All About Ashanti’s and Nelly’s Child’s Identify

Ashanti introduced the arrival of her first child with Nelly by sharing an empowering postpartum picture on her Instagram.  

“Humorous how life’s plans aren’t…at all times on time.. lol. I’ve been ready to be a mother for a very long time now however nothing may put together me for EVERYTHING motherhood brings! That is what postpartum seems like,” she writes, together with a photograph of herself sporting shorts from Frida Mother.

Referencing her 2002 single, “Child,” Ashanti additionally says, “I’m so pleased with my physique for giving me my child, child, child, child, child.” 

The singer didn’t give any extra particulars on social media however her rep shared the child’s identify with Individuals: Kareem Kenkaide Hayes. The newborn boy was born on July 18, in keeping with the publication, making the new child a Most cancers signal.

The newborn’s center identify possible pays homage to Ashanti’s father Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas, but it surely’s a distinctive one with out a lot information. The identify Kareem, alternatively, is pretty fashionable. Listed below are the main points.

Kareem

• Origin: Arabic
• Which means: Noble, beneficiant, in keeping with Nameberry.com.
• Comparable Names and Variations: Karim, Khalid, Kamal, Ibraheem
• Well-known Namesakes: Former NBA participant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is well essentially the most notable individual with this identify.
• Peak Recognition: The identify hit the Social Safety Administration’s (SSA) high 1,000 child boy names record in 1972, shortly after Abdul-Jabbar received an NBA championship. It got here in because the 405th hottest identify that yr. It was the 626th hottest identify in 2023.

Ashanti introduced her being pregnant in April 2024, bringing consideration to the rising variety of individuals having infants of their 40s. 

She wed Nelly in 2023, about twenty years after they first met. They rekindled their romance years after a breakup. Nelly can be dad to a son, age 25, and daughter, 30. He additionally adopted his niece and nephew following the dying of his sister in 2005.