Stars Who Named Their Children After Disney Characters

CAIRO TIAHNA HARDRICT

Disney fans will recognize Cairo Tiahna's name as an homage to Princess Tiana, the ambitious and hardworking heroine of 2009's The Princess and the Frog.

"Tiahna actually means 'follower of Christ.' Also, Tiana was one of the first African princesses, so she is our little princess here!" mom Tia Mowry (who shares her daughter with ex-husband Cory Hardrict) explained of the inspiration behind her baby girl's middle moniker when she was born in 2018.

JASMINE JOHNSON

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's daughter (with wife Lauren Hashian) carries a name that rose in popularity after the release of Aladdin in 1992. The following year, Jasmine was the 23rd most popular girl name.

And like the animated Princess Jasmine, Johnson's middle daughter (he's also dad to Simone Alexandra) is a force to be reckoned with, from her singing skills to her powerful — and adorable — declarations of "Girl power!"

TIANA JOHNSON

Another Tiana namesake! Johnson — who famously voiced Maui in Disney's 2016 hit film Moana — welcomed his third daughter, Tiana Gia, in 2018, sharing a sweet skin-to-skin snap of his baby girl taken in the hospital.

Tiana peaked in 1995 as the 267th most popular girl's name before dropping again, but had a resurgence back up to 334th in 2010 — likely largely thanks to the New Orleans-set musical animated film.

AURORA ADAMS

Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario have a fairytale romance, so is it any wonder their eldest child shares a name with Sleeping Beauty? But Bellisario (who, with Adams, is also a mother to daughter Elliot), says the Disney Princess wasn't actually top of mind when they were choosing names.

"We learned in Roman mythology that ... Aurora ... is the goddess of the dawn. And we thought it would be nice that she would be our dawning of a new day in our life ... Aurora kept on cropping up in both Patrick and my lives. It just wouldn't go away," she recalled toTeen Vogue. "But now it's really funny, because I didn't tell him that Aurora... he didn't know that Aurora was a Disney princess's name. I didn't even think of it, honestly. 'Cause I was thinking about it in terms of the historical context. So many people now are like, 'Oh, like a Disney princess?' And I feel like Patrick's like, 'Ugh.' "

BRIAR ROSE CHRISTENSEN

Former couple Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson welcomed their first child, daughter Briar Rose, in October 2014. And while the little girl's name isn't Aurora, Sleeping Beauty fans know Briar Rose was Princess Aurora's secondary moniker given to her by the three fairies who raised her in the forest, away from the danger of sorceress Maleficent.

"We both love all things Disney — but Rachel especially was very keen on the name," Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars episodes II and III, said in 2015. "We have Disney songs playing around the house 24/7 right now."

VIOLET KRASINSKI / VIOLET AFFLECK

While the name Violet was in vogue long before Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles hit theaters in 2004, the oldest child in the superpowers-laden Parr family could've been responsible for the upswing in its popularity.

Need celebrity proof? Just ask Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who welcomed their oldest child Violet Anne in December 2005, or Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, whose second daughter Violet was born in June 2016.

BRONX MOWGLI WENTZ

The name Mowgli rings a very specific bell for anyone who has seen Disney's 1967 animated musical The Jungle Book, the 2016 live-action remake or any other version of the Rudyard Kipling story. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz bestowed the human hero's moniker upon their own child together, Bronx Mowgli, after his November 2008 arrival.

The Disney tie wasn't a surprise, though. The former couple prepared to welcome their first child with a Winnie the Pooh-themed baby shower — and who could forget their Alice in Wonderland wedding, complete with a Mad Hatter cake?

NAHLA AUBRY

Halle Berry's daughter Nahla Ariela — who turned 10 in March — has a twofold special meaning. Not only does Nahla mean "honeybee" in Arabic, but Nala is the female protagonist in 1994's The Lion King.

"We didn't have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital," Berry said after Nahla's birth of herself and now-ex Gabriel Aubry. "For us, it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her."

ESMERALDA GOSLING

Ryan Gosling (a noted Disney superfan) and Eva Mendes' older daughter Esmeralda Amada shares a name with the beautiful dancing Gypsy in 1996's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the film, the justice-seeking, independent Esmeralda teaches Quasimodo that true beauty lies within as opposed to on the outside.

"Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we just think it's a beautiful name," Mendes told Vanity Fair in 2014.

Gosling and Mendes are also parents to daughter Amada Lee.

FLYNN BLOOM

Although Rapunzel's love interest in 2010's Tangled is technically named Eugene Fitzherbert, he goes by the much more outlaw-appropriate Flynn Rider.

Perhaps former couple Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr took a leaf out of Disney's book here for their son Flynn, who was born just a few weeks after the film's release, in January 2011.