Weird Celebrity Kid Names

[Ash]

What's up with celebrities giving their children totally bizarre names?
Are they on seriously hard prescription drugs when they come up with them?

For example:  Bruce Willis's kids names are Rumer Willis, Scout Larue, Tallulah Belle.
One of Julia Robert's twins name is Phinnaeus Walter.

HUH!?

Why do you think this trend runs in celebrity circles?
And I don't think it's "because they can" either.
You don't see regular folk giving their kids weird names like that.
What's the real reason for this?

It's gotta be the drugs...

Can you think of any other celebrities who gave their kids odd names?



Post Edited (01-01-05 17:21)

[Susan]

Honestly I don't mind people who give their kid "old" names - ruby , tallulah - i mean when i look at my family history i had people named America, Napoleon and Delphia. It's a neat way to keep the past alive.

But not as weird as courtney cox naming her kid Cocoa.
wasn't that the talking monkey?  I think it's celebrities' way of trying to stand out from the crowd and get attention, get noticed, that somehow deeming their child with an unusual name marks them as "special" - i guess since most of those kids probably go to school with other kids named Apple, toejam and Oreo they probably don't think much of it. It's when you start naming your child things that are associated with inanimate objects. I think there was a period in the 60's when people were doing that. Moon Unit and Rainbow.  Clearly dooming these children of any hope of a social life

[Menard]

Susan wrote:

> Honestly I don't mind people who give their kid "old" names -
> ruby , tallulah - i mean when i look at my family history i had
> people named America, Napoleon and Delphia. It's a neat way to
> keep the past alive.


It's a neat way to keep therapists employed too ( :

[JohnL]

>Can you think of any other celebrities who gave their kids odd names?

Umm...

Dweezil & Moon Unit Zappa

Gillian Anderson named her daughter Piper-Maru.

And of course you have the Phoenix family; River, Rain, Summer, Liberty and Joaquin (pronounced Wok-Keem).

[Fearless Freep]

And Cher (weird name) naming her daughter "Chastity" after her own movie of the same name

[Menard]

What about Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick who named her child 'god' with a small 'g'.

[dean]

"she's the apple of her father's eye"

haha, i loved that one.

[Wence]

 I think it's celebrities' way of trying to stand out from the crowd and get attention, get noticed, that somehow deeming their child with an unusual name marks them as "special"

- correct and absolutely the main reason why the "haves"/the rich do that!

[ulthar]

A lot of rich (the real rich, the true upper class) tend to name their kids very conservative names, like the boys get so-and-so, the Third, etc.

[Susan]

Menard wrote:

>
> It's a neat way to keep therapists employed too ( :
>

Well a child can always say "It was a family name, I was named from my great great...etc". It's not the same as "Why did your mother name you after raw chocolate?" I think giving kids foriegn names is fine too, give them some pretty sounding name that maybe in that native language means Apple - but to name them Apple in english forever marks them, kids make fun of them because they can easily associate that name with an inanimate object. If people want to give really cool and weird names, do it on your pets.

[AndyC]

I don't mind the old names either. Or give them an unusual name and a normal name, and they can go by whichever they prefer. For a while, I was really liking Archimedes as a middle name for a future son. That would rock. Couldn't convince my wife though.

A little creativity is good when most people are like lemmings in the way they choose names. One thing my wife and I do agree on is that we aren't using any name that half the kids in the class will have.

That said, Apple has to be the stupidest name I've heard in a while. It's not even an interesting fruit. And it sure won't sound right when the kid grows up - unless she's an air-headed stripper.

Would have mentioned the Zappa kids, but somebody beat me to it. I don't know, but Frank Zappa might have been cool enough to pull it off. It seemed less pretentious in his case.

Oh, and we can't forget Zowie Bowie.

[Kory]

Jermaine Jackson named his son "Jermajesty".  Come on.

[Menard]

I do not know the couple's name, but their was a couple in our state who named their kids Lemonjello and Orangejello after their two favorite flavors of Jello.

[ulthar]

You beat me to this one....you have to point out, too, that it is often pronounced as

lemonjello:  la MON jullo
orangejello: or ON jullo

so that if you only heard it, you might not even notice the root.

[AndyC]

Were they hoping the good folks at Jello would notice, and maybe cover some of their baby costs?