Exclusive | This is the celebrity baby name parents dislike the most, according to a professional baby namer

This name is not the apple of parents’ eyes. Expectant parents are not fond of “weird” celebrity baby names — and the most rotten of the bunch is Apple, the name Gwyneth Paltrow gave her daughter.Baby name consultant Colleen Slagen came to this conclusion after sending expectant parents a questionnaire asking their naming likes and dislikes.“The most common example they gave is, ‘We don’t want names like Apple,'” said Slagen, 35, who charges $300 for a 45-minute Zoom meeting to help parents find the perfect name for their bundle of joy.“I feel like it was the shocking name of our generation.”Apple Martin, now 20, is the offspring of the Academy Award-winning actress and her ex-husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.“When we were first pregnant, her daddy said, ‘If it’s a girl I think her name should be Apple,'” Paltrow told Oprah in 2004.

“It sounded so sweet, and it conjured such a lovely picture for me, you know.Apples are so sweet and they’re wholesome, and it’s biblical.”Apple set the stage for A-listers who began giving their kids equally bizarre birth names — like Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Blue Ivy, Kate Winslet’s Bear Blaze and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s North.“Nowadays it’s like you can’t get weird enough,” Slagen said of celebrity baby names trends.

“Everyone’s trying to out-unique the other person.”Slagen — a former nurse practitioner who left her job in 2023 to run her baby-naming business full time — said that unlike celebrity parents-to-be, her clients are searching for names that are “familiar — which is code for not weird — but not so popular.”“Everybody wants this sort of unicorn name ..

.not the Olivias, not the Emmas, not the Avas and Isabellas,” she said.After an initial consultation, Slagen compiles a 10-name list for the couple with an explanation of why she chose each, and includes popularity data from the Social Security Administration.Her clients run the gamut from...