Mystery Baby #1

Ever since we posted the original Book of Mutant Baby Names article way back when, possibly about the time that M.C. Hammer was teaching the world to be 2 Legit 2 Quit, it's slowly become one of the more popular features on MRFH. Hey, I have no idea either! But whatever your reason for using this resource, whether it be to actually name a human infant after a fake person, or to give your semi-nude elf barbarian warrior in Everquest a cool moniker, it's good to give this list another update!

Note: Obviously, we're not listing more common names (like "John"), even if they do have a related movie character. The purpose of this list is to highlight some of the more... unusual names in cinema-land.

Movie Baby Quiz! In this article we've posted a number of pictures of babies from films. Can you identify the names of these babies (their character names) and the film in which they appeared? Answers below!

True Movie Baby Naming Stories

Mystery Baby #2

As a result of this article, several parents have written in to say that, yes, they gave their children names based on characters in films. We welcome other parents to write in with their stories, but it doesn't count if it's just a coincidence that their child shares a name to a semi-obscure film reference; it has to be intentional!

"We just had a baby girl on June 25, 2004 and named her Ripley Karen Naomi V-------. Naturally, she was named after Sigourney Weaver's strong female character in the Alien movie series."
- Cass

"Hey! I named my son Dade Andrew M-----. He was born on June 22, 1997. I did get the name from the movie Hackers, too!"
- Lisa

"I had named my new son Dade Sinaty W------. He was born September 3, 2003. I had got his first name from Hackers and my husband, from my knowledge, made up his middle name."
- Beth

"I stumbled onto your site while I was doing a rather vain Google lookup for my son's name, Korben, to see how many people also chose the name. I picked the name from my (and my wife's) all time favorite movie — The Fifth Element! I wanted to name the baby Leeloo if it was a girl, but that got vetoed. Good thing he came out a boy. Hehe."
- Jeff

Boy Names From Movies

Mystery Baby #3

• Ace (Ace Ventura)
• Anakin (Star Wars)
• Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
• Ash (Alien, Evil Dead)
• Austin (Austin Powers)
• Aylmer (Brain Damage)
• Azeem (Robin Hood: Men In Tights)
• Banky (Chasing Amy)
• Barf (Spaceballs)
• Bartleby (Dogma)
• Bateman (Replacements)
• Batou (Ghost in the Shell)
• Beauregard (Homicide: The Movie)
• Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)
• Bender (The Breakfast Club)
• Biff (Back to the Future)
• Bishop (Aliens, Sneakers)
• Black Belt Jones (BBJ)
• Bluto (Animal House)
• Booga (Tank Girl)
• Booger (Revenge of the Nerds)
• Boon (Animal House)
• Bosley (Charlie's Angels)
• Brak (MST3K)
• Brody (Jaws, Mallrats)
• Buckaroo (Buckaroo Banzai)
• Buckley (Dead Man On Campus)
• Bugsy (Fierce Creatures)
• Buzz (Shag)
• Cash (Tango and Cash)
• Chubbs (Happy Gilmore)
• Chunk (Goonies)
• Colt (Loaded Weapon 1)
• Coop / Cooper (BASEketball, Dead Man On Campus)
• Conan (the Librarian)
• Cosmo (Sneakers)
• Cid (Final Fantasy)
• Crawl (Son In Law)
• Crow (MST3K)
• Dade (Hackers)
• Dallas (Alien)
• Dammers (The Frighteners)
• Dante (Clerks)
• Darwin (Hudson Hawk)
• Death (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey)
• Deckard (Blade Runner)
• Dellamorte (Cemetary Man)
• Dewey (School of Rock)
• D-Day (Animal House)
• Doc (Back to the Future)
• Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
• Donatello (TMNT)
• Drake Savage (Black Sheep)
• Droz (PCU)
• Duke (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
• Dutch (Predator)
• Edison (Chairman of the Board)
• Egg (Big Trouble in Little China)
• Egon (Ghostbusters)
• El Guapo (Three Amigos)
• Elijah (Unbreakable)
• Elwood (The Blues Brothers)
• Fat Bastard (Austin Powers 2)
• Ferris (Ferris Bueller)
• Fenster (The Usual Suspects)
• Fester (The Addams Family)
• Fezzik (Pricess Bride)
• Fizzgig (The Dark Crystal)
• Fletch (Fletch)
• Fool (People Under The Stairs)
• Ford (Ford Fairlane, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• Fowler (Chicken Run)
• Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• Frenchy (Cannibal! The Musical)
• Frost (Aliens)
• F.T. (Return of the Killer Tomatoes)
• Gaff (Blade Runner)
• Garth (Wayne's World)
• Gib (The Sure Thing)
• Gizmo (Gremlins)
• Gnaghi (Cemetary Man)
• Gonzo (Muppets, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
• Gruber (Die Hard)
• Gutter (PCU)
• Han (Star Wars)
• Hansel (Zoolander)
• Hannibal (Hannibal)
• Happy (Happy Gilmore)
• Hawk (Detroit Rock City)
• He-Man (Masters of the Universe)
• Hoggle (Labyrinth)
• Holden (Chasing Amy)
• Hudson (Aliens, Hudson Hawk)
• Ichabod (Sleepy Hollow)
• Il Duce (The Boondock Saints)
• Inigo (Princess Bride)

