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I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

— Stanley Hauerwas

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

— Lizzo

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

— Alexander Downer

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

— Stana Katic

People named their kids after me!

— Chad Everett

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.

— Phil Daniels

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

— Kelli O'Hara

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

— Sprague Grayden

My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.

— Dylan Penn

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

— Michael Caine

I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

— Yvonne De Carlo