Paris Hilton has finally revealed her baby’s name, and it’s one that’s full of meaning for her. On Feb. 22, the 42-year-old DJ and heiress shared an Instagram post with her son’s name — Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum — and wrote that the name “means so much to me” in the caption.
In an episode of her “This Is Paris” podcast released on the same day, Hilton shared more details about the significance of the name.
“I’ve been planning my children’s names for years and years,” she said. If she has a daughter, she added, she’s always planned on choosing the name London. But a boy name took a bit longer for her to figure out, especially because she wanted to name her son after a place.
“Over a decade ago, I thought of this amazing name . . . It’s not only a city, but it also has other meanings that are just beautiful. I really believe that names have power, and we wanted a name for our baby boy that was uniquely remarkable.”
Then she went on to read an excerpt from her book “Paris: The Memoir” in which she details why she chose the name.
“Phoenix has a few good pop culture reference points, but more important, it’s the bird that flames out and then rises from the ashes to fly again,” she said. “I want my son to grow up knowing that disaster and triumph go around and come around throughout our lives, and that this should give us great hope for the future, even when the past is painful and the present seems to have fallen to sh*t,” she said.
“It’s weird how two ideas that are so different, so completely opposite, can coexist like that. But they do,” she continued. “Freedom and suffering, joy and sorrow, love and loss.”
Hilton went on to share that the name Barron is actually a nod to her grandfather, who “was always [her] mentor.”
Hilton and husband Carter Reum expanded their family last month. The 41-year-old heiress and DJ announced on Instagram that she and Reum, 41, welcomed their first child, a baby boy. Alongside a photo of her holding her baby’s hand, Hilton wrote, “You are already loved beyond words ?.”
While reps for Hilton did not immediately respond to POPSUGAR’s request for comment, the new mom confirmed to People that she and Reum recently welcomed their son via surrogate. “It’s always been my dream to be a mother and I’m so happy that Carter and I found each other,” she told the publication exclusively. “We are so excited to start our family together and our hearts are exploding with love for our baby boy.”
Hilton and Reum got engaged in February 2021 after a little more than one year of dating, with Reum proposing on Hilton’s 40th birthday. The couple got married in a three-day ceremony in November 2021.
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Hilton has been open about her desire to start a family before, telling E! News back in January 2022 that becoming a mom was one of her “top priorities,” according to People. “I would want twins first,” she said, calling out that she specifically wants two or three children. “I don’t know it’s hard to say. I always wish I had an older brother because I feel like if I did then he would protect me and things like that in school.”
