Ha, on Wednesday I was reading this story at Life & Style about Scarlett Johansson shopping for blue baby clothes and the L&S tea-leave-readers claimed that she was totally having a boy. Not so much! Scarlett Johansson and her no-socks-wearing French lover Romain Dauriac have welcomed a baby girl. The little girl already has a name too: ROSE. Rose Dorothy Johansson-Dauriac? Or just Rose Dauriac? Hm.
It’s a girl! Scarlett Johansson and fiancé Romain Dauriac have welcomed their first child, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Daughter Rose Dorothy was born in New York City. The baby’s middle name is an homage to Johansson’s grandmother, whom she called “the first Francophone in my family” while accepting her honorary César in Paris last February.
“Mother and daughter are doing well,” publicist Marcel Pariseau tells the Associated Press in a statement.
Further information is not being released at this time.
The actress has had plenty to celebrate in her personal life lately, including an engagement that came six months before PEOPLE confirmed in March that the couple were expecting a baby.
“I’m very happy. Being engaged is an exciting time to enjoy and really savor,” Johansson, 29, has said of Dauriac, a French journalist.
While never addressing the pregnancy, the mom-to-be let her baby belly do the talking, debuting her bump days after the news broke and, more recently, while stepping out for ice cream with Dauriac in New York City.
Yes, that’s another interesting piece of information – despite Scarlett saying over and over that she was going to live in Paris and she and Romain were so happy in Paris and all of that, they decamped to Manhattan and the Hamptons for most of the summer and Scarlett totally gave birth in New York. So, Rose will have American citizenship from the start (the baby would have been eligible for American citizenship even if Scarlett had given birth in France, it just would have taken more time to get through the paperwork). How does France determine citizenship? Romain is a French citizen, so presumably Rose could have dual citizenship?
As for the name… it’s pretty. I tend to think “Rose” is more a middle name, just because it sounds good attached to so many longer names. Like, Elizabeth Rose, Isabel Rose, Catherine Rose, Madelyn Rose, you get the idea. It’s old-fashioned but classic. And it’s the same in English and French too, which is probably why they chose it. I understand the choice of Dorothy to honor a family member – I have a few “Dorothy” ladies in my family too. My favorite is when a Dorothy is called “Dot”. I think that’s so cute.
PS… I totally lost a bet with myself about ScarJo versus Ryan Reynolds. I can’t believe Scarlett had a baby before Ryan!!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Congrats! Love the name. I find it adorable.
1/2 of the golden girls honored in 1 kid – how can i not like it?
Brilliant observation!!!! I love it even more now.
I was going to say the same thing! I suddenly admire Scarlett.
haha yes!
I can’t stand her after her WA support but babies are always happy news, therefore congrats to Scarlett and Romain!
And Rose is a beautiful name and normal, finally!
Re: French citizenship, I have no idea about their laws now but when I was living in Paris, French-born babies of two non-French citizens had to wait until they were 16 or 18 to have the French citizenship.. Therefore it should be a jus filii citizenship.
I guess that Rose, having a French parent, will be French when they require the citizenship, even though she is not born in France.
she is already french and american and can have both passports. Lucky her, she will travel easily in a lot of countries !
The little girl has a normal name. Hallelujah.
Bwahaha. This.
Aw, my grams was a Dot! But when it came to naming, I just couldn’t with Dorothy. One of my kids’ middle names is Gertrude, somehow that was better than Dorothy to me, lol!
My grandmother was Dot too !
Congrats to Scarlett and her husband, and I think the name is pretty.
Every Gertrude I have ever known has been a strong, compassionate and successful woman. Strangely, they’ve all been math majors too.
That’s awesome.
I was nearly named Winnifred for a great-grandmother and to this day I wish I had been! I love Welsh names.
Aw! That’s sweete :). She is a grand girl!
My great aunt is Dorothy/Dot as well. I didn’t know her real name was Dorothy until I was about 12, I swear. We also had a Kathleen/Kapp – another one I just assumed had been given the name Kapp.
