Alanis Morissette’s baby boy named Ever Imre

Alanis Morissette and husband Mario “MC Souleye” Treadway had their first child, a baby boy, on December 25. They named him Ever Imre.

They haven’t explained the significance behind the name yet, though I’m sure they will soon. (For what it’s worth, Imre, pronounced eem-reh, is a Hungarian name derived from Emmerich.)

In the meanwhile, let’s talk about a possible trend alert. After all, this is the second celebrity baby I know of named Ever. The first was Ever Gabo, Milla Jovovitch’s daughter, born in late 2007.

Here’s how frequently the baby name Ever has been used over the last decade:

	Boys named Ever	Girls named Ever	Total
2009	146	69	215
2008	175	39	214
2007	155	17	172
2006	148	27	175
2005	148	10	158
2004	126	23	149
2003	117	22	139
2002	97	16	113
2001	102	8	110
2000	80	7	87

So there’s already an upward trajectory, and now not one but two celebs have jumped on the bandwagon. How high will the name go? Will it crack the top 1,000 for either gender, do you think?

Update, Mar. 2024: Alanis Morissette was recently on the PBS program “Finding Your Roots” [vid], and one of the ancestors she discussed with host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was her maternal grandfather Imre Feuerstein. So that explains the significance behind the middle name Imre.

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