Is This the Weirdest Name Ever? 😱

The craziest celebrity baby names, plus how one family named triplets (!) and more

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What would you name triplets?

It’s a question we all love to think about, but few of us will actually be responsible for naming three babies at once 👶👶👶

Our Berry Jennifer hit the baby name jackpot when she discovered she was expecting triplets — two girls and a boy. For Jennifer and her husband Jacob, their babies’ names came (relatively) easily. In September, the welcomed Elise Caroline, Jude Joseph, and Lillian Laine.

We interviewed Jennifer about the baby name process for her triplets, who each have an honor name and a favorite name from her childhood (the dream!)

And just for fun, we’re asking everyone *their* dream triplet names in the forums. See my answers and add your own here.

Good Names with Bad Meanings

One of my friends recently went on a date with a woman named Cassandra.

“She told me her name means curser of men!,” he said.

This isn’t true (Cassandra likely means “shining on mankind” or “excelling mankind”), but if it was, it wouldn’t bode well for my friend’s future.

I set the record straight on Cassandra, but there are plenty of great names out there with actually terrible meanings.

Can you guess the good name from the bad meaning?

1. “Regret” — three letters, female, lead character in a currently popular TV series

2. “Bald” — six letters, male, precocious comic strip troublemaker

3. “Misshapen head” — seven letters, female, Top 100 presidential surname

4. “Supplanter” — five letters, male, former Number 1 (there are two answers!)

5. “Wild boar clearing” — six letters, female, sleek surname with three spellings in the Top 500

6. “War” — five letters, male, tied to a well-known Danish actor

7. “Night monster” — six letters, female, bad girl from Jewish mythology

8. “Lisping” — six letters, male, ‘fiery’ French name

9. “Bringer of death” — ten letters, female, mythological reason for seasons

10. “Place of scorn” — literary surname with an X-citing sound

Weird Celebrity Baby Names

The biggest piece of name news this week was that Grimes and Elon Musk welcomed their second child, a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl (nicknamed Y).

Exa is actually a historical variant of Achsah, but Grimes and Musk were inspired by the supercomputing term exaFLOPS.

And Y? Well, that just makes sense when your brother is named X Æ A-XII.

The Musk children have the weirdest names in the celebrisphere, but there are some strong contenders vying for second place. This week on the blog, we’re looking at the weirdest celebrity baby names of the 21st century (Remember Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence? Or Devereaux Octavian Basil?)

Click the button below to get the low down on Baby Musk’s name and see more crazy celebrity baby names.

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• Loving this Berry’s list of Fierce Girl Names. Nadezhda! Zathura! 💪