Just heard the song 'Ben' and it always make me thing of my bf's brother, who was named after it. A song about a rat. hhmmm.
I don't think I was but my oldest brother got his name because before he came along my Mum had an eptopic pregnancy. She was told it was unlikely she would ever be able to have children. Some time after, she had a dream that she had a son called Paul. Within a few days of that dream she discovered she was pregnant and so named him Paul. She then went on to have 6 more. They named my sister Anji after a song but I don't think they were that thoughful with the rest of us, they just wanted to make sure we all had names people would automaticaly spell wrong or try to lenghten.
I wasn't named after anyone and don't even have a middle name, but I always said if I had a daughter I would name her Holly after reading Breakfast at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, when I did have my daughter her surname was Wood - it sounded a bit too much like a future porn star so I had to ditch that idea :)
My name happens to be that of a well-known heavyweight champion of the world.
It had me in trouble at school, since every boy wanted to be known as the one to beat me. However, it did teach me to defend myself ; a bit like Johnny Cash's 'A boy called Sue'.