Anyone who watched this year’s Grammys felt overwhelming sympathy for British musical star M.I.A. She performed with T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne on Grammy night – which was her due date. She was a real trooper.
Thank goodness her baby was a little overdue, or else there would have been a big mess on that stage. M.I.A. gave birth to a son a few days after the Grammys, and she’s just got around to announcing the boy’s name now. What is it? Ickitt. It speaks for itself, right? OK! has more:
It’s been almost a month since British music star M.I.A. strutted her 9-months pregnant stuff on the stage at the Grammys. The Oscar-nominated singer gave birth to a baby boy a few days later on Feb. 11, but a name for the tot was never revealed — until now.
According to Latina Magazine, M.I.A. — real name Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam — and her fiancé Benjamin Brewer have decided to go with the… unique name of Ickitt for their newborn son.
No explanation for exactly what — if anything — “Ickitt” might mean. But in a world where rock stars can name their children Bronx Mowgli without having to undergo court-ordered psychiatric exams, anything is possible.
[From OK! Magazine]
The name reminds me of the character names from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Like Ichabod Crane, only it’s “Ickitt”. Maybe it’s short for something? Icksander? Ickington? Icktastic? I have no idea. M.I.A. sorta seems like a strange bird to me, but hopefully she’ll be a great mom.
Header of M.I.A. at the Grammy awards on February 8th. Image thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.
Update: Update: No, M.I.A. didn’t name her son Ickitt. Despite Ok! and other sources “confirming” the name, it’s not true. She confirmed on her MySpace blog that she did not, and she will not be releasing the name of her son. People has the story.
Ick.
That’s Icky!
that sounds like the middle of sentence like… ” ICK IT got stuck on my shoe”
or beginning….just kidding…
I’m convinced that celebrities who name their children things like “Ickitt” or “Inspektor Pilot” secretly hate their kids or something.
At the very least, they want them to get their asses kicked in school.
Seriously,Ickitt sounds like what I would name my robot, if I had one!
Maybe these “celebutard names” will be more common like in 100 billion years… it doesn´t make it less ridiculous tho!
Ickitt is cute. Wouldn’t want it for myself, of course, but I like it.
I don’t know what’s up with that name — I wonder if these stars release weird names just to get press, and secretly they named the baby John? ha
I think M.I.A. is such a cutie. I loved seeing her at the Grammy’s. I read she is set by marrying the baby daddy, the heir to the Bombay fortune. Anyone know more about that?
I’m hearing Salt’n’Pepper here
Ickitt
Ickitt real good
Okay,guys,unique names are so common now,that noone is going to get the asses kicked in school for them,anymore. Especially not celeb kids who are usually sent to private schools or schools in LA/NYC which cater to urban,hippie-chic,and/or artistic types,anyway.
Reminds me of “Lemony Snickett” of the Series of Unfortunate Events books!
Sprinkles–I laughed out loud! Thanks!
Again I thank you, celebrities. No matter what I name this baby, it just can’t be that dumb. And here my husband hated the name Zephyr. Ha!
I have no idea why…
Maybe it’s a LDN thing, but I feel fucking protective of MIA (and slightly gutted that’s she’s bigger over the pond) and if she wants to fuck up her kid, so be it.
LOL Sprinkles, I’m hearing ‘Wicked’ by Ice Cube (also covered by Korn).
My first thought was “Is this a traditional Tamil name?”
huh.
My name sounds like the middle of a sentence as well. I can’t count how many times a teacher has said “On a………page 25 we have a perfect example.”
She just seems so skanky to me.
Oh edit button….
That would be the beginning of a sentence…
She didn’t really name her kid that, she just posted on myspace about it.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2225872&blogID=475030491
M.I.A. debunked that as being true, just so you know.
“MY BABY IS NOT CALLED ICKITT, PICKIT OR LICKIT THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL THE HOLLYWOOD PRESS. HES A BABY , HE DONT NEED PRESS!
I DIDNT RELEASE THE BABY NAME BECAUSE I DIDNT THINK IT WAS NEWS!!!!
BUT I WILL BE BACK WITH SOMETHING NEWS WORTHY SOON , TILL THEN GO PICK ON APPLE, SATCHEL AND MOON UNIT.
LOTS OF LOVE STICKIT!!”
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2225872&blogID=475030491
I’d be surprised if she named her kid something like “David” or “Michael”
I was hoping that everyone was just getting the spelling wrong and maybe it was a traditional Tamil name or something, but…nah.
I don’t know much about MIA, but what I do know, I really love, so I wish she hadn’t joined the legions of celebs who give their children ridiculous names just for the hell of it. But eh, like someone said upthread, celeb children tend to have such weird names that none of them really get teased for it; it’s just par for the course.
She said on her blog that Ickitt isn’t her child’s name.
hmmm…well she was born in Hounslow, London. I lived near there as a child and it “Ickitt” sounds like something my aunt says a lot, kinda like a cockney “ain’t it”. So i imagine it might be a kin to someone naming their child “yaknowwhatimean”.
My aunt would shoot me if she knew i said she sounded cockney…
It kind of reminds me of Beckett?…
I wonder what my name means in another language or another culture? Possibly something outrageous like “ass hair” or something? It could be that Ickitt does mean something to his mommy’s native language. I dunno, I’m just trying to play devil’s advocate, I guess. Of course, when in Rome…
She just released a statement saying she DID NOT name her baby Ickitt. Perhaps Celebitchy wants to do an update?
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/goddess/m-i-a-my-baby-is-not-called-ickitt/191?nc
is the link
She did NOT name him Ickett. This is all BS. She’s already posted a mis-information denial on her website and says everyone can go “suck IT”
Jenn — maybe you mean “isn’t it?” which everyone in England seems to say all the time and it often ends up sounding like “innit?”
MIA said on MySpace that this isn’t true.
She looks, talks and acts like an ignorant fool.
OMG this is so not true! she even said it on her myspace that she didnt name it ickitt or pickitt or lickitt. How stupid would that be!
Yeah she didn’t name the baby Ickitt! Thank God!!
Wow some of the people on here are dim. Posters have said she didn’t name her son that, yet idiots keep posting “maybe it’s a british term, maybe it’s her native, etc”
@ lisa
Oh really, does she now? Every heard her talk, listen to what she has to say? The girl is no fool.
jane, you don’t have to read everyone’s comments before posting…
hahahaha hilarious!!!
Good for her for keeping the name from the media. It is a personal time for her and her family, and as she said nobody elses business.
on her myspace it saids that she did NOT named her baby ickitt!!!!!!!
Trust me she didnt not!!!
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