The mystery of the name given by Nicole Kidman and Keith
Urban to their baby girl has been solved. Sunday Rose, as the newborn has been
poetically named, is in celebration of an early 20th-century artist’s muse and
of the father’s late grandmother.
It was Dr. Antony Kidman, father of actress Nicole Kidman,
who revealed what the significance behind his newborn granddaughter’s name is.
Speaking to Sydney’s
Daily Telegraph, Kidman said it was he that came up with the idea of naming the
baby Sunday, inspired by Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s muse Sunday Reed.
Kidman explained that the name “struck me as being a nice
name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it.”
Spouses and arts patrons John and Sunday Reed were well
known in Australia’s
art scene during the early 20th century and became notorious for their
three-way triangle with painter Sidney Nolan in the 1930s.
Kidman described Sunday Reed as a “key mover and shaker in
the arts.”
He explained that the expecting parents had been considering
several names and were ultimately smitten with Sunday.
The second part of the baby’s name is a nod to Keith Urban’s
late grandmother Rose, adds People.com.
The Daily Telegraph also reported that Nicole Kidman and
Keith Urban visited an exhibition by Sidney Nolan earlier this year during a
trip to Sydney
and were impressed with the artwork.
Among works exhibited was a quote about birth, saying, “When
you are young you are given a good view of life, because of your closeness to
birth.”
The couple, who celebrated two years of marriage last month,
welcomed their baby girl Monday morning in Nashville, where they reside far from the
prying eye of the media. The baby weighed 6 lbs., 7.5 oz, Kidman’s publicist
told People.
Sunday is the actress’s first, and much yearned after,
biological child. She has two teenage children Isabella, 15, and Connor, 12,
adopted during her 10-year marriage to Hollywood
superstar Tom Cruise.