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“That’s really the theme of the nursery: what Monaco is about. Family, moments, traveling, discussions, important key points in my life and Jeezy’s life that brought Monaco here,” she added.
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Ender is a Turkish name that means “extremely rare,” according toShe Knows, which the singer hinted in their Instagram caption. Ridley is of English origin meaning “wood clearing.”
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“It was last August when [Taylor] and I found out we were having a boy (it’s also Taylor’s birth month) and we always loved the name… so it was settled very early on in our book,” she wrote. Then for our anniversary in November, T gifted me with this blanket with the ‘A’ (for Amanda) made from extra material from my wedding dress and ‘T’ (for Taylor) from his wedding shirt. Felt like a very fitting amalgamation of our whole story. I can’t wait to pass this on to our sweet August one day."
04of 35X Æ A-12Elon Musk and son X Æ A-12 (inset: Grimes).Twitter. Inset: Getty ImagesWith a name like this, Grimes and Elon Musk’s first child together (the sixth for Musk) is destined to go into tech just like his dad.The pair chose an unconventional name for their son, X Æ A-12, who was born on May 4, 2020.In a tweet, thenew mom broke down the name for fans, explaining its meaning down to the last letter.“X, the unknown variable,” the new momwrote.“Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence),” Grimes continued, before sharing that a part of her son’s name is a nod to the CIA’s Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance plane. “A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.“Grimes added that the “A” in the name also represents “Archangel” — which she said is her “favorite song” — while the number “12” stood for the Chinese zodiac sign of the rat. (According to the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Metal Rat.)
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X Æ A-12
Elon Musk and son X Æ A-12 (inset: Grimes).Twitter. Inset: Getty Images
With a name like this, Grimes and Elon Musk’s first child together (the sixth for Musk) is destined to go into tech just like his dad.
The pair chose an unconventional name for their son, X Æ A-12, who was born on May 4, 2020.
In a tweet, thenew mom broke down the name for fans, explaining its meaning down to the last letter.
“X, the unknown variable,” the new momwrote.
“Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence),” Grimes continued, before sharing that a part of her son’s name is a nod to the CIA’s Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance plane. “A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.”
Grimes added that the “A” in the name also represents “Archangel” — which she said is her “favorite song” — while the number “12” stood for the Chinese zodiac sign of the rat. (According to the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Metal Rat.)
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Kulture Kiari
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True
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It turns out that the unconventional name is actually a family tradition: “She told me it was my great-grandfather’s first name and my grandfather’s middle name. It stuck with me for my entire pregnancy and was the only one I couldn’t get out of my head,” Kardashian explained.
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Stormi
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“I feel like there were a lot of other names that I might have even liked better, to be honest, but I feel like Stormi picked her own name, like, it was just her name,” Jenner explained.
08of 35ChicagoKim Kardashian/InstagramThe youngest of the Kardashian-West children was named Chicago after her parents considered — and then discarded — several family names. “We were gonna name her Jo, ‘cause [of] my grandma, Mary Jo. Or we were gonna go with Grace — and then it was Chicago,” Kim Kardashian explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We ended up with Chicago.“However, there was one more family tribute that they considered: Donda. “[Kanye] really wanted his mother’s name, and I love that name too, but I just wasn’t sure,” Kardashian explained. “It’s so much to live up to.” Ultimately, the couple settled on the name of West’s hometown, as “that is a place that made him, and a place that he remembers his family from.”
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Chicago
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The youngest of the Kardashian-West children was named Chicago after her parents considered — and then discarded — several family names. “We were gonna name her Jo, ‘cause [of] my grandma, Mary Jo. Or we were gonna go with Grace — and then it was Chicago,” Kim Kardashian explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We ended up with Chicago.”
However, there was one more family tribute that they considered: Donda. “[Kanye] really wanted his mother’s name, and I love that name too, but I just wasn’t sure,” Kardashian explained. “It’s so much to live up to.” Ultimately, the couple settled on the name of West’s hometown, as “that is a place that made him, and a place that he remembers his family from.”
09of 35Rumi & SirBeyoncé InstagramDuring an interview with the Rap Radar podcast in August 2017, JAY-Z opened up about his family life — including the inspiration behind the names of his and Beyoncé’s twins, Rumi and Sir. While daughter Rumi was named after the couple’s favorite poet, son Sir was named as such because he was little born with swagger. “Sir was like, man, come out the gate,” the rapper explained. “He carries himself like that. He just came out, like, Sir.”
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Rumi & Sir
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During an interview with the Rap Radar podcast in August 2017, JAY-Z opened up about his family life — including the inspiration behind the names of his and Beyoncé’s twins, Rumi and Sir. While daughter Rumi was named after the couple’s favorite poet, son Sir was named as such because he was little born with swagger. “Sir was like, man, come out the gate,” the rapper explained. “He carries himself like that. He just came out, like, Sir.”
