UPDATE: February 29. Confirmed! J.Lo’s twins are named Max and Emme!

UPDATE: February 25. It’s now Monday morning, and Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have still not officially released the names of the twins. As some of you have commented, the names Max and Emme are almost identical to the names of two Hispanic kids on PBS Dragon Tales. (The only difference is that the girl in the show spells Emmy with a “Y”). What gives? I can’t believe it’s a coincidence. Are Lopez and Anthony big Dragon Tales fans? Or is the whole rumor about “Max and Emme” built on shaky ground? I think it’s the latter, and I think in the next day or so we’ll hear the twins are named something entirely different.UPDATE: February 23. It’s Saturday morning, the twins are more than a day old, and their names have still not been released to the media. The blogosphere is going crazy with curiosity. Our own poll (panel at left) shows a polarity of opinion on the names Max and Emme — equal numbers loving the names and hating the names, with fewer people split on the two. And in case you missed it, baby names book author Pamela Redmond Satran made a blatant pitch to JLo in the Huffington Post earlier this month, trashing the names Max and Emme and urging Lopez to call her! She even offers to send her “the brand new edition of Cool Baby Names for free.” Wow, nice offer! That’s a saving of $9.95, JLo! But seriously folks, this one is hot. I haven’t seen this much fervor over a celebrity baby name since Shiloh Nouvel.

POSTED: February 22. The twins have finally arrived for Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony — born early this morning, February 22, during a snowstorm on Long Island, New York.The babies are the first for Lopez, 38, and the fourth and fifth for Marc Anthony, 39.

But the big question, so far unanswered, is what the twins will be named. We blogged a few weeks ago about Jennifer Lopez’s baby names, when the rumor was going around that the boy will be named Max and the daughter named Emme. But so far, that has not been confirmed. Stay tuned for details — as soon as we know the names for sure, we’ll be posting the news!

JLo and Anthony were married in June, 2004. They announced their pregnancy in a well-hyped media event during a Miami concert on November 8.

Take our poll — what do you think of the names Max and Emme? (You’ll find the poll on the panel, at left, down near the bottom above our fabulous “Name Explorer” widget!).

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It’s not often that celebs give us the rationale behind their baby name choices — heck, Holly Hunter still hasn’t even revealed the names of her twins, yet, and they must be like, sixteen or something now.

So it was a pleasant surprise when actress and model Milla Jovovich explained on her blog recently why she and fiance Paul Anderson named their baby girl Ever Gabo. If you recall, we posed that very question just after the baby was born last month.

Well here’s the answer — along with a cute picture of the baby which yes, I grabbed from Jovovich’s blog and downloaded. (Something I almost never do. I actually pay for photos I use, unlike a lot of celebrity sites I could mention).

The name Ever, according to Jovovich, is a Scottish boy’s name. (Why they chose it for their daughter, only they know, but who cares — no-one’s ever heard of it anyway). And the name Gabo, which I astutely determined to be in honor of the dead Russian sculptor, Naum Gabo, was actually a totally made-up name. I love it! It’s a combination name formed from Jovovich’s parents: Galina and Bogie.

Keeping up the family tradition.

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Actress Drea de Matteo, who starred as Adriana in The Sopranos, is a first time mom, according to EOnline.

The 35 year-old actress, and her musician/boyfriend Shooter Jennings, welcomed their first child on November 28. The little girl is named Alabama Gypsy Rose. Now there’s a celebrity baby name a kid can be proud of! Way to go, guys. That’s a shoo-in for our second annual Ten Most Notable Celebrity Baby Names of the Year, coming in early January.

In case you’re wondering, Jennings is the son of the late country star Waylon Jennings.

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Actor Lou Diamond Phillips, and his new wife, Yvonne Marie, kept this news pretty quiet — a baby girl, the first child for the couple, was born back on October 9. The couple married on August 16 this year, just two weeks after Phillips finalized his divorce from his first wife.

The little girl is named Indigo Sanara.

