The Oscar winner set off baby naming shock waves when she named her twins the outrageous Phinnaeus and Hazel. When she gave birth to her third child three years later, the world got Henry Daniel, whose middle name comes from dad Danny Moder.
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Henry Tadeusz is the name of the Irish bad boy’s second son with Ondine costar and former girlfriend Alicja Bachleda-Curus. The boy’s middle name, the Polish version of Thaddeus, reflects his mother’s nationality.
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Klum, whose now shares husband Seal’s last name Samuel, is the mother of the Henry who may have the most names apart from the prince: Henry Gunther Ademola Dashtu. (Britain’s Prince Harry’s full name is Henry Charles Albert David.) The Samuels’ other children are daughters Leni and Lou Sulola and son Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo.
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Newborn Henry Flowers joins big brothers with more outrageous rocker-baby names Ammon and Gunnar. Ammon is named after a Book of Mormon prophet (Flowers is Mormon) and Gunnar, the name of a legendary Scandinavian figure most popular these days in more macho version Gunner. “[Gunnar] is a tough name,” the singer has said. “I had to have something that combats against the Flowers.”
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Minnie (born Amelia Fiona) Driver distinguished her son Henry’s name with the intriguing middle name Story. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Driver, who grew up as the child of a married man’s secret family, refuses to name Henry’s father.
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The British actress and the Black Swan director are the separated (though never married) parents of a nearly five-year-old Henry. There must be something about the solidity of Henry that calls out for a more adventurous middle name: this Henry’s is Chance.
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Streep, a trendsetter in so many ways, may have launched the Henry craze in Hollywood. She was the first contemporary celebrity to name her son Henry, in 1979. The now grown Henry Wolf Gummer has acted as both Henry Gummer and Harry Gummer and just released an album as Henry Wolfe.
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The Seinfeld comedienne and writer husband Brad Hall were early adopters of the name Henry, choosing it for their second son in 1992, when the name was close to its all-time nadir. The couple’s older son is named Charles and called Charlie, another classic on the rise though Charlie Sheen may put a stop to that.
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The late Easy Rider star’s son Henry Hopper has launched his own acting career, with a starring role in Gus Van Sant’s Restless alongside Mia Wasikowska, due out this year. Henry Lee, 20, is the child of the fourth of Hopper’s five marriages.
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The comedian’s 10-year-old son is named Henry James, not to be confused with the great novelist who wrote Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller.
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Henry Lee is the 3-year-old son of musician Jack White and supermodel wife Karen Elson. The pair also has a nearly-5-year-old daughter, Scarlett Teresa.
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