Weird Celebrity Baby Names Rated By How Normal They Seem Now
Kris Jenner: is named Wolf Webster
Look, if you say any word enough in any context, it's bound to sound normal eventually. That's how language works. You ever think of how stupidly simple the word "movie" is? It's literally just called that because somebody was like "oh wow! That's a picture that moves!" We're lucky they're not still called talkies.
Celebrity baby names kind of follow that same rule - they sound totally weird at first, but the more you hear them spoken, the more normalized it becomes - and then, sooner or later, other people pick the names too. (Don't forget, also, that a lot of other cultures use words as names a lot more often than English-speaking ones do.)
And, just to show you we're not picking on the celebs here: We know it's not just celebrity babies this happens with. Madison was just the last name of a President until the mermaid in Splash told Tom Hanks to call her that. That was the 80s. I have a sister named Madison who was born in the 90s. There were five other Madisons in her elementary school class.
Still, some of these names seem more destined for widespread popularity than others, which seem more likely to remain one-of-a-kind: Here's some of the most out-there baby names, rated on a scale of 1 to 10 for how normal they seem now.
(Yes, there are, in fact, a lot of Kardashian-related babies on this list. There are kind of a lot of them in general now. But we promise there are others too.)
North West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Name Normalcy Rating: 7
Resaoning: North is still an unusual name, but we've all heard it so much at this point that it almost seems like it could puncture mainstream baby name lists. Her parents also call her Nori, which is adorable, despite the fact that it is also a kind of fish.
Saint West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Name Normalcy Rating: 8
Resaoning: Not the first celebrity baby named Saint. Saint Wentz (Pete Wentz's son) is a year older than him.
Chicago West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Name Normalcy Rating: 7
Resaoning: A bit out of the ordinary, but naming children after cities has long been a thing, and Chicago is a big enough city with a significant enough culture that using it as a name shouldn't raise that many eyebrows.
Stormi Webster
Parents: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott
Name Normalcy Rating: 9
Resaoning: Stormi was a somewhat strange choice at first, but it's grown on us over time - plus the name Stormy Daniels was in the news for so long that people are definitely used to hearing it by now. (Never mind that she was a porn star in the news talking about an affair she had with Trump.)
Wolf Webster
Parents: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott
Name Normalcy Rating: 7
Resaoning: This is new, and a little weird, and if a regular parent had named their kid this the kid would definitely have been made fun of a little bit. But in a few years when we're all used to it, we'll probably agree that Wolf is kinda a badass names. Plus, it's not like the name Wolfgang doesn't already exist. If anything, that's weirder.
Psalm West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: It does sound like a name, but anyone who grew up going to church every Sunday is gonna feel some type of way when they hear it. (Plus, I can't not hear John Mulaney's voice going "'oh, you're gonna sing a song?' 'yeah it's a psalm...'"
True Thompson
“Olha quem encontramos 💕” – Kim Kardashian via Instagram Stories mostrando o encontro fofo de Chicago e True na Target. pic.twitter.com/juqW8se7I9
— Access Kardashian (@accesskardash) February 4, 2022
Parents: Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson
Name Normalcy Rating: 10
Resaoning: This isn't the most usual name in the world, but it's been arund for a while: Keke Palmer's character True Jackson existed, for one thing, plus True Whitaker, daughter of Forest Whitaker and Keisha Nash Whitaker, also had it first. (She's 23.)
Dream Renee Kardashian
Parents: Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna
Name Normalcy Rating: 7
Resaoning: It's a little out there, but Dream is a pretty cool name for a little girl. Plus, if she hates it, they gave her an out with the middle name Renee.
Reign Aston Disick
Parents: Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick
Name Normalcy Rating: 8
Resaoning: Reign is a fine enough name to say out loud, but most people spell it Rain or Rainn. Still, there's a power to 'Reign' that we can't deny.
Ireland Baldwin
Parents: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: Naming your kid after a place is fine, but picking one with the word "land" right in it is a little strange. You could have named her Erin. The names litreally mean the same thing.
Bronx Wentz
Parents: Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson
Name Normalcy Rating: 8
Resaoning: Brooklyn is a pretty normal name, to be fair, despite being an obvious place name - but Brooke and Lynn are also both names on their own. Still, any name with an X in it immediately gets a points boost for being cool, and Bronx is easy to say anyway.
Marvel Jane Wentz
Parents: Pete Wentz and Meagan Camper
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: Unfortunately, this name has gotten weirder with the rise of the MCU. The poor kid probably turns her head in public fifty times every time a new trailer drops. We hope she at least likes Marvel movies.
