Just heard the song 'Ben' and it always make me thing of my bf's brother, who was named after it. A song about a rat. hhmmm.
I don't think I was but my oldest brother got his name because before he came along my Mum had an eptopic pregnancy. She was told it was unlikely she would ever be able to have children. Some time after, she had a dream that she had a son called Paul. Within a few days of that dream she discovered she was pregnant and so named him Paul. She then went on to have 6 more. They named my sister Anji after a song but I don't think they were that thoughful with the rest of us, they just wanted to make sure we all had names people would automaticaly spell wrong or try to lenghten.
No - they never thought about it I suppose. I didn't 'twig' (Ha!) either until I was 12, started High School and some other clever so&so's started laughing at my name....