In White Folks News: You’ll Never Guess What Nicole Richie Named her Son

Posted on September 10th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Babies, Hollyweird, In White Folks News, News, out of pocket

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Nicole Richie gave birth to her son yesterday in the wee hours of the morning and named him after a bird.

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden named their son Sparrow Midnight. Why would anyone name their son after a bird and awkward time of nightfall? We are now convinced that Nicole is out there on something. In fact, she may need an intervention right along with Maia. More importantly, with all the normal names out there, why do celebrities insist on trying to be “creative”?

  • Hannibal

  • Hannibal

    AT LEAST HIS NAME ISN’T BARACK…

  • tb

    She looks better preggers.

  • http://www.bossip.com Re

    Maybe it’s just me, but I HATE seeing exposed pregnant bellies, even at the beach.

    I guess I’ll change my mind after my first child…but something about it is scary to me…

  • Back On My Swag

    Maybe she was referencing “His eye is on the SPARROW”.

    Hannibal, what kid of named is that? And learn to spell before you try to diss someone. You look like an even bigger d*ck head for not proof-reading. And you call your self a journalist???

    You’re a f*cking IDIOT….just post the pics…STOP commenting…you have single handedly ruined this BLOG for me!!!!!!! You should be fired!!!

  • Angee

    These celebrities and the names they come up with :roll:

  • Hannibal

    @BACK ON MY SWAG

    LMAO???

  • http://twitter.com/urbanfrugalchic Khristal

    Good for them! Glad she is not doing drugs anymore…although that name she gave the baby, you would think she was

  • Bossip Fail

    Just as an FYI a Sparrow is not a ‘black bird’. You may want to Google what a sparrow looks like before assuming its black. :-)

  • http://urbanfrugalchic.com Cynthia

    CONGRATS TO THEM

  • http://myspace.com/870bg bg(You aint got nothing on me)

    I’m naming my first son… Cockatoo Noontime!

  • http://www.blackstar69.com Black Celebrity

    Not bad at all.

  • resurrected

    Hannibal

    It not the name but the man and it is his life style and actions that will make his name great and not the other way around….

  • http://www.bossip.com Re

    @cruzan trini

    Naw, someone didn’t “scar” me, and there’s nothing wrong with me for not liking exposed bellies. I like them better in full shirts, and those pretty maternity shirts. Maybe it’s cause the ladies in my culture are big on covering up

    *shrugs*

    I dunno…just never liked the view, I guess.

  • http://www.bossip.com Re

    @MissTiffany

    Oh that “gut-full-of-human” mess has got to end girl! Lol, it’s really gross and corny…

  • http://www.bossip.com The Original Wanksta

    @Back On My Swag

    “Hannibal, what kid of named is that?”

    Do you even speak English, or do you just smack your face into the keyboard and see what comes up?

  • Back On My Swag

    @Hannibal

    No ‘LMAO’ needed, I am dead serious. This blog was sooooo much better before you came along!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Back On My Swag

    Do you even speak English, or do you just smack your face into the keyboard and see what comes up?
    ___________________________________________________

    Do YOU even speak English? Re-read your statement above and go ask DeVry for a refund, CLOWN!!!!

  • clay bricks

    FIRST OF ALL NICHOLE IS NOT WHITE SHE’S MIXED & MY DAUGHTERS NAME IS SIREN WHICH IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT…..I THINK HER SON’S NAME IS COOL

  • jrod

    I guess Tameka and Chauntavia were taken

  • Darth Tesla

    Hannibal… hannibal… Hannibal…

    …is another Old Fat Balding Neo-Con Republican Ofay sent trolling ‘Black Boards’ by his political party, in order to convince the ‘impressionable’ to hate the Obamas.

    They’re hired by PR firms to join every forum for Black voices in the ‘net; and NOBODY calls them out for it.

    They give themselves away when EVERY COMMENT references the Obamas, regardless of the original topic of the post.

    They use their avatars to call attention to their comments.

    Black Folks can’t have nothing to themselves w/o others trying to get some…

    Hannibal: give it a rest, already… you’re busted

  • Hannibal

    @DARTH TESLA

    OH NO, YOU CAUGHT ME!

  • jrod

    …or big

  • http://bossip Frederick

    She should name her next child GORILLA SUNDOWN

    She should take the naming all the way back to the jungle

    Idiot

  • Not Again

    Do you even speak English, or do you just smack your face into the keyboard and see what comes up?
    _______________________________________________

    Sorry, the comment was funny.
    _______________________________________________

    I’m guessing because her daughter is named Harlow, She picked Sparrow because of the “ow” at the end.
    Like Brangelina – Maddox, Pax, Knox

    Just a guess?

