Why Jennifer Lopez named her twins Max & Emme
In the world of celebrity baby names – from Suri to Harlow, Maddox to Apple – Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s decision to name their newborn twins Max and Emme came as somewhat of a disappointment.
“Max and Emme are cute but, as starbaby choices go, highly unoriginal,” Pamela Redmond Satran, the author of baby-naming guides Cool Names and The Baby Name Bible, told Usmagazine.com.
“Christina Aguilera just used Max, which hasn’t been truly cool since the eighties,” Satran explains. “And Emme is an amalgam of Emily and Emma, the top two names in the country, which means that she’ll be in the same position [Jennifer] was always in, being one of several kids her age with the same name.”
Last month Satran even wrote a blog on the Huffington Post warning Lopez and Anthony to “rethink” Max and Emme and make an “inspired choice.”
On the plus side, Satran gives Lopez and Anthony points for meeting the challenge of naming twins. “Max and Emme do sound cute together,” she told Us. “They are compatible but distinctive – the perfect qualities for twin names!”
Perhaps Max and Emme show Lopez is still “Jenny from the block.”
“It’s refreshing when celebrities choose the kind of regular names that the rest of us choose and don’t reach so hard to come up with a Romeo or a Moxie Crimefighter,” says Satran.
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March 6th, 2008 at 6:09 am
If she would have named them a weird name people would have been talking shit, so it’s like your damned if you do and damed if don’t.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:24 am
I’m glad she gave them ‘normal’ names.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I think they are nice names. Better than weird names like Apple and Moses!
March 6th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Max and Emme are also the two main characters on the children series “Dragon Tales” on PBS. Great names!
March 6th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Xtina named her son max because of what it means with his middle name. Jordy is Jewish and since Xina is a singer - in hebrew his name means ” my greatest song”. This lady needs to do some investigation and research before she runs her uneducated mouth. Who is she to tell women how to name their children.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Ha! Bitch got the idea from Dragon Tales and going to eat too much at Max and Erma’s….dumbasses