Funny thing that sheriff’s officer who quit in Parkland,Florida’s name was Scott Peterson.
Cowinkydink?
Wait, porn stars have names?
As an aside, my brother used to date a girl called Theresa Green and One of previous bosses was called Glenn Miller.
Lots of people neither watch porn nor keep up with porn stars, and of those, a large subset likely only hang out with other like-minded non-porn-watchers. Finding someone with a porn dupliname formed out of perfectly normal name parts should not be surprising at all.
And how many muggles was googling potential baby names* in 1999*? Not to find names, I mean, but for porn star conflicts.
You know this reminds me of a contest that a dj in la used to do … it was called "pony or porn star "
What he did was get a list of all the my little pony character names and a list of porn star stage names and when you called in and hed pick one and youd have to guess which one it was
At one time they went 3 weeks with out a winner …
Completely agree.
In the '90s Jenna was the 76th most popular girl’s name in America. A flash in the pan popularity for maybe 20 years. If you know a Debbie you can bet she was born in the '50s and have very good odds of being right; Jenna is the Debbie of the '90s.
I am not prudish and have heard of a few porn stars’ names but would not have been able to immediately identify that name as having been a porn star. I’d know I heard it before but not sure where. I think few of my peer group would be able to. Linda Lovelace, Marilyn Chambers, Seka, Traci Lords … that’s about as far as I could go associating female names with having been famous in the industry. Nina Hartley not from the time but from Boogie Nights.
I honestly think there are many many more who share shoe size with Ulf and me and that virtually none of her peer group associate her name with a porn star famous back when they were kids.
The wtf the parents were thinking? “Jenna … I like that name. What do you think honey?”
It was bad enough our last name was Naked, why did they have to name me Buck on top of that?
Sometimes it can of course happen by accidental coincidence, and a slip of the finger:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-theresa-may-porn-star_us_588b14d8e4b0cef5cf8745a4
My last name, if combined with certain first names, can be made into a pun. I’m thankful that my parents didn’t saddle me with such a name; as is, people are constantly compelled to remark on my “cool last name” - it is a pretty cool name, but the remarks get tiresome.
On the central discussion: believe me, a lot of college-aged students know who Jameson is and virtually every middle-aged person I asked knows who she is (I did an informal polling of colleagues, sans mentioning
the student). Maybe I just work at a pervy place.
She’s well known. Not simply as a porn star, she has some general celebrity status of the Paris Hilton/Kardashian variety as well. The main difference being she was paid to do her sex videos. Aside from the names mentioned in this thread there aren’t many well known porn names that aren’t double entendres.
I was going to make a point about both Jenna and Jameson not being uncommon names and the combination not being that rare, but according to this there is just 2 people in the US with that combination:
http://howmanyofme.com/people/Jenna_Jameson/
For a while there, every time the MSM needed a quote from someone in the adult entertainment industry it was either Jenna Jameson or Ron Jeremy. So surely the name got out there beyond porn consumers.
Still, most people understand coincidences.
After my second son was born and we named him, I got a call from a friend who’s a big golfer, telling me how cool it was that I named my son after a putter.
She was on an episode of Family Guy, which presumably was done on the assumption that people knew who she was.
It’s over 20 years ago since I was involved, but the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages did used to sanity-check the names to be given to a baby. IIRC acronyms of swear words were common - and intended.
But how well known was she among the general public in 1999? Google was barely a search engine back then, and the average joe wasn’t doing web searches for random stuff. Porn was something you had to rent at the video store, not something you watched online.
Jenna Jameson is a known name now, mostly because she branched out from porn. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most straight-laced people didn’t know the name back then.
You named your son Odyssey White Hot? Cool! 
Dick Trickle?
I agree she wasn’t that will known until she began to expand beyond porn.
The first Freakonomics book had a chapter on this. The conclusion was that an unfortunate name really doesn’t screw you for life - though it may serve as a class marker.
Their most memorable example was a fellow who named his eighth son “Winner”. Sounds like a unique, but not abominable, idea, right?
Then he had a ninth son.
Loser. He named the kid Loser.
The irony is that Winner became something of a career criminal (I don’t recall the details, but it wasn’t a happy life), while Loser became a well-regarded police officer. Everyone just called him Lou.
I suspect that might be young Jenna’s best strategy - start going by Jay or something. I started going by the first name everyone calls me now when I went to college. It has nothing whatsoever to do with my given name, which I was sick of by the time I was 18.
It’s worse than we think - her middle name is “Jonah”.