Influencer Nara Smith Ditches These Wild Baby Name Ideas
Fantastic. Because what the world really needed was another influencer wrestling with baby-name drama—yet here we are. Look, I don’t want to sound tone-deaf, but Nara Smith, the 23-year-old content creator and wife of model Lucky Blue Smith, just treated us to her “baby names I won’t be using this time around” TikTok showcase, and yes, it’s exactly as absurd as it sounds. On June 30, per her own TikTok clip, the mom-to-be—who already has Rumble Honey (4), Slim Easy (3) and Whimsy Lou (14 months) running around—confessed that brainstorming unique monikers for child No. 4 is turning into a creative purgatory.
Starting with a wink and a nod to social media trolls, Nara jokingly floated “Moonbeam” and “Ice Cream” (nice try referencing Benson Boone’s hit, but no sale). Then she sighed and got real: boy names in contention that she’s scrapped include Moss, Goody, Sundae (yes, like the dessert), Champ, Silk and Dare. “I love boy names—they’re a little easier—yet apparently still too weird,” she groused. For girls, the rejects list reads like a fantasy novel gone fruity: Twinkle, Velvet, Berry, Merit, Shimmer, plus the borderline adorable Button and the borderline pretentious Willowmere.
Naturally, she admitted an Apple-shaped regret—no, not the tech giant, but Apple Martin, the Paltrow-Martin spawn whose name Gwyneth Paltrow once told Oprah Winfrey (per People) was “wholesome” and “biblical.” Nara conceded she “won’t be using that” to avoid playing catch-up. And in the ultimate cosmic joke, husband Lucky nixed her Butter idea at once. Sorry, Dairy Dreamers.
True to form, the couple plans to stick with their signature two-word pattern—each component interchangeable as first or middle name—though Nara muttered that naming children just gets “harder and harder” (I told you so). She even quipped that some of these could work as either first or second names, because why make simple decisions?
While Nara’s predicament might inspire sympathy, it also feels like proof that when you have more Instagram followers than days on earth, you’ll find a way to make baby-name brainstorming into must-watch content. Meanwhile, the world’s supply of normal names continues to dwindle.
And that, dear reader, is why we can’t have nice things. Stay tuned for which of these head-scratching choices survives the final cut and which get dragged down the social media drain.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! Online, TikTok (Nara Smith’s June 30 video)
Attribution: Creative Commons Licensed
