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* Sunny of the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'' has the full first name of Sunshine. She says it's because her mother "liked hippies".
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* ''WebAnimation/DontWalkHomeAloneAfterDark'': Sparrow’s full name is Sparrow Anne Moon; it’s mentioned her mother was part of an "offbeat spiritual commune" at the time Sparrow was born before leaving to start a new life.

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* ''WebAnimation/DontWalkHomeAloneAfterDark'': In ''WebAnimation/TheWorm'', Sparrow’s full name is Sparrow Anne Moon; it’s mentioned her mother was part of an "offbeat spiritual commune" at the time Sparrow was born before leaving to start a new life.

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** Subverted by Professor River Song - her name appears to fit this trope at first, but it isn't the result of her having HippieParents. She was kidnapped as a baby and raised by aliens, and the birth name her human parents gave her, [[spoiler:Melody Pond]], has been translated into an alien language and back into english.

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** Subverted by Professor River Song - her name appears to fit this trope at first, but it isn't the result of her having HippieParents. She was kidnapped as a baby and raised by aliens, and the birth name her human parents gave her, [[spoiler:Melody Pond]], has been translated into an alien language and back into english.English.
* ''Series/FeelGood'': Laura, Maggie's daughter, was originally named Lava, a name Maggie came up with while high.
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* ''WebAnimation/DontWalkHomeAloneAfterDark'': Sparrow’s full name is Sparrow Anne Moon; it’s mentioned her mother was part of an "offbeat spiritual commune" at the time Sparrow was born before leaving to start a new life.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowintheGalaxy The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]": The members of a group of hippie traveling performers have names like Bellboy, Flower Child, and Juniper Berry.

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"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowintheGalaxy The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]": The members of a group of hippie traveling performers have names like Bellboy, Flower Child, and Juniper Berry.Berry.
** Subverted by Professor River Song - her name appears to fit this trope at first, but it isn't the result of her having HippieParents. She was kidnapped as a baby and raised by aliens, and the birth name her human parents gave her, [[spoiler:Melody Pond]], has been translated into an alien language and back into english.
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* Daisy of ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale''. At age three, she was encouraged by her HippieParents to select her own name (as she was born intersex) and chose to name herself after the flowers in her mother's flower crown. Her brothers did the same and are named Monster Truck and Caterpillar.

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* Discussed by Max in [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxSaveTheWorld Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space Episode 4]]:
-->'''Sam:''' Remember, Max, if you see a hippie, just shoot to wound. We don't want to kill the parents of important scientists or something.
-->'''Max:''' Riiiiight, because [[SarcasmMode all the]] ''[[SarcasmMode best]]'' [[SarcasmMode scientists]] have names like "Tree" or "Sunshine"!
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* ''Literature/{{Yellowface}}'': June's full name is Juniper Song Hayward. Her sister is Aurora Whispers. June blames her mother's hippy phase.

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* Lampshaded and defied in the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath" when Ross and Rachel are considering baby names. Ross rejects "Rain" because it sounds too hippie-ish; GranolaGirl Phoebe responds positively to it.
-->'''Rachel:''' If it's a girl, Rain.\\

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* Lampshaded and defied in the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath" when Bath", where Ross and Rachel are considering baby names. names.
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Ross rejects "Rain" because it sounds too hippie-ish; GranolaGirl Phoebe responds positively to it.
-->'''Rachel:''' --->'''Rachel:''' If it's a girl, Rain.\\



* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' a substitute teacher decides that the title character has a "hippie name" and calls her Darlene instead.

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* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Pepper's full name is [[Literature/LordOftheRings Pippin Galadriel]] Moonchild, which is attributed by the narration to her mother being a hippie. Pepper herself is a hot-headed tomboy in active rebellion against becoming the kind of person you'd expect to be named Pippin Galadriel Moonchild.

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* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Pepper's full name is [[Literature/LordOftheRings Pippin Galadriel]] Moonchild, which is attributed by the narration to her mother being a hippie. Pepper herself is a hot-headed tomboy in active rebellion against becoming the kind of person you'd expect to be named Pippin Galadriel Moonchild.bear that name.



