Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz welcomed their first child last night, a little boy named Bronx Mowgli Wentz. Bronx weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. He was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA.
The couple did not tell the public if they were expecting a boy or girl, but it is likely that they knew ahead of time. Ashlee’s sister Jessica said on the Ellen Degeneres show earlier this week “I can’t say [if it’s a boy or girl] because they haven’t said. I’ll stick my foot in my mouth and get in trouble and I won’t be a good aunt.”
Ashlee was said to be due around Halloween, which would make Bronx nearly three weeks past his due date. Calculating due dates is an inexact science and many first babies come late. Jessica said Ashlee was “jumping around trying everything” to get the baby to come and that she had tried “different foot massages and stuff.”
Pete and Ashlee are following a celebrity baby-naming trend by naming their child after a place, specifically a borough of New York. Victoria and David Beckham have a son named Brooklyn while Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have son Kingston, thought to be named after the capital of Jamaica.
Their newborn’s middle name, Mowgli, is after the lead character in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book series. Kipling made up the name, which the author claims means “frog.”
Bronx is an unusual name but it’s not as strange as some other celebrity baby names. According to the Baby Name Voyager, Bronx has never been in the top 1000 baby names in the US in the past 100 years. I can’t imagine a couple on the East Coast naming their baby Bronx, but the name is sure to grow in popularity now. Congratulations to Pete and Ashlee!
Congratulations to the parents and welcome to Bronx!
Ugly ugly name. Bronx Wentz. Whatever happened to making names sound good together?
Poor child, I can’t get over how ugly those names are. Mowgli, really? I thought maybe it was a Welsh grandfather somewhere.
Congs any way.
Congrats to the new parent ;o)
But I agree…not a good name, poor Bronx Wentz
Apparently they are planning for disney remakes or a fan of the zoo.
Bronx Wentz? I have trouble saying that name, what’s it going to be like for a small child? Mowgli Wentz at least flows and is less of a tongue-twister. Oh well, congrats to them.
Congratulations to the couple. Agree with the posters above though, hate the name. That poor kid on the playground… ‘Yo Mowgli, or do you prefer Frog?/Doesn’t your dad cross dress?/Isn’t Jessica Simpson your aunt?/Etc…’ 😉
Congrats to the happy couple on a healthy boy 😀
But Gawd do I hate that name. But, if you can’t beat them, you might as well join them, so I’ve decided that if I have children they’ll be called Termonfeckin and Huddersfield, or maybe Sixmilebridge and Scunthorpe… ooh decisions, decisions 🙄
And we have yet another celebrity idiot name. What you wanna bet she’s copying Angie and Brad with the boy names ending in x?
At least they don’t get wasted and have exasperating public fights.
Oh My Freaking God…..MOWGLI??? 😯
What the fukc next? … Tiddles?
….read the comments after posting and now I cant stop laughing
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse after Zuma Nesté! What is wrong with these people?? I understand wanting to give your child a meaningful name but this is just plain ridiculous and wrong. Why do these people never care about what their offspring might feel later? And Bronx, that is such a macho name. It’s like Pete thought “uh, gotta give the kid a butch name *grunt* *grunt*”. This is clearly one of those selfish name-givings, they only cared about what would (in their minds) make them look cool.
I’m not saying congratulations. Some people aren’t meant to procreate (at the very least not in that disastrous combination). If you’re not mature enough to give your baby a good name, you’re probably not mature enough to have had the baby in the first place. Sheesh…
Yeah Pete, Senator Bronx Wentz…
I personally detest the name Bronx, but Mowgli… it’s strangely catchy. Momo when he’s a baby. Mo for every day use. I think I might be falling in love with the name Mowgli. Ooooh, it’s so fun to type. Let’s hope the kid doesn’t end up blond, though.
That is the absolute worst name in HISTORY! Georg (Gay-org)-what my youngest wants to name her kid, would of been a better choice. For godsake, they wanted to be edgy but have they been to the Bronx? Are they going to name their next kid Compton? And BM, come on….that’s torture right there from other kids.
The name has got to be a joke–aren’t these two always trying to prank the media? I wouldn’t be surprised if they released the real name in a few weeks and then laugh at everyone for being so gullible. Ugh, I can’t stand these two tools.
Congrats to Ashlee and her gayboy, stupidest baby name on the planet however- and that’s saying something.
I think the name was choosen with great love by these two.
Bronx to be cool and tough sounding. Heck maybe that’s where he was conceived.
Mowgli is obviously the happy and free Jungle Book boy, and I see the connection they hope for their son.
