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* ''Series/Manhunt2024'': Boston Corbett's origin flashback, back to when he used his birthname Thomas, has a minister suggest that he give himself a MeaningfulRename to mark his becoming born again. They choose "Boston" from a nearby street sign.
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* According to one teen magazine, actor Penn Badgley was so named because his parents were trying to think up a name for their new baby, while Badgley's mother was bouncing around a Penn tennis ball. It became HilariousInHindsight as Badgley (about 8 years prior to his work on ''Series/GossipGirl'') [[HeAlsoDid ended up doing some minor voicework for, of all things,]] ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}.
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* According to one teen magazine, actor Penn Badgley was so named because his parents were trying to think up a name for their new baby, while Badgley's mother was bouncing around a Penn tennis ball. It became HilariousInHindsight as Badgley (about 8 years prior to his work on ''Series/GossipGirl'') [[HeAlsoDid ended up doing some minor voicework for, of all things,]] ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo Platform/{{Nintendo 64}}.
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* In ''Fanfic/BlueSky'', the town of Eaden got its name from a "Dead End" sign that was missing the first and last letters due to age.
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* In ''Fanfic/BlueSky'', ''Fanfic/BlueSkyWaffles'', the town of Eaden got its name from a "Dead End" sign that was missing the first and last letters due to age.
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* In ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', Lau Xing is looking at a passport when Fogg asks for his name. He blurts out "Passport... two", which Fogg interprets as "Passepartout".
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* In ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'', Lau Xing is looking at a passport when Fogg asks for his name. He blurts out "Passport... two", which Fogg interprets as "Passepartout".
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* Mel gets Cole's fake last name, Hauser, from someone's parking space in ''{{Series/Tracker}}''.
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* In The Comebacks, Coach Lambeau Fields improvises his RousingSpeech using various items that are lying around the locker room,
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* Tenth Doctor Creator/DavidTennant (his real name is David [=McDonald=], and there is already an actor with that name) says he got his name from a ''Smash Hits'' magazine, taking it from Music/PetShopBoys singer Neil Tennant.
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* Tenth Doctor Creator/DavidTennant (his real name is David [=McDonald=], [[OneSteveLimit and there is already an actor with that name) name]]) says he got his name from a ''Smash Hits'' magazine, taking it from Music/PetShopBoys singer Neil Tennant.
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* In ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'', a modern reinterpretation of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', this is how Liaoyuan Huo gets his much better-known name [[spoiler: Zhao Yun, after watching some clouds ('yun' in Chinese) go by]].
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* In ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'', a modern reinterpretation of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', this is how Liaoyuan Huo gets his much better-known name [[spoiler: Zhao Yun, after watching some clouds ('yun' in Chinese) go by]].
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* In ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'', a modern reinterpretation of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', this is how Liaoyuan Huo gets his much better-known name [[spoiler: Zhao Yun, after watching some clouds ('yun' in Chinese) go by]].
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* Music/{{Lorde}} was inspired to title what would become her BreakthroughHit and SignatureSong "[[Music/PureHeroine Royals]]" after seeing a photograph used in a 1976 issue of ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' showing [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Kansas City Royals]] third baseman George Brett signing baseballs, noticing the team's name emblazed front and center on his shirt. (Lorde and Brett [[https://twitter.com/MLB/status/456405512977129472 would eventually meet each other,]] by the way.)
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* Music/{{Lorde}} was inspired to title what would become her BreakthroughHit and SignatureSong "[[Music/PureHeroine Royals]]" after seeing a photograph used in as the cover of a 1976 issue of ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' showing [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Kansas City Royals]] third baseman George Brett signing baseballs, noticing the team's name emblazed front and center on his shirt. (Lorde and Brett [[https://twitter.com/MLB/status/456405512977129472 would eventually meet each other,]] by the way.)
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* Trocadero's Nico Audy-Rowland was writing a song about driving a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' Warthog for ''Webanimation/RedVsBlue'', but was struggling to find an opening lyric. Then he saw in a bar a woman in a green dress, and the result is even acknowledged in the title "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSLRjPX0Bg Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)]]".
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* Trocadero's Nico Audy-Rowland was writing a song about driving a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' Warthog for ''Webanimation/RedVsBlue'', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', but was struggling to find an opening lyric. Then he saw in a bar a woman in a green dress, and the result is even acknowledged in the title "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSLRjPX0Bg Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)]]".
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* Music/{{Lorde}} was inspired to title what would become her BreakthroughHit and SignatureSong "[[Music/PureHeroine Royals]]" after seeing a photograph used in a 1976 issue of ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' showing [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Kansas City Royals]] third baseman George Brett signing baseballs, noticing the team's name emblazed front and center on his shirt. (Lorde and Brett [[https://twitter.com/MLB/status/456405512977129472 would eventually meet each other,]] by the way.)
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* Parodied and combined with OverlyLongName by Website/{{Collegehumor}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-4uXoep_KAAmir "Making Up a Sketch on the Spot"]]
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* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' sees Spot coming up with his human name in this fashion. By noticing the teacher's pencil, he comes up with Scott "Leadready No. 2." The teacher assumes he means "the Second."
