Celebrities: Having Babies, Naming Babies

dinahmoe wrote:I agree that Jett sounds like a guy name. The only Jett I know is a 60 something dude, totally New England preppy type. His last name is Black.

Hee. When I saw the name Jett, this was the first thing I thought of.

Edward Norton to become a father any day now.

Just watching Jax Ingo Rademacher on Dancing with the Stars now reminded me that he actually named his child Peanut. Is that the worst celebrity baby name ever or is Bronx Mowgli still worse?

Audio Science gets my vote.

Pilot Inspektor is in the running, too.

Gaia is far from the worst, but I've always found it more appalling just because Emma Thompson seems smart and levelheaded enough not to saddle her kid with a weird name.

I've never thought Gaia was a weird name. A little hippiesh sure, but its a totally legit name.

Wasn't Gaia what they called Mother Earth on Captain Planet?

To be a truly bad baby name it has to have a bad first name and a bad middle name, too. Peanut is awful, but Kai is okay. Audio Science is woeful all around. I guess he could go by Sci?

Gaia was the goddess of the Earth in Greek Mythology and Zeus' first wife.

I thought the mythological Gaia was mother of the Titans and thus Zeus' grandmother. Not that that necessarily means she wasn't his wife too, since the the Greek gods rolled like that.

Peanut is a terrible name, but it makes me laugh. Audio Science and Pilot Inspektor just fills me with WTF?

Gaia was a consort of Uranus, Zeus and Poseidon. Depending on which story you follow, he was born of Rhea but raised by Gaia and fathered two sons with her, Orion and I cant remember the other one. Gaia was mother to the Titans with Uranus but, being Mother Earth, gave birth to more than two dozen other deities, either alone or with others. She was very busy.

Harmony Korine, writer/director of Spring Breakers, apparently named his daughter Lefty Bell. Ugh.

(This should probably be cross-posted in Celeb Dumb Quotes, because I discovered it after seeing this on Tumblr. Chagrin!)

He would. He is the worst. I hate his films and their try-hard edginess.

Peanut and Lefty Bell? That's definitely Audio Science/Pilot Inspektor levels of badness.

Don't forget Penn Jillette's daughter, Moxie Crimefighter. I think that might actually be the worst.

I hate myself for NOT hating Pilot Inspektor. I know it's a dumb name, but I also find it cute. I think the "k" in Inspektor make the spelling charming. Now I'll go see myself out. Sorry for crashing the name-hating party. *hangs head in shame*

That's OK, whatthedeuce. I'll confess that I like Moxie Crimefighter. I think a girl named Moxie isn't going to let a lot of things in life push her around.

Yeah, that one's actually quite adorable, too. I'd never actually dare name a child anything that bizarre, but I quite like it and find it whimsical. The Crimefighter bit is a tad too much, but I don't object at all to the name Moxie as a stand-alone.

whatthedeuce wrote:Yeah, that one's actually quite adorable, too. I'd never actually dare name a child anything that bizarre, but I quite like it and find it whimsical. The Crimefighter bit is a tad too much, but I don't object at all to the name Moxie as a stand-alone.

I quite enjoy this name. I kind of wish it were my name.

I like both Moxie Crimefighter and Pilot Inspketor.

Ahhh, it seems a few of us weird name lovers are coming out of the woodwork! I feel less strange about thinking those names charming now.

Probably totally not true, but The Sun says Kim and Kanye will be naming their baby North.

I actually love looking at that word, come to think of it, so North is actually kinda cool. Also, North West doesn't really lead to much, joke-wise.. It's just a direction, but no funny words.

I actually love looking at that word, come to think of it, so North is actually kinda cool. Also, North West doesn't really lead to much, joke-wise.

Are you kidding me?

I don't know. I think South would be much worse cuz you could make Dirty South and sexual innuendo jokes. North West just sounds dumb, but not especially joke-worthy. I can be very obtuse though so...