Justin Timberlake welcomed his first child! Justin is now the proud father of a little boy named Silas Randall Timberlake. Can I just say? I was expecting a really bad or boring baby name from Justin Timberlake, but I really can’t complain about Silas Randall. “Randall” is a family name – Justin’s father is named Randall, and Randall is also Justin’s middle name. Silas is a biblical name but it doesn’t feel too churchy or overused (to me), although Silas is growing in popularity these days. It feels like a Southern name to me.
And in case you’re wondering why I haven’t mentioned the mother of Justin Timberlake’s baby, it’s because everything about the pregnancy was about Justin Timberlake, from the announcement (Justin’s baby’s mother’s head wasn’t even in the photo), to the babymoon (he went skiing, she did not) to all of the talk around the baby that Justin was going to have. Justin Timberlake had a baby. No one else matters. And father and child are just fine.
It’s official: Justin Timberlake will be passing on his suit and tie. The singer-songwriter and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, have welcomed their first child, son Silas Randall Timberlake, their reps confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. Reps say mom and baby are doing well and dad is “ecstatic.” Further details are being kept private at this time.
Silas was the middle name of Timberlake’s maternal grandfather Bill Bomar, who died in 2012, while Randall is the musician’s own middle name, as well as his father’s first.
Congrats to Justin. And congrats to baby Silas. I bet he’ll be a cutie. But will Silas grow up to be a singer? That’s the question. And will Blue Ivy Carter be Silas’ baby-sitter? Did Silas get Justin Timberlake’s original hair?
Oh, and I kind of wonder if Jessica Biel was able to give birth several days ago, all undercover. I think that’s what happened.
Photos courtesy of JT’s social media, WENN.
This might be one of my favourite celeb baby names in recent years. A normal name, but not too overused. Perfect.
I kind of like it too. It’s different without being an adjective, a fruit, or an inanimate object.
Or a town
Or a direction. I actually love the name Silas. Best wishes to both parents and baby Silas.
It is a cool name. I just wonder if the mother of Justin Timberlake’s baby was allowed any part in its selection.
I really doubt she doesn’t have any say. He’s a very flashy person, she isn’t. I know plenty of relationships like that and the partners are equal, it’s just that one person likes to be the centre of attention a bit ( a lot) more.
Of course the name only honours Justin’s family. Of course.
Right?!
i am glad to know father and baby are fine. Congrats!
I hope JT had an easy delivery …
X1000. I hope Justin gets his figure back quickly for post baby bikini shots.
It must be really tough for a performer like him, but I am sure he will bounce back quickly. I just hope his busy schedule doesn’t affect his breastfeeding. It is a great time for father and son to bond.
They’ll probably shorten it to “Sy” which is really cute.
Note to Jeremy Renner: This is how you pick and marry a surrogate.
Zing!!!
With a head that size? I don’t think so.
Silas? Well congrats to mom and baby.
Further details are being kept private at this time.
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What “Further details” would people possibly be interested in? Baby is a boy, we got the name, everyone’s fine, what’s the shroud of secrecy all about? Hair colour perhaps?
Details about the medical marvel that is JT and his man-womb?
I for one will not be able to sleep unless I know the name of her doctor, which hospital she went to, how many stitches she needed and what the APGAR score was. This is critical.
Nope. I think they need to get over themselves!
Silas sounds like a serial killer name
I was thinking comic book villain.
Silas Ramsbottom….Despicable Me 2
It is the name for one of the characters on the Vampire Diaries.
There is also a vampire named Silas in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard book. XD
^THIS! The notorious villain in Heroes was named Silas.
That is the ONLY Silas I have ever heard of :/
Wasn’t his name Sylar?
Close, but it was Sylar. But yes, that’s the first thing I thought of, too. lol
Or, the name could be from the novel “Silas Marner,” written by George Eliot in 1861 (an English female author named Mary Ann Evans, who published 6 novels under her male pseudonym). It’s a story about a lonely weaver, his stolen gold, and his adoptive daughter named Eppie. Steve Martin wrote a screenplay adapted from “Silas Marner” in 1994 called “A Simple Twist of Fate.” He starred in the film as the main character, whose named was changed from Silas Marner to Michael McCann.
“Silas Marner” was one of the classic novels we were required to read when I was in high school from 1970 to 1973. If you missed it, here’s a plot summary I found online:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/silas/summary.html
Silas is the creepy murderous monk in the Da Vinci Code.