One of my best girlfriends is a Dorothy (we’re in our 30’s)… when I met her (in our 20’s) I was like “Hmmmm. that’s an old fashioned/strange/80 year old name” but now, I couldn’t imagine her as anything else… And I now associate the name Dorothy with the spunkiest of firecrackers!!!
My grandmother was a Dorothy but went by Ruth for short.
Omg! My grams was Dorothy Ruth! But went by Dot 😉
I’ve always been ambivalent about ScarJo, but I love how low-key her pregnancy was. She never really talked about kids, just did this on her own time in her own way. Good for her and congrats!
Also, maybe they’re going for a color scheme? Scarlett is a kind of red, rose is a kind of pink?
Great assumption!
Very sweet name, congrats to them!
Congrats! Pretty normal name!
She will have the dual citizenship because her dad is french even if she’s not born in France( it’s the french law)
And my guess is that it’s easier to be born in the States and acquire another citizenship dually, rather than be born elsewhere and try and acquire US citizenship – I think the US makes you give up your other passport? But I could be wrong – US peeps?
It’s not difficult to get U.S. citizenship if one of your parents is an American citizen, even if you are born abroad. Oh – and the U.S. doesn’t require you to give up your other passport. We might have at one time, but no more.
No, in fact it’s not easy to lose US citizenship and quite a few American hold passports of other countries. The worst part about that is the complicated paperwork, which sometimes leads to taxation without representation: All Americans have to file with the IRS every year even if they’ve never worked or even lived in the US (for example, if born to a US parent abroad).
My mom kept her French citizenship just so my bro and I could have dual. The idea being that if either of us ever wanted to work/live in France it would be far easier for us to do so.
I prefer Dorothy Rose personally but that’s because Rose (like Marie) can make any name sound nice!
Congrats to her.
I like that order as well. My niece’s middle name is Rose. Rose just doesn’t sound like a first name.
I agree and Rose my grand mother’s first name, she hates it, she said it’s a cow name, but congrats to them
I love it as a first name. It’s so strong.
Dorothy is much harder to pronounce to the French, and the french version Dorothée is incredibly old-fashioned. I understand them giving her Rose as a first name.
I knew a French woman, now in her 40s, named Dorothée after a grandmother. She said that she got lots of comments about having such an old-fashioned name.
Dorothy is also quite old-fashioned in the US. Many of the old-fashioned “grandma” names have become fashionable again in the US in the last 10 or 20 years, but not Dorothy. I think the name has a pleasant sound, but maybe parents worry that a daughter would get lots of “Wizard of Oz” jokes.
Dorothee is a much prettier name than Dorothy IMO.
My mom’s name is Edith, but with the French pronunciation, which is far nicer. English Edith, not so much. I have a French name that is spelled the French way with the accent, but that doesn’t stop everyone from pronouncing it the English way 😉
Then again, I’m probably biased because I love the French language.
Hopefully the kid looks like her. 😉
Ouch! She is gorgeous but he is interesting in a French kinda way…nice family.
Well congrats! Good name too. Kinda old school.
Rose Dorothy is a really cute name but I’m really surprised they didn’t give her a French name (I wonder when they’ll begin teaching her French).
I kind of like Dorothy Rose better, it sounds like an old stage name
Rose is also a french first name
Congratulations has both! His(her) baby will have the double nationality seen that his dad is French and her American mother; when has knowledge why she(it) is she(it) turn(return) in United States said q’ was disappointed enough by her(its) stay has Paris or she(it) has find that French were very impolite and rather unrefined (what unfortunately is true)
Wait. What?
I think Google translate just CAN’T with the grammar today.
oh la la, I just reread my comment is anything .ca teach me to use a translator other than google translation; sorry
did the u/s people get it wrong?
With today’s technology, likely not. But when there is the very rare misreading, it’s usually mistakenly read as being a girl, not a boy.
There are several ways to get the French citizenship.
