Live from New York: It’s SNL baby names

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by Lorain County Moms

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Mike Myers’ recent choice of the name Spike for his infant son got me to thinking. Did other former SNL cast members make equally offbeat, out-of-the-box choices?

Saturday Night Live is at this point a certifiable institution. The show has now been around for 36 years, and over its long run has featured many of the funniest, most creative, offbeat comic talents in Americasome of whom have gone on to become so iconic that we’ve almost forgotten they were ever regulars on the show. As in Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Murray, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Martin Short and now-Senator Al “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough” Franken.

In fact, SNL has been around so long that it’s now multi-generational — one of the current cast members, Abby Elliot, is the daughter of early 1990s SNLer Chris Elliott.

So the question is did these guys apply their quirky creativity when it came to naming their babies?

The answer is: not so much. For example, Billy Crystal named one of his daughters Jennifer, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Brad Hall have a Henry and a Charles, Dana Carvey a Thomas, Al Franken a Joe, and Jim Belushi a Robert.

But there are some who did to lesser and greater degrees think outside that aforementioned box, most recently Maya Rudolph with her choice of Lucille, and Amy Poehler’s Archibald and Abel. Here are some others born to cast members who span the history of the show:

Girls

• ALICE ZENOBIA — Tina Fey
• AUBREY—Victoria Jackson
• BELLA ZAHRA—Eddie Murphy
• BELLE KINGSTON—Dan Ackroyd
• BIRGEN—Phil Hartman
• BRIA—Eddie Murphy
• BRIDEY—Chris Elliot
• CALEY LEIGH — Chevy Chase
• CARA MIA—Damon Wayans
• CYDNEY CATALENE — Chevy Chase
• ELLA OLIVIA—Ben Stiller
• EMILY EVELYN—Chevy Chase
• GITRID—Tracy Morgan
• HANNAH KATHRYN — Bill Hader
• HARPER—David Spade
• JAMISON BESS—Jim Belushi
• KYLA—Damon Wayans
• LENA—Laraine Newman
• LILY ASTER—Gilbert Gottfried
• LOLA SIMONE—Chris Rock
• LUCILLE—Maya Rudolph
• MAE MAE—Christine Ebersole
• MIA — Darryl Hammond
• MULAN—Julia Sweeney
• OLIVIA—Joe Piscopo
• PEARL BAILEY—Maya Rudolph
• PENELOPE ATHENA — Tina Fey
• SADIE MADISON Adam Sandler
• SCARLET Victoria Jackson
• SHAYNE AUDRA Eddie Murphy
• STELLA IRENE AUGUST — Dan Ackroyd
• SUNNY MADELINE —Adam Sandler
• TESS — Jane Curtin
• THOMASIN — Al Franken
• ZAHRA SAVANNAH — Chris Rock
• ZOLA IVY — Eddie Murphy

Boys

• ABEL JAMES — Amy Poehler
• ARCHIBALD WILLIAM EMERSON — Amy Poehler
• AXEL PAULIN — Will Farrell
• CALEB — Bill Murray
• COLIN — Michael McKean
• COOPER — Bill Murray
• DEX — Dana Carvey
• DYLAN — Norm McDonald
• ELI — Rachel Dratch
• ELIJAH — Christine Ebersole
• FLETCHER — Michael McKean
• GABLE NESS — Kevin Nealon
• HOLDEN — Dennis Miller
• HOMER — Bill Murray
• INDIO — Robert Downey, Jr.
• JACKSON — Jay Mohr, Maya Rudolph
• JARED JAMES — Jim Belushi
• LINCOLN — Bill Murray
• LUKE — Bill Murray
• MAGNUS PAULIN — Will Ferrell
• MALCOLM — Tracy Morgan
• MARLON — Dennis Miller
• MATTIAS PAULIN — Will Ferrell (all three Ferrell boys have their mother’s maiden name in the middle)
• MEREDITH DANIEL — Jay Mohr
• MILES — Joan Cusack
• MYLES MITCHELL — Eddie Murphy
• NOLAN — Molly Shannon
• OLIVER PATRICK — Martin Short
• QUINLIN DEMPSEY — Ben Stiller
• SPIKE — Mike Myers
• ULYSSES — Ana Gasteyer

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