Jessica Chastain‘s claim about a popular baby name isn’t holdin’ water — while she says lots of fans are naming kids after her “Interstellar” character … Babynames.com says that’s not the case.
The online database for baby names tells TMZ … the name “Murph” — Chastain’s character’s name from the hit 2014 movie — isn’t the big hit she thinks it is.
Babynames.com used the Social Security Office data, and it says “Murph” didn’t make the top 1,000 names … for men or women in any year.
And, the site also says only one person added the name to their favorite name list in the 2 years after “Interstellar” came out, and another added it last year — so, people aren’t even seemingly looking at it as a contender.
ICYMI … Jessica attended the Breakthrough Prize Honors last Saturday — and, she told People couples have approached her and said they named their child after her character.
Babynames.com says it’s definitely not a widespread trend … even though it might seem that way to JC.
Not to say Jessica’s lying — frankly, it makes sense someone who named their kid after Murph would likely want to tell Jessica about it, and, to her, it would feel like a growing trend.
National data doesn’t reflect that, though — so, it’s more like a Murph anecdote, than Murph’s law!