If you are born in France and one of your parents was born in France, you automatically get the French citizenship, as soon as you are born, pretty much.
Rose was born abroad, in the USA – so she already has a nationality, American. But given that her dad is French, she will be awarded French citizenship upon simple request when she is 18. Could be that she must prove that she has lived in France for 5 years though, I’m not sure as the finer points keep being changed.
If like the UK I am American/husband British so our son born here got American and British within months. I guess different for French.
Yeah, it also depends on the countries ‘pairings’, each country has different deals with each country, pretty much.
A few months ago, my French friend went to the French ambassy in London to declare his daughter (born in the UK) and get her a French passport. He was told that since the daughter already had a nationality (British), she couldn’t automatically get the French passport, and that she will have to wait untill she’s 18 to get it – and then there would be no problem to get it. It is, of course, possible that it’s just an employee’s mistake, they happen quite often.
@jiji
No it wasn’t a mistake. French nationality laws are very strict, even though one of your parents is French. It is more or less the same for Italian citizens children born in UK, they get the Italian citizenship later on whilst they get the British one immediately if the nonBritish parents have been resident in UK for more than three years (wait, if the parents are from EU)
No, the baby will be automatically French. As long as you have one French parent, even if you’re born abroad you are French. It’s the birth certificate that matters.
But France both aknowledge what is call “droit du sang” and “droit du sol” If you’re born in France from parents having another citizenship then you’ll automatically be French when you turn 18 if you live in France at this time.
Alright, I researched this on the governmental websites to be sure. Today (the laws keep changing) :
A child is born French (born in France as well as abroad) if at least one of its parents is French. (source http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F3068.xhtml ) My bad, Rose is French then.
However your stance on droit du sol is (perhaps unfortunately) not true anymore. “Simply being born in France does not confer French nationality except in the case of a child born to unknown or stateless parent”. You can apply for it when you’re 18, sure, but it *can* be denied – and has been, all too often, during Sarkozy’s tenure for instance.
Well before 18 you have to ask for it. Turning 18 it is automatic if you live in France and you’ve been living there for at least 5 years since you’re eleven. The the French citizenship is not supposed to be denied to you… Then you’re right, French bureaucracy can be quite confusing, so you never know
I posted above and I guess it did change because I was born in the States but I have dual citizenship because my mother is a French citizen.
Weird that they changed it….???
‘Em
It is not AUTOMATICALLY. Sorry for the capital letters but I wanted you to pay attention to that detail. That is the same for Italian citizens, you have to declare the birth to an embassy or consulate, fill the forms, etc. but it is not automatically…..
@TOK
Things change so much in that regard that if you have dual citizenship you might go crazy at some point!
My fave nick name is Margaret shortened to Midge. I do like the name though. What do you think about Alyssa Milano naming daughter Elizabella?
So fussy! The name itself is pretty but the current girl-name zeitgeist favors these hyper-feminine, super-girly names that scream “hot pink Barbie princess bling bling uptalk” to me. Maybe in 30-40 years when we have a bunch of Fortune 500 female CEOs with names like that, I’ll get on board. In the meantime, little Elizabella sure has a wide variety of nickname options.
My favourite is Hariette shortened to Hattie 🙂
Congrats on a healthy girl!!!
Being a Dorothy I’m glad it’s her middle name. I’ve never liked it!! But my family has always called me Dort which I hate and I’m not a dot or Dottie.
I presume the next baby will be “Sophia Blanche”?
Or perhaps Zbornak Petrillo?
LOL, that’s the first thing to came to my mind too! And it explains why my coworkers were suddenly discussing The Golden Girls yesterday…
lol….I was just going to post that ScarJo must be a Golden Girls fan! Actually, my 92 year old Mom’s name is Dorothy (although everyone calls her Dot or Dotty)…I actually love when celebs give their kids, sweet old fashioned names. Tina Fey named her daughter, Alice…and I remember thinking how lovely that the name wasn’t cucumber, or pomegranite!
