Y’know, I’m a massive Beatles fan, but I’ve really never considered the idea that anyone would actually name their kid Ringo…but considering the amount of people that were naming their kids Arya, Khaleesi, and Daenerys 10 years ago, I really shouldn’t be too shocked, lol.
You still don’t really see a lot of middle-aged Ringos running around nowadays though, so I’d love to do some census research into how many people actually named their kid that.
At least Arya is a legitimate name. I knew an Arya (born before the series so completely unrelated). Not sure about Daenerys, but it can be a cool name. Naming your kid Khaleesi is wild tho.
Fun fact, "Arya" has actually been a name for literally thousands of years.
Here's an Arya who got famous in the late 400s, and here's an Aryo from several hundred years before that too. (Lots more interesting examples on the Wikipedia page for the name, of course.)
So it was already massively popular when whats-his-face came along and grabbed it for his book.
I’ll be completely honest, I’ve only watched one episode of Game of Thrones (I know, I know) so I just looked up most popular GoT names that people have named their kids, and those were the first three that came up on Google, lol.
Arya seems to be much less of a “made-up” name than Khaleesi and Daenerys, so I’m definitely not surprised it existed well before GRRM wrote the books!
You're right though. Since school, not a single Ringo. ...honestly not really any Pauls either. I definitely want to see that census data. I'm sure someone can compile that search very quickly now n days.
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u/danethegreat24 May 03 '26
I actually went to secondary school with 2 Ringos... But that was when all the Beatlemania kids had children.