The 57 most baffling, unique, and head-scratching names celebrities gave their kids

Celebrity Parents: Elon Musk and Grimes

Explanation Given: None. It's not clear if Musk was joking, but a few theories are floating around about what the name might mean.

Celebrity parent: Rapper Chief Keef

Explanation given: Here's what FilmOn, Keef's record label, said in a statement:

"Chief Keef and his newest baby mama have agreed to name the newborn Sno FilmOn Dot Com Cozart in order to promote the release of Sosa's double album Bang 3 with FilmOn Music and MondoTunes on September 18."

Celebrity parent: Actress and musician Shannyn Sossamon and children's book author and illustrator Dallas Clayton

Explanation given: "We wanted a word not a name, so my boyfriend read through the dictionary three or four times," Sossamon told Contact Music. "We were going to call him Science, but thought it might get shortened to Sci, as in Simon."

Celebrity parent: Frank Zappa

Explanation given: How did two exceedingly normal-named people — Frank and Gail — name their kids Moon Unit and Dweezil?

According to The Guardian, Moon Unit got her name because she was the first child in the family unit, Diva was the loudest baby, and Dweezil was a "nickname of his mother's baby toe."

And Ahmet? Well, he offered this quote: "When my parents were broke they had this imaginary servant called Ahmet."

Ahmet's middle name is Rodan, after "the monster who destroyed Tokyo in the '50s Japanese sci-fi classic of the same name."

Celebrity parent: Penn Jillette, of "Penn & Teller" fame

Explanation given: "'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean 'chutzpah,' and that's nice," Jillette told The New York Times. "Everyone I know with an unusual name loves it ... It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave."

Celebrity parent: Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof and television host Paula Yates

Explanation given: Fifi was Bob Geldof's aunt's name, and Yates was reportedly obsessed with Southern belle culture, so there's "Belle." It's not clear where the name "Trixi" came from.

There also aren't details on why Little Pixie has her name, but she's in a rock band now, and that's a great name for a rock musician.

The ideas behind the name of Peaches Honeyblossom are unclear as well. But in 2012, she gave birth to a child of her own and named him Astala Dylan Willow Cohen-Geldof. His grandfather trashed the name, telling The Sun "Yuck! What's he going to be called in school? Ass? Stella? It's a girl's name, let's face it." Before Peaches died in 2014 at the age of 25, she had a second child, named Phaedra Bloom Forever Geldof-Cohen.

Celebrity parent: Comedian and actor Jason Lee

Explanation given: Lee told Entertainment Weekly that he came up with his daughter's name "after listening to indie band Grandaddy's 2000 album The Sophtware Slump."

"The opening track, 'He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot,' absolutely blew my mind when I first heard it," Lee said. "It was from this track that my wife, Beth, came up with the name Pilot for our son."

It's not really clear where the alternative spelling of "inspector" came from.

Celebrity parent: Actress Ashley Scott

Explanation given: The name phoenetically sounds like "I love you."

"I said, 'It's either the greatest name ever, or the absolute worst,'" Scott told People. "It took us about four days after she was born to name her because we weren't 100 percent, and then at the end I thought, 'I just love it.'"

Celebrity parent: Michael Jackson

Explanation given: Jackson had "Blanket" with a surrogate mother after divorcing his wife Debbie Rowe in 1999. His first child with Rowe was named Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., also named Prince, after his grandfather and great grandfather. He named a later child "Prince Michael II." He's been called "Blanket" his whole life for reasons unclear and recently informally changed his name to "Bigi," according to International Business Times.

Celebrity parent: Actress and musician Jena Malone

Explanation given: None

Celebrity parent: Kate Winslet

Explanation given: Winslet told Ellen her son is named after a childhood friend who was nicknamed "Bear" because "he was everyone's shoulder to cry on, he was a big bear hug, he was just this great figure in my life."

"Blaze" is a reference to the fire Winslet escaped the weekend she met her husband, Ned Rocknroll.

She chose her own last name for her son, though, so he isn't named Bear Blaze Rocknroll.

