A baby name expert is weighing in on Bronx Mowgli, the newborn son of Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz.

“I’d say that in the world of unusual or bizarre baby names, this is the biggest double whammy since Moxie CrimeFighter [daughter of magician Penn Jillette] and Pilot Inspektor [son of actor Jason Lee],” Linda Rosenkrantz, co-author of The Baby Name Bible tells Usmagazine.com.

So where does Bronx come from?

“Bronx – named after early Dutch settler Jonas Bronck – follows in the footsteps of that other NYC borough, Brooklyn, but is not likely to set off a baby name fad as Brooklyn has,” Rosenkrantz adds.

(Victoria and David Beckham named their nine-year-old son Brooklyn after the area of NYC in which he was conceived.)

Brooklyn is more popular than Bronx because it “has a soft, feminine sound – in fact it’s No. 57 on the girls’ popularity list and seen by some parents as the combination of two female names, Brooke and Lynn,” Rosenkrantz says.

“Bronx has a much harsher, grittier sound, and the nickname Bronxie has something of a negative feel,” adds the expert.

But Bronx “follows the tradition started by the Jolie-Pitts of x-ending boys’ names, such in Maddox, Pax and Knox…and the trend for ‘place names’ like Kingston and Paris,” Rosenkrantz points out.

The newborn’s middle name, Mowgli, “was created by Rudyard Kipling for his Jungle Book stories, best remembered by most people via the spunky 10-year-old boy brought up by wolves in the 1967 Disney animated version.

“Even though in the stories Mowgli was said to mean ‘frog,’ it was actually made up by the author and has no real meaning,” she adds.

Overall, the Wentzs may have gone with the moniker because “obviously they’re into Disney big time!” Rosenkrantz says.

“Just weeks ago, the mother-to-be was given a Winnie the Pooh-themed baby shower,” Rosenkrantz says. “Prior to that, the couple were married in an Alice in Wonderland-themed ceremony.”

Bronx Mowgli Wentz was born Thursday night, a rep for the Wentzs confirmed to Us.

“Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!” the rep added, calling the couple “proud parents.”

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz welcomed a son Thursday night, PEOPLE confirms.

Bronx Mowgli Wentz weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 1/2 inches long. (Isn’t Mowgli the boy from Jungle Book?)

“Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!” a spokesperson tells PEOPLE.

Simpson-Wentz, 24, and the Fall Out Boy bassist, 29, announced her pregnancy in May, a few weeks after their opulent Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland-themed wedding.

“I would love to have a big family one day,” Simpson-Wentz told PEOPLE at the time. Added Wentz: “A big soccer team or a band!”

And, as her dad, Joe Simpson, recently put it to PEOPLE: “The day she found out she was pregnant, she became a woman.”

Wentz, meanwhile, has been leaning on rocker pal Joel Madden – dad to 9-month-old Harlow with girlfriend Nicole Richie – for tips on fatherhood. “Joel gives me advice,” Wentz recently told PEOPLE. “[It's] been really awesome for me to go to another person my age.”

Richie and Harlow were guests at Simpson-Wentz’s Winnie the Pooh-themed baby shower on Nov. 1.

Wentz also has another kind of baby on the way: Fall Out Boy’s third album, Folie A Deux, will be released on Dec. 16.

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How awesome is that picture.

Jessica Simpson says her pregnant sister Ashlee, who is due any day, is trying to everything to make that baby come out.

“Different foot massages and stuff,” Jessica said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (airing Wednesday). “I don’t know. I think she’s really just jumping around trying everything right now.”

She adds Ashlee will likely induce the labor.

“They’re going to have to – it’s already developing really quick,” she told DeGeneres.

So, is it a boy or a girl?

“I can’t say because they haven’t said,” Jessica said. “I’ll stick my foot in my mouth and get in trouble and I won’t be a good aunt.”

Jessica also told DeGeneres that she is in love with beau Tony Romo.

“He is a good guy, and he’s really just helped me along in life and taught me a lot about being comfortable being myself — which is important,” she said.

To be a Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Simpson went on, “there’s a requirement. Like, you have to be good looking.

“Being out there and demanding and commanding that field — that’s pretty sexy,” Jessica added. “But it’s nice when you have the whole package.”

Jessica said they’re “really a lot a like. I’m just more into fashion than he is.”

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Pete Wentz cancelled an appearance on Larry King Live tonight due to “breaking news”. Could it finally be time?

“due to breaking news and scheduling conflicts i will not be appearing on larry king live tonight, though i am a big fan of the show and look forward to appearing on it in the future. i also look forward to the chance to continue supporting civil rights and speaking out against the passing of proposition 8 and others like it (im looking at you arizona and florida) whenever and wherever i can.”

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The sex of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s baby revealed! Pete tells Playboy magazine in an interview that he and Ashlee are 90 percent sure they will be having a baby boy this fall.

“We know with 90 percent accuracy that it’s a boy and our due date is around Thanksgiving. We don’t have any names yet. My friend Andrew said, ‘Your kid has to have a name that would fit either a rock star or a senator,’” Pete tells the magazine.

In the article, Pete also opens up about battling depression. “As a kid I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then. I was diagnosed with ADD.”

He also speaks candidly about an overdose from an anxiety medication suffered in February 2005. “It had more to do with being depressed. I wasn’t thinking of killing myself. I’ve never really called it a suicide attempt. I just wanted my head to be completely turned off. I took a handful of Ativan.”

On Tony Romo, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback and boyfriend of his wife’s sister, Jessica, Pete says: “I like Tony a lot. He’s a rad dude, and we’re both into Guns n’ Roses. Magazines always like to use pictures of us together: ‘Tony wears Nikes, but Pete’s checking out Balenciaga bags.’”

Pete’s full interview will appear in the October issue of Playboy, available this Friday on newsstands and online at www.playboydigital.com.

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Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz could find themselves facing another round of twin rumors.

Pete’s buddy, hip-hop artist Tyga, says that the parents-to-be are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy.

“They’re having twins,” Tyga said in an exclusive interview yesterday at the House of Hype’s pre-VMA barbeque. “They’re really happy.”

Either Tyga spilled the beans or he’s repeating an internet rumor that Pete started earlier this summer…

In June, Pete sent the internet into a tizzy when he referred to his and Ashlee’s unborn baby as “them” during an Arizona radio interview. He quickly denied they were having twins, explaining to blogger Perez Hilton that he was just trying to be vague about the pregnancy.

A rep for the couple insists only one baby is on the way. “It is not true,” the rep said of Tyga’s twins report.

Pete, 29, and Ashlee, 23, were married on May 17 at her parents’ L.A.-area home. Eleven days later the young rockers announced that Ashlee was preggers.

Pete’s band Fall Out Boy is up for a VMA tonight for Best Rock Video for the video for their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

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