I first heard it as the older son’s name on Weeds. I like it.
Silas Marner. Not my favorite.
Hah! My thoughts jumped to the book too
I think that might be why, subconsciously, I liked it.
It’s growing on me. At first, it just seemed musty. But standing on it’s own, it’s not bad.
You did let it out to air for a while, but if the must has begun to grow on you, I think you should have that looked at.
Lol, it wouldn’t be the first weird thing I’ve had looked at.
Musty is the perfect word. I usually like old fashioned names but I’m just not keen on Silas.
I am all full of non-comprehension today. Esmom, I thought you were advocating for “Musty” to be someone’s name, at first. I had to read it twice. On the plus side, it is androgynous.
Ha, Kiddo. Musty as a name isn’t that unbelievable now that you mention it. I’ve actually heard much stranger ones, especially in Hollywood.
I loved that novel when I was a teenager. I had no father, and Silas Marner was a father without a daughter until suddenly a daughter came to him. The book gave me dreams and hopes. Now, I’m an adult and I have a real-father-in-my-heart, someone who wouldn’t have had a daughter had I not needed a father. When I was a teenager, though, I was on my own. This book gave me a chance to see something other than that which I knew.
That’s beautiful, Frida_K. That pretty much sums up why I love books.
What a lovely story. I agree with GNAT regarding the wonder of books.
I didn’t know it was a Bible name — I *only* knew it from the book. Oops.
I love it because of Silas Marner!
waiting for the pictures of Justin making the birth all about himself.
There will be a cover photo on People with Justin holding the baby and kissing his son’s head. If we are lucky we might get to see Jessica’s hand resting on Justin’s shoulder. Just watch
Congrats to both! I love the name Silas, it’s cute and different. Happy for all three!
welcome to the world, SRT!
(heh, reminds me of video subtitle format .srt–but srts are important :D)
hope you grow to be happy, become an independent person, who will know kindness, who will have great knowledge and impart it, already you are the apple of your parents eyes 😀
At least they named their child with family names. Silas is not a bad name. I went to high school with a guy named Silas and he was just one of those guys who was just cool. It is so much better than what some people name their kids as in a direction or verb or just made up meaning nothing names. Congrats to the Timberlakes!
Yeah HIS family names, right? I heard Silas was his grandfather’s middle name?
No. Randall is actually the family name. Silas is a biblical name. All boys in our family have the fathers and grandfathers name as middle name. No big deal
Randall is the family name
@laurie & @sandy according to people: “Silas was the middle name of Timberlake’s maternal grandfather Bill Bomar, who died in 2012, while Randall is the musician’s own middle name, as well as his father’s first.” So all three names Silas Randall Timberlake are from Justin’s side.
Yeah HIS family names, right? I heard Silas was his grandfather’s middle name?
Thats an old thing giving sons the fathers or grandfathers name. Not like he named the kid. “Justin”
Maybe as parents they made a pact like my husband and I to name by gender, i.e., my husband will name the boys and I’ll name the girls. I’m partial to girl names ending in A and my husband always was partial to one specific boy name which I will not publicize for sacred purposes.
That Instagram picture is really unfortunate. They don’t have a single picture where they are both on the same level? Plus – are they TRYING to suggest hanky panky?
I know all celebrity births get a lot of attention but it seems like this is all over the top. Silas is not the first baby ever born.
How is it over the top? It is one announcement and of course all of the news outlets and gossip sites will pick it up…which they do for all of the celebrities.
I don’t think it’s over the top. They announced the birth and the name, but that’s all. News outlets are reporting it like any celebrity baby’s birth. How is him kissing her belly, suggesting sex? lol
Welcome, Silas. Good luck with that capering nitwit of a father you’ve got.
“capering nitwit” <= brilliant!
All I can think of is that they named their kid off of a character on weeds. Silas.
Yes, HIS family’s names, both, and not hers. Maybe she’s content for the time being with the untold, fabulous wealth this union has brought her (I’m thinking of Katie Holmes before her disillusionment and escape). He is an arrogant, egotistical guy, and I truly believe she is his beard. Maybe it’s worth it to her. Maybe they don’t spend too much time together and she shops all the time and is pampered at the spa with her girlfriends (her treat, of course). It doesn’t sound bad if they both get what they want, I suppose. If he doesn’t make her miserable in her private life, maybe the bargain is worth it at that.
