Alexa Ray (F)
Christie Brinkley &
Billy Joel middle name after
Ray CharlesAlexandria Zahra Jones
David Bowie &
Iman Jones is Bowie's real last name
Apple
Blythe Alison Martin (f)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Blythe is Paltrow's mother's name,
Alison is
Martin's mom.
Atlanta Noo
John Taylor (Duran Duran) "noo" is supposedly short for "noodlehead"
Auden (f)
Noah Wyle named for poet W.H. Auden
Banjo
Patrick 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.
Cashel
Blake (m)
Daniel Day-Lewis
Blake is one of Day-Lewis' middle names
Cedella
Bob Marley named after her mom
Christopher Sargent Shriver
Arnold Schwarzenegger &
Maria Shriver Sargent is his grandfather's name
Duncan Zowie Heywood Bowie "
Zowie"
David Bowie later changed his name to
Joey.
Frances Bean
Kurt Cobain &
Courtney Love Frances is from either the actress
Frances Farmer, or
Frances McKee of the Vaselines. Bean is supposedly because she looked like a kidney bean in the ultrasound picture.
Harper James Paul Simon Harper was
Simon's wife's maiden name
Indiana August Casey Affleck &
Summer Phoenix conceived in
Indiana in
August.
Jade Mick Jagger
Mick and
Bianca named her
Jade because "she [was] beautiful and very, very perfect."
Jaya Laura Dern &
Ben Harper Hindu, loosely translated as "praise to God"
Johnny Natchez Jones Riddle
Cerys Matthew (Catatonia) named for
Tom Jones
Jordan Ezra (f)
Taylor Hanson
Jordan is his real first name
Kailand
Stevie Wonder
Stevie's real name is Steveland, and his wife is named
Kai.
Kal-El (m)
Nicolas Cage "
Alice and I wanted to have a name that was exotic and American and which stood for something good, because our son is exotic and he's American and we both think he's good. But having said that, I always liked the sound of the name. It has kind of a magical ring to it: Abracadabra Kal-El Shazam!"
Makena'lei
Gordon Carnahan (f)
Helen Hunt &
Matthew Carnahan named for a town in Maui, Hawaii
Moxie CrimeFighter (f) Penn Jillette "We chose her middle name because when she’s pulled over for speeding she can say, "'But officer, we’re on the same side. My middle name is CrimeFighter.'"
My'Chelle Mystikal named for his sister
Michelle, who died.
Natashya Lorien (f)
Tori Amos (musician) middle name from Lord of the Rings
Octavia Flynn Kevin Sorbo grandmother's name is
Octavia Phinnaeus
Walter Julia Roberts walter is
Roberts' dad's name
Prima Sellechia
John Tesh &
Connie Selleca) Selleca's dad was named
Primo, and Sellechia is her real last name.
Sophie Frederica Alohilani
Bette Midler
Fred is her dad's name, Alohilani is Hawaiian (where she's from)
Story Lumpkin (f) Ginuwine & Sole Lumpkin is Sole's last name
Tara Jo Jo Gunne (m)
Keith Richards "
JoJo Gunne" is a
Chuck Berry song.
Taylor Maine
Pearl Garth Brooks middle name after
Minnie Pearl