Saint Is Already A More Popular Baby Name Than North Kim Kardashian and Kanye West got creative, but not too creative, with their new son’s name. 
 
 After keeping the public waiting for two days, Kim Kardashian broke her silence Monday afternoon on the name of her son, her second child with Kanye West: 
 
 Kim and Kanye went for popularity this time, at least compared with the name they chose for their daughter, North, who was born in 2013. 
 
 According to the Social Security Administration’s database of baby names, 32 boys born last year were named Saint. That’s more than the 13 kids born last year who were named North. (The SSA reports names by sex; to be included in the data, a name must have been given at least five times. In 2013, for example, all 20 babies in the data set named North were male, and North West isn’t included.) Over time, too, “Saint” seems more popular than “North.” 
 
 Santos, the Spanish name meaning “saint,” is even more popular. About 235 babies in the U.S. were given that name last year. 
 
 North West could not immediately be reached for comment. 
 
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 The infant boy born unto Kim Kardashian and Kanye West has been named Saint West, the couple revealed on Monday. 
 
 
 
 Saint, not surprisingly, is a relatively rare name. Just 32 boys born in 2014 were registered with the first name Saint, according to records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). 
 
 Saints first appeared in the SSA records in 1891, when five baby girls were given the name. (The SSA database has recorded the birth, year and gender for each social security application since 1879.) Five years later, in 1896, there was a sudden spike in popularity when 10 baby boys were registered as Saints. 
 
 Since then, the name has bubbled up and down, but it seems to be experiencing a steady growth in popularity over the past decade. Since 2008, around a dozen Saints have been born each year – all boys. Looking at the data going back to 1940, more than 300 Saints have been born in America. 
 
 The image below comes from an interactive built by Randy Olson that uses SSA data to analyze US name trends. 
 
 
 
 Americans called Saint. Photograph: Randy Olson, Social Security Administration data 
 
 Kim and Kanye’s first child, North West, was born in early 2013. North’s name is a bit rarer – especially for a girl. 
 
 The popularity of the name North. Photograph: Randy Olson, Social Security Administration data 
 
 The chart above, however, only includes data up to 2013. In 2014, there was a bump in the name North, but again, only for boys – 13 were recorded in that year alone. That suggests that celebrity culture might not be influencing our lives all that much. It remains to be seen whether the latest child born to the Kardashian-Wests will herald a new era of Saints for America. 

 In an emoji-laden announcement, Kim Kardashian West tweeted Monday that she and husband Kanye West have named their baby boy Saint: 
 
 SAINT WEST pic.twitter.com/xZGpY7z8KW — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 7, 2015 
 
 It's an audacious name laced with terrifyingly high expectations for North's little brother. But maybe he'll find comfort in knowing he's not the only celebrity kid on the block named Saint. 
 
 Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and model Meagan Camper named their rugrat Saint Lazslo before it was cool. Their boy earned the name for having the good sense to hold off on being born until Aug. 20, 2014, after Wentz's tour had ended. 
 
 "I was really sure we were going to have to cancel a show, or that he was going to show up, and he didn't," Wentz once said on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. "That's why Saint ended up happening, which will only be a problem, I feel, if he actually became a saint. That would be really weird." 
 
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– Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have gone in a new direction with the name of their second child by not naming him after a direction. The couple revealed on Monday that North's baby brother will be called Saint, which the Guardian reports is a little more common than North: There were 32 Saints born in 2014, according to Social Security Administration records, while FiveThirtyEight points out there were only 13 Norths. Another interesting tidbit from FiveThirtyEight: Santos is Spanish for Saint, and that name is, relatively speaking, quite popular, with 235 babies named Santos born in the States last year. The Week reports that one of those Saints was the son of Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and model Meagan Camper. After the Aug. 20 birth, Wentz said the boy was given the name because he was gracious enough not to show up until after his tour finished. The name "will only be a problem, I feel, if he actually became a saint," Wentz said. "That would be really weird."