What fun it is for soon-to-be parents to drag out the baby name book and look for just the right name for their little bundle of joy. It’s part of the excitement of parenthood. Each new mother hopes that her mate will fall head over heals with the same names that she finds so endearing. Each new father wants the mother (or other father) of his child to have the same feeling of “it’s perfect” when hearing the moniker that will belong to his child for eternity.

As with other aspects of parentdom, celebrity’s relish this choosing of the name just like non-celeb parents. Perhaps the famous even pay more attention, since many times their tots will be in the tabloids from the time they are in utero. Celebrities want to make sure that if their kids’ names are in print, they need to sound just so.

Parents have been known to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their children. Sometimes the extent of that pain is in a name. So ambiguous the ache, so subtle. After all, it’s only a name. But what could some celebrity parents have thinking? George Foreman has a family of five little Georges. Frank Zappa, God rest his soul, was ahead of his time with Moon Unit and Dweezle.

Celeb parents aren’t really that strange in their baby naming techniques if you look at all the names of many kids born in the ‘60s. Free, River, and how many Sunshines were there? Jack or Chester are offbeat in their nerdiness. Cute or not, little Coco and Apple may have some ambivalence against their parents in the days to come. Rumor, Scout, and Tallulah will probably have a few things to say. But maybe not. Being an individual is a good thing. May these little bundles of joy have the inner strength to know that when they’re being taunted on the playground.