Report: Natalie Portman's Baby Boy's Name Revealed

By Kiki Von Glinow Posted Jul 6th 2011 11:48AM

It's the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet for Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied's baby son, Aleph. According to an Israeli TV Show, 'Good Evening with Guy Pines' (via HollywoodLife) Portman, who was born in Israel, paid homage to her motherland by naming her son after the letter 'A' in the Hebrew alphabet.

Aleph was born in mid-June but the newborn's first-time parents kept his name under wraps until letting it slip on the Israeli talk show. Baby Alef already calls one of the most talented women in Hollywood 'mom' and now he also has to live up to his lofty name -- Alef represents the "oneness of God" and the element of air.

With his French dad and his Hebrew name, it looks like Alef will turn out to be quite the worldly child.

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Wednesday 06 July

By Mia Belle

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The baby has a Jewish mother no one said the father was Jewish. He is French and the French have many lovers. If they were going to get married they had plenty of time to do it by now don't you think?

By themeeker

Mia, French is a nationality and Jewish is a religion. Why can't he be both?

By Stacey

norahalpert,

You are wrong on every account of your post. First off, the father is NOT Jewish. And for the record, men of all faiths and backgrounds leave. Secondly, she didn't even go to MIT and does not have a PH.D. In ANYTHING. She went to Harvard where she earned a bachelors in Psychology. She has lectured and taken grad courses. That's it. Get your facts straight before you post.

By a

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or course he is jewish, otherwise natalie wouldn't be marrying him.

By Tex

Nora, she has a psychology degree from Harvard. No PHD in physics, no top 3 at MIT. Not that it matters, anyway.

Friday 08 July

By PotsStickers

I'm Jewish and an alef is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet...personally, I think it's kind of a stupid name. You wouldn't name your child "A" so why name them "Alef"? She should go for a nice, normal Jewish name like Noah or Samuel or Daniel...I mean it's kind of pretentious to show off your Judaism by naming your child a letter in the alphabet.
Either way, she's absolutely gorgeous and so sweet and smart, and I hope the baby boy is beautiful and healthy! Congratulations!

By Summer

Holy Hell....... Let her name him whatever she wants. He ain't your child.

I get to sick of people posting their personal opinions about people. What did you mean she "Stole" the Acadamy Award? She was voted on by peer's. Are you an actress who votes for the Acadamy? If not then maybe you should be. Then maybe you can vote to allow what you would called "true" actress and not theifs of awards to win. Then you have the nerve the tell her how she should really wanted to honor her roots then she would have picked a name you would have picked........ Whatever

By rob

You're a bitter piece of work. Jewish men don't abandon their families. She is brillant. She graduated in the top 3 at MIT, has a PH.D in Physics, is beautiful and a great actor...what have
you done? LMAO

That would be Harvard not MIT and psycology Physics with some post grad studies in Isreal but yes she is Beautiful, Smart and a great Actor .

Payed homage? Are you kidding me?

By No Name

Payed....since when do we spell it that way?

By Ed

Cupcake what's up?

By vinnie

Who cares what the name is. The boy can call himself Al when he gets older. He could have been named Francoise for his French daddy.

By Lynn

François, actually. Françoise would be for a girl.

By John

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Can you imagine naming your child after abything that has been at war for 4000 years.....

By Erika

The world's been at war with them for probs longer than that. Get it straight.

By enigma

Alef.... sounds fancy and yet surprisingly ghetto. Ghetto Chic is all the rage in French Coutour.

By mary

Wow it is weird. Nobody would name her child A or Alef. It is the pronunciation to the first letter of Hebrew alphabets. Her second child will be named Beis. And the others Gimel, Daled....

By Unlisted

LOL!

Also Hebrew doesn't use Roman numerals, so the letter aleph is also the number "1."

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Not that I care about name but who are this people that you care?!!!

By james

I was afraid she might name the kid Firehouse or Formula 1, or some other screwed up, drugged out Hollywood special name.

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