https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:11:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310953 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:36:57 +0000 lemondrop 1310953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Remember that if they are only casting now, the movie is still a couple of years out and your boys will already be older than the movie. (now I'm interested in seeing the movie ;) )</p> <p>I really liked the podcast link posted in this fairly recent thread: <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-trends" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naming-trends</a><br /> After the 2:40 mark will be more significant to you with names in movies and media :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310739 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:42:40 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 1310739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh Ive seen those books before but never read them, maybe now I will ;) I dont think its a big deal if they are named well after the fact and they might think its cool when they are older. I share a name with a famous Disney character which came out after I was already a child so I was always asked if I was named for that character when clearly I was born first. It was annoying but it only last a short amount of time before people move on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310710 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:15:28 +0000 Mrs. Pink 1310710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yeah, I'd never really thought to name my baby girl Caroline-- but I named her that after watching Vampire Diaries for a few years... I didn't necessarily name her "after" the character but it's when I really heard the name enough to like it-- never mind that Caroline happens to be my favorite... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310547 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:22:20 +0000 jedeve 1310547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son shares his name (minus a slightly different spelling of the last name) with a member of the band KISS. Which we knew, we just figured we got to be the ones to name our child, not society!. It'll be okay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310470 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:55:27 +0000 Grace 1310470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love it! Besides, it's only goofy if you do it after the movie is out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310095 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:43:29 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1310095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: ha, that's a good point.. better than one being the hero and one the villain I guess! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1310002 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:05:37 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1310002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: nice names, at least both brothers are cursed- no favoritism :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309988 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:59:48 +0000 HolisticMama 1309988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You're going to be a trend setter! Cool before it was ever cool. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309926 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:32:00 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1309926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlecasita1122: Thats kinda cool! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309900 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:25:07 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1309900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlecasita1122: that totally makes me feel better, haha. If you have another LO you should pick another train name!</p> <p>@cmomma17: haha yikes! Actually the top Google result for Dhiren (by itself) is this British terrorist, but he was only convicted for plotting, not killing, so I figured eh whatever? DH always just said our Dhiren will be awesome and get to the top instead :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309153 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:49:34 +0000 deactivated_account 1309153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cmomma17: oh my gosh. You win! Puke on stage... Gees. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309152 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:49:10 +0000 littlecasita1122 1309152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol, we are known as the "train family" because all three of our names are Thomas the Train characters. My husband and I had no idea that our LO's name was also a train until after he was born and our five year old neighbor thought it was SO cool we were all trains! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309138 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:38:00 +0000 swedishfish 1309138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: aw, that just means you chose awesome names! By the way, one of my students has the same name as one of your sons. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309131 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:34:58 +0000 Mrs. J 1309131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha everyone assumes DS is named after a Tom Clancy character but I have never read him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309130 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:34:23 +0000 cmomma17 1309130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: a google search for my LO's first and middle name bring up a weird rockstar guy who is basically a punk who likes to drop f bombs and puke on stage .... So there's that :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309077 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:10:33 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1309077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Danizaur: @cmomma17: not cool! Dhiren is the older brother in the book though. This is freaking me out way more than it should. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309071 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:01:49 +0000 cmomma17 1309071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cool names and maybe a cool movie?? :)</p> <p>I used to dream about having a Henry and a Claire. Aka the lovers in Time Travelers Wife. Whoops. Luckily DH didn't like Henry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309063 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:56:29 +0000 artsyfartsy 1309063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think those are neat names!! Yeah after a while people are gonna assume but it'll be a neat story to tell them you did that by accident! Tiger brothers is kinda cool. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/omg-accidentally-naming-after-book-characters#post-1309033 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:41:26 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1309033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So DS1's name is Kishan and DS2's name is Dhiren. Both are Indian names, not super popular, and were found using Indian baby name websites in 2011 and earlier this year. Today I created a blog for them but couldn't remember the address name, but I wanted to show DH so he googled "dhiren Kishan blog" which sent us on a google rabbit hole where we discovered that we accidentally named them after characters in these books who are freaking "300 year old princes who were cursed to become tigers"</p> <p><a href="http://www.tigerscurse.wikia.com/wiki/Alagan_Dhiren_Rajaram" rel="nofollow">http://www.tigerscurse.wikia.com/wiki/Alagan_Dhiren_Rajaram</a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tigers-Curse-Book-Series/dp/1402784031" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Tigers-Curse-Book-Series/dp/1402784031</a></p> <p>And they're casting for the movie. Aaaaaaaaaaaack!!! I feel like I just named my kids Jacob and Edward or Peeta and Katnis. And there's nothing I can do. Googling their names separately when we were considering them didn't bring this up at all... It only comes up to the front when they're together. Sigh. </p>