Sydney - Australians, already peeved at golden girl Nicole Kidman choosing to give birth in the United States, Tuesday heaped scorn on the name that the Hollywood actor and her country singer husband picked for their firstborn. The daughter born to Kidman and fellow Australian Keith Urban on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee, has been dubbed Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.
"She just wants to fit in with the rest of the morons who choose horrible names for their children," a reader identified only as Sam wrote to Melbourne's Sun Herald newspaper.
A reader called Harry mused that with Sunday Rose, the glamour couple had begun a brood of diary entries: "When they have a boy they can call it Friday Night Drinks."
There were many, and inevitable, remarks that the moniker of the 2.9-kilogram girl was very nearly Sunday Roast, and that Sunday Rose would be teased at school.
"Sunday Urban? Sounds like a cheap rail ticket for pensioners," noted Jeff of Melbourne.
Melissa wrote to the paper that Kidman and Urban, who were married in Sydney on a Sunday in June 2006, could have made an even worse choice: "I guess it's better than Saturday."
Also unimpressed was Tone Nixon, whose observation was telling of his own weekend pursuits: "Way to go! Name your daughter after the most boring and usually hung-over day of the week!"
Friends of the couple, who recently sold their harbourside pad in Sydney and are busy building a palatial new family home in Nashville, say the child will be baptized a Catholic in Sydney.
Father Paul Coleman, who married them, is expected to baptize Sunday Rose later this year at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel on Manly Beach.
Kidman adopted children with her former husband Tom Cruise, who spend most of their time with him. They are Connor, 12, and Isabella, 14.
It was a first marriage for Urban, who has lived in the US since 1992.
