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Halle Berry names newborn daughter Nahla Ariela

Last updated at 17:44pm on 21.03.08

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Halle Berry has carried on the tradition of celebrities giving their offspring unusual names, calling her newborn daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry.

The Oscar-winning actress gave birth to her much longed for baby girl on Sunday morning.

Nahla means honeybee in Arabic, says Michael D. Cooperson, associate professor of Arabic at UCLA.

The girl's middle name Ariela comes from Hebrew and means "lion for God".

Nahla takes the surname of her father, model Gabriel Aubry, as opposed to that of her world-famous mother.

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Joy: Halle Berry, seen here on Saturday just a day before she gave birth to a baby girl at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles on Sunday morning

Berry, 41, is not the first Hollywood A-lister to look to Hebrew in naming her child.

The name of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's youngest child Shiloh is derived from Hebrew origin, meaning 'His gift'.

The actress gave birth at Cedars Sinai hospital to 7 lb 4 oz Nahla Ariela - her first child.

Berry met boyfriend Aubry while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles in November 2005 and first stepped out publicly together three months later at the February 2006 opening of a Versace boutique in New York City.

It was in September last year, that Berry first announced her pregnancy, when she was three months along.

And the actress reportedly did 35 home pregnancy tests before she believed the positive result and has said: "I wanted this for so long."

She said her pregnancy has been a dream. "No morning sickness, no vomiting, no hot sweats. I've loved every second of it."

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Halle and boyfriend Gabriel Aubry have named their daughter Nahla Ariela, names of Arabic and Hebrew origin

Halle and Gabriel

Proud parents: Halle and Gabriel seen here at a Versace party together in 2006

Last month she graced the cover of the February issue of In Style clad in a Grecian-style one-shoulder white dress, hands resting on her prominent tummy.

"I may only do this one time, so I want this moment to be as big as it can be," she told the magazine.

"I want the biggest bang I can possibly imagine."

The actress has two failed marriages behind her but now appears to have found happiness with the French-Canadian model.

However, the couple have no plans to marry.

Halle told chat show host Oprah Winfrey last year: "I feel more married, in a way, than I ever have in two marriages before.

"He really understands the spiritual connection is so much more important than the paper and the pomp and circumstance and the ceremony."


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