Too funny, I was wondering why it sounded familiar! I hope it was on purpose, that would be awesome. Sweet name anyway.
Lol!! I instantly thought of Golden Girls. Thank you for being a frieeeeennnd.
LOL! Good one!
i instantly thought that – she must be a GG fan. lol
Oh, that’s a cute name! My sister’s name is Lydie-Rose (we are French) and she hates it, she prefers just Lydie.
They are all having girls at the moment, Scarlett, Hayden Panettiere, Mila Kunis (rumored)… I wonder if Ryan and Eva’s baby is a girl too.
In the other boleyn, Natalie had a girl and Scarjo a boy, and in real life it’s the opposite. It would be cute if Aleph and Rose become friends when they are older (I wonder if their moms are still in touch).
My french cousin is Melody-Rose and she goes by her full name. I like how the french pronounce Rose a lot, with sort of a hard and long “o” (can’t for the life of me think of an English word that sounds like that so I hope people get what I mean) 😀
A refreshingly normal name in celeb land. Congrats!
I don’t like her but congratulations, and points for the normal name.
Congratulations! I kind of like the baby’s name. Not very fond of “Dorothy” but it’s a regular name, a rare thing in Hollywood.
The order of the names is the only thing that I don’t like. Both names are cute, I agree with other commenters saying she should have reversed them. She could of still gone by Rose, if that’s what they liked. Anyways, I can’t help but sing the The Golden Girls theme song in my head every time I read her name in this post. Haha. 😉
+1
So happy for her! Congratulation! The name is a bit clichè but cute, I hope the baby will resemble Scarlett more thar Romain-something (is it rude? whatever.)
All I can think of is the Golden Girls with that name
I like the name, but I think Dorothy Rose would have been even better.
Meh on the name but this guy is just so creepy looking to me.
Cute .. Love the name but the first thing that came to my mind was the Golden Girls.. hehe..
Congrats! Not my type of name but it’s her daughter so whatever. Her bf looks like creepy douche. Is he a celebrity in France?
I think he’s a writer or something but he looks like a p0rn director.
He’s involved in the art world somehow. He was the editor of an art magazine for a while, and maybe a journalist of some kind, too? It’s not entirely clear what he does. I know some people read that as shady, but he reminds me of my born-rich friends, the ones who don’t really have to work to support themselves or have a career, so they just sort of potter around from one thing to another. I’ve wondered before if he comes from wealth. He seems kind of like a dilettante, flitting from one interest to the next every couple years.
I hope parenting makes her less self-centered, provides her more insight (or an interest) in the world and most of all, teaches her empathy.
I’ve somehow had the, possibly incorrect, impression that Scarlett was not known to be a “girl’s girl.” A daughter is a great reason to let that go.
I heard the same but then I also heard more rumours that she was because she still hangs out with her old girlfriends and they regularly travel together apparently.
My issue with her is that she’s greedy (see Oxfam) and the Woody Allen thing. She’s not very smart but that’s no excuse for her selfish ignorance.
It seems Dorothy is becoming popular again. My daughter has three in her daycare that go by Doree, Dot, and Dottie.
Joan Rivers reincarnated!
Well at least Scarlett gave her baby a rather normal sounding name than something completely off the wall. I always had a bit of a side-eye to this relationship but whatever. He sounded kind of K-Fedish to me. They have a baby now. I hope it lasts. Mazel tov and welcome baby Rose.
I like the name. I think “Dorothy Rose” rolls off the tongue easier, but maybe they figured they’d call her “Rose”, so they just went with that as the first name to save their daughter a lifetime of saying, “Call me Rose.”
When I saw over the summer that they were in New York, I thought, “Someone’s talked to a lawyer.” French family courts are notorious for awarding custody to the French parent in cases where one parent is not a national. Regardless of any other factor up to and including neglect and abuse, French courts have often simply ruled in favor of the French parent. it’s kind of a nightmare, to the point that the US embassy in Paris has an office dedicated solely to helping American parents with French custody suits. Having the baby here means that, should they separate, Scarlett could file divorce/custody papers here, and not in France. It was a smart move.
