The Name is Bond. James Bond
The fictional British spy’s name originally belonged to an ornithologist, an authority on birds of the West Indies. The author Ian Fleming who lived in Jamaica was an avid birder himself. His book was going along well, he just wanted a name for his protagonist when he chanced upon his field guide “Birds of The West Indies.” Apparently, he contacted the real James Bond about using his name in the books, and Bond replied to him, “Fine with it.”
Here is what the NYT has to say about the christening .
Mr. Fleming wrote years later to Mr. Bond’s wife, Mary Fanning Wickham Bond: ”It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born.” ”In return,” he wrote, ”I can only offer you or James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purposes you may think fit. Perhaps one day your husband will discover a particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion by calling it Ian Fleming.”