Celebrity Parents Who Changed Their Children’s Names: Amy Schumer and More

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Celebrity Parents Who Changed Their Children's Names: Amy Schumer and More

Mixing up monikers! Amy Schumer, Grimes and more celebrity parents have changed their kids’ names after their arrivals. The comedian and her husband, Chris Fischer, welcomed their baby boy, Gene Attell, in May 2019. The couple, who wed the previous year, revealed the little one’s name two days later. By April 2020, the pair had given the toddler a new middle name. “Our baby’s name is officially changed,” Schumer said during an episode of the “Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith” podcast. “It’s now Gene David Fischer. It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we realized that we by accident named our son ‘genital.’” The New York native’s podcast guest, Claudia O’Doherty, replied, “My mom pointed that out to me actually. My mom was like, ‘Amy’s called her son “genital.”’ And I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And then, she was right.” Schumer and the Beetlebung Farm Cookbook author poked fun at their son’s original moniker the following day with an Instagram selfie. “Oh, like you never named your kid Genital fissure!!!!!!!” the Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo author captioned the serious shot. “I mean. I’m not mad about it,” Stassi Schroeder commented on the social media upload at the time, while La La Anthony wrote, “You’re a legend.” [jwplayer xmdhOfzF] As for Grimes, the singer and Elon Musk’s baby boy arrived in May 2020 and the pair named the infant X Æ A-12. “X, the unknown variable. Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence),” the Canadian musician explained via Twitter at the time. “A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent + (A = Archangel, my favorite song) (metal rat).” The following month, the newborn’s birth certificate revealed his first name is X and his middle name A AE-XII, according to TMZ. The moniker followed California guidelines by including only the English alphabet, not numbers and special signs. Keep scrolling to see more celebrity moms and dads who have renamed their little ones, from Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner to Caterina Scorsone and Rob Giles.

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Celebrity Parents Who Changed Their Children's Names: Amy Schumer and More

Mixing up monikers! Amy Schumer, Grimes and more celebrity parents have changed their kids’ names after their arrivals. The comedian and her husband, Chris Fischer, welcomed their baby boy, Gene Attell, in May 2019. The couple, who wed the previous year, revealed the little one’s name two days later. By April 2020, the pair had given the toddler a new middle name. “Our baby’s name is officially changed,” Schumer said during an episode of the “Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith” podcast. “It’s now Gene David Fischer. It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we realized that we by accident named our son ‘genital.’” The New York native’s podcast guest, Claudia O’Doherty, replied, “My mom pointed that out to me actually. My mom was like, ‘Amy’s called her son “genital.”’ And I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And then, she was right.” Schumer and the Beetlebung Farm Cookbook author poked fun at their son’s original moniker the following day with an Instagram selfie. “Oh, like you never named your kid Genital fissure!!!!!!!” the Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo author captioned the serious shot. “I mean. I’m not mad about it,” Stassi Schroeder commented on the social media upload at the time, while La La Anthony wrote, “You’re a legend.” [jwplayer xmdhOfzF] As for Grimes, the singer and Elon Musk’s baby boy arrived in May 2020 and the pair named the infant X Æ A-12. “X, the unknown variable. Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence),” the Canadian musician explained via Twitter at the time. “A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent + (A = Archangel, my favorite song) (metal rat).” The following month, the newborn’s birth certificate revealed his first name is X and his middle name A AE-XII, according to TMZ. The moniker followed California guidelines by including only the English alphabet, not numbers and special signs. Keep scrolling to see more celebrity moms and dads who have renamed their little ones, from Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner to Caterina Scorsone and Rob Giles.

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Kathryn Hahn and Ethan Sandler

The actress and her husband filed documents to add her maiden name as the second middle name for her son Leonard and daughter Mae in November 2022.

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Aaron Paul and Lauren Paul

In November 2022, the Breaking Bad alum filed to change his and Lauren Paul's (née Parsekian) son's name. Their baby boy, who was born in April 2022, was originally named Casper Emerson, but his parents later opted to go with Ryden Caspian — and wanted to make it legal. While they were at it, the couple — who also share daughter Story — filed to change their own names as well, with Aaron tweaking his last name from Sturtevant to Paul (his middle name), and Lauren officially taking her husband's last name, Paul, as well.

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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott

The parents welcomed their second child, a son, in February 2022. Though his name was initially announced as Wolf, Jenner and Scott didn't feel like it was the right choice for their baby boy.

"FYI Our sons name isn't Wolf anymore," the Kylie Cosmetics founder shared via her Instagram Story in March 2022. "We just really didn't feel like it was him." They did not announce his new name immediately.

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Grimes and Elon Musk

“I think it sounds like the name of the main character in the story," the "Oblivion" singer tweeted of X Æ A-Xii in May 2020. "I hope he vibes with that."

In March 2023, the "Oblivion" singer revealed that she changed her daughter's name from Exa Dark Sideræl to Y. "She's Y now, or 'Why?' or just '?' (But the government won't recognize that)," Grimes tweeted. "Curiosity, the eternal question, ... and such."

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Doug Hehner Jamie Otis

"The minute we had our son, the minute he came out, I looked at him [and] I almost called him Hendrix,” the Bachelor alum revealed in a May 2020 YouTube video. “That was, like, a top name for him, [but] we named him Hayes before we met him."

Her husband chimed in at the time: "It’s [now] officially Hendrix. We did the birth certificate, so it’s official.”

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Amy Schumer Chris Fischer

The actress called the name Gene Attell a "huge f—k up" in April 2020.

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Caterina Scorsone and Rob Giles

Four months after announcing her daughter Arwen's name via Instagram, the Grey's Anatomy alum announced, "We went with what was her middle name. Lucinda. 'Lucky' for short."

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Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell

During a December 2018 episode of Teen Mom OG, the couple revealed their plans to name their daughter Tezlee — but ultimately went with Vaeda Luma instead. “Every time someone would say Tezlee, we would cringe! It just wasn’t sitting with us like it did at first,” Lowell revealed to Us Weeklyexclusively in March 2019. “Tyler told me about the name Vaeda and I fell in love with it! It’s from the movie My Girl, which is a movie that Tyler showed me years ago."