# 'Weird' celebrity baby names that are not (weird). **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426 "2012-01-13T20:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/21 "2012-01-14T00:29:35Z")
I think “Apple” is a nice name. I don’t know why it’s often dragged in as the poster-child for “stupid” celebrity names. I don’t think it’s any weirder than Ruby or Daisy, which are old names and we’ve just gotten used to them, or even Dakota, which has become surprisingly common in the last fifteen years. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/22 "2012-01-14T00:48:49Z")
Wait… he named A GIRL Buddy? wtf ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/23 "2012-01-14T01:03:57Z")
Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer shares her first name with author Rumer Godden. I don’t know if she was named _after_ her or if it’s a “real” but uncommon name. I haven’t heard of any other Rumers. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/24 "2012-01-14T01:05:37Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wait… he named A GIRL Buddy? wtf No, Buddy Bear is his much-coveted son. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/25 "2012-01-14T01:44:14Z")
Feh. Most of them live in California and their kids need weird names so they don’t stand out in school. You wouldn’t believe how much crap a Bob gets in Hollywood High. My favorite is still Shiloh Pitt. The Spoonerism is unavoidable. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/26 "2012-01-14T01:50:28Z")
Of that list, I don’t really see anything wrong with Ireland, Coco, Sage, Kingston, Zuma, Harlow, or Suri. Unusual, yes, but not in a bad way. Not on the same level as “Jermajesty” or “Pilot Inspektor.” Of course, it’s gotten to the point now where I’m shocked if celebrities don’t name their children something unique/strange/awful. Like, there was days of speculation after Tom Brady and Giselle Bundchen had their baby because they couldn’t decide on a name and then they went with “Benjamin.” And Brady’s other kid is named “John.” I mean, how normal and boring is that? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/27 "2012-01-14T02:22:44Z")
Let’s start with the basics. Can we all at least agree there’s no excuse for naming a kid Crimefighter? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/28 "2012-01-14T02:31:09Z")
I, too, do not understand by “Apple” is dragged into these discussions. It’s unusual, but not particularly so; it follows a very long tradition of girls’ names being inspired by flora, it’s simple, easily spelled, and sounds feminine. It’s not in the same class as “Audio Science,” “Pilot Inspektor” or the kid at my daughter’s school named Cappucino. I’d add the same thing for Sage Stallone; I think it’s a bad name but it’s not ridiculous. Nor are “Suri” or “Willow” - in fact, Willow’s kind of nice. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/29 "2012-01-14T04:08:13Z")
Add another positive vote for Apple. I’ve always liked it. And I think Sunday Rose is one of the most beautiful names I’ve ever heard. I also like Egypt, Zuma, Coco, Suri, Moxie as a first name (forget the 2nd), Harlow, Ireland and Destry. [QUOTE=Sattua] Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer shares her first name with author Rumer Godden. I don’t know if she was named after her or if it’s a “real” but uncommon name. I haven’t heard of any other Rumers. [/QUOTE] Isn’t Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird, and Tallulah for Tallulah Bankhead? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/30 "2012-01-14T05:34:34Z")
There’s also the fact that if you combine the first names with the mddle names you get a lot of extra weirdness that you wouldn’t get in everyday life. So “Pilot Inspektor” is just “Pilot” which is weird but not fucking weird. Lop off the middle names and almost all of these wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in a modern kindergarden. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/31 "2012-01-14T05:47:07Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Isn’t Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird, and Tallulah for Tallulah Bankhead? Yep, though Tallulah’s fondness for taking off her clothes at parties, though past her prime\*, might suggest that name was not to be associated with a child. :eek: - - Haven’t found the yet quote yet, but a friend of hers once said, “Tallulah, you have such lovely frocks! Why don’t you put one on?” Then there was the Chico Marx conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/32 "2012-01-14T05:48:10Z")
Audio Science? You have to be kidding me. Many of the others sound reasonable. But dangit, don’t name your kid something that sounds a corporation name. I suppose the child will go by Audie which is OK. And Pilot Inspektor is horrible. Can you imagine going by Pilot? What’s your nickname? Pile? Piley? Egads. Of course being stuck with the name of Gagundathar The Inexplicable has perhaps made me a bit sensitive. Maybe some projection as they say. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/33 "2012-01-14T05:59:58Z")
But Gagundathar The Inexplicable is sexy. Er, unless you are a guy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/34 "2012-01-14T06:12:27Z")
I can’t believe we’ve gotten through 33 posts about bad celebrity baby names without a mention of Bob Geldof’s three daughters: Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, and Little Pixie. 😛 Was he hoping for poodles? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/35 "2012-01-14T06:17:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Let’s start with the basics. > > Can we all at least agree there’s no excuse for naming a kid Crimefighter? Thats the middle name. Her full name is Moxie Crimefighter Jillette. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/36 "2012-01-14T06:27:22Z")
“Apple” is weird to me because I’ve only ever heard it (once!) used as a man’s name, and he was an old man, and his last name was St. Stephen, so it was a really odd combination. I don’t think a lot of these are that odd, and let’s face it, these kids are all going through life with each other as friends, so they won’t think it’s weird either. Yeah, I think some of these names are terrible and some are unusual and distinctive, and some of them are not even that unusual. And they will get more common as peons name their children after the children of celebrities, i.e., “Destry! What a cool name.” ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/37 "2012-01-14T06:45:16Z")
I’m Australian, and while I get the reference to “Banjo” Patterson, I’ve never heard of anyone with Banjo as an actual name. It sounds pretty bad to me. Nicole Kidman is also Australian, and her Sunday was named in honour of [Sunday Reed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Reed). Now, Sunday Reed isn’t all that well known, but to an Australian art lover like me, the name is instantly recognisable. I got that reference as soon as I heard it. It’s also worth mentioning that Sunday Reed’s original name was, in fact, Lelda Sunday Baillieu and _she_ was given that name in 1905, so it isn’t like a wacky celebrity just invented it. And Sunday is a way better name than “Lelda”. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/38 "2012-01-14T06:50:48Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Yep, though Tallulah’s fondness for taking off her clothes at parties, though past her prime\*, might suggest that name was not to be associated with a child. :eek: You clearly have never been around a toddler who has just learned the “removing clothing” trick. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/39 "2012-01-14T07:03:05Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > But Gagundathar The Inexplicable is sexy. > > Er, unless you are a guy. 😃 Now you are just being mean. :eek: Yes, for the record I am male. Middle-aged and recently widowered. (That is one weird word, isn’t it?) But, still sexy. heh heh heh ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426/40 "2012-01-14T07:17:56Z")
i don’t see how it’s possible to even call someone _Jermajesty_ with a straight face. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-celebrity-baby-names-that-are-not-weird/609426.md?page=3)