Celebrity Baby Names

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

Well since I just joined this community, I'm not sure how recent one of you guys may have done this already, but here is an article I found on a list of Celebrity baby names.

The comments below the names are not mine, just so you know.


Alaia -Stephen Baldwin
Unusual, haunting and lyrical.

Amandine -John Malkovich
A distinctive Gallic name with a French sense of style. Plus, it has an appealing nutty flavour.

Apple -Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
The coolest parents around come up with a suitably hip name.

Assisi -Jade Jagger
Sir Mick's granddaughter was given this unique name, evocative of the lovely Umbrian hill town.

Atticus -Isabella Hoffman and Daniel Baldwin
Associated by most people with the noble lawyer played by Gregory Peck in the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Ava -Aidan Quinn/Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe/John McEnroe
One of the hottest celebrity favourites.

Banjo -Patrick and Rachel Griffiths
The name of one of the main characters in the classic comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner. For more conservative occasions, he can always be called Jo.

Betty Kitten -Jane Goldman and Jonathan Ross
Could any pair of names give off a more retro-camp vibe than this? Siblings are Honey Kinney and Harvey Kirby.

Blue Angel -Dave Evans
U2's 'The Edge' earns his own epithet in making this fringe choice for his daughter.

Chester -Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks
It's fashionable partly because this megawatt Hollywood couple chose it.

Cosima -Nigella Lawson
Elegant and exotic.

Daisy Boo -Jamie Oliver
The playful middle name makes it stand out.

Dexter -Diane Keaton
A nerdy boy's name comes alive when given to a girl.

Dixie Dot and Bibi Belle -Anna Ryder Richardson
Tons of alliterative pizzazz!

Elijah Bob Patricus Guggi Q -Bono
Don't try this at home.

Gulliver -Gary Oldman
Has an engaging energy.

Iris -Sadie Frost and Jude Law
These cool baby namers picked a bloom that has long been out of fashion and made it cool again.

Levi Roan Green -Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke
Levi is one of the few biblical boys' names to escape overuse and remain cool.

Mabel -Tracey Ullman
Straddles the line between camp and cool.

Maddox -Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton
A surname-name with a twist thanks to the final 'x'.

Milo -Ricky Lake
Jaunty.

Ocean, True and Sonnet -Forest Whitaker
Retro charm - hippie days are here again.

Pilot Inspektor -Jason Lee
This film star took the impending trend of word/profession names and doubled it, adding a spelling variant for good measure.

Racer, Rebel, Rocket -Robert Rodriguez
This American film director is definitely of the school that believes in giving kids names they have to live up to - or live down.

Ripley -Thandie Newton
A powerful, androgynous name.

Rocco -Madonna
The power of Madonna: making this muscle-bound he-man name cool outside Sicily.

Satchel -Spike Lee/Woody Allen
Revived from baseball history.

Seven -Erykah Badu
On Seinfeld, George once decided that the ultimate cool baby name was a number, Seven. Singer and actress Badu apparently agreed.

Taj -Steven Tyler
Short, catchy and exotically imaginative.

Tallulah -Demi Moore and Bruce Willis
This pair launched the cool star baby name concept when they chose Scout and Rumer as well as the more user-friendly Tallulah.

Truman -Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks
Seriously, almost presidentially, cool.

Willow -Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
A graceful nature name that also relates to Dad's name (as son Jaden's does to Mum's).

Zola -Eddie Murphy
Seductive with a twist


I think the only one I like is Willow and Mabel...at least enough to name a kid that.

Comments

[straight-outta.livejournal.com]

i like amandine, atticus, iris, milo, tallulah, and truman.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Those are three separate kids names

[aymen.livejournal.com]

I think he has two more... Rogue and Rhiannon

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

i actually think that was 3 different kids they had

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I am irrationaly annoyed when people associate names with movies instead of the books they were actually created in.

Frank Zappa's kids names should be on this list, too. I always get a huge laugh out of them.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

Which names were created in books and not movies? I didn't catch it.


Oh yeah, i read that on another site "Moon Unit"

....poor kids

[bugamok.livejournal.com]

The other two are Dweezil and Diva Muffin. I keep threatening my man that I'll name any daughter we have Diva Muffin. :)

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Atticus! Honestly, WHO thinks of the movie To Kill a Mockingbird before the book?

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen or read either, so not me!

>_

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean, and agree in most cases, but I thought that in this instance, she was referring more to the mental image conjured by the name. I think of the book first, but at the same time, I picture Gregory Peck holding the gun trained on the dog.

[xanya.livejournal.com]

That made me grit my teeth too. The classic "FILM" To Kill A Mockingbird? Yeah, I don't think so.

Also, I'm 99% sure Rachel Griffiths named her son Banjo after the Australian poet Banjo Patterson, and not that movie. So they could actually get their facts straight, maybe. It makes more sense and is, you know, TRUE.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

Yeah...after I had made this post I found a load of other crazy names on other sites. I figure that can be for another time, ha

[bugamok.livejournal.com]

Why, Robert Rodriguez, why?! Racer, Rebel, and Rocket are each bad enough on their own but as a set? That's practically child cruelty.

Dexter as a girl's name is kind of awful, too.

Betty Kitten, I feel very sorry for her. Her sister Honey Kinney didn't make out well, either.

I do like Iris and Zola. Levi Roan Green has a nice sound to it, too.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

Most of the names are a sad attempt at being ~*spechul*~ and unique.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

i agree

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Pilot Inspektor is just horrible. I actually like Alaia very much.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

I know..i can't get over the Pilot one. It's hard to believe people will do that just because they're famous.

How do you pronounce Alaia

Uh-LIE-Uh?

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Something like that, I guess. It's the first time I see it.

[stummyflies.livejournal.com]

i like apple, ocean, and willow.

not too bad

[spikes-sexkitty.livejournal.com]

Alaia, Ava, Maddox, Ripley, Taj & Willow.

ok, my best friend is naming one of her son's *first or middle* Atticus; i may as well.
story behind:

her best guy friend in High School was a huge skater and always sported at least one item on him that was of the Atticus line. So she dubbed him, and his nickname became Atticus, and after a year or so no one remembered to call him by his real name - he just BECAME 'Atticus'; even to his family. lol.

He joined the Army after high school, was shipped to Iraq, made it home after infantry touring, sadly died in an accident while stationed in KY.
So i think we're going to bring that name into more common-place use in his memory. :) i think it's a lovely name. :D

Re: not too bad

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

very interesting. i actually have never heard it used as a name before...or rather, as anything else for that matter. I suppose it works. I think its nice when a name has a meaning or a story behind it. Makes for good conversation :)

[ex-ollivande895.livejournal.com]

I actually like Pilot Inspektor. Don't ask me why... :P

[mandy-23.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that George Foreman named all 5 of his sons George. He then had two girls, Georgetta and Freeda George.

Paula Yates named her children fifi trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, Little Pixie and Tiger Lily Heavenly Hirani...

The Zappa's children are still the craziest in my opinion. Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Muffin...wtf?

Seriously, what are they thinking?

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

they aren't...

[mandy-23.livejournal.com]

What arent? Every website that I've checked confirms that all those names are the correct names given to them by the people mentioned.

[pippythamonkey1.livejournal.com]

oh no, i meant, "they aren't thinking"

[mandy-23.livejournal.com]

Ohhh...Well, for a minute I thought maybe that it wasn't true and there weren't kids with those names...darn. :)