March 18, 2007
Celebrity Baby Names Trivia
Baby names authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran are popping up all over at the moment, promoting their new book The Baby Names Bible: The Ultimate Guide By America’s Baby Naming Experts (winner of the self-aggrandizing book title award, 2007).
Here’s an interview they did with the Chicago Sun-Times about celebrity baby names. It actually contains some interesting trivia about how particular baby names were chosen, including David and Victoria Beckham’s Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz; the now-split Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s Ava; Nicholas Cage’s now boring Kal-El story; Tom Cruise and Katie Holme’s Suri, especially the pointy-nosed bit, which looks like they got from my posts; and the ever-fascinating Penn Jillette-Moxie Crimefighter saga.
One thing I didn’t know — Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale bought a hat with the name Kingston on it several years ago, while they were recording in Jamaica. They were planning that far ahead. That’s what I call being on top of your celebrity baby name planning.
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