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If you are keeping up with the Kardashians - on the news, and on the TV series of the same name – you would have known this, by now.
That the controversial celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have had a brand new baby, this week. And that they have named him ‘Saint’.
Saint? I thought they would call him ‘South.’
It seemed like a logical progression because they had named their daughter, the firstborn, as ‘North.’
Now, Saint West and North West, the newest siblings in the celebrity world, made me think about the crazy names that celebrities often give to their babies.
Actually, I should move the word ‘crazy’ in the above sentence - and keep it in front of the word ‘celebrities’.
Who can forget the boy named ‘Brooklyn’?
This poor boy, the firstborn of David and Victoria Beckham (or Posh Spice, of Spice Girls fame) must be frustrated, I know, explaining his name to his friends at school.
The innovation of this celebrity couple did not end there. They named their fourth born as ‘Harper Seven’.
Some reporters surmised that it could be a blending of ‘Harper Bazaar’ magazine, the cover of which Victoria Beckham had once adorned, and of number “7”, the shirt number of David Beckham when he used to play for Manchester United.
However, refuting the inference, the couple said that ‘Harper’ was chosen as a tribute to 'Harper Lee' the writer of Posh Spice’s favourite book, ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’, and that “Seven” was chosen because it was an interesting ‘whole’ number -- related to seven days, seven wonders, seven colours etc.
That the mother of Harper Seven was actually reading a book - any book - is highly suspect, say some reporters who follow her activities closely.
In the old country music song “A Boy named Sue”, the father had had a clear and definite purpose in naming his son that way. Or that's what Johnny Cash told us.
But the purpose of celebrities naming children, in strange ways, is still unclear to all of us.
And I really feel sad for all those poor kids who are named, ‘Pilot Inspektor’ (yes. with a ‘k’), ‘Baby Blue Ivy’, ‘Sparrow James Midnight’ and ‘Coco Riley’ by their respective, over-enthusiastic, parents - Jason Lee and Carmen Llywelyn, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Joel Madden and Nicole Richie, and Courtney Cox and David Arquette.
‘Moon Unit’ is the daughter of the legendary musician Frank Zappa. And – hold your breath - “Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily” is the daughter of the television presenter and writer Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence.
'Fifi Trixibelle', 'Peaches Honeyblossom' and 'Little Pixie' are Paula Yates’ other daughters, through that famous musician and Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof.
Don’t all these step-sisters remind us of the names of Power Puff Girls?
“I never work on a Sunday” was one of my favourite songs, some 15 years ago. But I didn’t know that its singer loved Sunday so much that he named his daughter Sunday.
Yes. Singer Keith Urban and Actress Nicole Kidman named their daughter ‘Sunday Rose’.
And Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis went a flower further, and named their daughter 'Lily Rose'.
Very confusing, I think. Lily? Or Rose? Maybe they just thought that a rose by any other name, like Lily, would still smell as sweet.
A couple of years ago, our second daughter, who has a somewhat rare name, was upset with me and my wife when she found out that, at a famous tourist-place souvenir-shop, there were key-chains with hundreds of different names, but not of hers.
I didn’t know how to explain to her.
Maybe I should ask these celebrities how they manage to explain why they named their son as “Pilot Inspektor” or their daughter as “Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily”.
