Petey Pete called into the Ryan Seacrest show on Tuesday morning to chat about his child’s name, Bronx Mowgli Wentz. He gave a really weak explanation for the “Mowgli” part: “The Jungle Book was something that me and Ashlee bonded over. It’s a cool name.” Um, WTF? Like, vodka was something that my ex and I bonded over, but it’s not like we were going to name our child Belvedere. (We planned to name him Horseman, but that’s a different story.) Enjoying the same book is not an adequate reason to name a child Mowgli.
Pete refused to talk much about the Bronx part of the equation. He should have been like “Well the Bronx has always been our favorite place to score coke,” but instead he said “We came up with the idea Bronx. We’ve been throwing [ideas] back and forth a while. It’s kind of cool to just leave the narrative what it is. People are stoked or pissed or whatever. And you’re like, you know what: I don’t think anyone really has the real story.”
Regardless, congrats to the happy family!
It’s true…only stupid people are breeding.
It’s your child’s name, not a fairytale. What’s wrong with the name Peter? Hey zag nuts, Scarlett was just crazy about a guy name Ashley in a novel. Why not Ashley?
belvedere would be a cool name!!!
^ Agreed!
Mowgli is the shit. I dont know why people care. I know lots of people who name their kids random stuff like that but they dont get much shit about it. Its like celebs started naming their babies ‘Bronx’ and ‘Apple’ and people think its so unusual.. or some kind of trend. The truth is people have been naming their kids stupid names since the beginning of time- the only difference is that we are used to it now.
its all because his initials are ‘BMW’.
But he could’ve done a better job thinking of names that start with ‘B’ and ‘M’
Briana took the words out of my mouth. I’m sure the most simple names were considered unusual at some point in time. Mowgli is hardly the worst of the worst, and if its something they both considered to be a cool name good for them that saved them an argument.
I think all the celeb kiddies with the crazy names are going to band together as they grow, and once they have children, there will be a trend of kids with really plain, generic names. Thank God all of those children will be growing up together and famous so they won’t get picked on for their names.
I agree with you people saying that all kinds of people these days give their kids unusual names. I work as a pre-school substitute teacher so I’ve heard lots of different names people give their kids. When these kids grow up there will be tons of other kids with unusual names as well.
Gone are the days when you had two different kids in your class with the same (very common) name so you always ended the name with the first letter of their lastname when you talked about them so people would know who it was.
It’s a very short narrative, really. Bronx is where he was conceived. I’m sure they threw around a lot of possibilities. Was it Bronx Zoo or Brooklyn Zoo? I forgot the name. Bronx Zoo, dear. Don’t you remember it was right next to the food court near the tiger exhibit. That’s were we made our Mowgli. Joy.
Mowgli is typical for a guy who used to wear eyeliner. Nice. Strong. Male. (Who. Lives. In. A. Hut.) Name. So if the kid ever gets lost in a jungle, tigers won’t mess with him cuz he’s got fire.
Vodka sounds nice for a girl. It has 2050 most popular girl name written all over it.
I named my six year old “Stiles”. It’s the name of a lake in Spencer, Mass. I loved my summers there, for over thirty years!
Why burden your kid with an idiot name? Or a common name that is spelled “unusually” (read – stupid)? And don’t name your kid on a whim or something that’s a cute little inside joke between the two of you. Like that moron soap actor who named his poor son Peanut.
People name their kids with an “unusual” name thinking they are edgy and cool. Instead they are just idiots.
you know they did not bond over the book, they bonded over a disney movie…
brooklyn, bronx…who’s gonna take dangerous real estate gamble and claim manhattan? maybe ivanka trump…just a thought
They bonded over Mowgli? By that standard they should have called the kid “cock” or “cunt”.
Donkey Punch, must you be so crude? The polite term is “pussy.”
@Shannon
You took the words out of my mouth; they probably didn’t know there was a book.
And I could be wrong, but I don’t think naming kids unusual names took off until the 1960s, not the beginning of time. I’m sure there were oddball names here and there, but I think that’s when it became a trend, naming your kids Sunshine or Harmony. I agree it’s stupid..if you want to call your kid something special, give them a nickname.
# Donkey Punch Says:
November 25th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
They bonded over Mowgli? By that standard they should have called the kid �cock� or �cunt�.
# Persistent Cat Says:
November 25th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Donkey Punch, must you be so crude? The polite term is �pussy.�
Wrong gender there PC :P
wentz give me the creeps.
> The polite term is �pussy.�
If I said “willy” then I would have used a euphemism such as “pussy”.
Cock and cunt go together in so many ways. No double standards Persistent Cat. Just because you may have been called the C word doesn’t make it still a lovely word.
Odd. The website tries to censor the word “pussy”. Is this some sort of dog discrimination going on here? Has Leo taken over the censored word list?
this reminds me of an old Dave Attell stand up routine where he says he would name his child “pizza pussy santa” because everyone likes one of those three
We have be careful to choice names for our baby. The meaningful it must be.