Celebrities have a (horrible) habit of branding their children with unique, yet horrifying, names. Unusual names are becoming more and more popular, but when you’re the apple of the media’s eye if you name your child after a comic book character, everybody has an opinion about it. Psychologists have suggested that naming their children is a way for celebrities to open their psyche without feeling judged. When you’re constantly in the media you have an image that the public wants you to uphold. A celebrity naming their child is a way for the parent to express hobbies or fascinations that have otherwise been hidden away from the rest of the world.
So with the birth of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s bouncing baby girl, I present to you the top 10 craziest celebrity children names.
10. Harper Seven
Soccer player David Beckham and his Spice Girl wife Victoria named their daughter Harper Seven. David explains to Daily Mail that the reasoning behind his daughter’s unusual name; The Harper comes from the author of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird and her middle name, Seven, comes from Beckham’s lucky number.
9. Blue Ivy Carter
Blue Ivy sounds more like a supervillain name rather than someone you’d meet in your math class, but Beyonce and Jay Z seem to like it enough to name their daughter it.
8. Kal-el
No, it’s not a biblical name although it sure sounds that way. No, Kal-el is the birth name of . . . Superman. And who named their son this? None other than “actor” Nicholas Cage and wife Alice Kim. But he doesn’t really count as a celebrity, right?
7. Sparrow James Midnight
Sounds like something out of a teen fan-fiction vampire story. But then again, Sparrow’s father, Joel Madden from Good Charlotte does have that whole punk swag about him. I guess this is the name you get when you combine Nicole Richie, socialite and a frontman for a punk-rock band.
6. Blanket Jackson
Blanket. Blanket. Enough said.
5. Pirate
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis and his porn-star wife Deven named their son Pirate. Unusual? Yes. Awesome? Definitely.
4. Bronx Mowgli
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wenz and Ashlee Simpson named their son the urban version of Disney’s infamous ape, Mowgli. I don’t know anyone who would “wanna be like him” with a name like that.
3. Sage Moonblood
Sage isn’t that horrible. But Moonblood? That sounds like some anti-fertility ointment a woman would use during some freaky ritual. Sylvester Salvone what were you thinking?
2. Pilot Inspektor
Jason Lee decided to name his son Pilot due to a song he heard by the band Grandaddy according to Cracked. The aforementioned song was titled “He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." I guess it makes sense. Sort of?
1. And numero uno is, of course North West
USA Today is saying that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are saying they chose the name North because it means “highest power.” If that’s the case then what does West mean?