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?

Spencer/ Troian Bellisario

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)

Olivia Pope Kerry Washington

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)

The magnificent Emma Thompson

Is your name on my list? Do any famous people share your name? Who did I forget?

Meri