January 13, 2008
Huge Week For Celebrity Baby Names
More than a half dozen celebrities welcomed new babies in the past week. But with the exception of Nicole Richie’s new daughter, Harlow Winter Kate, the celebrity baby names that were ushered in are woefully lacking in creativity and originality.
As the world knows, Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman had a son on January 12, and named him Max Liron. No comment on the overused Max; what’s with the name Liron? It’s actually a Hebrew name, meaning ‘my joy’ or ‘my song.’ That’s refreshing — they should have saved Max for a middle name.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden welcomed a daugher, and chose the unusual, but hip name Harlow. And they threw Winter in there for good measure, perhaps to remind themselves of when she was born. Whatever the reason, they get points for originality. Of course, Patricia Arquette has a daugher named Harlow, and I recall that Joely Fisher named her daughter True Harlow back in 2006.
Comedian David Alan Grier and his wife Christine Kim named their baby daugher Luisa Danbi — the latter being a Korean name meaning ’sweet rain.’ I notice the word ‘rain’ creeping into celebrity baby names these days — Brooke Burke and David Charvet named their daughter Heaven Rain toward the end of last year.
The actress Courtney Thorne-Smith (According to Jim) and her husband Roger Fishman named their January 11 arrival Jacob Emerson. Stella McCartney went with the name Beckett, for her son, born January 8, as did actress Diane Farr in 2006. Beckett is one of those trendy new names that is in serious danger of becoming outmoded really quickly.
Meanwhile, Toni Collette, star of Little Miss Sunshine, and her musician husband Dave Galafassi chose Sage Florence for their first child, a daughter, born January 10. And on January 4, British actress Samantha Morton gave birth to a girl, and, perhaps in keeping with current British baby naming trends (very retro) named her Edie.
A lot of celebrity babies, but not many cool new celebrity baby names. Still, the year is young. And a lot of celebrities babies are in the wings, so to speak.
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I read elsewhere that Nicole & Joel actually used “Harlow Winter Kate”. Is the Kate part accurate?
You’re right, and I updated the blog to include it.
I think Nicole named her baby girl a pretty cute name my oldest is named Destiny Alexis Klinglesmith,
My 1 year old is named Hailey Mary-Lynn Williams middle name is named after my mom Mary the second part is my middle name and the reason I have mary there is because she past away before she was born and I wanted my baby to have a piece of my mother always with her
You people should be ashamed of yourself, bandying about the choices in names that people are giving their children. They don’t need to be creative to satisfy the whims of some pretentious little snot sitting around judging whether or not a CHILD’s name is cool or creative or not. As long as they have some meaning to the parents, thats all you need concern your silly little head with.
I was just wondering what the deal was with “Max” being overused. I have only heard that Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera using that name.