10of 35BearHenri Tullio/Paris Match via Getty ImagesThough he revealed that he had originally wanted “a more traditional name,” Liam Payne and his then-girlfriend, British singer, Cheryl,decided to nametheir son Bear for one memorable reason: “The reason she chose Bear in the end was because Bear is a name that when you leave a room, you won’t forget. And I like that,” he toldTotal Access. And while Payne admitted that he was hesitant about the name at first, “Now I look at him and he’s Bear. You become your name as you get older anyway.”
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Bear
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Though he revealed that he had originally wanted “a more traditional name,” Liam Payne and his then-girlfriend, British singer, Cheryl,decided to nametheir son Bear for one memorable reason: “The reason she chose Bear in the end was because Bear is a name that when you leave a room, you won’t forget. And I like that,” he toldTotal Access. And while Payne admitted that he was hesitant about the name at first, “Now I look at him and he’s Bear. You become your name as you get older anyway.”
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Dimitri
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12of 35Dream RenéeBlac Chyna, Rob Kardashian, their daughter and Minnie Mouse.Blac Chyna InstagramRob Kardashianand former fiancée Blac Chyna’s first child is actually a “Dream.” “Rob and Chyna had the name Dream for a long time,“a source told PEOPLE. “They named her Dream because they’ve always said she’s a dream come true.”
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Dream Renée
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Rob Kardashianand former fiancée Blac Chyna’s first child is actually a “Dream.” “Rob and Chyna had the name Dream for a long time,“a source told PEOPLE. “They named her Dream because they’ve always said she’s a dream come true.”
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Dusty Rose
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Reign Aston
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James
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16of 35PaulineMichael Buckner/GettyWhat’s in this name? For Vin Diesel, a lot of emotion. After the actor and his longtime girlfriend, Paloma Jiménez, welcomed their third child together in March 2015, they decided to name her in memory of the actor’s lateFast and the Furiouscostar, Paul Walker. “He was in the room [when she was born],” Diesel said on Today. “There’s no other person that I was thinking about as I was cutting this umbilical cord. I just … knew he was there. It felt like a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world.”
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Pauline
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What’s in this name? For Vin Diesel, a lot of emotion. After the actor and his longtime girlfriend, Paloma Jiménez, welcomed their third child together in March 2015, they decided to name her in memory of the actor’s lateFast and the Furiouscostar, Paul Walker. “He was in the room [when she was born],” Diesel said on Today. “There’s no other person that I was thinking about as I was cutting this umbilical cord. I just … knew he was there. It felt like a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world.”
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Summer Rain
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18of 35Esmeralda AmadaDara Kushner/INFYou know that the child of two people as good looking asEva MendesandRyan Goslingis incredibly beautiful. So it’s fitting that their daughter got her name from another stunning woman, this one from literature: “Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel,The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Mendes told The Violet Files of the choice. And Amada, which comes from Mendes’s grandma, means “beloved.”
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Esmeralda Amada
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You know that the child of two people as good looking asEva MendesandRyan Goslingis incredibly beautiful. So it’s fitting that their daughter got her name from another stunning woman, this one from literature: “Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel,The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Mendes told The Violet Files of the choice. And Amada, which comes from Mendes’s grandma, means “beloved.”
19of 35Avri RoelLionel Hahn/Abaca/Startraks PhotoWe’re used to unique spellings (Khloé and Kourtney raised our tolerance for that), butRobert Downey Jr.and his wife Susan got even more creative with the their daughter: It’s pronounced Ay-vree (like Avery, without the middle vowel). But it’s her middle name where the real linguistic fun happens. The first two letters are for the actor’s father, Robert Downey Sr., his wife Rosemary, and Susan’s mom Rosie. The “el” part comes from the actor’s mother Elsie and Susan’s father, Eliot Levin. So many shoutouts with so few letters.
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Avri Roel
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We’re used to unique spellings (Khloé and Kourtney raised our tolerance for that), butRobert Downey Jr.and his wife Susan got even more creative with the their daughter: It’s pronounced Ay-vree (like Avery, without the middle vowel). But it’s her middle name where the real linguistic fun happens. The first two letters are for the actor’s father, Robert Downey Sr., his wife Rosemary, and Susan’s mom Rosie. The “el” part comes from the actor’s mother Elsie and Susan’s father, Eliot Levin. So many shoutouts with so few letters.
20of 35Wyatt IsabelleFrazer Harrison/GettyApparentlyAshton KutcherandMila Kunisdo their best brainstorming on the basketball court. “I had to get the creative juices going, so we were going to a Lakers game, and I just started listing off anything and everything I saw: ‘sign, truck, wall, door … ' She [was] like, ‘Shut up!’ Then I was like, ‘I’ve got a really dumb idea. What about Wyatt?’ She goes, ‘That’s it,'” Kutcher explained of coming up with a name for their daughter. Her middle name, however, is less random. Kunis’s grandfather is Yitzhak, which translates to Isaac, so an I name is in honor of him.