  • Truth

    Umm.. when did Sparrow’s become a big black bird?? And I think it is a beautiful name!.. and it even rhymes with Harlow, her daughter’s name. All these “American Traditional” names are just names of things and items in other languages. At least these celebrities are taking pride in the English language. Look up the name Peter which means Stone, David means Beloved, Mark means King, Samantha means listener, etc…. All Arabic names have meanings which are used in daily communication, and the meaning of the name is more important than it’s sound. American’s should grow up, because a sparrow is a beautiful, pleasant, worldly bird.

  • aa88

    @Truth

    I think it’s a beautiful name also. And your right about the meaning of names. My name is Asha which means life or lively in Arabic (my whole name is Arabic as a matter of fact, lol), it’s also a name in Swahili and Indian.

  • I’m Just Me- WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A 2nd GRADER ON OUR HANDS!!

    It could be worse.

    I am still not impressed with Broxn Mowgali and I am from the Bronx and love Ashlee Simpson but that name is not a good look.

  • Janelle

    Why is the white folk’s news when Nichole Ritchie is clearly not white? You guys are fools who wrote the article. No wonder I never have read this blog before. I just saw the headline and thought that needed correction.

  • Janelle

    @ woot- thanks for the heads up on that, now I know why the headlines are so ignorant.

  • Nih(Fellow Houstonian)

    Well what is Nicole race, then cause it sure isn’t black!!

  • Oh really?

    Using “White People” in your headline to mock a celebs odd name choice is like the pot calling the kettle black- at least Nicole didn’t name her kid TAYE, or ANDRE or some bastardized version of Shaneequa-Lakeitcha-Precious-Mo’nique that seem to pop up frequently in y’alls backyard.

  • TastesMinty

    Oh lawd!!! I’m positive he will change his name once he gets older…that’s ridiculous…sparrow sounds like a girls name anyway…ooh the agony!

  • whatswrongwitblackbossip

    she shoulda named it after a white bird, huh? black is beautiful

  • drenk

    she shouldve named him d’alcapone its waaaaay better

  • whatswrongwitblackbossip

    you all on this site need to make up your mind if you’re gonna feed black people positivity or negativity about blackness cuz this doublethink in the black community has to end

  • Nih(Fellow Houstonian)

    WOW “bastardized” are you serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • yoprince

    she looks good pregnant

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    @ I’m Just Me- WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A 2nd GRADER ON OUR HANDS!! …. It could be worse. I am still not impressed with Broxn Mowgali and I am from the Bronx and love Ashlee Simpson but that name is not a good look.
    —————————–
    Those ppl are mad,sick,head-nuh-good!!!
    It come in like they TRADE a few braincells/common sense for $$$$/fame!!
    I wouldve CHEERED for the name Carl or Joseph or sumpn….ppl wanna name CHILDREN after birds, foods, seasons, types of metal, diseases … it’s so stupid!!!

    “Hi, my name is Robert, what’s yours?”
    “Oh, my name is HYUNDAI CHROMIUM-ZINC SUMMER JONES”

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name

    Nocloe looks better than any white girl i have seen , even though she is half white she is still prettier than that paris woman~~ White folks talk abot black folks baby names .. what the hell is a sparrow for a name!! And what about Apple ???

  • Taylor

    I like the name it’s different but it’s not dumb and ghetto. Sparrow James sounds really Hollywood to me.

  • Moreaces

    clay bricks

    FIRST OF ALL NICHOLE IS NOT WHITE SHE’S MIXED & MY DAUGHTERS NAME IS SIREN WHICH IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT…..I THINK HER SON’S NAME IS COOL
    ===============
    I just think she should have let it go at Sparrow, but that’s just me… the important thing is that the baby is healthy and happy

  • Aaron

    I’m sure the name has a special meaning unlike all the stupid names I hear all around me everyday. Names without meaning young, ghetto women give to their children. I wish these women would get a book about baby names and what the names mean before just pulling some stupid sound out of midair and saddling their children with those ridiculous, ghetto names for life. I wish we would go back to the biblical names instead of the stupid stuff you hear today.

  • Grandmother Jones

    It seems the more educated and middle to upper class black parents are the more intelligent and meaningful the names. Poor black people chose the most illiterate, awful names I ever heard. They don’t put enough thought into the names they give their kids. This eesha, meesha, teesha crap needs to go.

