Ashlee Simpson has a baby boy, Bronx Mowgli Wentz

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz welcomed their first child last night, a little boy named Bronx Mowgli Wentz. Bronx weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. He was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA.

The couple did not tell the public if they were expecting a boy or girl, but it is likely that they knew ahead of time. Ashlee’s sister Jessica said on the Ellen Degeneres show earlier this week “I can’t say [if it’s a boy or girl] because they haven’t said. I’ll stick my foot in my mouth and get in trouble and I won’t be a good aunt.”

Ashlee was said to be due around Halloween, which would make Bronx nearly three weeks past his due date. Calculating due dates is an inexact science and many first babies come late. Jessica said Ashlee was “jumping around trying everything” to get the baby to come and that she had tried “different foot massages and stuff.”

Pete and Ashlee are following a celebrity baby-naming trend by naming their child after a place, specifically a borough of New York. Victoria and David Beckham have a son named Brooklyn while Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have son Kingston, thought to be named after the capital of Jamaica.

Their newborn’s middle name, Mowgli, is after the lead character in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book series. Kipling made up the name, which the author claims means “frog.”

Bronx is an unusual name but it’s not as strange as some other celebrity baby names. According to the Baby Name Voyager, Bronx has never been in the top 1000 baby names in the US in the past 100 years. I can’t imagine a couple on the East Coast naming their baby Bronx, but the name is sure to grow in popularity now. Congratulations to Pete and Ashlee!

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