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Wyatt Isabelle
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ApparentlyAshton KutcherandMila Kunisdo their best brainstorming on the basketball court. “I had to get the creative juices going, so we were going to a Lakers game, and I just started listing off anything and everything I saw: ‘sign, truck, wall, door … ' She [was] like, ‘Shut up!’ Then I was like, ‘I’ve got a really dumb idea. What about Wyatt?’ She goes, ‘That’s it,'” Kutcher explained of coming up with a name for their daughter. Her middle name, however, is less random. Kunis’s grandfather is Yitzhak, which translates to Isaac, so an I name is in honor of him.
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Rose Dorothy
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Saint Lazslo
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23of 35FrankieAlberto E. Rodriguez/GettyWhat goes well with Olive? In naming their second daughter,Drew Barrymoreand ex-husband Will Kopelman wanted something that didn’t clash with their first-born. “Every [name] started sounding like a color or a food. Hazel’s a great name. No, that’s two shades of green. And I love the name Pepper so much, but we were like, ‘Olive and Pepper. Like that’s two things you find in a pantry,'” the actress said. The cool unisex choice they settled on also has a family tie: “My mother-in-law’s maiden name is Franco and I love her so much that it reminds me of her as well,” Barrymore explained.
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Frankie
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What goes well with Olive? In naming their second daughter,Drew Barrymoreand ex-husband Will Kopelman wanted something that didn’t clash with their first-born. “Every [name] started sounding like a color or a food. Hazel’s a great name. No, that’s two shades of green. And I love the name Pepper so much, but we were like, ‘Olive and Pepper. Like that’s two things you find in a pantry,'” the actress said. The cool unisex choice they settled on also has a family tie: “My mother-in-law’s maiden name is Franco and I love her so much that it reminds me of her as well,” Barrymore explained.
24of 35Otis AlexanderAstrid Stawiarz/GettyOlivia Wildeand Jason Sudeikis made a musical choice for their son, naming him after the legendary 1960s singer Otis Redding. “I was a 10-year-old kid with posters of Otis Redding on my wall,” the actress told PEOPLE.
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Otis Alexander
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Olivia Wildeand Jason Sudeikis made a musical choice for their son, naming him after the legendary 1960s singer Otis Redding. “I was a 10-year-old kid with posters of Otis Redding on my wall,” the actress told PEOPLE.
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Winnie Rose
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Ace Knute
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28of 35NorthEvan Agostini/Invision/APPushingkonventionsaside, parentsKim KardashianandKanye Westwent in quite a different direction whenthey namedtheir daughter,born on June 15, 2013, after the cardinal direction. Though theyonce quashed rumorsthat they were considering the cheeky moniker, Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner, revealed she’s “pro North” during an appearance onThe View. “North means the highest power,” she explained. “[Kim] says that North is their highest point together.”
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North
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Pushingkonventionsaside, parentsKim KardashianandKanye Westwent in quite a different direction whenthey namedtheir daughter,born on June 15, 2013, after the cardinal direction. Though theyonce quashed rumorsthat they were considering the cheeky moniker, Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner, revealed she’s “pro North” during an appearance onThe View. “North means the highest power,” she explained. “[Kim] says that North is their highest point together.”
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Olive
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Harper Seven
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31of 35Rainbow AuroraGregg SegalNow,that’sa colorful moniker. “I wanted to give my daughter a unique name,” mom Holly Madison explainedtoE! Newsdays after the March 5, 2013 arrival of her daughter with then-husband Pasquale Rotella. “Growing up, there was a girl in my school named Rainbow, and I was so envious of that name. I thought it was so pretty and unique!”
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Rainbow Aurora
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Now,that’sa colorful moniker. “I wanted to give my daughter a unique name,” mom Holly Madison explainedtoE! Newsdays after the March 5, 2013 arrival of her daughter with then-husband Pasquale Rotella. “Growing up, there was a girl in my school named Rainbow, and I was so envious of that name. I thought it was so pretty and unique!”
32of 35BinghamKate Hudson InstagramKate Hudsonand rocker ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy looked no farther than their own folks when they named their son, born July 9, 2011. “For those wondering, Bingham is my mum’s maiden name and Bing Russell was [Kurt Russell’s] dad,” Bellamy tweeted. “Family connections all round!”
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Kate Hudsonand rocker ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy looked no farther than their own folks when they named their son, born July 9, 2011. “For those wondering, Bingham is my mum’s maiden name and Bing Russell was [Kurt Russell’s] dad,” Bellamy tweeted. “Family connections all round!”
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Blue Ivy
34of 35BriseisCourtesy Reggie BushWe expect some epic accomplishments from NFL star Reggie Bush’s daughter, whom he welcomedwith then-girlfriendLilit Avagyan on May 6, 2013. In Greek mythology, the name refers to the mythical queen at the heart of a clash between Achilles and Agamemnon that plays out in Homer’s epic poemIliad.
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Briseis
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We expect some epic accomplishments from NFL star Reggie Bush’s daughter, whom he welcomedwith then-girlfriendLilit Avagyan on May 6, 2013. In Greek mythology, the name refers to the mythical queen at the heart of a clash between Achilles and Agamemnon that plays out in Homer’s epic poemIliad.
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