Where'd Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie get those baby names?
Unusual celebrity baby names are in the news again with this weekend's birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins.
Not Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane, as had been initially and erroneously reported a few weeks ago.
Instead, Angelina and Brad named their new son and daughter Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.
Some readers have been wondering where they got those names. According to "The Baby Name Bible" author Linda Rosenkrantz, interviewed at People.com:
1. Shaking the Family Tree: Knox is a Scottish-English-Irish surname and the middle name of Brad's grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse. Léon is the name of Angelina's great-great grandfather.
2. The X-Factor: The Jolie-Pitts' two other sons, Maddox and Pax, have an x in their first names.
3. Mother Complex: Vivienne is the French form of Vivian, which may reflect her birthplace or heritage. Or it could be a name in Pitt's family, because their baby boy is named for people from both parents' families. Marcheline is the French name of Angelina Jolie's late mother, who was of French-Canadian and Native American ancestry.
Hey, Rosie O'Donnell actually beat Angelina and Nicole Kidman (her new daughter is named Sunday Rose and here's why!) to the punch for their baby names 5 1/2 years ago. Rosie's daughter is dubbed Vivienne Rose.
More important, will Angelina get one tattoo or two for the geographical birthplace of her new babies?
Personally, I think she should double up. She's in danger of running out of room on that arm.
And you just know they're not gonna stop at six.
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Sure... it's fun to have babies when you're not doing the actual day-in and day-out raising of them. If I had a staff of nannies, I might not have stopped at two.
When this happens in cattle, twins, one boy and one girl, they are usually sterile. How about humans? What are the chances ?
I cannot wait to see pictures of them! I am sure Angelina and Brad are up to the task of making their children feel loved and wanted and cared for on a daily basis with or without a mother's helper.
Working moms everywhere do it.
Congratulations to their whole family!
Congratulations
Don't you have something better to do with your time than waste it on this stuff. What intelligent person cares?
I think you guy's are awesome, and your best production of all is your children. I have two son's that I adore. Sometimes I wished I would have had more....Keep up the great job you are doing with your children. Wish all of you the BEST.
Should have been Paris [f]and Hector[m]
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Is she able to nurse? I wonder how much lead is passed thru breast milk with all her tatoos.....?
"Posted by: eCharleen | July 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM
When this happens in cattle, twins, one boy and one girl, they are usually sterile. How about humans? What are the chances ?"
that is the dumbest question I have ever read.
Every woman on this earth would love to be Angelina right now...who is not envious can cast the first stone....and i am not that person!
There is no lead in tattoo ink