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    @ Taylor

    I like the name it’s different but it’s not dumb and ghetto. Sparrow James sounds really Hollywood to me.
    ———————
    But why is everyone trying to aspire to be (and bring their children into) Hollywood anyways?! That is NOT place for sensible human beings nevermind children! Everything crazy is in/from Hollywood, why push ‘crazy’ onto children?!?! More to life than singing/dancing/acting/fashion/starvation diets/drugs…

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    There’s a site that claim ‘Parental Cruelty’ to parents who name their kids some crazyass names

    http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

  • Your Momma

    @ Lady D
    No bullshit. I knew girls of the same name going to school. You live in la? hahaha

  • Lady D

    I’m going to name my kid VASELINE AQUAFINA CAJUNIQUE DAVIS

  • Your Momma

    my bad, not lady d. Jamaquina…?

  • shar

    @ bg(You aint got nothing on me)

    I’m naming my first son… Cockatoo Noontime!

    ___________________________________________________
    LMAO.

  • boo boo

    Nicole Ritchie is black/latino not white. Her mom is black and her father is latino (sheila e’s brother).

  • Lady D

    @ Jamaquina.Cubana
    @ Your Momma

    (Gasping) Stop it!! You can NOT be serious about Billionairess!!! That one really takes the cake!!!
    I don’t live in LA, but I have heard some crazy names.

  • Saunders

    Nicole claims that the Mexican Pete Michael is not her father.

  • THE BAPHOMET TRUTH

    MOCK THEM NOT! NICOLE AND JOEL ARE THE LATEST DISCIPLES OF MY TRUTH!

  • Pamela

    Sheila E and Pete Escovedo are only half Mexican. Their mother is black and their father is Hispanic. Nicole’s mom is white. At any rate she is a biracial woman and she is proud of it. I think Joel is Jewish.

  • Taylor

    By Hollywood I mean different not stupid. And that is Nicole’s and Joel’s environment. I believe that name has a special meaning to it, Sparrow being a little, bitty, brown bird and James is a classic name from the bible and has meaning to it. I think naming a baby Apple is stupid. Sparrow only sounds a bit feminine to me.

  • David

    Glad they gave their children names with some class.

  • mizz jess

    So what? On another note- since when is she white?

  • kaRRma

    SHE’S NOT EVEN WHITE….

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    @ Lady D … I kid you not!!
    But, ah, ur’s is crazy…and I can see it on someone’s birth cert. for real … VASELINE AQUAFINA CAJUNIQUE DAVIS …. str8-up CRAZINESS!!!! And I thought the drugs they were doin’ in the 60′s to name their kids Moonbeam, Rainbow & Orion were bad. The 21st century drugs much much more crazier/deadlier!! :D

  • Hello

    ”well if u say who names their child after a bird” .. thats quite wrong coz i think ”raven” is a good name .. & ”sparrow” too xD

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    @ Your Momma …
    Nope! Don’t live in L.A., don’t think I could either! I know I couldn’t handle it! And my lil’ sis was out there recently visiting frens and she was tellin me bout all the craziness and the gays and mad ppl walkin bout the street! She was there and in SanFran

  • KittyPetit

    You know what – STUPID STUPID. Names used to have meanings that depicted a certain character we’d like to see our offspring have. This 5HIT means NOTHING.

  • http://kenimness.blogspot.com kKk

    you fool! nicole is half black.

  • http://www.k.com noelle

    hER PREGNANCY WEIGHT IS SOO PRETTY, i AM TOO SCARED

  • http://www.k.com noelle

    My skin is not thick

  • http://www.k.com noelle

    Then, it just be movin’…(scared ass)

  • GoodKarma4Me(Bossip plz ban HANNIBAL from your site for posting that disrespectful pic of the first lady!!)

    Who the fluck cares what she names her kid!!

  • ARRGHH

    JESUS CHRIST
    SHEILA E’S BROTHER IS NICOLE’S BIOLOGICAL FATHER OK
    SO WHATEVER SHEILA E IS IS WHAT NICOLE IS AND I KNOW IT’S NOT WHITE
    SPARROW JAMES MIDNIGHT IS VERY NICOLE LIKE HARLOW KATE WINTER

    JOEL IS NOT JEWISH HE’S CHRISIAN AND BIG ON CROSSES LIKE NICOLE

  • Yung D

    yeah man…nicole richie isn’t “white”

  • The Real Housewife of Houston

    Thats actually a nice interesting name…at least she didnt name his Devarion or some ghetto sh!t!

  • Nosy-posey

    There are also rumors that Lionel, who was married at the time, paid a member of his band to claim paternity of Nicole so that Brenda Richie would not find out. Lionel paid Nicole’s birth mother millions I heard. We will only know what really went down when Nicole tells it, not that it is the public’s business, but something is fishy about the entire affair.

  • Alphafemale

    shar u had me lmao! ur the best,. thanks for the laughs cockatoo noontime, lol!

