Kylie Jenner 'legally changes son's name' at 16 months

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By Phoebe Egoroff

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Stop the press! Kylie Jenner has apparently FINALLY changed her son's name at 16 months old.

The 25-year-old reality TV star gave birth to her second child, a son, in February last year. She already shares five-year-old daughter Stormi Webster with rapper Travis Scott, 32 (real name Jacques Webster).

Originally, Jenner announced her son's name was Wolf Jacques Webster, but eventually opted to change his name after admitting that his first moniker "just didn't suit him". Taking to Instagram a month after her son's birth, Jenner wrote (via Metro): "FYI our [son's] name isn't Wolf anymore. We just really didn't feel like it was him. Just wanted to share because I keep seeing Wolf everywhere."

For months, the Kylie Cosmetics founder and her 'Down In Atlanta' rapper beau didn't reveal their child's new name, with many netizens speculating what it could be.

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Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner are parents to daughter Stormi (born 2018) and a son (born 2022). Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty

Then, in January this year, the mother-of-two introduced her son on social media as Aire - which means Lion of God in Hebrew.

In March, TMZ reported that Jenner and Scott had filed documents to officially change Aire's name, and it seems that this has taken three months to be completed. Per the documents - which were obtained by E! News on Monday (June 26) - it seems that the parents also decided to remove Aire's original middle name Jacques, but it's not necessarily clear as to whether he's received a new middle name instead.

Previously explaining the name switch, the makeup entrepreneur said, per Metro: "We didn't really have a name, I just thought it was going to come to us when we saw him and it didn't. 24 hours before we had to sign the birth certificate, or else they just register him without a name and he doesn't get a social security number… So I felt the pressure to choose a name, and then Khloe said, the day before we sign, 'What about Wolf?'"

She then admitted: "I like the WW, so we just put Wolf Webster in that moment. Right after I signed the birth certificate, I was like, 'What did I just do?' It's a part of his story but his name has changed."

At the time of Aire's new name announcement, however, Arabic-speakers on the internet couldn't contain their laughter as the moniker doesn't necessarily translate so well into Arabic (or, more specifically, Arabic spoken in the Levant in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Turkey). In fact, it's reportedly another word for a man's... ahem... genital area. Whoops!

Many people took to Twitter at the time to comment, with one person writing: "Umm should someone tell Kylie Jenner she renamed her son Aire which is a common Arabic expression for 'my penis' or nah?"

Though, others defended the star. "There are more than 7000 spoken languages in the world so the likelihood of a name in one language having an odd meaning in another isn't too low. Additionally there are more than 1 Arabic word for penis," one user commented.

As for Jenner and Scott, the pair split for the second time - though, this time it seems as if it might be for good - in January. A source revealed to People that it was their different lifestyles - coupled with clashing parenting beliefs - that led the couple to call it quits.

"Kylie is very focused on her kids and her business. She is not a big partier," the source said, before adding that: "Travis is the opposite. He likes to party."

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