Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo welcomed their first child, Dusty Rose, in 2016. It’s not a name you hear every day, and as it turns out, it was Ellen DeGeneres who came up with such a unique moniker. In an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the Maroon 5 frontman admitted to the host that she singlehandedly named his firstborn.
“The name game is a tough game,” he said, noting that the process was akin to songwriting. When he finally found the perfect name, he decided to see what DeGeneres thought. “I texted Ellen and I was like, ‘What do you think?’ She was like, ‘I hate it. I think it’s a terrible name. I was like, ‘Cool.’,'” he recalled (via E! News). “She gave me like five names to think about: This, this, this, this, Dusty. You basically named my kid.” The singer also dished that Prinsloo was skeptical about it at first, but eventually learned to love it. “[It’s] a beautiful color, as well,” DeGeneres told Levine. “I had already thought of Dusty and then someone said ‘Dusty Rose.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s her name,’ and so I texted you, ‘Dusty Rose.'”
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In another guesting on the show, the dad of three couldn’t help but gush over Dusty. “She’s unbelievable,” he said. “I’m so in love with her. It’s crazy.”
