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The impact that film and TV characters can have on what people choose to name their babies can be pretty puzzling, no more so than when it comes to Game of Thrones. And nobody is more surprised by this than one of the stars of the show, Emilia Clarke.

Last year, according to the Office of National Statistics, 69 people in the UK named their child Khaleesi (which is the character played by Clarke), while Daenerys (another name for her character) was also popular. Khaleesi is a particularly strange choice in Clarke's opinion.

"It's mad," Clarke told the BBC. "I mean, what are you going to call her for short? I mean really think about it, it's quite a mouthful to say that name."

Clarke says she understands why someone would call their child Daenerys a little more: "I sort of, I get that slightly more. But Khaleesi is such a, you know I'd better continue to be doing well on that, otherwise there's a whole lot of kids who are going to be like, you really messed us up with this one!"

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Clarke – who is currently promoted Solo: A Star Wars Story – admitted that even she doesn't know how Game of Thrones is going to end, with the story still being kept under wraps ahead of the final season.



"The last season of the show is so shrouded in such secrecy that not even the cast knows [how the story will finish]. So I sort of think that has surpassed even Star Wars top secret-ness, if that's a word?"

Watch Clarke in the trailer for the new Star Wars film below.

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