Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Proud Parents of a Baby Girl!
July 7, 2008 by Julie Bonner
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Isabella and Connor Cruise have a new sister! Keith Urban’s rep has confirmed to UsMagazine.com that Nicole Kidman gave birth this morning to a baby girl. Her name is Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces.
“Husband Keith was by Nicole’s side and mother and baby are very well,” the rep said.
Congratulations to Nicole, Keith, Connor and Isabella!!
Tyler: Sorry, but I didn’t miss my point. My point was about the Woman behind the name Sunday Reed.
No, I didn’t post the whole article Darin posted and not all the quotes I posted were from that same article. Maybe I should have posted the whole quote including who actually suggested the name.
You’re saying NK inspiration was that quote but according to her dad, he says different.
“Antony Kidman revealed he and his wife had suggested it (the name).”
“There was a lady named Sunday Reed who was a prominent patron of the arts in Victoria,” Dr Kidman said from his practice in Lane Cove.”
“I have read a bit about Sunday Reed and her husband John – she was a key mover and shaker in the arts around the beginning of the century. The name Sunday struck me as being a nice name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it.”
So, NK’s inspiration was that quote? I wish they could make up their mind! lol
Again, my point was how can the grandparents or NK get an inspiration to name the new born after someone like Sunday Reed?! Quote or no quote!
I think the point is, they liked the name. The NAME.
Wow, I didn’t know that about Sunday Reed, interesting stuff.
Susan, Tom calls Suri ‘Sooree’. But I guess people with different accents say it differently. He corrected Letterman when he got the pronounciation wrong on his show. I like the name, it is unique. I actually like the name Sarah. Traditional, simple and never gets out of date.
I am still not sure about Sunday, maybe it will grow on me. We have definitely seen worse, Ka-el, helikopta, bravery etc. Rose is beautiful and if she hates Sunday, she can always use Rose.
I want to add my congratulations to the rest for Nicole and Keith’s newest addition. I am glad they had a daughter because I am personally biased towards daughters (since I have 2!) and there is nothing like the love of a little girl.
I don’t know why there has to be so much discussion about the name they gave her. Either you like it or you don’t. I don’t personally but then I don’t like Suri either. I don’t know why people and especially celebrities have to give their children such weird names (like Apple, Kingston, Honor,Story, and the list goes on and on and ON). But that is just me. I think it is ok to give your child a name that might not be popular and something that you hear every day but why make it SO weird? I also don’t understand why some are saying that Sunday and Suri are exactly alike or even rhyming. Last I knew Sunday did not rhyme with Suri. The ONLY way they are alike is that they both begin with S and have a U to follow. That would be like someone saying that if Nicole named her daughter Hayley she was trying to copy Nicole Ritchie because her daughter’s name is Harlow. “They both begin with HA so are the same.” Pretty silly.
NK is not in anyway related to Nicole Ritchie. That doesn’t make an interesting story if Nicole named her daughter Hayley. But NK was Tom’s ex. The fact her daughter’s name starts with S and U which is the same as Tom’s daughter’s name makes an interesting story to me but maybe not to others. So those who are not in the same page as me don’t have to feel irritated.
Suri, Shiloh, Sunday? nuff said.
I don’t feel at all irritated by the speculation. I just don’t understand it. I just find it to be pretty farfetched to think that Nicole Kidman named her child Sunday because she is trying to be like Katie because she still pines for Tom. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, though. That doesn’t, however, mean that I have to agree with them.
Like you said “everyone is entitled to their opinions” so I too am entitled to say my opinion. I never said my opinion was right and everyone should agree with it. I also never said that NK is trying to be like Katie. I only said subconsciously NK & TK copied each other. I said that because they were once married for 10 years. That’s quite a long time. They were once one spirit hence they surely had things they both liked, agreed on or enjoyed doing things together which still continue to this day. The only difference is now they do it separately or with their new spouses.
But anyway, to be fair I did quote an article from
celebrity-babies.com (looika Jul 8, 2008 at 2:40 am) regarding how NK & KU picked their daughter’s name.
I never intended to put my opinions in other people’s mouth.
Doesn’t Suri, when pronounced Soori, sound like a hog call? I don’t like either Suri or Sunday, but if it has to Suri, I would go with the Surrey pronounciation. What was TC thinking?
Sunday is a real word/name. Suri is a made up name. The name
I just watched a ton of YouTube videos, and in all of them both t&k pronounce the name as Suri, sound it out as the word SIR then add the letter E. SIR-E, SIR-E, SURI.
To those from other countries it may sound like they are saying another word, since to you, they have accents. But to a SoCal native, they are saying it as it is spelled, suri.
i was curious to see what everyone had to say about the name Sunday…. Its funny to me because i get the same reaction when people ask me my daughters name .. some are confused others love it.. whatever … anyway i never even heard of this Sunday Reed person she sounds like a mess!! I named my daughter Sunday because its my mother in-laws name and we are Greek and in Greek it means holy or day of the lord.
