Reading through my (free- yay!) Entertainment Weekly yesterday (a cover story on Pretty Little Liars which I thoroughly enjoyed), I started to think about names. And since I was reading a celebrity rag, I was thinking about celebrity names, specifically. Since musicians tend to come up with stagey names more often than the thespians, I thought I’d focus on actors and actresses only, and I’m sticking mainly with fairly famous ones. So here we go: some LISTMANIA to get through the March doldrums…
One of a kind (or pretty close)
- Gwyneth (Paltrow)
- Halle (Berry)… do I even need last names on these? I don’t think so…
- Quvenzhane (too lazy to look up spelling)
- Meryl
- Angelina
- Charlize
- Reese
- Gabourey
- Marilyn
- Whoopi (her real name is Caryn????) I had to google it.
- Minka (Kelly)
- January (Jones)- Mad Men
- Ava (Gardner)- this one is interesting because it is a pretty common name, just not in hollywood?)
- Octavia
- Dakota
- Macauley
- Isla
- Sissy
- Scarlett (Johanssen)
- Farrah (Fawcett)
- Shia (LaBeouf)
- Leonardo
- Tatum (O Neal)
- Ingrid (Bergman)
- Rooney (Mara)
- Myrna (Loy)
- Leighton (Meester)
- Chord (Overstreet), Jayma (Mays), Naya (Rivera)- Glee!
- Troian (Belisario)- Pretty Little Liars
- Viola (Davis)
- Sienna (Miller)- Where has she been?
- Mischa (Barton)- and her? where is she?
- Neve (Campbell) and where has SHE been?
A few good men namesakes
- Audrey (Hepburn, Tautao)
- Zooey/Zoe (Deschanel, Saldana, Kravitz)
- Mila (Kunis, Jovovich)
- Carrie/ Kerry/ Keri (Fisher, Washington, Russel)
- Amber (Heard, Tamblyn, Valetta)
The More (names) the Merrier
- Sarah Michelle (Gellar), Sarah Jessica (Parker)
- Mary Louise (Parker), Mary Kate (Olsen)
- AnnaSophia (Robb)
- Melissa Joan (Hart)
A dime a dozen (I’m not saying they aren’t great names- popular for a reason!)
- Jennifer (Lawrence, Hudson, Connelly, Love Hewitt, Aniston, Garner, Morrison, Lopez, Dewan (Jenna)
- Hugh (Jackman, Grant, Bonneville, Dancy, Laurie)
- Lucy (Hale (pretty little liars), Ball (Lucille), Lawless, Liu, Punch (RIP Ben and Kate)
- Ashley (Greene, Benson, Olsen, Judd, Tisdale)
- Kate (Beckinsale, Winslet, Hudson, Mara, Zeta Jones (Catherine), Blanchett (Cate), Holmes, Cassidy (Katie), Hepburn, McPhee (Katharine)
- Emma (Thompson, Roberts, Stone, Watson, Rossum (Emmy)
Is your name on my list? Do any famous people share your name? Who did I forget?
Meri
You missed me of course and I can’t claim Penelope Cruz since I’m not Penelope. But Penny Marshall? How about Elizabeth (Taylor, Montgomery) Now we’ve covered our whole female family except grandchildren. Oh and that would bring us to Meredith (Baxter-Burney)
Nope, no one has my name in Hollywood! This was such a fun list to look at!
There doesn’t seem to be too many famous people called Jasmine – I Googled, and quite a few of them were nudie rudies which kind of confirms a quote from Magic Mike – “If a girl’s name is a flower or a car brand, don’t ask her what she does for a living.”
x Jasmine
I’ve got Natalie Portman, works for me!
this post is so interesting! and nope, i don’t think any celebrity shares my name… hmmmm… or maybe at least no one famous, haha.
<3, Mimi
Fun to see this big list of names!