As we learned last week, Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald gave their firstborn child an absolutely horrendous name: Spurgeon Elliot Seewald. Spurgeon Seewald!!! Ugh. These people should not be allowed to name babies. Anyway, it seems like Jessa and Ben are reveling in the controversy, and they’ve been fielding questions on social media about the baby name. As it turns out, the baby is going to go by Spurgeon, Elliot AND Quincy. Quincy because that’s the name they gave him before he was born and so obviously they didn’t name him Quincy but they’re still calling him Quincy.
After baby name comes nickname, and Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and her husband Ben Seewald have already chosen one for baby Spurgeon. Their 1-week-old son, whose full name Spurgeon Elliot Seewald was revealed Wednesday, will be called Quincy.
Jessa, 23, confirmed the surprising nickname on Facebook after a fan commented on her recent post about the baby’s name, asking whether their son would go by Spurgeon or Elliot.
“Both, but everybody still calls him Quincy!” Jessa replied with a smiley-face emoji.
In the big name-reveal video released by TLC on Wednesday, Jessa also mentioned that the couple had long referred to their first child as Quincy.
“His nickname has been Quincy since we first found out we were pregnant,” Jessa said with a smile in the clip.
Why? During her pregnancy, the new mom explained the nickname’s origin on her family friends’ blog.
“When we first found out that we were expecting a baby, Ben and I were talking about a letter theme for our kids and Ben suggested, ‘Why don’t we go with the letter Q’?’ lol!” she wrote. “Of course that was a joke, but from that point, Ben started calling our little one ‘Quincy,’ and the nickname just sorta stuck.”
I actually like some Q names: Quincy, Quentin, Quinn. Quincy Seewald would have sounded fine. Not great, but fine. So why not name the baby Quincy? And if they were still obsessed with the name Spurgeon, use it as the middle name. Quincy Spurgeon Seewald. Sounds really fussy but at least the kid won’t grow up with the “SPURGE” nickname.
Also, in yet another People Magazine exclusive with this family (seriously, how much did People pay for this?), Jessa told the mag that “Ben is changing all the diapers” and she’s yet to change a diaper yet. She also has Michelle Duggar and poor Jana Duggar there at the house to take care of the baby. I feel so sorry for Jana – she’s the Cinderella of the Duggars, having to take care of everyone else’s babies. Oh, and Jessa also said that she gets up in the middle of the night and “I take out a flashlight and shine it on his face to make sure he’s okay.” I understand checking on the baby obsessively, especially for a first-time mother. But shining a flashlight on the baby’s face? Yikes.
Photos courtesy of Facebook, cover courtesy of People.
Poor kid won’t even know his own name until he’s a teenager.
Read the Urban Dictionary definition of Spurgeon. Hilarious!
Nooo, that almost made me like the name a little!
Let sleeping babies sleep. Shining a light in the eyes is such a no! When I checked on my children and grandchildren, I gently put a hand on them.
She hit one of my pet peeves……ever since we knew “we” were pregnant. I bet Benji wasn’t there pushing out Quincy. All of the times involved are freakish. But first name does start with an “S” like Seewald. Grabbing at straws, but I think they picked their initial for the next 20 babies.
She IS one of my pet peeves
I used ‘We’ because I didn’t get into this myself. We created the baby together. I may have been the one pushing the babies out but that doesn’t take the father’s role away.
Spurgeon is just an awful name.
At the next shareholders meeting of People magazine or its parent company if anyone questions why readership/profits are down they should look at the cover stories lately. Just pathetic
Amen! I actually subscribe to People magazine (I have for the last 20 years). However, I have had it with the Duggars making so many covers recently. I am ready to cancel my subscription!
I canceled mine and specifically stated the Duggar coverage as the reason.
That 2nd picture is a bit scary (the family pose). She looks rather thin, the crazy is on display in her eyes/expression and she seems to be leaning forward to make sure she’s centre stage of the photo (rather than the baby). It just screams ‘Look at me’.
Look at me! This is the first out of numerous babies I’m going to produce!
