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What’s in a name?!

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had a baby daugh­ter. Okay, that’s not so sur­pris­ing. It was expected after all. But what I can’t under­stand is their choice of name.

Celebri­ties seem to be intent on giv­ing their kids the strangest names so that they have a tough time in school and while grow­ing up. Or maybe they do it so their kids really stand out!

For exam­ple, Gwyneth Pal­trow named her daugh­ter Apple. Of all the names in the world, why would you choose a fruit? (Accord­ing to a new report, Gwyneth has a friend called Plum and therein lies her pen­chant for fruit names.)

Julia Roberts has named her twins Hazel & Phin­naeus. Lord, do we even want to try pro­nounc­ing the sec­ond one?

David Bowie’s son? Easy! Zowie Bowie!!

Bob Geldof’s daugh­ters with Paula Yates go by Peaches and Fifi Trix­iebelle and Tiger Lily Heav­enly Hirani. You almost begin to appre­ci­ate Apple now :)

Com­ing back to Tom Cruise who has named his daugh­ter Suri. I just hope that she doesn’t come to India some­day, because it’s going to sound like she’s got two sur­names with no name!

Discussion

11 Responses to “What’s in a name?!”

  1. Suri Cruise!.… how kewl is that :)… lol.

    Posted by Arjun | April 26, 2006, 2:25 am
  2. Ms. Suri Cruise to an Indian–

    Suri : I am Suri.

    Indian : Hello Ms. Suri. May I know your name?

    Posted by Hyde | April 26, 2006, 7:47 am
  3. I read this piece of news in train last week…the only news­pa­per avail­able on the sta­tion (some­where in Rajasthan) was Pun­jab Kesari…n the news read…
    Katie Ko Beti…

    Posted by Mehak | April 26, 2006, 8:54 am
  4. But these names sounds inter­est­ing.
    Like halle berry daughter’s name India.
    and these name have inter­est­ing mean­ing too. Like, India means river of wishdom.

    Posted by Paavani | April 27, 2006, 1:44 am
  5. Ajay and Kajol’s daugh­ter is Nysa… It is a name of a Greek Godess of Purity. How nice!!

    Posted by Kiran | April 27, 2006, 11:01 am
  6. Excuse me but what does Suri means in India? I am lost.

    Posted by techbee | April 30, 2006, 9:17 pm
  7. Bob Geldof’s daugh­ters with Paula Yates go by Peaches and Fifi Trix­iebelle and Tiger Lily Heav­enly Hirani.”

    If I am not mis­taken, it wasn’t Geldfo, it was Mitchael hutchence (and yates) of INXS who named his daugh­ter tiger Lily heav­enly hiraki..

    cou­pla more:

    Frank Zappa named his son/daughter “moon unit”!
    then of course the phoenix fam­ily… river pheonix, sum­mer phoenix et.al

    Sid

    Posted by Sid | May 1, 2006, 1:08 pm
  8. Hu ewlikf!

    Posted by tramadol | March 3, 2007, 1:06 pm
  9. arent david bowies kids fifi trix­iebelle moon­zap­per and some­thing else?
    and peaches and pixie geldof

    Posted by shannon | April 29, 2008, 11:03 pm
  10. i mean fifi trix­iebelle, moon­zap­per, and (?)

    Posted by shannon | April 29, 2008, 11:05 pm
  11. Excel­lent Post, thanx for shar­ing the same.. Will keep on read­ing the post :D Stum­bled your­post .. cheers

    Posted by Alija Beth | December 17, 2008, 4:14 pm

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