A couple has named their children after their interests and loves, including their favourite bands, films and sports stars.
Mum, 32-year-old Pippa Tinsley, and husband, 33-year-old Luke, have named all six of their children, who range from the age of three all the way up to 15, after something close to their hearts.
Both parents are big boxing fans and due to this named their youngest child Rocky-Tyson after Sylvester Stallone's character Rocky Balboa and two-time heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury. Six-year-old son Hatton is also named after a boxing legend, Ricky Hatton.
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Daughter Bambi, however, is named after their mum's favourite Disney film as she knew she wanted one of her girls to have a Disney-inspired name, something she said began as a joke but they quickly fell in love with it.
Eldest son Joel Scofield was named after the lead singer of the band Good Charlotte, Joel Madden, and the main character Michael Schofield from the TV show Prison Break.
Eldest daughter Autumn-Kyla, 13, was picked in honour of her grandmother Sara Houghton, 58, who loved the name and Sara-Lileigh, 11, was named after the same grandmother and is pronounced Sara-Lily, a slightly more unusual way to spell the name.
Pippa from Grantham, Lincolnshire, who is a full-time student studying hairdressing and nails, told The Mirror: "There are so many common names out there, why not stand out a bit?
"We're both obsessed with boxing, so we knew there were going to be boxing-inspired names in there.
"Joel recently did some boxing through school and Hatton has started at Amir Unsworth Boxing Academy where his dad used to take him training and he's now old enough to join.
"I also knew I was going to have a Disney name for one of them and Bambi was on a list of ridiculous names, as a bit of a joke, but it just stuck. Some people still don't believe that's actually her name.
"To be honest she's such a feral child, we should have called her Mowgli. I love all our kids' names and I don't care what anyone thinks, they're fun and unique."
Pippa had her eldest son, 15-year-old Joel, when she was 16 years old, and a massive fan of the US rock band Good Charlotte.
She was also a major fan of the show Prison Break, which she says helped inspire her son's first and middle name.
Mum Pippa is “obsessed” with all things Disney and was determined to have a child named after a character in a film. She said both parents fell in love with the name Bambi.
However, recently, Love Island star Molly-Mae announced their daughter’s name on Instagram, letting her followers know it was Bambi.
Pippa explained: "I've been tagged in so many Molly-Mae stories, it's doing my head in! It's funny, Bambi has always just been our daughter's name, it's never been this talked about.
"At first I liked Belle, but it was my father-in-law's dog's name, so that was off the table. Luke and I both realised we loved the name Bambi, and it definitely suits her."
Two of their children, six-year-old Hatton and three-year-old Rocky-Tyson are named after both real-life and fictional boxers.
Pippa explained that the name Hatton came to her in a dream and while she was not too keen on the name Rocky for their youngest, she soon came around to it.
"We grew up watching Ricky Hatton and I've always been a big fan," she added.
"He is such a big advocate for men's mental health, I just love him. I had a dream we'd called our son Hatton and Luke agreed that it was meant to be.
"I really wasn't sure about Rocky at first, it sounded like a dog's name, but Luke was desperate to name him that because it was his favourite film growing up.
"I had named all of the others, so it felt only fair - as long as I got Tyson in there too, so we compromised. I love Tyson Fury so it's a little nod to all the boxers we find inspirational."
The couple’s two middle daughters, Autumn-Kyla, 13, and Sara-Lileigh, 11, also have their own unique names that were both inspired by their grandmother, but in different ways.
Pippa continued: "They're not quite as unusual, but both are still very special to us and have lots of meaning behind them. My mum Sara had a cancer scare, and I wanted to name one of my children after her.
"Mum also helped me come up with the spelling for Leliegh - it's so different and no one else spells it like that. Autumn was again, inspired by my mum, who wanted to call me Autumn but went with Pippa in the end.
"I was going Autumn Whitney, after Whitney Houston, but then the character Whitney joined Eastender, which put me off the name.
"I don’t like associating their names with anyone else. I love how different all of their names and none of them are really outrageous. They're all really special and have a story behind them."
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