Hugh Grant says he panicked and almost named his newborn after his son's favorite Minion

• Hugh Grant picked different names — "Danger" and "Blue" — for his 2 younger daughters.
• When naming his youngest daughter, his boy suggested "Kevin," a Minion from "Despicable Me."
• Grant is not unsocial successful picking unsocial names. They're getting much celebrated among parents.

Hugh Grant tin play a wide scope of roles pinch ease, but naming his kids was nary easy task.

On Tuesday's section of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Grant recalled nan process of choosing mediate names for his children.

Grant, a begetter of five, said he was "in a spot of a panic" pinch his wife, Anna Eberstein, connected nan time they had to sanction their daughter.

"We thought it mightiness beryllium bully for her erstwhile she was older if she could opportunity successful bars that her mediate sanction was Danger," said Grant, 64. They yet named their girl Lulu Danger Grant.

When his 5th kid came on successful 2018, nan "Heretic" character said he "panicked astir names pinch my wife" again. So, they asked their elder boy what they should sanction her.

"And he said, 'Kevin,' because that was his favourite Minion," Grant recalled, referring to nan characteristic connected "Despicable Me."

While they considered nan name, they settled connected Blue instead.

"We did deliberation astir calling her Kevin, but past we said, 'You amended deliberation of thing else.' So he said 'Blue' because it was his favourite color," he said.

Grant, who joined Eberstein successful 2018, shares some daughters and a boy pinch her. He has 2 children pinch his ex, Tinglan Hong.

Earlier successful nan show, he reflected connected his mediate names, "John Mungo." "I don't cognize really it happened. I had very unkind parents," he said.

Still, he named his oldest boy "John Mungo."

A typical for Grant didn't instantly respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider sent extracurricular regular business hours.

Picking a unsocial sanction for your baby

Baby naming is nary elemental task — and parents' sweating complete it has led to nan emergence of babe naming services, pinch some consultants charging up to $10,000.

With nan emergence of societal media, much parents are seeking uncommon names, babe sanction consultants antecedently told BI.

There is simply a "cultural inclination towards embracing individuality," Colleen Slagen, a babe sanction consultant, said.

"People really want to get it right," Slagen said. "They want to take a sanction that represents them but besides sets their kid up for a life of success."

Kayla Naab, different baby sanction consultant, antecedently wrote for BI that uncovering a unsocial sanction for a babe tin beryllium challenging. She uses 3 sets of considerations to thief parents travel to a decision: usability, integration, and connotation.

"Choosing a unsocial sanction for your babe tin beryllium a awesome measurement to thief them guidelines out, anoint them pinch thing typical and meaningful, and disrupt nan position quo," she wrote.

"However, it's really important to see nan lives your kid mightiness unrecorded and expect really your chosen sanction will effect their experience."