I wonder is the baby’s name is a combo of their grandmother’s names…
that would be sweet. Maybe she’ll go by Rosie.
hmm, I wish I didn’t automatically think of Rosie O’Donnell when I hear of “Rosie.”
Great name. A celebrity with class. How nice for a change. Think she will sell her baby pictures? I think we all know the answer to that question. Good for her she works hard to keep her private life private and still is a huge movie star. It can be done – problem is some movie stars just don’t want to be movie stars they like the hero worship.
Born in the USA to an American mom and French dad. You have the right to become a French citizen if you have a French parent and you are born outside of French territory. However it isn’t automatic and there is paperwork to fill out which means one or two tripa to your local consulate. My parents never got around to it so I only had an American passport until I turned 20. When I decided to study abroad in Europe, I bypassed the annoying visa process by taking matters into my own hands and made my father accompany me to the French consulate to get my French passport. Had to take some pictures, fill out and sign some forms and there might have been a processing fee. Legally I now am a dual US-French citizen but like I said you aren’t automatically conferred citizenship. There’s some bureaucratic stuff to deal with. Perks include being able to legally travel to Cuba!
Its cute. They kept the ‘red’ going without picking a totally weird name. The next girl can be Ruby
“Scarlett” really is a great name – sexy, classic hollywood, unique. It served Ms. Johansson well. Welcome baby Rose.
Lovely name. She’s going to be stunning, I bet! Scar and Romain both have strong interesting faces.
I’ve always loved the name Rose, I find it very classy and feminine. I think I like Dorothy Rose better, though. But who cares.
This has been a fantastic year for Scarlett! Her girl was born and all of her film projects were succesful. I really hope after the success of Lucy and Winter Soldier they really do consider giving Black Widow her own movie. It’s about time we get an actually good superhero movie with a female protagonist. Elektra and Catwoman didn’t bomb for having female protagonists, they bombed for being offensively awful.
Thank you for being a friend ScarJo!
Her heart is true, she’s a pal and a confidante.
lol!
Rose Dorothy doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as having them switched around as others mentioned, but otherwise such a cute pair of names.
That black gown/splashy necklace is one of my favorite looks on her ever.
I love Rose as a second name too!
If my second wasn’t a boy, her name was talked about being Amelia Rose, or Hannah Rose.
probably Amelia.
anyway, he was not a girl so he got a completely different name!
Scarlett and Rose—I LOVE the subtle colour theme.
As much as I despise the normalization of giving kids the father’s name, “Rose Dauriac” sounds lovely, elegant, and amazing.
LOL, why is the first thing I thought of the Golden Girls? Seriously it’s like an homage to that show.
Still, Rose is a pretty name.
Also, if you are an American citizen who has resided the required number of years in the USA during your lifetime, your children are American citizens at birth when born abroad, not just “entitled” to US citizenship (although there are more hoops to jump for children of unmarried couples where the father is the US citizen). Yes, you file paperwork with the embassy to register the birth but that’s no different than filing the birth certificate in the States (which hospitals typically do on your behalf).
Plus the US is one of the few countries that determines citizenship by place of birth (jus soli), rather than parental lineage. Almost all other countries give citizenship based on the nationality of your parents (jus sanguinis). France actually does recognize citizenship through a stricter version of jus soli than the US, but also bestows citizenship on a child of a French citizen if born abroad. A child born abroad with a French parent can repudiate their French citizenship when they turn 18 though.
Anyway, long story short, baby Rose has dual US-France citizenship.
I remember how depressed her body language was during the Ryan years.
She looks miles better now.
I’m an American and gave birth overseas to my kids. Getting their American citizenship took two minutes at the consult. No biggie. And their passports took less time overseas than getting them processed in the States. And yes, the baby will automatically have French citizenship, too.