During a November 2017 interview on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," Gross asked Greta Gerwig why she chose the nickname "Lady Bird" for her main character (and therefore as the title of her movie). Gross conjectured that most Americans (including herself) were likely to assume that the movie would be about Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Gerwig responded that the Johnson connection didn't occur to her while she was writing the screenplay, though she did admit that she later realized it was a source of confusion for many viewers, especially in Texas (where the Johnsons were from). Gerwig told Gross that she wasn't altogether sure where the name "Lady Bird" came from and that it was "one of the things that's so mysterious about writing." But that after she had written the script, she remembered a Mother Goose nursery rhyme: "Ladybird, ladybird / Fly away home / Your house is on fire / And your children all gone." Gerwig speculated that the poem "had lodged itself somewhere in my brain."

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