Angie Harmon has been married to former superstar football player, Jason Sehorn, since 2001. During their still successful celebrity marriage the couple has produced three darling daughters with three perfectly adorable names: Finley Faith (b. 2003), Avery Grace (b. 2005) and Emery Hope (b. 2008). Obviously we see the “virtue” themes with the girls’ middle names. Faith, Grace and Hope. But what about their first name choices? Clearly Angie and Jason are firm believers in gender-equality for their daughters because all three names are considered unisex in America. All three names are also the transferred use of surnames into given names which remains a hot trend in America today.

Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari who is famous for being…well, for being in “reality”…has enough celebrity cachet now that I guess we should all care what she names her baby. She began dating Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler in 2010 and in the midst of their on-again-off-again-on-again engagement they managed to bring new life into “reality”. Cavallari gave birth to a son Camden Jack Cutler on August 8, 2012. Quasi-celebrity TV personalities Nick & Vanessa Lachey followed suit a month later when they named their first son Camden John. Camden is a cool enough sounding name, and C.J. is an obvious nickname. It’s very modern and surnamey. But it mostly makes us think of Camden Yards (home of the Baltimore Orioles).

Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) and her handsome soccer player husband David Beckham are among the most prominent celebrity couples in Hollywood (well, globally for that matter). The English couple has four children. Their first son Brooklyn Joseph (b. 1999) was named after the NYC borough. Second son Romeo James (b. 2002) was named after the romantic Shakespearean character. Next came third son Cruz David (b. 2005) whose Spanish name was inspired by his birthplace in Madrid, Spain. Finally the ϋber-celebrity couple got their wish when they welcomed a baby girl to their brood in 2011. They named her Harper Seven. We like their name choices and apparently so does the rest of America – all names mentioned above have seen increased usage on the U.S. naming charts.

English soccer hunk David Beckham and his gorgeous wife Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) are among the most prominent celebrity couples in Hollywood (globally for that matter). The couple has four children. Their first son Brooklyn Joseph (b. 1999) was named after the NYC borough. Second son Romeo James (b. 2002) was named after the romantic Shakespearean character. Next came third son Cruz David (b. 2005) whose Spanish name was inspired by his birthplace in Madrid, Spain. Finally the ϋber-celebrity couple got their wish when they welcomed a baby girl to their brood in 2011. They named her Harper Seven. We like their name choices and apparently so does the rest of America – all names mentioned above have seen increased usage on the U.S. naming charts.

Matt Damon knows how to pick good names, or perhaps it’s his Argentine-born wife Luciana Bozán Barroso who finds the perfect monikers for the couple’s four girls. Well, technically, Alexia is Luciana’s daughter from a previous marriage (Damon is the girl’s stepfather). After meeting the pretty Latina bartender in Miami while on a film shoot, the two eventually married. They have three biological daughters of their own: Isabella (b. 2006), Gia Zavala (b. 2008) and finally along came Stella Zavala in 2010. All four names have a strong Latin flavor thanks to the “a” endings. Isabella is the Latinate form of Elizabeth, Gia is a diminutive of the Italian Giovanna (English equivalent would be Joanna or Joan which is the feminine form of John), and Stella means “star” in Latin. Matt Damon certainly has plenty of estrogen in his household, and he better go buy a shotgun and a shovel before these girls are teenagers!

Cher used to have one daughter and one son; now she has two sons. In 1962 Cher hooked-up with Sonny Bono when she was only sixteen and the two went on to have a successful singing and television variety show career. Chastity Bono was born in 1969. We wonder if Cher was either being ironic or if she was thumbing her nose at conventional society by using the virtue name signifying sexual purity. Later, Chastity turned out to be a transgender man and changed his name to Chaz. After divorcing Sonny, Cher went on to marry musician Gregg Allman (of the Allman Brothers fame). They had one son named Elijah Blue Allman in 1976. Cher may have been a trendsetter with the “Blue” moniker now that Beyoncé and Jay-Z named their daughter Blue Ivy, Alicia Silverston named her son Bear Blu and back in 1989 the U2 guitarist known as The Edge named his third daughter Blue Angel.

Nadya Suleman became known as “The Octomom” after sparking a national media frenzy in 2009 when she gave birth to a full set of octuplets (eight babies). Public opinion hotly turned against her when it was revealed that Nadya was a single-mother with six other babies at home, all of which were conceived via IVF (in-vitro fertilization). The story also shined a bright spotlight on the assisted reproduction industry which irresponsibly allowed this to happen. Americans were generally turned off by Nadya’s reckless baby-making when she was unable to support herself without public assistance. This woman didn’t need eight more babies; she needed therapy.

Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren have two daughters. Honor Marie Warren was born in 2008 and Haven Garner Warren followed in 2011. Both girls received vocabulary word names also considered virtue names. Plus, they seem to like the “H” names, although Honor really has a silent H sound while Haven does not. There’s no confusion as to the meaning of these names, although they are a little off-beat and different (not super common choices among the masses). Honor is not even on the Top 1000 list of girl names in America and Haven is hardly popular. Honor is really about respect and admiration while Haven is all about safety and security.

Gorgeous and statuesque Somali-born supermodel Iman is equally known for her high-profile marriage to British musician David Bowie. But before David, Iman was married to American basketball player Spencer Haywood, a marriage that produced a daughter named Zulekha Haywood in 1978. She didn’t marry David Bowie until 1992 and together had a daughter in 2000 they named Alexandria Zahra Jones (Jones is Bowie’s real last name).

Isabella Rossellini is the beautiful Italian-born daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Isabella has had an extremely successful acting and modeling career in the United States dating back to the late 1970s. She has also been in several high-profile marriages and relationships. Rossellini either married or dated director Martin Scorsese, model Jon Wiedemann, filmmaker David Lynch and actor Gary Oldman to name a few. She has a daughter with Wiedemann named Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983) and she later adopted a son on her own she named Roberto (b. 1993). Elettra is actually the Italian form of Electra from Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who, along with her brother, killed their mother and her lover in retribution for Agamemnon’s murder.