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Julia Stiles welcomes her first child, and fans are freaking out over his unusual name

We can't say we've heard this name before...
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It’s official: Julia Stiles is a mum! The 10 Things I Hate About You actress and her hubby Preston J. Cook (who she married in a shotgun wedding) welcomed their first child together on Oct. 20, and they finally announced the happy news this week with the cutest Instagram picture you’ve ever seen!

The actress captioned the snap: “Strummer Newcomb Cook, born October 20, 2017. Thanks and ever thanks to the extraordinary doctors, nurses and staff at Mount Sinai for helping bring this utter joy into our lives.”

Naturally, people were a little iffy about the unusual name Julia gave her precious baby boy.

“Strummer Newcomb Cook?!? Not feeling that name… it’s too serious and stuffy. Did she use the royal posh generator name website? #CorneliusBurtonMontgomery,” joked one fan.

Another agreed, saying “I fear for 2022 when convos about kids are: “Gunner and Strummer got in a fight so Dream and Saint came with Ivy and Dusty. What’s a Tom?”

Julia Stiles and her husband Preston J. Cook had a shotgun wedding and now they’ve welcomed their first child together, a beautiful boy.

Julia even admitted that neither her nor Preston’s parents were fans of the name.

“Both sets of grandparents don’t like the name that we came up with,” she revealed on SiriusXM’s Wake Up with Taylor show back in September. “But they’re gonna get over it.”

We’re sure as soon as they saw Strummer’s sweet little face, the last thing they cared about was whether or not they loved the name. Congrats to the new parents!

This article first appeared on Life & Style.

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