In terms of baby-naming trends, parents bestowing dad’s name on their son is nothing new.
But giving a baby girl the moniker “Junior?”
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Serena Williams and fiance Alexis Ohanian unveiled the first pics of their nearly two-week-old daughter, Alexis Olympian Ohanian Jr. on Wednesday.
And she is, naturally, adorable.
But her name? Powerful.
“We had a lot of complications, but look what we got. We got a baby girl… Junior,” Williams says in a sweet video compilation, posted on her site.
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Granted, this is not the first time in history that a daughter has been dubbed junior.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt named their firstborn Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Jr.
And there is, of course, Caroline Herrera Jr., daughter of fashionista Carolina Herrera.
Carolina Herrera Baez, daughter of Carolina Herrera. Credit: Joe Corrigan/Getty Images for CH Carolina Herrera
But typically the designation “Jr.” or “II” or even the “III” has been reserved for male progeny.
Why? I don’t know.