--- title: History of Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West's Baby's Name description: Saint West was born Dec. 5—and the name has a long history canonical: https://time.com/4139432/kim-kardashian-west-kanye-west-saint-west/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-07T22:08:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:04:46.196Z article:section: History og:title: The Long History Behind Kim and Kanye's New Baby's Name og:description: Saint West was born Dec. 5 og:url: https://time.com/4139432/kim-kardashian-west-kanye-west-saint-west/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba9d75f561a92c63/6988742a0a4a2282569c75b9/kanye-west-kim-kardashian-saint-west.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Kanye West Kim Kardashian Saint West og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Long History Behind Kim and Kanye's New Baby's Name twitter:description: Saint West was born Dec. 5 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba9d75f561a92c63/6988742a0a4a2282569c75b9/kanye-west-kim-kardashian-saint-west.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Long History Behind Kim and Kanye's New Baby's Name > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Kanye West on Why He Doesn't Care About His Legacy [Watch (HLS stream): Kanye West on Why He Doesn't Care About His Legacy](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hQZVDnKU.m3u8) (3:58)  _Published 2015-04-16. “Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?” asks West, the rapper and designer._ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Dec 7, 2015 10:08 PM UTC  Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on Sept. 7, 2015 in New York City. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on Sept. 7, 2015 in New York City. James Devaney—Getty Images by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Dec 7, 2015 10:08 PM UTC Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West announced on social media Monday that their second child’s name is [Saint West](http://time.com/4139291/saint-west-kim-kardashian-west-kanye/). Though the choice isn’t wildly surprising coming from a couple whose first child is named North West, it’s still a bold move: According to Social Security Administration [data](https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi), the name Saint has not cracked the 1,000 most popular American names for a baby boy for any year in the last century. In total, 32 babies were named Saint in 2014 and 22 in 2013. Usually, of course, a name that begins with “Saint” means something very particular: that the person in question has been canonized. Lawrence Cunningham, a professor of theology at University of Notre Dame and the author of [_A Brief History of Saints,_](http://www.amazon.com/History-Saints-Blackwell-Histories-Religion/dp/1405114029/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274978586&sr=1-1#reader%5F1405114029) says the name Saint, as a proper name, is peculiar but meaningful. And, it turns out, as hard as it is to find modern babies named Saint, it’s even harder to pin down the history of religious sainthood. “The word _saint_ simply means one who is set aside or one who is chosen by God,” Cunningham says. “Even before Christianity became a tolerated religion in the Roman Empire in the early 4th century, certain people were designated as saints in a more particular sense as people who were outstanding models of the Christian faith.” Cunningham says that the process by which people are named saints has changed over the course of history in the church, which is where canonization comes in. “It sounds horribly bureaucratic but it means the procedure by which someone is listed on the list, or canon, of people venerated publicly in the church,” he says. It’s rumored, and widely debated, that the first officially canonized saint was Saint Ulrich of Augsburg, in the 10th century, but Cunningham says that there had been veneration of saints for as long as 700 years before the time of Saint Ulrich. Being named a saint goes all the back to the earliest centuries of Christianity. As for the word itself, it [dates back](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=saint) to the early 12th century. Saint West’s father Kanye is no stranger to religion. His 2013 album _Yeezus_ came with a song called ‘I Am a God,’ which even inspired a group to form an official religion centered around him called [Yeezianity, part of the ‘church of Yeezus.’](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/14/were-gonna-let-you-finish-christianity-but-yeezianity-is-the-best-religion-of-all-time/) Asked if he thinks devout Christians will be offended by Baby Boy West’s new name, Cunningham said he couldn’t say because it would cause him to make a moral judgment on them. “Maybe they think their child is a saint or a holy person or maybe they have some religious motivation,” Cunningham says. “I can tell you a lot about saints. I can’t tell you a lot about the Kardashians.” ## Transcript Every time I crash the internet it's like, this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time? [ MUSIC ] I don't care about having a legacy. I don't care about. Being remembered. Cuz the most important thing to me is like, while I'm here, while we're having fun, while we're going to sleep and breathing oxygen and living life, and falling in love, and having pain, and having joy, is like what can I do? What can I do with my voice? What can we do for each other to make life easier? To make life doper for our kids, you know, as they grow? You know, we were. Born into a broken world and we're like the clean- up crew, you know? [ MUSIC ] My mother made me believe in me. When I was growing up, I wanted to make video games. My mom got this Amiga computer when I was in seventh grade and had. 4, 096 colors. I found myself running home to use this sound program that allowed me to play a note. It would stay. Plays another note, it would stay. It plays another note, it would stay. And that's how I learned how to produce in seventh grade. And I was just really making the music to make video. Dreams. They just let me dream. They supported me. They pushed me. They didn't set me up to be inside of a, a box. What's the main thing that makes magic magic. The fact that no one believes it's possible. [ MUSIC ] When I entered the fashion world and I encountered a lot of elitism and all that, it just made me happy. It was something fun, we had the entire world against us. It was like absolutely no allies whatsoever, you know what I mean? It was like the world was against us. The pressure of that was like crazy. It was like a Superbowl. I remember sitting there with my fashion publicist Deborah, and we were supposed to do the Reese's. This is the thing with the editors after the show. They come back to see it and see if they like the collection. And we had, like, two or three people that came to see it and take a picture with Kanye and blah blah, all this type of stuff. I said, do we have any more editors coming? And Debra just looked and says, no. No one else is coming. And I looked at her and said. This is great! Remember this moment cuz it won't always be like this. Embrace this moment where no one came to see the collection. I take, you know, things that people look at as a negative as an inspiration to do. Something better. [ MUSIC ] [ NOISE ] I think there's school teachers that are the, the exact same mission as, as me. I think there's police officers with the exact same mission. As me. Just help. Just do everything you got. Give everything you got. And, you know, our focus needs to be less about what our le -. Legacy is gonna be or how we're gonna control each other. But more how can we can give to each other. 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