I like Pete and Ashlee, I think they’ll be great parents, as opposed to say, Michael Jackson or Madonna.
it’s gay to bite someone else’s culture who names a pure white baby mowgli? their kid does not even come close to being Indian. its juss random.
Lamest. name. ever. Mowgli sounds like “mo’ ugly”.
what a ridiculous cartoonish name. mowgli? from Kipling’s jungle book? really? seriously? they thought that was cute? well, I guess the father does look a little bit like a monkey, so its fitting the child has a jungle book theme name.
Bronx was the name of the dog in the Disney cartoon Gargoyles. This kid has two names from Disney characters. I pity him.
No wonder the poor little poppet had to be induced; he probably heard them discussing baby names in the womb
Bronx Wentz sounds like two hammer blows
<3 Ladybug
I don’t really mind either name, but they don’t work together very well.
Celebrities strive to out do each other on ridiculous names for their children. Do they ever consider how the poor kid will feel in school when other kids tease them over their lame name? Isn’t she from Texas? Why didn’t she name the baby, Amarillo? How about, Waco?
Mowgli? Seriously? Thats awesome. No matter what I name this baby it can’t be as stupid. And to think my husband hated Philomena for a middle name.
A sorry endeavor to be eccentric, I see.
“Isn’t she from Texas? Why didn’t she name the baby, Amarillo? How about, Waco?”
“Waco Wentz” would be 12 times better, even if it does sound like an oddly militant Wiggles character.
“Bronx”? Seriously? What’s next, Tribeca? Gramercy? Flatiron?
Hell, when I have a kid I’m naming it Poughkeepsie. It’s unisex!
Ladybug, it’s more like “Emo-ugly”.
Ashton Kutcher has *got* to be in on this…
So now we only need some celebs to call their babies Staten Island, Manhattan, and Queens and all the borough names will be taken! But seriously? Bronx?? Not a place I’d want to be named after!
Hello people! Please don’t compare the Bronx with Compton! Just because one or two sections of the area might be a little sketchy doesn’t mean the entirety of the Bronx is a scary, dangerous place. I live in the Bronx and have my entire life, its a great place to grow up. I agree the name sounds kind of odd, but don’t go bashing the poor kid and the parents for the name choice. Be a little more open minded!
i kinda like the name! i have a veryyyy common name, and when i was little i would make up outrageous names and make my mom call me by them when we went anywhere.
maybe it means something to them.
Poor baby. That is a heinous name.
Have they ever even spent time in New York, or did they write down a bunch of “cool” places and pick them out of hat?
If you’re going to name a child after a proper noun, it better not be arbitrary – it better have some god damn meaning.
Like a poster said above, the Bronx is nothing like Compton, especially now with the era of gentrfication. Yall must still have the image of the Bronx from the 70’s and 80’s because now its very different. Especially The South Bronx which was the worst part……….there are now luxury condo’s, high rise buildings and so forth being built there. It is changing so much so that they are refering to it as SOBORO.
So please be a lil bit more open minded.
Oh, Kipling. I forgot about that character. I first read it as “Mogwai” – ZOMG GREMLINS!!!
Maybe they’ll call the kid “Bro” – Bro Wentz. Kinda cute.
Hey cara I like the name Compton!! 😆
mowgli? seriously? as in Mowgli syndrome? HAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHA.
i don’t care that parts of the bronx have gone upscale. it will always be the bronx, just like brooklyn is still brooklyn no matter how many scrawny hipsters move into Williamsburg. beyond that, it’s an ugly sound. there’s no way to say “bronx” without it coming out all nasal, on top of which the poor kid now has only 2 vowels in the 10 letters of his given name and surname. that’s a crap ratio with too many unvoiced velar and palatal sounds.
at least he never has to tell anyone his middle name.
kaiser – i thought mogwai was the scary huron dude in last of the mohicans?
Good gracious.
@Mairead 😆
Seriously though, just saying the name outloud, Bronx Mowgli Wentz hurts my tongue and my brain.
BMW.. Really???
Ashton Kutcher has *got* to be in on this…
In more ways than one, he’s probably the real father. Pete Wentz looks like he’d break down in tears if confronted by a bare vagina.
Congrats to them. Hasn’t Pete said he was bi? Idk why, or understand people who think guys can’t be bi, either they are straight or gay. That’s it. But girls can be bi. Double standard?
Can’t wait to hear Baba Wawa attempt to pronounce the poor kid’s name on The View.
There must be something in that super expensive bottled water all the celebs drink, if this is one of the side effects, i’d warn them all to stop drinking it and drink alcohol like us little folk, who name our children rational normal names…
Bronx and Zuma are sure to be good buddies…