“he seems to be leaning forward to make sure she’s centre stage of the photo (rather than the baby)” Saying that makes you sound nuts people! I scrolled back up and think you’re totally reaching here. I’m no Jessa fan but com’on that’s a perfectly normal baby photo pose. As far as how ‘centered’ she is that’s on the picture taker not the people sitting. I mean give me a break.
Good thing he’ll never be on a school bus. Why not just call him Little Lord Fontleroy?
HA!
It does beg the question why didn’t they just name him Quincy?
Because like her idiot parents they are going to have a “letter theme” and name every last one of their 57 kids names that start with the same letter. And there aren’t enough Q names to go around.
Well, the next one could be Quiverfull. Or Quark.
I wish I didn’t know this but they did say they do not intend to follow a letter trend.
I vote for Queef (if the next one’s a girl)
She looks pale and exhausted in the second picture – check out the bags under her eyes. Not unlike myself after the births of each of my children.
Quincy is ok, not a name i would ever use, but acceptable. Realise she’s hated on here, but when you’ve known nothing but the crazy since day one, i sort of feel a bit sorry for her.
Such a non-story. Regular non-annoying people do give their kids “last names” as first names. Likewise they do give kids nicknames that have personal meaning but have nothing to do with the name on the birth certificate. Nothing abusive about it. You can be given any name and obnoxious people young and old will find an excuse to mock it. Very few names are intrinsically laughter-evoking.
There is a tradition – now dying out- in parts of Scotland of making the baby’s first name the mother’s maiden name; for that reason, a Friend of mine has a brother called Henderson (” Hendy”). Ok if mum’s good Scots name is Blair or Cameron or Campbell, not so good if it’s other good Scots names like McSporran or Farquar ( pronounced “Farker”). On Quincy- I wonder if they considered Columbo or Matlock?
It may be an odd question but what does this couple do for a living.If the husband is changing all the diapers I assume he is on paternity leave from his job.
Does he have a job? I know he was working as Jim Bob’s handyman, but I don’t know if he is still doing that. He graduated from college with a diploma in something (too lazy to go look it up right now). He’s talked about going into the ministry, but it seems to be all talk. No idea how they are planning on supporting their family without the help of Jim Bob. But that is probably Jim Bob’s master plan!
Do a lot of people really care what they name their kid? It seems like People magazine (or maybe the Duggar’s ) are doing everything they can to keep these people in the headlines. That and the Kartrashians. Please People, give it a rest already!!
Are there any photos of Ben holding his son?
Being mildly dyslexic, when I first read the name it was Sturgeon Seaworld and so shall remain in my mind. 😉
Okay folks, can we all agree these Duggars (and minions-in-law) should lose their platform and gravy train? Great! Now, DO NOT tune into the TLC “specials” – no matter how much you want to watch the train wreck.. The Duggar family WILL get their show back permanently if TLC can justify it with good ratings for the December “specials”, featuring the bimbo daughters, their minion spouses and exploited, ill-named babies.
I call it the Nickleback phenomenon – people SAY they hate Nickleback, yet all their albums sell millions & millions of copies. If you do not like/agree with this gaggle of fools, DO NOT SUPPORT THEM!
The Duggars are simply Kardassian’s dressed differently.
My friends little sister had a parakeet who’s name was Blueberry or ‘Ken for short’. That poor child has more in common with a parakeet than most of humanity.
Actually, it’s not that uncommon for people to have nicknames that are not short versions of their full name (don’t know about birds…). One friend named his daughter after his aunt and then they all called her by a totally different name- the same nickname the aunt had had. It was all in honor of the aunt. Their other child was given an “English” name but they always called him by his Hebrew name (I think likewise this might have been done for the relative he was named after). In this case, obviously Quincy is a little inside joke between the parents and once the baby was born, it just felt right to keep calling him that informally. It actually shows a sense of humor, judging from the story she told about the origin.
I don’t know why so many people find the baby’s name so odd. I wonder if there would be this much snark about other unfamiliar names such as African names, Slavic names, Chinese names? I didn’t realize people felt so strongly that only names of British origin on a relatively short list labeled “acceptable first names or else your child is repossessed” were allowed.
I have an English name and a native name too. It was somewhat of a joke.
That being said my daughter is seven months old, sleeps in a pack and play next to my bed, and I still occasionally use my cellphone as a flash light to check on her