Lisa Marie Presley, and husband Michael Lockwood, have announced the names of the their newborn twin daughters, according to People. The girls, who were born October 7, are named Finley and Harper. The twins are the first children for Presley, 40, and Lockwood, 47.

Finley is an Irish name meaning ‘white’ or ‘fair’ warrior, and is usually given to a boy. Harper is an old English name meaning ‘harp player,’ and it’s considered a ‘unisex’ name. Harper has been showing up a lot this year on the celebrity baby name circuit — Dixie Chicks singer Martie Maguire named her daughter Harper Rosie, while actress Laura Allen named her son Harper Edward. Harper is also a name that Freakonomics authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner predicted will be a top baby name by 2015.

When it comes to baby names, Lisa Marie Presley is up there with the trend-setters.

In other celebrity baby names news, country music star Dierks Bentley, 32, and his wife Cassidy, 33, welcomed their first child, a daughter, in Nashville on October 4. The girl is named Evalyn Day — after her maternal grandmother (at least the Evalyn part).

Meanwhile, Paris Bennett of American Idol fame (Princess P) welcomed a daughter on October 6. Her name is Egypt. Bennett’s family said the baby’s father wishes to stay out of the public eye. Can’t say I blame him!

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Lisa Marie Presley has told People that she is expecting her third child this fall, even as she expresses bitterness over “cruel comments” about her expanding physique, which she told the magazine prompted her to reveal her pregnancy to end the rumors.

This will be the third child for Presley, 40, who has a daughter, Danielle Riley, 18, and a son, Benjamin Storm, 15, from her marriage to musician Danny Keough, which ended in divorce in 1994.

She was briefly married to Michael Jackson, from 1994 to 1996, and, for less than three months, to Nicolas Cage. She married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood in 2006.

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