The most popular TV-inspired baby names from the past year

You hear names all day, every day — at work or school, at home, on the street, at a coffee shop, while out to dinner — but when you're pregnant, those names that otherwise don't mean all that much to you start to matter more. You're looking for inspiration everywhere you turn. Naming an infant is serious business. It's the name they'll likely carry with them for the rest of their life.


TV shows can be a really good source of inspiration, partially because with TV shows, unlike with movies, you often get the chance to feel like you're really getting to know a particular character, which can contribute to your desire to give that name to your newborn baby, hoping that it'll somehow pass those qualities on to him or her, or steer clear of a name because you don't like the character.

Sometimes you hear a name and file it away for years, other times you hear it and know immediately that you're going to use it right now. From Game of Thrones to Scandal and just about everything in between, here are the most popular TV show characters that parents chose to name their babies after last year.

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