Hottest Celebrity Baby Name Trends
Celebrity baby names can reflect or even launch naming trends in the general population. Here, some of the hottest celebrity baby names and trends we see heating up right now:
Babies Named After Heavenly Bodies, Objects, And/Or Beings –
Scarlet – Melanie Chisholm & Thomas Starr
CIEL (French for sky) – Niki Taylor
Aven ANGELICA – Matthew Settle
Petal Blossom RAINBOW – Jamie Oliver
Babies with Animal Names
SPARROW James Midnight – Nicole Richie and Joel Madden
NAKOA-WOLF MANAKAUAPO NAMAKACHA – Lisa Bonet
Flower Names
TULIP – middle name of one of Rebecca Romijns twins
PETAL BLOSSOM Rainbow – Jamie Oliver
5 celebrity babies received the middle name ROSE
Most fashionable letter – L
LUCILLE – Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson
LUCIA – Mel Gibson; Amber and Rob Marino
Most common name
MAX. There were three celebrity babies born last year named Max, fathered by Gilbert Gottfried, Lance Armstrong, and Charlie Sheen
Most outrageous name
For a boy — IKHYD EDGAR ARULAR – M.I.A.
For a girl – MARS MERKABA – Erykah Badu
Most outrageously common name
Charlie Sheen’s other twin son, BOB
Most used middle names
(besides Rose, which had 5)
Ray (in all variations)
And Grace….
BLAKESLEY GRACE – Trista and Ryan Sutter
CHARLOTTE GRACE – Sarah Michelle & Freddie Prinze Junior
HELENA GRACE – Kelly Rutherford
Celebrity babies named after other famous people, real and fictional
There’s been a Hollywood trend over the past several years of naming babies after other stars, such as Ava (Gardner), daughters of Reese Witherspoon and Hugh Jackman. But now that trend is extending to less obvious stars, surnames, and fictional characters.
HUCKLEBERRY (Finn) – Kimberly and Brad Paisley
EVERLEIGH (Brothers) – Cam Gigandet
(Jennifer) ANNISTON – Chyler Leigh
KENZO (the designer) — Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou
HOLDEN (Caulfield, from Catcher in the Rye) – Mira Sorvino