Doctor as a given name

[Andrew Tarr]

They were a Suffolk family, many of whom scattered around England to spread the load.  No Doctors or Septimi anywhere as far as I know.

[J.J.]

I didn't have the link handy when I posted that reference to ValJJJ's "Doctor Who" FreeBmd find,  but obviously the groom was a huge fan as he wants his name associated with the series in other ways as well. His rather unnerving concept of blending facial recognition using all Drs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-25466389
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2016/research/dr-who-new-companion/
The other name I referred to is Dr. Who's assistant (actress). How is it that someone at the GRO allowed them all to name themselves more than once!?? 
There may be other references among the "18" results on the Doctor Who FreeBMD result page

Now listening to Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden 

  Ha, good one, mrcakey!
  Wonder if these counted...as I just looked for Docter "misspells" on FreeBmd and got 79 results...

*added:  ValJJJ! Looking at the same day for marriage there's also a reference to David Robertson who is also the Dr. Who, above? Others on page as well:
Freeman...  Agyemang...and other repeated names including real names for some duplications.

[shanreagh]

I've just come across Doctor as a given name, and thought it might be a mistranscribed name, but no, looking at FreeBMD, there are quite a few over the years, and mostly in Lancashire.  Some are quite recent too.

Is it a corruption of another name, or is it the parent's ambition for their child?  Apparently the name is banned in NZ due to problems with confusion.  Understandably!

Not doubting that NZ has a restriction but this must have happened relatively recently.  I went to boarding school in the late 1960s, in NZ,  and at that time at the brother boarding school there was at least one Doctor, we knew him as Doc. He came from a family where this name had been passed down.  I think this had come about originally after being named for someone in early Colonial days.   I have read of others in NZ over the years.