A Household Name

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Halle Berry was named after a department store.

“My mother was shopping in Halle Brothers in Cleveland,” she told the New York Daily News. “She saw the bags and thought, ‘That’s what I’m going to name my child.'”

(By the way: “No one ever says it right. It’s Halle, like Sally.”)