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CAIRO TIAHNA HARDRICT
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Disney fans will recognizeCairo Tiahna’s name as an homage to Princess Tiana, the ambitious and hardworking heroine of 2009’s The Princess and the Frog.
02of 10JASMINE JOHNSONAxelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Everett CollectionDwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s daughter (with wife Lauren Hashian) carries a name that rose in popularity after the release ofAladdinin 1992. The following year, Jasmine was the23rd most popular girl name.And like the animated Princess Jasmine, Johnson’s middle daughter (he’s also dad toSimone Alexandra) is a force to be reckoned with, fromher singing skillsto her powerful — and adorable —declarations of “Girl power!”
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JASMINE JOHNSON
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s daughter (with wife Lauren Hashian) carries a name that rose in popularity after the release ofAladdinin 1992. The following year, Jasmine was the23rd most popular girl name.
And like the animated Princess Jasmine, Johnson’s middle daughter (he’s also dad toSimone Alexandra) is a force to be reckoned with, fromher singing skillsto her powerful — and adorable —declarations of “Girl power!”
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TIANA JOHNSON
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Tiana peaked in 1995 asthe 267th most popular girl’s namebefore dropping again, but had a resurgence back up to 334th in 2010 — likely largely thanks to the New Orleans-set musical animated film.
04of 10AURORA ADAMSTroian Bellisario/InstagramPatrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario have a fairytale romance, so is it any wonder their eldest child shares a name with Sleeping Beauty? But Bellisario (who, with Adams, is also a mother to daughter Elliot), says the Disney Princess wasn’t actually top of mind when they were choosing names.“We learned in Roman mythology that … Aurora … is the goddess of the dawn. And we thought it would be nice that she would be our dawning of a new day in our life … Aurora kept on cropping up in both Patrick and my lives. It just wouldn’t go away,“she recalled toTeen Vogue. “But now it’s really funny, because I didn’t tell him that Aurora… he didn’t know that Aurora was a Disney princess’s name. I didn’t even think of it, honestly. ‘Cause I was thinking about it in terms of the historical context. So many people now are like, ‘Oh, like a Disney princess?’ And I feel like Patrick’s like, ‘Ugh.’ "
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AURORA ADAMS
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Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario have a fairytale romance, so is it any wonder their eldest child shares a name with Sleeping Beauty? But Bellisario (who, with Adams, is also a mother to daughter Elliot), says the Disney Princess wasn’t actually top of mind when they were choosing names.
“We learned in Roman mythology that … Aurora … is the goddess of the dawn. And we thought it would be nice that she would be our dawning of a new day in our life … Aurora kept on cropping up in both Patrick and my lives. It just wouldn’t go away,“she recalled toTeen Vogue. “But now it’s really funny, because I didn’t tell him that Aurora… he didn’t know that Aurora was a Disney princess’s name. I didn’t even think of it, honestly. ‘Cause I was thinking about it in terms of the historical context. So many people now are like, ‘Oh, like a Disney princess?’ And I feel like Patrick’s like, ‘Ugh.’ "
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BRIAR ROSE CHRISTENSEN
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“We both love all things Disney — but Rachel especially was very keen on the name,” Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker inStar Warsepisodes II and III, said in 2015. “We have Disney songs playing around the house 24/7 right now.”
06of 10VIOLET KRASINSKI / VIOLET AFFLECKDavid M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage; Pixar/DisneyWhile the name Violet was in vogue long before Disney/Pixar’sThe Incredibleshit theaters in 2004, the oldest child in the superpowers-laden Parr family could’ve been responsible for the upswing in its popularity.Need celebrity proof? Just askBen AffleckandJennifer Garner, who welcomed their oldest childViolet Annein December 2005, or Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, whose second daughter Violet was born in June 2016.
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VIOLET KRASINSKI / VIOLET AFFLECK
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While the name Violet was in vogue long before Disney/Pixar’sThe Incredibleshit theaters in 2004, the oldest child in the superpowers-laden Parr family could’ve been responsible for the upswing in its popularity.
Need celebrity proof? Just askBen AffleckandJennifer Garner, who welcomed their oldest childViolet Annein December 2005, or Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, whose second daughter Violet was born in June 2016.
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BRONX MOWGLI WENTZ
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The name Mowgli rings a very specific bell for anyone who has seen Disney’s 1967 animated musicalThe Jungle Book, the2016 live-action remakeor any other version ofthe Rudyard Kipling story. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz bestowed the human hero’s moniker upon their own child together, Bronx Mowgli, after his November 2008 arrival.
08of 10NAHLA AUBRYSteve Granitz/WireImage; Everett CollectionHalle Berry’s daughterNahla Ariela— who turned 10 in March — has a twofold special meaning. Not only does Nahla mean “honeybee” in Arabic, but Nala is the female protagonist in 1994’sThe Lion King.“We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital,” Berrysaid after Nahla’s birthof herself and now-ex Gabriel Aubry. “For us, it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.”
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NAHLA AUBRY
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Halle Berry’s daughterNahla Ariela— who turned 10 in March — has a twofold special meaning. Not only does Nahla mean “honeybee” in Arabic, but Nala is the female protagonist in 1994’sThe Lion King.
“We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital,” Berrysaid after Nahla’s birthof herself and now-ex Gabriel Aubry. “For us, it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.”
09of 10ESMERALDA GOSLINGDave Allocca/StarPix/REX/Shutterstock; DisneyRyan Gosling (a noted Disney superfan) and Eva Mendes’ older daughter Esmeralda Amada shares a name with the beautiful dancing Gypsy in 1996’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the film, the justice-seeking, independent Esmeralda teaches Quasimodo that true beauty lies within as opposed to on the outside.“Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel,The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we just think it’s a beautiful name,” MendestoldVanity Fairin 2014.Gosling and Mendes are also parents to daughter Amada Lee.
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ESMERALDA GOSLING
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Ryan Gosling (a noted Disney superfan) and Eva Mendes' older daughter Esmeralda Amada shares a name with the beautiful dancing Gypsy in 1996’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the film, the justice-seeking, independent Esmeralda teaches Quasimodo that true beauty lies within as opposed to on the outside.
“Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel,The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we just think it’s a beautiful name,” MendestoldVanity Fairin 2014.
Gosling and Mendes are also parents to daughter Amada Lee.
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FLYNN BLOOM
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Perhaps former couple Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr took a leaf out of Disney’s book here for their son Flynn, who was born just a few weeks after the film’s release, in January 2011.
source: people.com
