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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
  • 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)