Quick roundup time — hey, it’s August! No time for pics today. Think of us as the wire service for celebrity baby names.

Killers guitarist Brandon Flowers, and wife Tana, welcomed a son and named him Gunner. Gunner? Flowers told People they needed a name that “combats” Flowers. They got that.

A son for Jennifer Hudson and her fiance, David Otunga. Named David Daniel.

Must be baby boy week. A little guy for Watchmen star Patrick Wilson and his wife, actress Dagmara Dominczyk. Name is Kassian McCarrell. To go with big bro Kalin. Not sure where they came up with Kassian.

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News just broken by People that Daniel Baldwin, and wife Joanne Smith, have welcomed a second child together, a girl, named Finley Rae Martineau. She was born this morning in Los Angeles.

As soon as I saw the name Finley I thought, that’s an up-and-coming name. Sure enough, Lisa Marie Presley chose it for one of her twin daughters, born last October.

A quick check of the Social Security baby name database shows the girl’s name Finley, while still an outlier, is indeed moving up the ranks of the top 1000 baby names in the U.S. With the new Baldwin girl now sporting the name Finley, watch for the “celeb effect” over the coming year. Hot name rising!

Finley Rae joins big sister Avis Ann, age one, at home.

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In an otherwise mundane week in celebrity baby name land, where we saw Tommy Hilfiger and his wife Dee name their son Sebastian Thomas, it was refreshing and inspirational to see star chef Tom Colicchio, of Bravo TV’s Top Chef, and his wife Lori Silverbush, come up with such a cool baby name.

The first child for the couple, a son born August 1, is named Luka Bodhi.

Luka  is a Russian or Balkan variant of the Greek name “Luke”. Bodhi, according to some sources, is Sanskrit for “awakening” or “enlightenment.”

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