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I'm not copying the School House Rock post, just coincidence. I've been a huge Beatles fan since I was little and a friend of mine is fostering puppies and named them all after Beatles names-in-songs (Eleanor, Penny, Lucy, Sadie, Desmond, Jude, Maxwell, JoJo).

Here is a list of names appearing in Beatles songs: (XXXX= ones I like)

Girls:
Anna
Bonnie
Carol
Eleanor
Georgia
Julia
Lizzie
Lucille
Lucy
Madonna
Maggie Mae
Martha
Mary Jane
Michelle
Pam
Penny
Prudence
Rita
Sadie
Sally

Boys:
Bill
Desmond
Jo Jo
Johnny
Jude*
Maxwell
Robert
Rocky
Teddy

Other names from songs I like are:

Annie (Our Lady Peace)
Janie's Got A Gun (Aerosmith)
Jane and Enid (Barenaked Ladies)
Like Dylan In The Movies (Belle and Sebastian)
Phaedra's Meadow (Blue Rodeo)
Laura Laurent (Bright Eyes)
Sister Kate (Ditty Bops)
Sweet Adeline and Clementine (Elliot Smith)
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers...)
Under Zenith (Guilty Pleasure... Our Lady Peace again)
Jeremy(Pearl Jam)
Adia (Sarah McLachlan)

Anyone else inspired by artists/songs in their name choices?

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You forgot Vera, Chuck, and Dave!

I made a similar list several months ago - here it is:

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 ben played into the ground
Galileo : the Indigo Girls
Georgia : Ray Charles
Joey : Concrete Blonde
Johnny : Poe
Jude : the Beetles
Layla : Derek and the Dominoes
Lola : the Kinks

I don't like Adia because it makes me think it sounds like labia when SM sings it.

lots of grateful dead/jerry garcia songs have good names! like reuben, jack, august, pearlie, cherise, stella (blue), ruby claire, althea, casey, cassidy, franklin, jimmy, stephen, and loads more that i can't think of right now. plus there are a lot of things that could be names, like scarlet, magnolia, sunflower, etc that aren't really used at names in the songs. i'd like to name one of my children after a grateful dead song.

and i loove jude and prudence from the beatles' songs.

Ruby Clare is my top girl name. It has to be spelled Clare though.

ruby claire is in my top five as well! :) does your choice have any connection with the song reuben and cerise/rubin and cherise (and whatever other various spellings there are)? i worried that it'd be kind of bad to name a kid after ruby claire because she was sort of the "other woman" in the song, but at least she doesn't die of heartbreak like cerise. :)

No it doesn't. Almost all my top names come from books I loved at some point. Ruby was the main character in a book I loved when I was little called Ruby The Copycat. Clare is from Time Traveler's Wife/Six Feet Under.

i'll prolly be naming a girl Prue, but not Prudence. Nice to see someone else liking it. I have also thought of "Amber" from the 311 song, but the name has slutty dumb girl connotations for me :( :(

Among my favorite names are Layla and Jude, as well as Lily (Smashing Pumpkins- "Lily (my one and only)".

I'm also a Michelle, like the song.

I like Ruby Tuesday, from the Rolling Stones song, although unlike a woman I know I wouldn't actually use that combo. I might well use Ruby with a different middle name.

I love the name Phaedra! And that's a great song!

Some other "song names" I like (either because I like the song, or just because I like the name):

Danny - from Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Josephine - from the song "Devil In Jersey City" by Coheed and Cambria
Goodbye Earl - The Dixie Chicks
Golly Sandra - Eisley
Annie's Song - John Denver
Whispering Jesse - John Denver
Simon - Lifehouse
Down By The Salle Gardens (Irish folk song)
Sarah Jane - Out Of Eden
Sarabeth (Skin) - Rascal Flatts
Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sadie Hawkins Dance - Relient K
Mary - Saving Jane
Autumn & Me - Saving Jane
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Caroline - Seventh Day Slumber
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Roxanne - The Police
If You C Jordan - Something Corporate
Konstantine - Something Corporate
Meet Virginia - Train
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Sweet Lady Genevieve - The Kinks
Lady Jane - The Rolling Stones
Sylvia - Stevie Wonder
Layla - Eric Clapton
Sweet Leilani - Bing Crosby
Proud Mary - Credence Clearwater Revival
Waltzing Matilda (no idea who wrote it)
Ramona - Louis Armstrong

I'm a Melissa, so people always sing the Allman Brothers song around me. I definitely wasn't named for it though.

I love Matilda and Ramona as well, but from books, not songs.

I just find Phaedra so pretty.

Yeah, I like Matilda and Ramona more for the literary connotations, too. :o)

I've never been a Beatles fan, but I did go to see Across the Universe last week. I didn't like the movie, but I've been playing the soundtrack relentlessly. :)

Anyway, of those names, I like:

Anna
Georgia
Julia
Lucy
Madonna
Sadie

Jude
Maxwell
Robert
Teddy

i like:
Anna
Eleanor - though i prefer "elinor"
Georgia
Lucille
Lucy
Penny
Sadie
Jude
Maxwell

Gabriel, thanks to that Lamb song.

I was named after the Allman Brothers Band's song "Melissa," which you only know if you're from/have lived in the South.

My roommate's name is Roxanne.

Beatles song names I like are:
Eleanor
Georgia
Michelle
Penny
Sadie

Johnny
Jude
Teddy

I was watching something last night that involved a man named Desmond and my first response was, "Desmond says to Molly, 'Girl, I like your face,' and Molly says this as she takes him by the hand..." Which made me think: Desmond is such a Beatlesy name to me, and Molly really isn't. Hmm.

I had a weimaraner named Rigby! Well, her license said Eleanor Rigby but we called her Rigby.