Rocker and Rapper Kids' Names

If you call yourself Ludacris or Slash or Flea, chances are you're not gonna name your kid Matthew or Martha or Mike. In fact, rock-and-roll and hip-hop musicians are probably the most imaginative—or outrageous, depending on your point of view—category of baby namers there is, honoring their musical heroes (Thelonious, Lennon, Hendrix), using words as names (Million, Dream, Zeppelin), or just letting their fantasies fly. To wit:

Ace - Natalie Appleton/Tom (No Doubt) Dumont
Alabama - Travis (Blink 182) Barker
Alfie - Chris (Muse) Wolstenholme
Alzea - Chingy
Anais - Noel (Oasis) Gallagher
Angel - Melanie (Spice Girls) Brown
Apple - Chris (Coldplay) Martin & Gwyneth Paltrow
Artemis - Alex (Blur) James
Atlanta - John (Duran Duran) Taylor & Amanda de Cadenet
Bamboo - Big Boi (Outkast)
Cash - Saul "Slash" (Guns N' Roses) Hudson
Caspar - James (Metallica) Hatfield
Cassius - Richard (The Verve) Ashcroft
Cosimo - Beck
Cross - Big Boi (Outkast)
Cruz - Victoria Adams (Spice Girls) & David Beckham
Cypress - Sol

Decker - Nikki Sixx
Django - Siobhan (Bananarama) Fahey & Dave Stewart
Draven - Chester (Linkin Park) Bennington
Dream - Sol & Ginuwine
Elmo - Curt (Meat Puppets) Kirkwood
Everly - Anthony (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Kiedis
Fire - Steve Vai
Frankie-jean - Nikki Sixx
Frankito - Tré Cool (Green Day)
Geronimo - Alex (Blur) James
Giacomo - Sting
Happy - Macy Gray
Heaven - Lil' Mo
Hendrix - Zakk (Black Label Society) Wylde
Ickitt - M.I.A.
Indigo - Tom (The Thompson Twins) Bailey
Kama - Sammy Hagar

Karma - Ludacris
King - T.I.
Lennon - Liam (Oasis) Gallagher
Lolita - Kelly (Stereophonics) Jones
Marquise - 50 Cent
Memphis - Bono
Mercy - Master P
Messiah - T.I.
Navy - Nivea & Terius Nash
Nevaeh - Sonny (P.O.D.) Sandoval
Nevis - Nelly Furtado
Percy - Master P
Phoenix - Melanie (Spice Girls) Brown
Phynley - Phil (Newsboys) Joel
Puma - Erykah Badu
Rebop - Todd Rundgren
Rocco - Madonna

Romeo - Victoria Adams (Spice Girls) & David Beckham/Jon Bon Jovi
Saffron - Simon Le Bon
Sage - Lars (Metallica) Ulrich
Salvador - Ed (Radiohead) O'Brien
Samaria - LL Cool J
Seven - Erykah Badu & Andre (Andre 3000) Benjamin
Sindri - Björk
Speck - John Mellencamp
Story - Sol & Ginuwine
Taj - Steven (Aerosmith) Tyler
Tallulah - Simon Le Bon
Tenzin - Adam (Beastie Boys) Yauch
Thelonious - Mitch (Crash Test Dummies) Dorge
Wolfgang - Eddie Van Halen & Valerie Bertinelli
Zeppelin - Jonathan (Korn)