"... Yates should smoke a whole lot less pot. And maybe be brought up on child abuse charges."

Paula Yates died a few years back.(Drugs plus alcohol).

A pity you need only working ovaries to have children.

"Eugénie" is a name that has been around for very long time. See, e.g., Eugénie de Montijo (the wife of Napoleon III), the title character in Balzac's "Eugénie Grandet," the Russian actress Eugénie Leontovich, etc., etc. The average kid in an American daycare might not be named Eugénie, but the name does not belong in a list with "Moon Unit" and "Fifi Trixibelle."

Maybe Gremlin was just a rather funny pet name...my dad called one of my sisters Beetle for a while when she was little.

It could be a nickname:

I used to call my son "chunky monkey" during his infant/toddler transition or "monkey" for short. Needless to say, that isn't his name.

21. The little Jillette girl

22. Pilot Inspector Riesgraf-Lee, son of Beth Riesgraf and Jason Lee (of "My Name is Earl" fame).

I have less of a problem when weird celebrities name their children with odd names, as they are probably going to end up weird as well.

23. Jett Travolta, son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. He can hang with Pilot Inspector, what fun! o_O

I suspect Gremlin is a nickname. I still call my 7 year old Monkey on occasion.

I'm surprised the list doesn't have Kal-el Coppola Cage, son of Nicholas Cage.

Zowie Bowie started calling himself Joey as a teenager, he now goes by the name Duncan Jones. Source Wikipedia.

I think I have you beat on the most weird/appalling name. At the SF Zoo a few years ago, I heard a mom admonish her daughter, Beethoven. As in "Beethoven, I told you not to do that!" What person, in their right mind, names their child Beethoven?

I still affectionately call my boy Dayton "Dago". That raises a few eyebrows.

Didn't Grace Slick call her kid "god"?

No, Grace named her daughter "Amerika".

I call my son "Pumpkin" sometimes, but that's not his name...

What's so weird about "Rocco"? Obviously the compiler of this list isn't of Italian ancestry, and he/she probably doesn't even know anyone of Italian ancestry. Probably never visited Brooklyn, either.

Dweezil was actually going to be the name of Franks band. After he decided on Mothers of invention, he used Dweezil for his first (and last) son. Thought you would want to know.
Rusty

Actually, Dweezil is Frank's older son. The younger son is Ahmet. Moon Unit is the oldest child, and the youngest sister is Diva Muffin. Don't ask me, I'm only the piano player. o_O

Frank said his eldest son was named for one of his wife's toes. A parakeet was called Bird Reynolds, and the poodle, Frunobulax, was known as "Fruny".

Rundgren had a mutt named Furburger. We imagine him calling out to the pooch in the park....

I'm imagining what came to his call...

Paula Yates is actually already dead and will never be called to account for her naming crimes. She committed suicide/died of an overdose several years ago. Peaches is a partygoing It Girl feted as the British celebrity culture's "voice of youth," and occasionally writes a colum for some of the London papers, although I haven't noticed anything particularly significant in what she says.

Here, now, my best showbiz gossip, from a person of whom I know little about a person of whom I know zero: Kathy Griffin said Peaches Geldof is a self-made millionaire.

I suspect Gremlin is a nickname

She used it like it was his name, ordering him to do something.

What did Peaches millionaire in?

Dunno... Wikipedia says she's only 18, so I'm probably remembering this wrong.

Millionaire makes a fabulous verb, though.

Thank you. I enjoyed verbing it.

I agree with Gail : my grand-daughter does not belong to this list.

Je suis d'accord.

Given what I named my daughter, I can't cast any stones. No, I'm not telling. Not only is it too unique to post on the internet, it embarrasses me though fortunately not her. She actually likes it. True story though: new on the job after returning to my home state half a dozen years ago I'm coming back from ladies' room and I hear one of my coworkers mention my daughters' first and middle name. Now apart maybe... But together, well, there's probably only one in the world but definitely can't be two in a medium sized city so I stopped short and said what about xxxx xxxx? Turns out we were in the maternity ward together a couple of decades ago and her son (born the day before my daughter) bitches about his common as dirt name. The birth announcements were on the same page of the paper and whenever he gripes, she whips it out (yes, she saves those sentimental things) and says your name could be this. When I told her what it would have been had my daughter been a boy (even worse I fear), the groans all around were probably heard in the next office. What was I thinking when I was pregnant? I swear I was insane the whole time.

Crid,
Frank said his eldest son was named for one of his wife's toes
Well I don’t know Crid. I read this on a new surround sound release of old Zappa recordings. The release was put out by Dweezil. He said he found the box of tapes and it had his name on it. That was how, after a little investigation, that he found out his dad had intended to name the Mothers Dweezil.
Flynne,
Thanks for the correction. I don’t know much about the family. All I know is what is written on the albums, and DVD surround sounds. O plan to see Zappa doing Zappa next month here in Houston.

No problem, Rusty. I have an old libretto from Thingfish, that I got from Barfko Swill. When I went to the website, there was a link to Frank's biography, so I had a look at it. That's were all the kids were listed, along with their year of birth.

...years. sheesh. o_O

Concerning Bruce Willis and Demi's Moore'children, I must say that my french ears are totally cringing at the sound of "Scout Larue"... In French, a scout is a teenage boy in uniform, with a severe addiction to camping in the mud and Baden Powell. And Larue in one word means nothing, but with just a little space, it means "the street ".
That being a girl's name ?
Ok, I give up...

Reminds me of a hippy cabal, the children of whom I am friends with. We have, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Lavender and Angelicka Ruth (for root). The only boy produced by this cabal was beaten severely by other kids in school, until he learned to fight back, because of the name Basil. Parents on acid, should not name their own kids.