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We asked our readers a few weeks ago to help Jill Hennessy and her husband, Paolo Mastropietro, come up with a name for their new baby — and unfortunately, it seems they didn’t take any of our readers’ advice. Too bad! There were some great suggestions there.

The couple have kept the news very quiet — their second son was born back on November 21, according to People, and very few details have been released.

What has been revealed is his name — the newborn is named Gianni. Hey, that doesn’t even rhyme with Mastropietro, which is what the Crossing Jordan star said she was looking for. They could have gone with my personal favorite from our readers — Mario Lorenzo. Now there’s a name worthy of a celebrity baby!

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Well, you can’t blame the guy. He’s named Usher Raymond IV, which I suppose means he was preceded by Usher Raymonds I, II, and III. That kind of pedigree would put a lot of pressure on anybody. I can’t see Usher breaking the tradition, and naming his son Otis or something.

So, Usher Raymond V it is, or so People reports, in its annoucement of the birth of a baby boy — their first child — for newlyweds Usher, and Tameka Foster. Little Usher Raymond V was born yesterday, November 27, in an Atlanta hospital.

Usher, 29, and Foster, 36, had announced the pregnancy this summer. They tied the knot in Atlanta on September 1.

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UPDATE: November 12. Elizabeth Hasselbeck called in to The View today, to announce that her new baby’s name is Taylor Thomas. Wow. That was certainly worth the anticipation.

Taylor, by the way, is one of America’s top ten unisex baby names. It is favored much more by girls than boys, however.

Original Post, November 11. Following in the tackiest of celebrity traditions, in the footsteps of such Barnumizers as NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon and ice skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck is wringing every ounce of P.R. value from her celebrity birth.

Hasselbeck, 30, and NFL quarterback husband Tim, 29, welcomed their second child on November 9 in Arizona, and in a publicity stunt worthy of E! News’s Samantha Harris, whom Fame Crawler called “the greatest pregnant poser of all time,” Hasselbeck will be calling in to The View on Monday to announce the baby name.

Maybe ABC should take it one step further. Why not set it up like American Idol, and let everyone vote on the baby name, as soon as Hasselbeck announces it? That would make for exciting television!

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I never would have guessed that Dennis Quaid and Texas oil billionaire and one-time corporate raider T. Boone Pickens were pals, but stranger stuff happens, and maybe they’re BFF. How else to explain the name that Quaid and his wife Kimberly chose for their newborn son — Thomas Boone? As in T. Boone.

In case you’re wondering, the ‘T’ in T. Boone Pickens also stands for Thomas.

T. Boone Quaid was born November 8 in Santa Monica, along with twin sister Zoe Grace.

The twins, who were born via ‘gestational carrier,’ are the second and third children for Quaid, 53, who also has a son, Jack Henry, 17, with ex-wife Meg Ryan.

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CNN’s Headline News anchor Nancy Grace, 48, gave birth to twins — a boy and a girl — two months early, on Sunday, November 4.

John David weighed 5lb 1oz, and Lucy Elizabeth weighed just 2lb 15oz at birth. The early delivery was prompted by medical concerns about a pulmonary edema which Grace developed during pregnancy.

All three are doing well, according to Grace’s husband, investment banker David Linch.

People reports that John is named for ‘John the Revelator,’ also known as ‘John the Divine,’ author of the biblical Book of Revelations.

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Posted on November 06th 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES, CELEBRITY BABY NAMES | Comments(18)

That’s right — the name is Ever. Actress and model Milla Jovovich, 31, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on November 3 in Los Angeles. It’s the first child for Ukranian-born Jovovich, and her fiance, Paul Anderson, 42.

To celebrate the happy event, the couple named their daughter Ever Gabo.

What does it mean? I’m not sure. The best reference I could find to ‘Gabo’ was a Russian-born sculptor named Naum Gabo, (1890-1977) who was a pioneer of the Kinetic Art movement. Kinetic art refers to sculptures with moving parts. Maybe they want their daughter to have a lot of energy!

The couple met in 2002, when Anderson was directing, and Jovovich was starring, in the first Resident Evil movie.

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