Named after a world event

[locksmith]

Adjacent to a birth I was looking up in the births for July Quarter of 1969, I saw someone had been given Neil Armstrong as their forenames.

Now I know popular or world events can influence people's judgement when naming children (taken to extremes names of complete football teams are popular) so why wasn’t I named James Dean or Albert Einstein (both died in my birth year).  Or maybe I was born in a year when nothing happened and ended up with two unrelated forenames which didn’t position me to a point in history.   Well thank goodness for that.

[kojack]

Hi Locksmith,

I reckon I got off lightly.

My name or middle name could have been, Hydrogen Bomb. lol. The Peoples Republic of China, announced a successful test on the day I was born!  17th June 1967.

Kojack     

[toni*]

glad i wasn't called Boney M - they were number one when i was born

i'm actually named after my mums best friends daughter Antonia but was shortened to Toni, i am therefore just Toni!

[Suffolk Mawther]

My late mother in law had the middle name

St Quentin

after a WWI battle in northern France that her father survived.

I also worked with a woman called Mons many years ago, same reason. 
In researching over the years, I found that it appeared to be 'fashionable' to name children after successful WWI events in the years following that war. 
And I guess earlier if you think of the Kitchener middle names of many lads 

SM ...

[Sarndra]

My late mother in law had the middle name

St Quentin

after a WWI battle in northern France that her father survived.

I also worked with a woman called Mons many years ago, same reason. 
In researching over the years, I found that it appeared to be 'fashionable' to name children after successful WWI events in the years following that war. 
And I guess earlier if you think of the Kitchener middle names of many lads 

SM ...

Indeed...a few called Cazna and Anzac also

Cheers
Sarndra

[KathMc]

My great-great aunt married a man, born 1864, named Ulysses Grant Channell, after the Civil War general and future president of the United States. I thought it odd and searched on Ancestry for just the first name and many came up. I guess it's something that has been done for a long time.

Kath

[PrueM]

I know Anzac in particular was a very popular name during and after 1915 (for AUstralians, anyway).  And a friend of mine's grandfather, who was born during WW1, was named Dardanelles for the same reason!

Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, one-time governor of NSW, gave his son the middle name "Australia", poor lad!

Prue

[mshrmh]

Not after a world event, but I read in today's paper that Lewis Hamilton (winner of yesterday's Canadian Grand Prix) was named after the athlete Carl Lewis. That's quite a good "subtle" tribute in my view.
On the original theme I found a Victor in my family born early 1919 - I don't know whether the name became more popular then, but I assumed it might have been related to ending of WW1.

[stonechat]

I had an aunt named Lille, who had a brother called Verdun

Also I seem to remember that when England won the world cup there was someone name after the whole team!