Suri is not a made up name at all. If one checks the links someone was kind enough to provide, it is a hugely popular name in many parts of the world.
“Baby Suri’s name can be traced to a Hebrew word meaning “princess” or “noblewoman,” but by such a circuitous route that the connection is lost on most Israelis. Since the birth Tuesday in Los Angeles, bemused Israeli TV and radio presenters have debated the word’s origins.
“Nobody here has ever really heard of it,” an announcer on Israel’s Army Radio said during a discussion Thursday. The Yediot Ahronot newspaper agreed in its half page splash on the celebrity birth.
“We seem to have learned a new Hebrew word and from Tom Cruise, no less,” said a Channel 2 TV anchorman.”
A Hebrew expert named Jonathan Went, as quoted by Thesun.co.uk, said: “I think it’s fair to say they have made a mistake here. There are variations of the way the Hebrew name for Princess is spelt but I have never seen it this way.”
He also added, “Sarah or Sara or sometimes Sari would be a fair translation. They would all have the meaning Princess – but not Suri.”
As a matter of fact, Suri has lots of meanings in different language. A bit of research is always wise.
Suri is a breed of alpaca (a long-haired domesticated South American mammal related to the Ilama), known for its ability to make a good jumper. It is an excellent investment because of its “rarity and inherent beauty.”
Suri is related to Surrey, which is a region of England, where the late Ron Hubbard’s home is located and the headquarters of Scientology in the UK.
Suri means sun in Sanskrit, or priest or sage. It is also an epithet of Krishna.
Here are other meanings of Suri as reported by Sky.com:
It, in Amharic (Ethiopia’s official language), means “trouser.”
Suri means “royal queen” in Malay.
In Javanese, it means “comb.”
In Bengali, Suri means “burglary.”
In some Indian dialects, Suri means “pointy nose.”
And in Japanese, it can mean “pickpocket.”
It is still not a made up name as was commented on earlier.
There was a lot of hoopla when the name was first announced but later reports does have it as having Yiddish origins. As pointed out in the above it does have many different meanings depending where in the world it is used including Princess in some parts and Red Rose in other parts.
So no, Cruise did not make up a new word for his second daughter’s name.
From my co worker:
“As a native Farsi speaker, I’d just like to add that the name Suri does not actually mean “red rose.” Suri is the word for fire or a spacific shade of red, like “Charshahmbay (spelling?) Suri,” which is the Wednesday before New Year when kids for some demented reason jump over fire. A “suri rose” means a blaze rose. But the word “suri” itself has nothing to do with roses. So it’s like they’re naming her “blaze.” “
Suri is a beautiful name. Very unique and exotic, kind of like Suri with her beauty and exotic almond eyes. It suits her. She is the only famous person with it. She can do so much with it. I like it melodic ring.
We have had this argument before. Let’s let it rest, those who like it, good, those who don’t, too bad. Rose or pointed nose, nothing changes. Her father says it means princess and he got it from a baby name book.
This is what happens when there is no news. We rehash pointless arguments. Of course those who have admitted that they don’t like Tom cannot be expected to like the choice of name for his child. And from the posts, they clearly don’t. Can we move on now pleeeeeeeese….
Perhaps the meaning has been lost in translation and changed over time. Since there is a definition for a Suri Rose maybe that is where it became misleading and defining Suri to mean red rose.
Suri is a very rare first name but a very popular surname.
NK/KU chose Sunday which in Nigeria is a very popular name for a male child plus she chose a name linked to a woman with a very interesting personal history.
Lauren, we’ll move on when WE feel like it. Sorry that Puck burst your bubble though. LOL. Actually, I’m not, I’m enjoying every second
PS. or when Julie says enuf is enuf
LOL @tyler – you can discuss their names till the cows come…as long as no lines are crossed.
The dialogue has been interesting and I am amazed at how long a group of people can discuss names. New news coming soon….
so funny this thread…I look at Suri and always think her name does not suit her. It has grown on me, but I still dont like the name. And Sunday for me is right up there with “Apple”. I just hope they call her Sunny.
Lauren — Sorry to burst your bubble, but NK *just bought* a 3900 square-foot house in Beverly Hills — escrow hasn’t even closed yet. I’m not referring to the story from a couple of months ago — this happened within the last few days.
And Looika…um…their names don’t rhyme.
Dahlia, do you know for a fact that NK bought a house in LA? It hasn’t been confirmed.
Why is it so important that Nicole have to own a home in LA to prove she is a part of her childrens lives, Tom has been renting for years, and most of Suri’s life she has lived in hotels across the globe, does this mean that Tom and Katie don’t care for the children either. From what I have read both couples have only recently purchased properties. Being a home owner has nothing to do with good parenting.