though, I'd much rather be able to say, 'I'm named after ___ (musician/actress/character in a book or movie/other famous personality)' rather than, 'Oh yeah, my mum's best mate' lol, kwim?

My daughter I named Emily after the song by FFTL, I think it's a cool song and hopefully when she gets older she'll appreciate it as well and be proud to say, 'I'm named after this song', the name we have picked for #2 was just because we both agreed on it hahaha, no other reason, so it's a shame she won't be able to say the same as her sister but meh.

Im named after Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' :(