Kim Kardashian and Kanye West settled on the name at the MET Gala

Jun 22, 2013 09:03 GMT  ·  By
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have named their daughter North West, will call her Nori
   Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have named their daughter North West, will call her Nori

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have named their firstborn, a baby girl Kim delivered last week, North West. Amidst speculation that they will call her Nori for short, word has emerged that Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour was the one who actually helped them settle on this name.

As celebrity gossip lovers must already know, reports had long said that the two wanted to name their first kid North West, even though Kim herself laughed them off in an interview with Jay Leno.

Now, E! Online is saying that the two had the name at the top of their favorites list, but only actually settled on it after meeting with Wintour before the MET Gala ball 2013, the same where Kim wore that much criticized Givenchy floral dress.

Basically, Kim spoke to Wintour before the bash, during a dinner party at the editor’s NYC apartment, and shared her ideas for a baby name, and Wintour was thrilled with North West.

“It seems that while Kim Kardashian was still pregnant with her daughter North, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour told the E! star how much she liked that particular moniker,” E! writes.

“That's not why they named her North, but it's nice to have Anna's blessing!” an insider further says.

As for the decision to call the girl Nori, OMG Insider has a theory about how it’s actually a combination of both Kim and Kanye’s middle names.

“If you combine Kim Noel Kardashian and Kanye Omari West's middle names, you get ‘Nori’,” the publication says. Plus, it sounds better to call her Nori than North, one would assume.

North West is a “concept name,” name expert and author Laura Wattenberg shares for the same media outlet.

“Direction names are uncommon in general, and almost always male. North is the second most common direction name for boys, after West. North doesn't have a traditionally name-like sound for either girls or boys, but parents have generally placed directions on the boys' side, just as seasons (Summer, Autumn, even Winter) have gone to the girls,” Wattenberg explains.