“Octomom” Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets (6 boys, 2 girls) born in California in January of 2009, has finally revealed the names the babies. Here they are, by order of birth:
- Noah
- Maliyah (girl)
- Isaiah
- Nariyah (girl)
- Jonah
- Makai
- Josiah
- Jeremiah
(In early reports, the girls’ names were misspelled Maliah and Nariah, and Makai’s name was misspelled McCai.)
Five of the above are biblical, while the other three have a sort of biblical styling to them.
The names of Nadya’s older six children (4 boys, 2 girls) are…
- Elijah (born in 2001)
- Amerah (2002)
- Joshua (2003)
- Aidan (2005)
- Calyssa (2006, twin)
- Caleb (2006, twin)
Sources: Octuplets make American TV debut (Guardian, 2009), Her side of the story (NBC, 2009), Suleman octuplets – Wikipedia