The boy’s name Ryder got a real shot in the arm on the American naming charts in 2004 when Kate Hudson named her first son Ryder Russell (his father is The Black Crowes front man Chris Robinson). Hudson was part of the new wave of young Hollywood embracing motherhood at a relatively young age (she was not quite 25 years old). Now that the couple is divorced, Kate is with another musical front man (Matthew Bellamy) from the band Muse. Together they have a son called Bingham Hawn Bellamy (b. July 2011) who they refer to as just Bing. We don’t expect this one to show up on the naming charts any time soon, though! Way too unusual and surnamey for most people’s tastes. Bingham is apparently Bellamy’s mom’s maiden name, but Bing Russell was also the name of Kurt Russell’s dad. So the name, while strange, has family importance to the couple.
