New York - Was Kanye West inspired by One Direction? Kim Kardashian and Kanye named their daughter North West, according to their Los Angeles County birth certificate.
The baby was born at 5.34am on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
North is certainly not the first celebrity baby with an unorthodox name – and plenty of those names have set trends.
Brooklyn may have seemed exotic when Victoria and David Beckham chose it in 1999, but last year it was the 29th most popular baby name in the US, according to the Social Security Administration.
(Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s choice of another New York borough, Bronx, remains less popular.)
North has not cracked the Social Security Administration’s Top 1 000 baby names over the past 100 years, though West ranked 949 for boys in the year 1913.
But given the popularity of place names – Paris, London, Sydney and Savannah were also in the Top 100 for girls – perhaps we can expect more babies with a sense of direction in years to come.
Here are some unusual celebrity offspring names:
l Aleph, the son of Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied;
l Apple and Moses, the children of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin;
l Banjo Patrick, the son of actress Rachel Griffiths;
l Bear Blu, the son of actress Alicia Silverstone;
l Blue Ivy, the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z;
l Buddy Bear Maurice, Petal Blossom Rainbow, Daisy Boo Pamela and Poppy Honey Rosie, the children of chef Jamie Oliver;
l Fifi Trixibelle, the daughter of Bob Geldof;
l Kingston and Zuma, the sons of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale;
l Mirabella Bunny, the daughter of Bryan Adams;
l Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Muffin, the children of Frank Zappa;
l Moxie Crimefighter, the daughter of comedian Penn Jillette;
l Pilot Inspektor, the son of actors Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf;
l Prince Michael “Blanket” and Paris, the children of Michael Jackson;
l Seven, the son of Erykah Badu and Andre Benjamin;
l Shiloh, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Knox and Vivienne, the children of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie;
l Sparrow James Midnight, the son of Nicole Richie and Joel Madden;
l Speck Wildhorse, the son of John Mellencamp;
l Suri, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. – Sapa-AP