His last name wasn’t Gacy, I hope.
LOL, no. Also, I’m not that old!
My son’s middle name is from a long-ago South Asian king (the one who converted to Buddhism).
My second-choice pick for his first name was partly after Pete Seeger, the folk singer who died about 3 years ago.
I went to school with a boy named John Kennedy. He was born early in 1964.
All the men in my family are given the middle name “Howard.” We’re descended from the same Howard family as all the politicians.
A great niece got pregnant on the night she saw Bring in da Noise, Bring in the Funk. She named her son Savion.
My grandfather and great-grandfather were named James Garfield (surname).
My niece is named for a then-popular soap opera character.
I’m named after a person in the world’s best-selling book of all time!
Noah Webster?
Well, if fictional characters count…
I was working with a client the other day and he had sent in an application listing his name as T. John LastName. I called him to tell him we would note that he went by John but we needed his full legal name for our system.
There’s a pause on his end and then he says “Trapper”.
Me: “Trapper John?”
Him: “Yep. Dad was a big MASH fan.”
Me: “OK then… Have a good day, John.”
My niece is Katharine Spencer after Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Noah Webster was in the Bible?
I knew a U.S. Marine whose name was John Wayne Benefield. I can’t imagine the shit he took in boot camp.
I used to work with a guy named Jeff Davis. I don’t know if his full first name was Jefferson but he seemed like the kind of guy that might have been named after the President of the Confederate States of America.
I had a great-aunt by marriage. Her brother, who had died at the age of sixteen, was named Robert Edward Lee surname. Their father is the only Confederate veteran buried in the cemetery where I will eventually go.
I went to school with a kid named Donovan, after the singer.
My great-grandfather was born during the 1856 presidential campaign and was named James Buchanan Surname, after the eventual winner.
I’ve never known for sure but I suspect my father was named for Warren Harding, who was president when he was born.
I met a man named Audie Murphy. Not this Audie Murphy but named after him.
A patient’s SO gave his first name as Braxton, so I asked “As in, General Braxton Bragg?” Bless his heart, he thanked me for knowing who General Bragg was and said he had indeed been named for General Bragg.
Several Elvises (Elvi?? :D) I named my daughter the name of an actress I saw guest starring on a game show not because I liked the actress in particular but her name just spoke to me.