10. Luna Bardem
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Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz had their daughter Luna in August.
The beautiful baby is named after the Spanish word for “moon.” This is
the couple’s second child.
9. Winnie Rose
Jimmy Fallon’s baby might not be able to talk yet, but we’re pretty
sure she already takes the cake for funniest celebrity baby of the year.
Winnie is named after Lake Winnipesaukee in
New Hampshire,
which is where Fallon proposed to his wife Nancy. After trying to have a
child for five years, the couple decided to go with a surrogate.
8. Carmen Gabriela Baldwin
Alec Baldwin might
have a tenuous relationship with his 17-year -old first child — we all
remember the answering machine recordings in which he called her a
“rude, thoughtless pig” at 11 — but this year he decided to go in for
round two. Carmen was born in August to Baldwin and his yoga instructor
wife Hilaria Thomas.
7. Ace Knute Johnson
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Singer Jessica Simpson gave birth to her son Ace Knute Johnson on
June 30. Her second child with her fiancé, NFL player Eric Johnson, Ace
was famous months before his birth when Simpson debuted her baby bump in
a puckered up selfie posted to Twitter.
6. Everly Tatum
Channing and Jenna Tatum met on the set of
Step Up, a film
they costarred in together. Four years into marriage, the couple
welcomed the creatively named Everly to the world. Rather than play the
paparazzi game with first photos, Channing revealed his daughter on his
Facebook page on Father’s Day.
5. Sebastian Taylor Thomaz
Kanye’s ex-girlfriend, Amber Rose, had a baby this year, too. She and
rapper Wiz Khalifa had their first child, named Sebastian Taylor
Thomaz, in February. The two were married in July 2013.
4. Axl Jack Duhamel
Not ones to eschew a strange baby name trend, actor Josh Duhamel and
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie had son Axl in August. For the most part,
Fergie kept quiet about the pregnancy to the press.
3. Lincoln Bell Shepard
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On March 28, comedic couple Kirsten Bell and Dax Shepard had their
first daughter. Shepard announced the birth in tweet form, saying,
“Lincoln Bell Shepard is here. She has mom’s beauty and dad’s obsession
with breasts. Hooray!!!” Later this year, following the fall of DOMA,
Bell proposed to Shepard via Twitter, and he said yes.
2. North West
Another baby of the year was born to parents that really work to stay in the spotlight: Kim Kardashian and
Kanye West.
North West was born on June 15, twelve days after Kardashian’s divorce
from basketball player Chris Humphries was finalized. The baby’s highly
anticipated first photo was leaked by none other than Kris Jenner’s,
Kardashian’s mom.
1. Prince George Alexander Louis
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Ever since Kate Middleton’s first sign of a baby bump, the world fell
victim to royal baby fever. In fact, leading up to the heir’s birth,
the Centre for Retail Research estimated that memorabilia and other
goods led to a £243 million boost to the British economy. Prince George
Alexander Louis was born to Prince William and Kate on July 22.