What On Earth Were These Celebrities Thinking When They Named Their Kids?

Beatrice Danger Brocklebank

Jess Weixler from The Good Wife and her husband Hamish Brocklebank welcomed their daughter, Beatrice Danger, in 2019. Have you ever met someone with a middle name that bold? She sounds like she's straight out of a country-western movie.

Kyd Miller Duchovny

The X Files star David Duchovny and his ex-wife Téa Leoni named their son Kyd Miller. The reasoning behind his name? "Kyd" is the old English term for "baby goat." It's cute, but less-so when you're seventeen, like Kyd is now.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.