** Ross complains that Rachel would want to name the child "Sequoia". Rachel starts to scoff but then realises she actually like the sound of it. Ross ''immediately'' vetoes it.

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** Ross complains that Rachel would want to name the child "Sequoia". "Sequoia." Rachel starts to scoff but then realises she actually like the sound of it. Ross ''immediately'' vetoes it.



* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': When Cleo becomes a hippie after smoking raisins, Abe refers to her as "Rain Melon" and he refers to himself as "Captain Lavender".

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': When Cleo becomes a hippie after smoking raisins, Abe refers to her as "Rain Melon" and he refers to himself as "Captain Lavender".Lavender."
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' a substitute teacher decides that the title character has a "hippie name" and calls her Darlene instead.
** Jane has HippieParents and an older brother named Wind (who, as a child, [[EmbarrassingFirstName apparently wanted to change it]] to "Ronald"). The oldest sibling is also named Summer, which, while more common, does fit the nature theme. Their surname is Lane, so [[RhymingNames Jane]] and her other sister [[Music/TheBeatles Penny]] are also fairly whimsical.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has the Waterfall family, who have a hippie ''last'' name (the first two members introduced, Free Waterfall Jr. and Sr., also have hippie first names).

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has the Waterfall family, who have a hippie ''last'' name (the ''surname.'' The first two members introduced, Free Waterfall Jr. and Sr., also have hippie first names).names.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'': The NewAgeRetroHippie crew that helps Joe in the afterlife are named Moonwind (whose human form is pictured above), Windstar, Dancerstar, and Dreamerwind.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'': The NewAgeRetroHippie crew that helps Joe in the afterlife are named Moonwind (whose human form is pictured above), Moonwind, Windstar, Dancerstar, and Dreamerwind.

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* In ''Blast From the Past'' by Creator/BenElton, Polly had an affair with the much older Jack when she was a 16-year-old peace activist. Twenty years later, he tries to kill her to prevent the relationship becoming public knowledge and potentially tanking his chances of becoming the National Security Advisor. She tries to talk him out of it by lying that they have a son together whom she named Misty Dawn (knowing he would expect her to have chosen a name that fits this trope.)

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* In ''Blast From the Past'' ''Literature/BlastFromThePast'' by Creator/BenElton, Polly had an affair with the much older Jack when she was a 16-year-old peace activist. Twenty years later, he tries to kill her to prevent the relationship becoming public knowledge and potentially tanking his chances of becoming the National Security Advisor. She tries to talk him out of it by lying that they have a son together whom she named Misty Dawn (knowing he would expect her to have chosen a name that fits this trope.)


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* ''Literature/JuniperSawfeather'': June's activist parents named her after a tree. In ''Whisper of the Woods'', she learns that her last name counts, too - her dad, a Chinook Indian, was born Peter Clark, but he wanted a NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom like the Indians in movies, so his siblings named him Sawfeather as a joke, and he had it legally changed when he grew up.

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'''Phoebe:''' I know her! I bought a homemade soap from her at a Dead show.

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'''Phoebe:''' I know her! I bought a homemade soap from her at a Dead show. [[Music/TheGratefulDead Dead]] show.
** Ross complains that Rachel would want to name the child "Sequoia". Rachel starts to scoff but then realises she actually like the sound of it. Ross ''immediately'' vetoes it.
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* In ''Blast From the Past'' by Creator/BenElton, Polly had an affair with the much older Jack when she was a 16-year-old peace activist. Twenty years later, he tries to kill her to prevent the relationship becoming public knowledge and potentially tanking his chances of becoming the National Security Advisor. She tries to talk him out of it by lying that they have a son together whom she named Misty Dawn (knowing he would expect her to have chosen a name that fits this trope.)
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* In ''Literature/TheSuitcaseKid'', Carrie is a modern hippie who named her children Crystal and Zen. Her stepdaughter Andy thinks they're weird names and mentions her mother laughed when she told her what her stepsiblings are called.

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