What's In A Celebrity Baby Name?

Hollywood's babies inspire a distinct brand of gossip. Rag mags publish cover stories about Suri Cruise's designer duds, and entertainment blogs speculate on whether or not Angelina is trying to turn Shiloh into a boy.

However, of all the fire that fuels the tabloids, the subject of celeb baby names raises the most heated debates.

These bizzarro monikers that celebrities 'gift' to their new additions are sometimes harder to pronounce than they are to stomach. Perhaps famous parents pick these names as a means of distinguishing their little ones from the rest of their kindergarten class... as if being the child of a Tinsel Town powerhouse won't set them apart enough. We're not sure.

Nevertheless, let's play the Hollywood (baby) name game. Here are the top ten weirdest Hollywood baby names:

1. Audio Science Clayton
He's the unlucky son of actress Shannyn Sossamon and Dallas Clayton. We bet poor Audio doesn't make it past his 18th birthday without a name change.

2. Pilot Inspektor
Actor Jason Lee was inspired by a song by a band called Grandaddy. The song's title is less than poetic: "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot. Thanks Dad.

3. Moon Unit
Unit is technically the middle name of Frank Zappa's eldest daughter but that doesn't make her name any less bizarre. Luckily, Moon isn't the black sheep in her family. She calls Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva siblings.

4. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence
She's the daughter of the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence and the late Paula Yates, a British television presenter who also has three other oddly-named daughters with musician Bob Geldof. Following Yates' death, Geldof adopted Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily and added Geldof as her surname.

5. Jermajesty

6. Apple
During an Oprah appearance in 2004, Gwyneth Paltrow (at right) tried to explain the choice of name for her daughter, Apple, whom she shares with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. "It conjured such a lovely picture for me, she said. You know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical and I just thought it sounded so lovely and clean." And weird.

7. Kal-el
Action star Nicolas Cage likes comics; his surname change from Coppola to Cage was inspired by comic superhero Luke Cage. In fact, Cage likes comics so much that he named his son after Superman, who was born Kal-el on the planet Krypton. What the ell.

8. George Edward
Too ordinary for you? What if we told you that boxer turned infomercial extraordinare George Foreman (who is now making cleaning products?) named all five of his sons George Edward? What if we told you he named two of his daughters Freda George and Georgetta? ...That's what we thought.

9. Alabama Gypsy Rose
Carrie Underwood's backing band? Nope, just the name of actress Drea De Matteo's daughter with musician Shooter Jennings. Yee-haw.

10. Tabooger
I dunno, maybe we're pronouncing this one wrong... One can only hope so. Just like one can only hope that actor Dan Cortese and wife Dee Dee Hemby lost a bet when they cursed their son with this awful name. We wish the Boogmeister the best of luck in making it through grade school unscathed.

Jaclyn Tersigni
		About the author:
		Jaclyn is a 20-something journalism student at Ryerson University. She traded suburbia for the big city two years ago and enjoys navigating life as a single woman in Toronto. She’s a burgeoning foodie, a borderline music snob, a news junkie, and constant explorer of the world.
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