What's the reason behind the Beckham baby's idiosyncratic name?
Age: One day.
Appearance: Baby-faced and baby-bodied.
Is it a baby? It is.
A baby named Harper Seven? Correct. Born yesterday at 7.55am in Los Angeles, Harper Seven joined Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as the fourth child, and first daughter, of Victoria and David Beckham.
Ah, she's a Beckham. That explains the ridiculous name. What's the story behind this one? Theories abound for both parts. Some say Harper is a reference to novelist Harper Lee, the reclusive and mysterious author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Which, given that Victoria is on record as admitting "I haven't read a book in my life", seems unlikely.
What is it then? The couple's favourite orchestra member? Or the sexual position they used? Almost certainly neither. Harper is a fairly common first name in America and apparently they just fell in love with the sound of it.
And the Seven part? Well, the baby was born in the seventh month, at around 7am, weighing a little over seven pounds, to a father who not only played football in the number seven kit for both England and Manchester United but actually has the number seven tattooed in roman numerals on his forearm.
So? So it might have a little to do with that.
Boring! Or? Or it a reference to Seinfeld.
That's more like it. How? In an episode from, fittingly, season seven, George Costanza tells his fiancee Susan that he plans to name their first child Seven, calling it a beautiful name for a boy or a girl. She, naturally, laughs him out of court.
So they've gone with a name so daft that it's literally a joke? Well, it was a joke. Now the Beckhams have gone there, we'll no doubt be seeing baby Sevens for years to come.
Not to be confused with: Seven of Nine, The Magnificent Seven, Johnny Five.
Do say: "We've renamed our youngest Bassoonist Three."
Don't say: "What exactly is the harper position?"
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