  Mystery Baby #4

• Jam (Detroit Rock City)
• Jan (Bring It On)
• Jareth (Labyrinth)
• Jericho (End of Days)
• Joker (Full Metal Jacket, Batman)
• Jules (Pulp Fiction)
• Kang (Star Trek VI)
• Kay (MIB)
• Kermit (Muppet Movie)
• Khan (Star Trek 2)
• Korben (Fifth Element)
• Lane (Better Off Dead)
• Leonardo (TMNT)
• Lester (American Beauty)
• Linus (Ocean's 11)
• Loki (Dogma)
• Lone Star (Spaceballs)
• Lucas (Empire Records)
• Luger (Loaded Weapon 1)
• Madmartigan (Willow)
• Marty (Back to the Future)
• Mason Dixon (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes)
• Mathesar (Galaxy Quest)
• Meeks (Dead Poets Society)
• Michaelangelo (TMNT)
• Mo Fuzz (Tapeheads)
• Morpheus (Matrix)
• Mouth (Goonies)
• Mulder (X-Files)
• Murdoch (Dark City)
• Neo (Matrix)
• Newton (Short Circuit)
• Osmosis (Osmosis Jones)
• Otto (A Fish Called Wanda)
• Oz (American Pie, Buffy)
• Pennywise (It)
• Pepe (Muppets From Space)
• Peyton (Darkman)
• Pigman (PCU)
• Pig Vomit (Private Parts)
• Pike (Buffy)
• Pink (Pink Floyd The Wall)
• Pinky (Black Belt Jones)
• PoolMan
• Preston (Can't Hardly Wait)
• Pubert (Addams Family Values)
• Pugsley (The Addams Family)
• Quint (Jaws, Mallrats)
• Raphael (TMNT)
• Rasczak (Starship Troopers)
• Red (Shawshank Redemption)
• Remer (BASEketball)
• Remo (Remo Williams)
• Renton (Trainspotting)
• Riddick (Pitch Black)
• Riff Raff (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• Rollo (Fierce Creatures)
• Roman (Dead Again)
• Roy Boy (Canadian Bacon)
• Rusty (Ocean's 11)
• Sarris (Galaxy Quest)
• Shrek (Shrek)
• Sickboy (Trainspotting)
• Silent Bob (Clerks)
• Sirius (Harry Potter)
• Skank (Mystery Alaska)
• Slater (Dazed and Confused)
• Slimer (Ghostbusters)
• Sloth (Goonies)
• Smoochy (Death to Smoochy)
• Snails (Dungeons and Dragons)
• Snake (Escape from NY/LA)
• Sol (Pi)
• Sparky (Bring It On)
• Special K (Can't Hardly Wait)
• Spicoli (Fast Times At Ridgemont High)
• Squeak (BASEketball)
• Station (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey)
• Statler (Muppet Movie)
• Steed (Avengers)
• Stifler (American Pie)
• Taggart (Galaxy Quest)
• Tango (Tango and Cash)
• Tank (Matrix)
• The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
• Thrax (Osmosis Jones)
• Tiny (Go)
• Top Dollar (Crow)
• Toxie (The Toxic Avenger)
• Trip (Detroit Rock City)
• Tripper (Meatballs)
• Tyler (Fight Club)
• Valentine (Tremors)
• Verbal (The Usual Suspects)
• Vizzini (Princess Bride)
• Wadsworth (Clue)
• Waldorf (Muppet Movie)
• Wayne (Wayne's World)
• Westley (Princess Bride)
• Whistler (Sneakers)
• Wild Thing (Major League)
• Willard (Willard)
• Willow (Willow)
• Worth (Cube)
• Zed (MIB, Police Academy 4)
• Zidler (Moulin Rouge)
• Zoltan (Dude, Where's My Car?)
• Zorg (Fifth Element)