Celebrity parent: Sylvester Stallone

Explanation given: It's not clear why Stallone named his son, who died in 2012 at the age of 36, Sage Moonblood.

Celebrity parents: Actors Helen Hunt and Matthew Carnahan.

Explanation given: Hunt told People that "Makena'lei" means "many flowers in heaven." The New York Times says the name was inspired by a place in Hawaii. "Gordon" is just Hunt's father's name.

Celebrity parent: Actor Ving Rhames.

Explanation given: None.

Celebrity parent: Chef Jamie Oliver.

Explanation given: Oliver's wife, Jools, told Gurge magazine that she likes to be creative with names, and that her children all have more than one name because she has a hard time deciding.

"I hate people's opinions on names," she said. "Whatever you call your baby is your decision."

Celebrity parent: Singer-songwriters Toni Braxton and Keri Lewis

Explanation given: He's rumored to be named after Rudolf Diesel, who invented the diesel engine.

Celebrity parent: Actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni

Explanation given: The reasoning behind the name Kyd isn't clear, but suffice to say it's spelled just like "kid" with another vowel swapped in.

Celebrity parents: Singer-songwriter Ashlee Simpson and "Fall Out Boy" mastermind Pete Wentz

Explanation given: Wentz told Time that the name Bronx comes from "a very specific story between me and my wife." Mowgli is the name of the main character in "The Jungle Book."

Celebrity parent: Jermaine Jackson

Explanation given: It's just a fun name.

Celebrity parent: Nicolas Cage

Explanation given: Nic Cage really likes Superman! He tried to play him in a movie once. He also bought a rare copy of the first comic in 1995, which was stolen from him in 2000, only to be recovered in 2011 and become the first comic book to sell for more than $2 million at auction. That's how much Nic Cage loves Superman, and that's the baseline for how much he loves his son.

Celebrity parent: Forest Whitaker

Explanation given: Whitaker chose the names "because he wants each of them to be his own destiny's child in a way," according to People.

"I want them to kind of touch their destiny by their names," Whitaker said. "Autumn is sort of flighty and Sonnet is much more of an artist … and True was very strong, and Ocean just has a big heart. He wants to be a veterinarian … He's been talking about it for years."

Celebrity parents: Kelly Rowland and her manager Tim Witherspoon

Explanation given: Blue Ivy's BFF Titan Jewell shares a name with the figures of Greek myth and Saturn's largest moon. It's unclear why "Jewell" has two Ls. Maybe it's a tribute to the R&B singer of the same name?

Celebrity parent: "Northern Exposure" and "Numb3rs" actor Rob Morrow

Explanation given: Get it? Tu Morrow. Like "tomorrow." It's a pun. Yes, really.

Celebrity parents: Soul artist Erykah Badu and rapper André 3000, whose real name is André Benjamin, of OutKast.

Explanation given: None.

Celebrity parent: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

Explanation given: Though Paltrow runs a nature-attuned lifestyle brand called "Goop," she said her daughter's name, Apple, was actually Martin's idea.

"Her daddy said if it's a girl, I think her name should be Apple," Paltrow told Oprah. "It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and…clean! And I just thought, 'Perfect!'"

Celebrity parent: Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw

Explanation given: Destry, who's 19, has already established a successful modeling career for herself. According to Marie Claire, Spielberg and his then-wife Kate Capshaw chose the name because it means "War Horse" in French. Spielberg directed a movie called "War Horse" in 2012.

Celebrity parents: Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick

Explanation given: Kardashian told People that she was originally leaning toward "Rain" as the name of her third child.

"Once I found out I was having a boy, we just changed the spelling again," she said.

Celebrity parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.

Explanation given: The couple was considering a few different names for their daughter, and when the rumor that "North" was going to be one of them leaked to the press, Anna Wintour and Pharrell Williams encouraged them to go with it, Kardashian told British GQ.

"Anna Wintour [told] us 'North is a genius name,'" Kardashian said. "Kanye and I looked at one another and just laughed. I guess at that point it sort of stuck."

