Thursday, January 9, 2014

Put your horns up! Rock Band Names!

Hi everyone! It's Gabby, again! Previously I did a blog post on names from lead singers of rock groups click here for that post.  NOW I'm going to do actual band names that I think would be pretty awesome as names.  I'll also provide a popular song from each group.  Some of them are actual names and have meanings, some are just regular words, and some are just... well... the name.

Girls:

Evanescence
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.



Nirvana
Origin: Indian Sanskrit
Meaning: Place of great bliss
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  32 babies were born with this name.



Metallica
Origin of band name: Drummer Lars Ulrich had a friend that was brainstorming band names and this came up
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.



Pantera
Origin of band name: Drummer Vinnie Paul admired this 1970's exotic sports car
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.



Apocalyptica
Origin of band name: Unknown
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.



Huntress
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Woman who hunts
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.




Boys:

Valentine (Bullet for My Valentine)
Origin: English
Meaning: Strength, Health
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  31 babies were born with this name.



Stone (Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, Queens of the Stone Age)
Origin: English
Meaning: Rock
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  167 babies were born with this name.







Aerosmith
Origin of band name: Drummer Joey Kramer and his high school girlfriend were listening to "Aerial Ballet" and they were thinking of cool band names with "aero" in them.  Aerosmith came up.
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.



Crue (Mötley Crüe)
Origin: American
Meaning: Group of people
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  62 babies were born with this name.



Seether
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Someone or something that feels or shows strong emotion (mainly anger) even though you try to control it
Origin of band name: Originally named Saron Gas, had to change name to Seether due to pressure from record label after 9/11 attacks.  Seether is a song by Veruca Salt, which the band loves.
Popularity in USA: Not in the top 1000.  No babies were born with this name.






I hope you enjoyed this list! What do you think of the names I listed? 

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