Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott. Picture Press Company/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Setting the file straight! Kylie Jenner shared on Saturday, January 21, that her and Travis Scott’s child boy is known as Aire Webster, prompting hypothesis about how the moniker is pronounced.
“Do you assume it’s pronounced air or airey?” an Instagram publish on fan account @Kyliesnapchat learn on Saturday, referring to the previous couple’s announcement.
Since Aire — which suggests “lion of God” in Hebrew — has the letter “e” on the finish, eagle-eyed followers puzzled if it was a silent or onerous letter.
“AIR ❤️,” the Kardashians star, 25, commented on the social media publish, revealing that her son’s identify appears like how the noun “air” is pronounced.
Jenner — who welcomed her child boy with Scott, 31, in February 2022 — shared the primary photograph of Aire’s face earlier on Saturday. In her Instagram carousel, she included quite a lot of pics of the 11-month-old. She captioned her publish, “AIRE 🤍.”
Grandmother Kris Jenner commented: “I really like you Aire Webster ❤️.”
Aire’s well-known aunts additionally chimed in, with Khloé Kardashian calling him a “younger king” within the feedback and Kendall Jenner referring to her nephew as “my boooyyyyyyy.”
Kylie and the “Sicko Mode” rapper — who cut up earlier this yr after spending the vacations aside — initially introduced that they deliberate to name their son Wolf Webster. They later modified their minds, noting Wolf didn’t appear proper.
“We haven’t formally legally modified the identify,” the Kylie Cosmetics mogul stated throughout an look on The Late Late Present With James Corden in September 2022. “His identify remains to be Wolf. His passport’s Wolf, however that isn’t gonna be his identify. We’re simply ready and simmering.”
She continued on the time: “We don’t name him Wolf. We’re simply not able to share but. … Travis likes to typically, like, in the future, he’ll be like, ‘Oooh, this identify’s kinda cool,’ and alter it once more. So we’re simply not formally most likely gonna change it till [later].”
Kylie continued to play coy about Aire’s new identify whereas filming her household’s Hulu docuseries. “My child’s identify remains to be Wolf. I’ll allow you to guys know once I change it. Possibly I’ll let you know guys in season 3,” she quipped within the season 2 finale, which aired in November 2022.
The Lifetime of Kylie alum and Scott’s determination to decide on a nature-inspired identify for his or her son suits in effectively with the moniker they selected for his or her 4-year-old daughter, Stormi.
“After I was pregnant, I used to name her Stormi once I would speak to her in my stomach,” Kylie revealed in a March 2019 Instagram Stay session. “It simply at all times feels proper. … I simply couldn’t think about some other identify apart from Stormi.”
