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It’s been more than a month since Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their daughter and we still haven’t had a confirmation on the baby’s name. Ryan had every opportunity to reveal the name while he was doing the promotional rounds last week, but he played games and stoked the gossip fires. Well, now E! News has a lead or a source or something. E! says Blake and Ryan have named their baby girl…

JAMES.

James Lively Reynolds.

Or maybe just James Reynolds.

Or maybe James [Middle Name] Reynolds.

Here’s the thing… I actually like boy names for girls. Truly. My name is boy-ish in India, although it’s been “feminized” by a few generations. I love when girls are named Charlie or Chris. But most of the time, those are nicknames and the formal names are Charlotte or Christina. It’s quite another thing to give your daughter the first name of “James.” But now we know why Ryan rejected all of David Letterman’s name guesses. Letterman was only suggesting girl names. I have no doubt that James is a “family name” and of course it’s a Biblical name too. So there you go. James Reynolds is happening.

PS… I can already hear the references to Jaime King, who went by James King for a while when she modeled. But her real name was always Jaime King. James was a nickname and work-around for her as a model.

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