TV Baby Names: Names from The Simpsons — Doh!

TV Baby Names: Names from The Simpsons — Doh!

The Simpsons has been running for twenty-five years now (an all-time record for a TV show), with hundreds of episodes under its belt, episodes crammed with weird and wacky characters, often with names to match, making both regular and one-shot appearances.  But it’s the show’s more normal names that make a rich source of TV baby names.

When it came to the lead characters, creator Matt Groening did what many of us do, which was to name them after family members: Homer and Marge Groening are his parents’ names and Lisa and Maggie his younger sisters’.  As for Bart (full name Bartholomew Jojo Simpson), that was derived as an anagram of the word ‘brat.’ (Trivia note: Many of the last names were inspired by street names of Portland.)

Here are some of the most usable  _Simpsons-_inspired names— (no Boobarellas here):

GIRLS

Adriatica

Agnes

Alaska (last name Nebraska)

Amber

Anastasia

Astrid

Audrey

Beatrice

Belle

Brunella

Cassandra

Chloe

Clarice

Clarissa

Collette

Dorit

Edwina

Eliza

Ginger

Greta

Jenda

Julia

Mabel

Manjula

Maude

Maya

Penelope

Renee

Sophie

Tabitha

Titania

Verity

Zelda

BOYS

Abraham

Akira

Anton

Aristotle

Arthur

Barney

Birch (born Birchibald)

Caleb

Cecil

Chase

Chester

Cletus

Colby

Declan

Devon

Dewey

Dexter

Grady

Gulliver

Gunter

Hiram

Horatio

Hugo

Jasper

Jebediah

Leopold

Lionel

Llewellyn

Lucius

Lyle

Mason

Milo

Moe

Ned

Nelson

Nigel

Otto

Race

Rainier

Rex

Seth

Thelonius

Trent

Wendell

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.