  • Alphafemale

    #1 nicole fan… i didn’t know you were there at nicole’s birth? you know alot about nicole…. stalker alert! i am over it. you should do the same.

  • Hannibals Dad

    LET ME GUESS……HANNIBAL MONTANA

  • Sherlock

    She has never stated she was half Hispanic. She denies it fully. She ought to know. Nicole is biracial, white and black only. I am going to check out her biography to see for myself.

  • Sepia830

    Who cares? I’m just glad Nicole is eating again.

  • SongBird_09

    I’ve heard worse celebrity child names….im just hoping there’s a meaning behind it…I like her though

  • Landa

    well her daughters name is Harlow which is also a bird, so it fits. And stars always give thier kids off names…part of thier culture i’d say. This is nothing new…but for attention. How they make thier living i.e. Rummer, bronx mogli, apple…yeah and on and on

  • barb

    @Frederick…………
    She should name her next child GORILLA SUNDOWN
    She should take the naming all the way back to the jungle
    Idiot
    ———————————
    lmao!
    how about Gorilla Monsoon?…wait…thats been used!!!!

  • Me

    First of all you say in white folks news, when clearly Nicole Ritchie is bi-racial. Second of all, the name is no worse than the hood made up names that chicks give their children on a daily basis. At least you can pronounce it correctly from the spelling.

  • Kp

    thats ridiculous i hope he never has to work…which i dont think it does have to otherwise she wouldnt have named it that…tssk tssk tssk

  • well she aint half black

    idiot she aint half black her father is mexican or something else and her mother isnt is white

  • Unbought_and_Unafraid

    There was a famous WHITE heiress (daughter of an ex-governor) who lived in Houston named ‘IMA HOGG’ (not kidding — google it).

    It depends on what CLOUT comes with the name, I guess.

  • Darkesthourglass

    Sparrow has a nice ring to it. You know they put some thought into it.
    Black kids with absent fathers tend to have the most ghetto names it seems like. No father is going to stand by and let his wife/girlfriend name their son some ghetto crap.

  • AWWWWWWWWWWWWSHADDAAAAAP!!!!

    Well, at least it’s not dodo.

  • Taz

    wow.. people should be able to name their kids what ever the hell they want.. y she gotta b on drugs?

  • Victor Vargas

    Everyone knows Nicole is biracial, black and white and nothing else. And the man who is supposed to be her birth father (Pete Escovedo)is half black/Mexican. Nicole adamantly states that he isn’t so that’s the answer from the horses mouth. One thin for sure, she ain’t no Puerto Rican.

  • http://IMJUSTSAYING MYTWOCENTS

    Yes, that will look real good on the resume later. Not to mention having to fight hard on the playground.

  • Chaka

    When did Nicole Richie become white? She identifies herself as an African American (multiracial). As for the disrespectful responses/pics from certain this message board, a recent lawsuit filed against a blogger ultimately revealed her identity to the public. They may reap what they sow. smh

  • http://Bossip Kimberley

    Maybe she likes calypso (ducking) LMAO at Cockatoo Noon! Funny!

  • Slice of Life

    Nicole Richie was adopted by Lionel Richie when she was nine years old. Her genetic father is 1980s pop musician Pete Escovedo Jr., whose sister is singer Sheila E. Their father, Pete Escovedo Sr., is a famous Latin jazz musician

  • NoooooooBoo

    And what>

  • dvinemrsshay

    nicole richie A.K.A. (Nicole Camille Escovedo) is not white, she is black latina…her mother is rumored to be afro domincan and her father peter escovedo is mixed of mexican, african american, and creole heritage. She does not tell the names of her parents for confidentiality reasons, although it’s known that her father is Sheila E’s brother. She has stated on more than on occasion that she identifies with her african american heritage; so it is what it is. Plus people act as though blacks and latin people don’t come in many shades from skin, hair and eyes. SMH.

  • Penny

    She is not a black Latina. A black Latina is someone who is raised in that heritage regardless of color and Nicole’s culture is strictly African American. Plus her mother is white and not Dominican. Besides, Nicole strictly rejects any association with that so-called, biological father Pete. She ain’t latin she is African-American mixed period.

  • Nellie

    Just because there is a confidential agreement don’t mean you still have to deny a certain group from your family tree and Nicole denies Escovedo all the time. Lionel might have paid Pete who is black Mexican to put his name on the birth certificate; rich men will do anything to keep secrets from their wives. Nicole and Lionel’s younger daughter looks too much alike for my mind, to not be related. Both have white mothers and light-skinned black daddies that’s for sure. Nicole knows who she is and doesn’t have to lie about it. But she is not Latina I know that much.

  • http://bossip.com Mr.C

    She did crack with that baby!!!

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