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I do think that most of the names on those lists have been given to real people, though. Certainly I have seen examples of real human babies named Aladdin, Anakin, Arwen, Atticus, Ayla, Bayard, Caspian, Cinderella, D'Artagnan, Draven, Elanor, Eowyn, Galadriel, Hamlet, Lestat, Merry, Mignon, Othello, Pippin, Rohan, Scheherazade, Undine, and Zuleika from the Literature Names; and Altair, Arista, Lyra, Rigel, and Vega from the astronomy list. I don't have time to go through the whole mythology list right now but many of them have certainly also been bestowed on real infants.