I admit I did think it was very odd that BOTH names appeared to come from Justin’s side of the family.
But maybe its a case of Justin names the boys, and Jessica names the girls.
Or one names the first born and the other the second.
I’m just guessing.
A few of my friends their kids name the newborns and the parents’ choice becomes the middle name.
I hate this name. That is all.
Not a name I would pick, but it could definitely be worse. Celebrities have a habit of weird ridiculous names, and this isn’t one.
I read somewhere, (don’t know if it’s true) that they didn’t find out the baby’s gender, until the delivery room! If that’s true, I think that is really cool! I always think, after all the pain and pushing, it’s so wonderful to get that surpirse in the delivery room. It’s a girl!!!!!! It’s a boy!!!!!! I understand the practicality of finding out the baby’s gender ahead of time…but, I prefer, the suprise!!!!
I think I would want to be surprised, too, although it would be hard to not let the sonogram tech tell you if they knew. It would take a lot of willpower. Tell me! No don’t tell me!
The surprise was awesome for me indeed. I can’t imagine doing it any other way.
My friends & family thought I was crazy for not wanting to know ahead of time, but my take on it was, you don’t get very many wonderful surprises in life, so why not make this one of them?
Jessica who?
I really dislike men who call women ‘chicks’
@ Lak… I feel the same way about the word “chick”. It’s disrespectful! I love baby Silas’s name, I bet he’s a cutie.
Congrats to them. Say what you will about Jessica and her delusional claims about her looks keeping her from roles…her being too pretty and all lol (you gest Jess, truly you must)…but that woman had a bangin’ body – one of the only ones as good as or better than pre-baby Britney Spears’ which I thought was smokin’. Wait, that must mean Justin is one of those body first, face second men…not to say Britney wasn’t cute. In my opinion, Jessica kinda’ looks like a fish – which is not a fav look in my book. But her bod is exceptional – a full pkg – ass, tits, legs, killer curves, tiny waist… I’m sure since she has such a great body, she’s probably going to do her darnest to get it right back!
Knew it was a boy when he acknowledged her birthday. Glad everyone is alright and healthy.
What is odd about naming their son after Justin’s family? Many first born sons are named after the dad. There are also other celebrities whose sons are “Jr’s”.Why are some people on here acting like this is some new strange tradition that Justin and Jessica started? Lol. Congrats to the happy family.
I like the name Silas. I hope he looks just like Jessica! 🙂
I have a Grandson Silas Shane….
Were the parents big fans of the tv series Weeds?
I like silas–and hiS name
It’s always going to be the name of Paul Bettany’s crazy monk in Da Vinci Code.
Well, if they have another child and the names are taken from HER family, then that would be nice. But if they have another child and the names are again taken from his family, I’m going to raise exactly one eyebrow at him, permanently.
While I think he is a doucheb*g in general, I am amazed at how much importance you guys put on the fact that the baby names are from his side. What’s the big deal? We don’t know how they chose the names!
When we were expecting, my husband suggested his grandfather’s name and I loved it. I flirted with several Romanian names including Vlad, and my own mother said that unless I wanted the kid bullied and teased, I should pass on it. Since it was the only name I really really wanted, once I gave up on that, we just read multiple baby name books… Chose a middle name that is Irish in origin (so anyone who doesn’t know better would think it is chosen by my husband to honor his heritage). No Romanian or Greek names but it does not mean my husband decided alone or imposed the names on me! Sheesh….
And I hope they did not know the gender – we wanted to be surprised and it was easy, just asked the ultrasound technician to keep it to her/himself at check-ups. No biggie. And it was wonderful to learn it once he was born, the old fashioned way….
It boggles the mind that people are ranting that it’s his family’s names. Just maybe she was part of the naming and loved the name. My brother’s son was named from his family names, both first and middle. His wife loved the first name and was fine with the second and thought they went together great, and had no interest in using any of her family’s names for her son.
My close friend named her son after her’s husband’s family names, first and middle, a very unusual first name from way back in his family. And her daughter’s name was even hyphenated with an Ann and named after her husband’s middle name. Her idea, not his.
People really are reaching and so judgmental.
And all the Jr.’s and III’s in the world. what awful, selfish men wanting their son named after them with the family name.
I don’t know. It seems that Justin is not Justin unless he is with Britney.
Oh please stop. Come join us in 2015 he dodged a bullet with that MESS