Of all the ‘weird’ celebrity baby names, this one leaves the worst taste in parents mouths

This sanction is not nan pome of parents’ eyes. 

Expectant parents are not fond of “weird” personage baby names — and nan astir rotten of nan bunch is Apple, nan sanction Gwyneth Paltrow gave her daughter.

Baby sanction advisor Colleen Slagen came to this conclusion aft sending expectant parents a questionnaire asking their naming likes and dislikes.

“The astir communal illustration they gave is, ‘We don’t want names for illustration Apple,'” said Slagen, 35, who charges $300 for a 45-minute Zoom gathering to thief parents find nan cleanable sanction for their bundle of joy.

“I consciousness for illustration it was nan shocking sanction of our generation.”

Apple Martin, now 20, is nan offspring of nan Academy Award-winning character and her ex-husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.

“When we were first pregnant, her daddy said, ‘If it’s a woman I deliberation her sanction should beryllium Apple,'” Paltrow told Oprah successful 2004. “It sounded truthful sweet, and it conjured specified a beautiful image for me, you know. Apples are truthful saccharine and they’re wholesome, and it’s biblical.”

Apple group nan shape for A-listers who began giving their kids arsenic bizarre commencement names — for illustration Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Blue Ivy, Kate Winslet’s Bear Blaze and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s North.

“Nowadays it’s for illustration you can’t get weird enough,” Slagen said of personage babe names trends. “Everyone’s trying to out-unique nan different person.”

Slagen — a erstwhile caregiver practitioner who near her occupation successful 2023 to tally her baby-naming business afloat clip — said that dissimilar personage parents-to-be, her clients are searching for names that are “familiar — which is codification for not weird — but not truthful popular.”

“Everybody wants this benignant of unicorn sanction . . . not nan Olivias, not nan Emmas, not nan Avas and Isabellas,” she said.

After an first consultation, Slagen compiles a 10-name database for nan mates pinch an mentation of why she chose each, and includes fame information from nan Social Security Administration.

Her clients tally nan gamut from low-key to Type A.

“I’ve had a mates of clients nonstop maine Excel spreadsheets pinch aggregate tabs of color-coded, categorized names,” she said.

Slagen, a Boston mom of 3 — who was coy erstwhile it came to revealing her ain children’s names — said immoderate moreover interaction her from nan hospital.

“Oftentimes, this is erstwhile they didn’t cognize gender, like, ‘It’s really a girl. Now we’re down to these 3 names, but we don’t person mediate names that we for illustration pinch it,'” she explained up of nan merchandise of her book “Naming Bebe,” retired connected June 10.

She besides helps parents who are suffering from babe sanction regret.

“I’ve had group opportunity ‘I named my babe Ava’ and I’m regretting it. I didn’t cognize really celebrated it was,'” she said.

“This year, I had 2 clients who changed their baby’s sanction astatine 1 twelvemonth old. And I had personification precocious email maine astir their 3-year-old’s name.”

Slagen, who has complete 72,000 followers connected her TikTok grip @namingbebe, credits societal media for making parents uncertainty their decision.

“I person a bunch of group who spell down Reddit rabbit holes,” she said.

“Social media benignant of does that to everything and makes you mobility what you have.”

Her astir viral videos tackle topics specified arsenic ’80s woman names that did not property well — wherever she lists Heather, Erica, Courtney, Tara and Lindsay — which sewage adjacent to 1 cardinal views, and “What is nan modern time Marie of mediate names?” to which her reply is James, which racked up 1.5 million.

She besides dished connected immoderate of her astir unsocial requests.

“I had 1 mates whose kids and dogs had music-inspired names for illustration Jagger, Marley and Harrison. They were looking for a woman sanction that would fresh successful and I included options for illustration Frankie [Frank Sinatra], Jovi [Bon Jovi] and Lane [Penny Lane],” she said.

“I besides worked pinch a Chinese mom who had this sketch of letters and successful her civilization you had to prime a missive from each class successful a definite bid — It was for illustration a crippled of Scrabble.”