Kris Jenner also said the name is supposed to mean "highest power," and that North represents the highest point between Kim and Kanye.

Celebrity parent: Angelina Jolie. His name was formerly "Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie," because Jolie adopted him, in 2002, while she was married to Billy Bob Thornton. When she married Brad Pitt, his last name was changed to "Jolie-Pitt."

Explanation given: There are two possible explanations for the name "Maddox." One, is that he's named after the early internet comedian George Ouzounian, who used "Maddox" as a pen name. The other is a reference to the Welsh last name, meaning "son of Maddoc."

Maddox's original, Cambonian, name is Rath Vibol, which means something like "many flowers." His siblings are named Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Vivienne, and Knox.

Celebrity parent: Paul David Hewson AKA Bono

Explanation given: Not to be outdone, U2 bandmate Bono wanted an equally exciting name for his daughter.

"My parents are always coming up with new stories as to why [they gave me my name]," Hewson told Marie Claire. "Apparently, it was a sunny day when I was born, and with Memphis, it's everything from me having so much hair I resembled Elvis at birth to being conceived there."

Her parents dropped "Memphis" from her name because they feared she'd be bullied for it, according to The Telegraph, and she goes by "Eve Hewson" in her acting career.

Celebrity parent: Zooey Deschanel

Explanation given: Deschanel told Ellen that she and her husband, producer Jacob Pechenik, love otters.

Celebrity parent: David Evans, AKA The Edge from U2

Explanation given: All of Evans's other kids' names are pretty normal — Hollie, Arran (like "Aaron"), etc. — and he's never explained why he and his then-wife Aislinn O'Sullivan named one of their children Blue Angel. My best guess is that they're a fan of the Josef von Sternberg film"The Blue Angel," starring Marlene Dietrich.

Celebrity parents: Jay Z and Beyoncé

Explanation given: The precise explanation for Blue Ivy still hasn't been revealed. In a Tumblr post, though, Beyoncé suggested that the name is inspired by a passage from Rebecca Solnit's collection of personal essays "A Field Guide to Getting Lost."

Sir was named because he "carries himself like a sir." Jay-Z said that the Persian poet Rumi was his and Beyoncé's favorite.

Celebrity parent: Filmmaker Spike Lee.

Explanation given: Lee's daughter is named after baseball star Satchel Paige.

Celebrity parent: Actress Jessica Simpson and former NFL player Eric Johnson

Explanation given: The "Knute" part honors Johnson's Swedish grandfather, according to a representative for Simpson.

Celebrity parents: Cameron Diaz and "Good Charlotte" guitarist Benji Madden

Explanation given: In her Instagram announcement for Raddix's birth, Diaz said she wouldn't post pictures of her daughter but that she was "really really cute!! Some would even say RAD:)" This suggests that Raddix was named such because she's rad.

While "Raddix" isn't a word, the Latin word "Radix" means "root" and is used to describe the base of a number or computer system.

Celebrity parents: Kristin Bell and Dax Shepard

Explanation given: After naming their daughter Lincoln after the car and the president, Bell told Good Housekeeping, the couple joked about how masculine the name was. "Are you going to pick another badass name, like 'Delta Force'?" one of Dax's friends texted him. Based on that, the couple thought "Delta" would be a great name for their next daughter.

Celebrity parents: "Avatar" actor Sam Worthington and model Laura Bingle

Explanation given: Worthington's father, Ronald, was nicknamed "Zot," according to Page Six. No word on "Rocket."

Celebrity parents: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Explanation given: The children's names are both literary. Rumer is named after the English novelist Rumer Godden, most famous for "Black Narcissus." Scout was named after the main character of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Celebrity parents: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott

Explanation given: None.

Celebrity parents: Entrepreneur Sean and singer-songwriter Alexandra Parker

Explanation given: "Zephyr" is the Greek term for "Western wind," or "light wind," which plays a pivotal role in the ancient Greek epic "The Odyssey." They could have also been trying to honor academic and political activist Zephyr Teachout. It's not really clear.