Movie Character Names

This snappy nickname may remind some of the 1985 Chevy Chase movie of the same name.

Only if it's a family name, and even then, better in the middle.

Writer Jerzy Kosinski put this foreign variation on the U. S. name map.

Proof that villain names are just as cool as heros': Namaari was the top debut of 2021 — given to 43 baby girls the year Raya and the Last Dragon premiered. In 2022 it rose to 66 girls, and also debuted on the male chart, given to six boys.

We all know that Chaka really means disco.

Siggy is the softer side of Ziggy, a more familiar name thanks to Ziggy Marley.

Korben is a spelling that gets some attention since Bruce Willis's character name in The Fifth Element was Korben Dallas.

The Steen, Steena, and Stina nicknames for Christina are much more common in Scandinavia than in the English-speaking world, which prefers the Chris variations.

Wildly optimistic -- and unrealistic -- choice.

The Persian Golnar is likely a more wearable version of this ruby-colored fruit than this Thai name.

Khorshid, also found as Khurshid, is the Persian word for sun and is also the name of a place in Iran. The name is found mostly in Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan and can be used for both boys and girls. Khorshid, anglicized as Sun Children, was the title of an Iranian film about street children. Khorshid Khanom, or Sun Lady, was an ancient fertility and water goddess.

Name invented for the 2017 movie The Florida Project.

Though Drew Barrymore played Bjergen Kjergen in "Wayne's World," any theoretical real-life use would be for a boy.

Name of a feminist air pirate with an evil bent, Sala is also the word name for 'room' in Spanish. Salah is a common Arabic name.

Peppy is undeniably cute, but we bet that after a while the jokes aren't.

She looked like a model but she was really an evil many-tentacled monster in Men in Black: your child will never forgive you if you choose this name. And neither will we.

Kirsten Dunst played a young woman named Lidda, a synthetic name you may consider as a variation of Biblical place-name Lydda or as a short form of Phyllida.

Matangi a Hindu goddess and an aspect of Parvati, the Divine Mother. She rules over speech, knowledge, music, and the arts and worshipping her is said to allow people to control their enemies and become a master in the arts. Some sources suggest her name means "one whose limbs are intoxicated with passion".