Huh? Can’t speak for Emmaleigh, but Kathryn IS a perfectly cromulent name. Goes back to at least the 1880s and peaked in popularity in the 1950s. Just because it’s spelled with a Y doesn’t mean it’s the same as naming your kid Madysyn.
For me it’s not so much any practical, future teasing the kid may or may not endure. It’s just the fact that they did this because they’re celebrities. And, in this case, the worst kind (famous for being famous). The rich & beautiful seem to believe they have to make a ‘statement’ with naming their offspring.
Tom Cruise is a reasonably intelligent, classy guy (even if he is a prophet of the great space lizard) so I can see him picking some pretentious, pseudo-intelligentsia sounding sand-skript like Suri. At least it still sounds like a female proper noun.
Paltrow is a ditzey, neo-hippie, bazillionaire so she picks Apple. I saw her on Letterman afterwards and hearing her gush, “Oh, when I saw her wittle, wosey, wed cheeks I just thought of that!” made me want to projectile vomit. Also, Cold Play-boy? It’s the man’s job to prevent hormone-drenched new moms from doing this, 'em kay?
But Kardashian is just a brain-dead piece o’ tail with a fat ass. It’s like when white trash win the lottery and buy a mansion but still have a car up on blocks in the front yard. 
Sounds like somebody is jealous. I’m guessing you aren’t feeling particularly rich and beautiful today?
I think Apple is quite actively adorable, and I don’t see anything wrong with North. I’m all for diversity in names, and I can’t figure out why some people want to turn picking an older name into some kind of moral superiority thing.
I like the name Apple a lot.
I don’t care if the name is stupid (which it is). I don’t care if the kid will get teased (50/50 chance there, but they’ve got years before it’s an issue). My annoyance stems from the fact that they’ve made a ginormous deal over how they chose the name because nothing can top north, and the baby is the pinnacle of their relationship.
Which essentially in no uncertain terms says “Screw you, you’ll never, ever, ever, EVER be as good as your sister” to any kid that happens to fall out of her gaping vagina in the future. THAT’s the kid I feel sorry for.
Wow. That was a pretty messed-up bunch of shit to say.
Celebrities make some people really weirdly angry.
“North West” is kind of silly, but “North” as a name is perfectly fine.
Compare with Rob Morrow’s child Tu. Or Penn Jillette’s kid Moxie Crimefighter. That’s just being deliberately idiotic.
That’s only half true.
Me, I like crazy celebrity names. Whether it’s a “statement” or not.
Eh, I kinda like “Moxie”. Crimefighters silly of course, but its just the girls middle name. There are people I’ve known for decades whose middle name I don’t know, so I don’t really think its idiotic to treat it as a joke.
Plus maybe she’ll become a police detective someday, and then she can whip out the “crimefighting is my middle name” line.
Now if you want to get into some stupid: how about those prominant 19th century North Eastern legal families. “Learned Hand?” What kind of bullshit is that!
It’s not because it’s a stupid name. North could be a good name. It’s that they deliberately picked it so that the kid’s name would be “North West.” They didn’t pick the name because it fit the child. They picked it to make their kid stand out. They picked it because they wanted a gimmick name that would get them in the news and get people to talk about them. It shows how completely selfish these people are.
And I for one have no problem with Apple and don’t understand the hate. That was a legit name, and not a gimmick. There’s no joke in naming your kid Apple.
I also have no problem with odd spellings of names. I just have a problem when you give your kid a name because it sounds funny.
I wish my middle name was Crimefighter. That’s the most awesome thing ever. And Moxie has, well, moxie. 
Yeah, because that’s a problem that’s been facing them: a dearth of media interest.
Nah, sorry, I just can’t see it. It’s no different to me than if she named her ‘Tomato’.
Yeah, North in and of itself isn’t too bad, still a little odd. But the last name being ‘West’ just makes it a complete joke at the child’s expense. One of the singularly most important things you can give your child, and they chose something akin to a knock-knock joke! I so wish somebody in the ass-kissing media would call them on bullshit like this (besides Joel McHale anyway!)
What’s worse, I doubt their marriage will last more than a year but the kid is stuck with it for life…
Well, better this than the name a Swedish couple wanted to impose on their kid (although, in this case, it was intended as a protest against Swedish naming laws). Copy-pasting from Wikipedia…
"Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, pronounced [ˈalbɪn], was a name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991. Parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding gave their child this name as a protest against the naming law in Sweden.
Because the parents failed to register a name by the boy’s fifth birthday, a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden, fined them 5,000 kronor. Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was ‘a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation.’ The parents suggested the name be understood in the spirit of ‘pataphysics’. The court rejected the name and upheld the fine.
The parents then tried to change the spelling of the name to A (also pronounced “[ˈalbɪn]”). Once again, the court refused to approve of the name, citing a prohibition on one-letter naming."
All sorts of people in this world, eh…
I just up when North grows up, they name their child North too. Why, because then we’d have a a North by North West.
Yes. Tomatoes are exactly as sweet and have the very same wholesome connotation as apples. No difference at all.
This is fantastic.
Frank Zappa did this, and way better, back in the sixties. Or seventies? How old are Zweezil and Moon Unit by now?
Dweezil. Zweezil is silly!