Rock Star Baby Names: From Ace to Zuma

Rock Star Baby Names: From Ace to Zuma

Rock musicians have gotten the rap of being the most extreme baby namers, which certainly is true for some but by no means all.  This led me to wonder if their choices bore any relationship to the kind of music they played: would the Dixie Chicks, for example, pick names with a countryish flavor, Atomic Kitten more edgy?

And how about within the groups– were their choices in sync?  Since they functioned basically  as families on the road, how did their kids’ names work as sibsets?  In the examples listed below, you can see certain similarities—such as a Beatles theme running through the  Oasis offspring, and several other musical references, including Jagger, Les Paul, Elvis, Madonna, Bebop and even Rock .

ATOMIC KITTEN

ALFIE RIAD

CASPAR

HEIDI ELIZABETH

HARRY

JOSH

LILLYSUE

MAXWELL MARK

MOLLY MARIE

BARENAKED LADIES

ARDEN

BENJAMIN

FINNIAN DAVIES

HAZEL

ISAAC

JONAH

LEO

LYLE

MILI

OSCAR

BLINK-182

ALABAMA LUELLA

AVA ELIZABETH

JACK

JONAS ROCKET

LANDON ASHER

COLDPLAY

APPLE BLYTHE ALISON

AVA

JUNO

MOSES BRUCE ANTHONY

NICO (GIRL)

REX

VIOLET

DIXIE CHICKS

BECKETT FINN

CHARLES AUGUSTUS

EVA RUTH

HARPER ROSIE

HENRY BENJAMIN

JACKSON SLADE

JULIANNA TEX

KATHLEEN EMILIE

GOOD CHARLOTTE

DREAVYN KINGSLEY

HARLOW WINTER KATE

SPARROW JAMES MIDNIGHT

HANSON

CLARKE EVERETT

JAMES MONROE

JOHN IRA SHEPHERD

JORDAN EZRA

PENELOPE ANNE

RIVER SAMUEL

VIGGO MORIAH

MOTLEY CRUE

BRANDON THOMAS

DECKER

DYLAN JAGGER

FRANKIEJEAN

GUNNER NICHOLAS

LES PAUL

NILSSON

STORM BRIEANN

STORMY

NO DOUBT

ACE JOSEPH

KINGSTON JAMES MCGREGOR

MASON JAMES

RIO ATTICUS

ZUMA NESTA ROCK

OASIS

ANAIS

DONOVAN

JUDE

LENNON FRANCES

LUCY

MOLLY

RORY MACDONALD

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

BECKETT CASH

CLARA

COLE

EVERLY BEAR

JUSTIN

AVA

MANON

SUNNY BEBOP

SPICE GIRLS

ANGEL IRIS

BEAU LEE

BLUEBELL MADONNA

BROOKLYN JOSEPH

CRUZ DAVID

PHOENIX CHI

ROMEO JAMES

SCARLETT STARR

U2

AARON ELVIS

ARRAN

AVA

BLUE ANGEL

ELIJAH BOB PATRICUS GUGGI Q

HOLLY

JOHN ABRAHAM

JORDAN (girl)

LEVI

MEMPHIS EVE

SIAN

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About the Author

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.