Names in songs

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Has a song ever made you like a name more or even less? For me, Rhiannon was killed by the Fleetwood Mac song, but it made me think about other song/name associations that I do like, though not all are names I would use.

Angelina: Bob Dylan
Annabell Lee: folk song
Annabella: John Walker
Arabella : the Kinks
Adia: Sarah Mclachlan
Amadues : Falco (embarrassing, but true)
Eliza : Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Daria : Cake
Delilah : Queen, the Kinks....and the Plain White Ts but they have been played into the ground
Galileo : the Indigo Girls
Georgia : Ray Charles
Joey : Concrete Blonde
Johnny : Poe
Jude : the Beetles
Juliet : Indigo Girls
Layla : Derek and the Dominoes
Lola : the Kinks
Marlena : the Wallflowers
Mary Jane : Tom Petty
Rosalie : Ryan Adams
Ruby : the Rolling Stones
Sophia : Franz Ferdinand

WDYT?

Comments

[roifosch.livejournal.com]

I love the song Lola but hate the name!

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

My name is Kate, and I like the Ben Folds Five song "Kate" except that the girl in the song is NOTHING like me, which makes me a little sad.

I love the song "Alison" by Elvis Costello, but not so much the name. I do like Ameila and the song "Ameila" by Joni Mitchell as well as the name Melissa and "Sweet Melissa" by The Allman Brothers.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I've gotten to love Eliza (Nick Cave ftw :) ), Rhiannon and Ruby even more because of the songs associated with them, but I loved the names to begin with.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I love Eliza, Jude, Juliet, and Sophia, although I only know two of the songs.

[americandiva.livejournal.com]

I still love Delilah

[minimepending.livejournal.com]

Rooooooxanne by the Police. But then again, my EX-friend Roxanne was a bitch and a whore.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I know...I compromised and named one of my cats Lola.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

If I hear a name that I like in a song, or hear a song that I like in the name, I automatically rule the name off my list, because no song has affected me enough that I'd want to tribute it by naming my child after it... I do the same thing with TV characters and actors. If I "discover" a name through one of those mediums, it automatically becomes unusable to me

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I used to hate the name Amanda, but since the Dresden Dolls, I like it more and more =)
I kinda like Joe because there are a lot of cool Joe's out there (Joe Jackson, Country JOE and the Fish etc.)
And I'll sure think of more ;)

[widgetchick.livejournal.com]

someone else today mentioned amadeus and that got that damn song stuck in my head. and now.. thank you.. it's back again.

*sigh*

i love the name jude.

[roifosch.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea!

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

Cordelia- The Tragically Hip

[barelyshocking.livejournal.com]

Sadie - The Beatles
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen

[slicesmissus.livejournal.com]

We're still planning to name a daughter Jean despite the Proclaimers song (Jean, oh Jean, you let me get lucky with you)

awesome list...

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

haha. why didn't i think to look at the ryan adams catalogue for name suggestions? particularly since i'll be seeing him in concert in a couple of weeks.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

BeAtles

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Elvis also did "Veronica"

There's "Diana" by Paul Anka and "Dirty Diana" by MIchael Jackson also... had to mention songs with my name :P

[satunian.livejournal.com]

And by Elvis I meant Costello

[minimepending.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, my older step-brother is named Jeremy. He was GOING to be Jeremiah (bleh) but the song with "Jeremiah waaaas a bullfrog..." came out. Thankfully, lol.

[benjischick1515.livejournal.com]

Michelle, by the Beatles, as well.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

It's becoming less and less popular, but...if there is a song with the name Amanda in it, and it starts moving back up with popularity, I feel bad for all the little Amanda's that will be running around, again. It's annoying as all hell when friends start NUMBERING you because there's too many Amandas.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

One of the choirs at my high school once sang a song called "Jenny Rebecca". I'd never name my daughter that (mainly 'cause I have a cousin Jennifer) but I liked the way it sounded.

Also, a friend of mine has the name Rebekah Lynn, so she thinks it's kind of cool that there's now a song with that name.


Over all, I can't think of any songs that have made me go "OH! I love that name!"