Still wondering how North West got her name?

Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West welcomed their first child together back in May 2013.

And when the couple announced they had named their daughter North West, their choice received mixed reviews, particularly as Kim had laughed off the suggestion in March of the same year, telling Jay Leno “That is not true. That is not one of the names on our list.”

However while speaking to British GQ recently, Kim explained how their choice of name came about. ‘It was a rumour in the press and we’d never really considered it seriously at all, but Kanye and I were having lunch and Pharrell came over to us and said “Oh my God, are you guys really going to call your daughter North? That is the best name.”

While Kim and Kanye maintained that it was just a rumour, US Vogue Editor-in-Chief also expressed her love for the name, calling it “genius”.

It was only then that the couple began to take the suggestion seriously, with Kim revealing ‘Kanye and I looked at one another and just laughed. I guess at that point it sort of stuck.’

The couple celebrated North’s 1st birthday back in June with an extravagent ‘Kidchella’ themed bash. The 15-month old also appeared in US vogue alongside her parents, with Kim sharing one of the photos that featured in the publication, posting on social media:

“#vogue#myfamily”

Kim, Kanye and baby North are currently in Australia, as the hip-hop mogul completes the Australian leg of his Yeezus tour.

While on stage in Adelaide last night, Kanye gushed about his wife and daughter, telling the crowd “I have no complaints, just to hold my daughter in my arms and see the greatest creation that I needed God and my wife to help me with.”

“And everything I did up until this point,” he continued. “Is really just to have a family…”

How did you pick your baby names? Did you have help from other people?

Main image courtesy of Instagram

26 Comments

- - mom94125 said
  - 16 Jun 2015
    5:26 pm
but it is funny how some names will just stick in your mind like that and you do have pregnancy brain so you will consider some wacky ones

- - mom94125 said
  - 02 Jan 2015
    2:41 pm
yeah it is a very unique name. it’s not one that i would’ve picked but anyway….lol

- - rachh_05 said
  - 31 Oct 2014
    8:45 pm
My mother was going to name me Emma until she saw me, then changed her mind. My son chose Emma for out daughter, seemed perfect.

- - mom73211 said
  - 19 Oct 2014
    2:09 pm
We chose family names, one of our sons has both grandparents names, and the other has my maiden name as his christian name, and his middle name is my grandfathers (paternal) name who has gone for 30 years this November. So special to us the both of them, and all of the men they are named after

- - mom56842 said
  - 30 Sep 2014
    8:41 pm
No one will forget his name.

- - mom57598 said
  - 28 Sep 2014
    1:58 pm
They have not thought of the consequences for the child when she starts school

- - Lov'n'Life said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    8:53 pm
I don’t think it is that bad a name it could have been a lot worse

- - linaianna said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    3:30 pm
Great read. Thanks for sharing

- - linaianna said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    3:29 pm
Great read thanks for sharing

- - damish70 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    12:29 pm
Please, please ,please no more articles on this couple!!!

- - rachaelchara said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    11:21 am
I don’t personally really like the name but as long as they are happy with their choice that is fine. I think names grow on you anyway and we won’t think it is such an unusual name.

- - mom57522 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    10:12 am
We picked our daughters name from my favourite clothing shop!

- - sambii said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    8:39 am
We didn’t ask anyone for ideas, we both loved Olivia so that was a given and I’d ways loved Finlay, which my husband loved when I told him. Middle names were a bit more difficult to choose for us, we wanted something short for Ollie because of the number of syllables and decided on Quinn and Finn got Ivy, which was the name of our wedding car!

- - zoie1975 said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    11:57 pm
Gorgeous baby! Not quite fond of the name.. but also not quite fond of the Kardashians. Not sure why they are popular either. Let’s hope this marriage lasts.. as they have a gorgeous bubba!
- hopefullyheidi replied
  
  09 Sep 2014 , 1:37 am
  Totally agree. I think they are popular for being so outlandish.
  - rachkap replied
    
    09 Sep 2014 , 1:52 am
    
    Totally agree with you here!
- - cherz said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    8:21 pm
I loved my daughters name from when I was a teenager so that was easy. My sons name is a version of his dads name.

- - crystalangela said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    8:12 pm
We used baby books and a family name for our first daughter and then just books for our second.

- - mle00 said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    7:21 pm
I think I would call my child anything that Pharell personally told me was cool! Lol!

- - WiTchEEZ said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    6:10 pm
I love the name and she is the cutest lil thing ever… She is going to be a stunner for sure when she is older…

- - taynik46 said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    4:22 pm
my first daughter is named after my husbands golf clubs – his clubs are Taylor-Made and she is called Taylor-Maree! – the second girl was lucky not to be called Callaway after his next set of clubs lol!
- cloverstorm replied
  
  09 Sep 2014 , 9:28 am
  bahaha I love this! He must really love his golf clubs.
  I also chose Taylor but as a middle name because it was my Nanna’s maiden name.
  When he’s older, I’m going to have to say it was also inspired by golf clubs, just for the reaction hehe
- - curlytops said
  - 08 Sep 2014
    3:31 pm
We went through the baby names book seperatley and we wrote down the ones we liked and then matched them together! we only had 2 we both liked so it was easy!