Bee Berry

Hollywood actress Halle Berry has bucked the Hollywood trend of using a Hebrew name for your progeny (perhaps she wants to stay away from anything Jewish).

Instead, she’s gone Arabic.

Halle Berry has revealed the name of her newborn daughter: Nahla Ariela Aubry.

The baby girl, who was born Sunday is the first for the Oscar winning actress and her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry.

A day after Nahla’s birth, Aubry’s sister, Eugenie, told PEOPLE, “It’s been a long time since we’ve had a new baby in the family. It’s very exciting.”

Nahla means honeybee in Arabic, says Michael D. Cooperson, associate professor of Arabic at UCLA.

Of course, I already suspected that Nahla was Arabic for bee.

Who’s next? Farfur Alba? Or perhaps Assud Kidman?

Update: I’m guessing the name was Halle’s choice (as opposed to that of her boyfriend).

Update: As commenter abunafha correctly points out, the baby’s middle name – Ariela – is Hebrew. I can’t believe I missed that.

Which means the baby has an Arabic name and a Hebrew name. I wonder if this means she will hate herself.

7 thoughts on “Bee Berry”

  1. the article says she called the baby nahla ariela. now, ariela is clearly a hebrew name…so, i’m suspecting shimon peres to be the father. wierdest things have happened.

  2. I just cant get used to this new look.. the previous blog design was better..this one is kinda irritating at times..dunno why ..something about it..looks untidy and the colour is depressing!

  3. Carl,

    Yes, I know. But Nahla is very similar, as you said.

    Martin,

    The colors are not final. I am hoping someone will help me with the styling, and then I will change the colors and add the banner etc.

  4. Nahla is a Hebrew name, too.

    Of course, we Yiddin would correctly pronounce it Nachala.

    Nachala Ariela. Not bad. And her last name sounds an awful lot like Be’eri.

    I don’t think we can do much for her boyfriend’s last name but his first name, Gavriel, is of course another well known Hebrew name.

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