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Jessica Simpson gave birth to a healthy 9 pound baby girl named Maxwell Drew Johnson. That’s not a typo—her baby is a girl, and her name is Maxwell. And as if her child needed more gender confusion throughout her life, her middle name is Drew, which means ‘manly.’ From Heidi Klum’s daughter Lou to Jon Heder’s daughter Evan, The Daily Beast rounds up more celebrities’ kids that will forever be associated with a different gender.
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Maxwell Drew Joh...
The eternally pregnant Jessica Simpson finally gave birth on Tuesday to a healthy baby girl named Maxwell Drew. The name Maxwell, usually associated with boys, means “great steam” but the middle name Drew is what is really gender-defying: it means “manly.” Drew is also Simpson’s mother’s maiden name. The name already caused a storm on Twitter, with a few tweets in support of the different name and many tweets asking “isn’t Maxwell a boy’s name?” At least she dispelled the controversy over her weight gain: baby Maxwell weighed nine pounds, 13 ounces.
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Lou Samuels
Heidi Klum gave birth to a daughter she and Seal named Lou Sulola Samuel. "She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years,” said the German-born supermodel and singer. Little Lou is Klum’s fourth child, and although it’s still unclear where the unique moniker came from, her name wasn’t the first time the couple ditched the classic baby name book—Klum’s other children are named Leni, Henri, and Johan.
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Auden Wyle
ER’s former favorite young doctor and his wife, makeup artist Tracy Warbin, named their daughter Auden Wyle in 2005. Her unique name was inspired by poet W.H. Auden. She fits right in with her artistic family—Noah’s parents founded the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum and he studied theater in college.
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Bailey McCartney
Designer Stella McCartney was named after both of her great-grandmothers, but decided to branch out from the family tree—but only slightly—when it came time to name her children. Her second child, a daughter with British publisher Alasdhair Willis, is named Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis. Her middle name, of course, comes from Stella’s late mother, Linda McCartney.
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Elliot & Harper ...
ABC newsman George Stephanopoulos has twice given his daughters slightly androgynous names. He and his wife, Ali Wentworth, have one daughter named Harper Andrea, and another named Elliott Anastasia, whose name comes from Wentworth’s grandmother, explorer Janet Elliott Wulsin.
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Evan Heder
Did anyone think Napoleon Dynamite was mature enough to have a child? Nevertheless, Jon Heder and his wife, Kirsten, had a girl named Evan Jane Heder in 2007. Heder took a chance that strangers would be confused about his daughter’s name—Evan is so predominantly used for males it’s been listed in the top 100 most popular boys’ names for the last 20 years.
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Spencer & Mason ...
Kelsey Grammer and his first wife named their daughter Spencer Grammer. Now 26, and one of the stars of the ABC Family series Greek, Spencer has said, “I think I really wanted to be an actress because I thought more girls should be named Spencer and that people would finally stop making fun of my name.” Her famous father named her after his best friend from high school, and her middle name, Karen, comes from the memory of her father’s sister. Grammer’s other daughter is named Mason Olivia—perhaps it’s some sort of reverse payback by their father for his own feminine first name?
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Finn Leeves
Frasier’s favorite nanny, Jane Leeves, and her husband, Marshall Coben, gave their son the genderless name of Finn William Leeves Coben in 2003. It’s still unclear if his name comes from Mark Twain’s famous protagonist, and Leeves played it safe the first time around by naming her daughter Isabella.
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