Nara Smith Shares Baby Names List Amid Pregnancy
If you're unfamiliar, Nara is a model and influencer, famed for her soothing TikTok cooking videos, where she makes everything from homemade cereal to DIY Coca-Cola. She's married to fellow model and influencer Lucky Blue Smith, with whom she shares three children: daughters Rumble Honey, 4, and Whimsy Lou, 1, and son Slim Easy, 3. In June, Nara revealed that she was pregnant with their fourth child.
On Tuesday, she revealed some of the names she considered using for their baby but decided against — for one reason or another. "For reference, all our kids have pretty unique names," Nara began in a TikTok. "So it's getting harder and harder coming up with names."
"Starting off with some boy names [I loved but won't be using], I love the name Moss Goody Sundae." She also likes the names Champ, Silk, and Dare.
"[For] girl names, I love the name Twinkle," Nara continued. "Velvet Button is so cute to me. Willow Mirror, which, I don't know, feels like a more classic name. I love the name Apple. Won't be using because it's been used before. [I also] love the name Berry."
"Another name that I love that Lucky does not like at all, so it didn't even make it into our list, is Butter."
She also really adored the names Merit and Shimmer, too.
Other names that Nara liked during her third pregnancy with daughter Whimsy Lou were Bow, Clementine, Dottie, Ivy, Lemon, Pipin, Plum, and Tink. She was also into the names Dew, Dust, Halo, Flick, and Mercer for a boy before finding out they were having a girl.
"All of these can kind of go as a first or second name," Nara shared in her latest TikTok. "But it's getting harder to name children for me."
Viewers shared their thoughts on her names in the comments.
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