Girl Names From Movies

Mystery Baby #5

• Aki (Final Fantasy)
• Akima (Titan A.E.)
• April (TMNT)
• Baby (Dirty Dancing)
• Barb Wire (Barb Wire)
• Beatrix (Kill Bill)
• Bianca (10 Things I Hate About You)
• Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Buttercup (Princess Bride)
• Call (Alien Resurrection)
• Celine (A Life Less Ordinary)
• Cher (Clueless)
• Columbia (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• Corky (Bound)
• Cozy (Dead Again)
• Dory (Finding Nemo)
• Dylan (Charlie's Angels)
• Elvira (Elvira)
• Evil-Lyn (Masters of the Universe)
• Felicity (Austin Powers 2)
• Fry (Pitch Black)
• F.T. (Return of the Killer Tomatoes)
• Hermione (Harry Potter)
• Holly Would (Cool World)
• Honey (Wayne's World 2)
• Jackie O (The House of Yes)
• Janis (Mean Girls)
• Jet (Tank Girl)
• Kira (Dark Crystal)
• Laney (She's All That)
• Leeloo (Fifth Element)
• Lilo (Lilo and Stitch)
• Lola (Run Lola Run)
• Loretta (Life of Brian)
• Lydia (Beetlejuice)
• Mace (Strange Days)
• Magenta (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• Major (Ghost in the Shell)
• Marcia Marcia Marcia (Brady Bunch Movie)
• Marla (Fight Club)
• Matilda the Hun (Death Race 2000)
• Maude (Harold and Maude)
• Missy (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures, Bring It On)
• Monique (Better Off Dead)

  Mystery Baby #6

• Morticia (The Addams Family)
• Newt (Aliens)
• Padme (Star Wars)
• Paikea (Whale Rider)
• Pepper (Cry Baby)
• Pickles (Black Belt Jones)
• Portia (A Fish Called Wanda)
• Regan (Exorcist)
• Ripley (Aliens)
• Rogue (X-Men)
• Romy (Romy and Michele)
• Satine (Moulin Rouge)
• Selene (Underworld)
• Scully (X-Files)
• Sorsha (Willow)
• Star (The Lost Boys)
• Stokley (The Faculty)
• Storm (X-Men)
• Styles (In The Mouth Of Madness)
• Summer (School of Rock)
• Tank Girl (Tank Girl)
• Tatum (Scream)
• Tomomi (Cannibal! The Musical)
• Torrance (Bring It On)
• Trash (Return of the Living Dead)
• Trina (Cabin Boy)
• Trinity (Matrix)
• Vasquez (Aliens)
• Vespa (Spaceballs)
• Violet (Bound)
• Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wednesday (The Addams Family)
• Yvette (Clue)
• Zuzu Petals (Ford Fairlane)

Movie Baby Quiz Answers

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Mystery Baby #1: Pubert, Addams Family Values

Mystery Baby #2: Jack Jack, The Incredibles

Mystery Baby #3: Sunny, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Mystery Baby #4: Oscar, Ghostbusters 2

Mystery Baby #5: Mary, Three Men and a Baby

Mystery Baby #6: Baby, Dirty Dancing