Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
...don't forget his two youngest - Diva Thin Muffin Zappa and Ahmet Emuukha Roden Zappa
People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble. - Frank Zappa
"Consider for a moment any beauty in the name 'Ralph' - In an interview with Joan Rivers who had just asked him why he gave his children such odd names.
Gotta love the celebrity baby names:
Aside from the well known ones (John Travolta and Kelly Preston's Ella Bleu and Jett and Gwyneth Paltrow's Apple with Chris Martin), there's Dandelion, the name of Keith Richards' daughter. Julie Roberts chose Phinnaeus for her son. Toni Braxton has two sons, Denim and Diezel. Actor Jason Lee named his son Pilot Inspektor. Magician Penn Jillette named his daughter, Moxie Crimefighter, saying "because when she's pulled over for speeding she can say, `But officer, we're on the same side, my middle name is CrimeFighter."'
David Bowie son is Duncan Zowie Heywood Jones (and became known as Zowie Bowie). Cher has Chastity Sun and Elijah Blue.
PS: re the Zappa's: While many people think that Dweezil is his given name, his birth name was originally Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa because the hospital refused to register the name Dweezil. Always called Dweezil, when he was a child, he wanted to make the name official and his parents took him to have it changed legally.
Paula Yates, former wife of Sir Bob Geldof and girlfriend of late rocker Michael Hutchence, kids are Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa, Heavenly Hiraani Tigerlily, and Little Pixie.
Some celebrity baby names make sense if you know the story behind them. Eurythmic's Dave Stewart named his son Django after jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Stevie Wonder named his son Mandla Kadjaly Carl Stevland, however Mandla means "powerful" in Zulu and Kadjaly means "born from God" in Swahili. Helen Hunt just gave birth to a baby girl she named Makena'lei Gordon. The name Makena'lei is from a friend's dream and means "many flowers of heaven." Gordon, an unlikely girl's name, was to honor of Helen's father, television director Gordon Hunt. Nicolas Cage just named his new baby boy Kal-el. Because Nicolas took his stage name of Cage from comic book character Luke Cage, he decided to name his son Kal-el after one of his favorite comic book heroes. Kal-el is Superman's kryptonian name.
Her'es a cool interview with Ahmet Zappa:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/jul/29/familyandrelationships.family1
I love Zappa's quotes. Here's a collection:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/zappa.htm