X Æ A-12
Das baby kann noch keinen löffel benutzen pic.twitter.com/UETqVIA4BP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2020
Name Normalcy Rating: 0
Resaoning: This name wasn't even legal. Literally. California Law made them change it twice: Once to X Æ A-XII, because numbers weren't allowed, and then again to X AE A-XII, which is somehow still unpronouncable. Their resoning behind it also made very little sense.
Sparrow James Midnight
Parents: Joel Madden and Nicole Richie
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: Sparrow would have been cool on its own - though it is worth noting that I once gave that name to a Dungeons and Dragons character. But adding Midnight onto the end instead of using either of their last names? That made the name a little weirder. And I think putting James in the middle is almost even weirder than that. It's like this name is somehow written in three different fonts.
Apple Martin
Parents: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: Considering it's Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, it could have been way worse. Apple honestly sounds kinda quaint at this point.
Blue Ivy
Name Normalcy Rating: 8
Resaoning: This name would be a nine just because of the fact that it's literally everywhere, so famous are her parents - but Blue is still also the name of the dog in Blue's Clues, and I could never unhear that when saying the kid's name.
Cosmo Jost
Parents: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost
Name Normalcy Rating: 9
Resaoning: Cosmo is a completely normal name. Mostly. But because of The Fairly OddParents, in my mind's eye, Scarlett Johansson gave birth to a child with green hair and wings.
Gravity Smith
Parents: Lucky Blue Smith and Stormi Bree
Name Normalcy Rating: 4
Resaoning: Gravity is an interesting name, but it's not the easiest word to say, and there really aren't any good nicknames you can get out of it either.
Kal-El Cage
Parents: Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim
Name Normalcy Rating: 5
Resaoning: THIS IS SO NERDY. This is the birth name of Clark Kent, AKA DC's Superman. It's honestly not the worst thing you could do to a kid - at least he could go by Kal or El. (Or Clark, if he really wanted to be cheeky.)
Pilot Inspektor Lee
Parents: Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf
Name Normalcy Rating: 5
Resaoning: So Pilot is a kinda cool name, like Scout or something, but it doesn't make any sense next to Inspektor, especially spelled like that. Why a k?
Sunday Molly
Parents: Mike Myers and Kelly Tisdale
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: This rating would have been a 7 - thanks to The Addams Family, day-of-the-week names are at all unheard of - but Sunday Molly sounds like a drug name.
Kulture Kiari
Name Normalcy Rating: 7
Resaoning: Kulture has become a more normal name simply by virtue of us hearing it so much, and Kulture Kiari works very well as a full name.
Bear Blu
Parents: Christopher Jarecki and Alicia Silverstone
Name Normalcy Rating: 9
Resaoning: A badass name for a little boy - and the same first name as Ned Rocknroll and Kate Winslet's son, Bear Blaze, who was born a few years later. Clearly a trendsetting name.
Sonnet Whitaker
Parents: Forest Whitaker and Keisha Nash Whitaker
Name Normalcy Rating: 6
Resaoning: Sonnet is a strange name, but a very pretty one, and it kinda has that name sound to it.
Moroccan Cannon
For Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, Moroccan & Monroe, Halloween will always be a family affair: https://t.co/HhCDOyN94X pic.twitter.com/LF9N3Ti9CH
— E! News (@enews) October 24, 2016
Parents: Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey
Name Normalcy Rating: 3
Resaoning: Moroccan is a pretty strange name - even Morocco would have been better.
Think about introducing yourself: "I'm Moroccan." That's a "Who's on First" sketch waiting to happen. Plus, his last name is Cannon, so his full name is just... "a cannon that belongs to/was made in Morocco."
Fuschia
Parents: Sting and Frances Tomelty
Name Normalcy Rating: 11
Resaoning: As a name, this slaps. It's got so much uumph behind it. It calls to mind a bright color. And it really does roll of the tongue just like other names do.
Moon Unit Zappa
Parents: Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Zappa
Name Normalcy Rating: 3
Resaoning: At least the kid can still go by Moon, which is a more normal-sunding name by comparison.
Dweezil Zappa
Parents: Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Zappa
Name Normalcy Rating: 2
Resaoning: Why on earth would you do this to a child. It sounds like an insult related to the word 'dweeb.'
He seems to have made the most of it though, at least - he became a musician, if he wanted to change it, he could have.
Diva Thin Muffin Zappa
Parents: Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Zappa
Name Normalcy Rating: 1
Resaoning: This is like one of those default WiFi passwords that comes printed on the box when you get it. It's just three random words.
