Elaine Cassidy Welcomes Daughter Kíla
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It’s a girl for Harper’s Island star Elaine Cassidy!
She and husband Stephen Lord welcomed their first child, daughter Kíla Lord Cassidy, on Wednesday, September 16th in London, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. Baby girl’s first name is pronounced “Key-la.”
“Stephen and I are absolutely delighted,” Elaine said in a statement.
Elaine and Stephen announced the pregnancy in March. The actress, 29, commemorated the event by posing for Fit Pregnancy’s August issue.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Congratulation! I have a friend named Keela.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Kila is a pretty name. Congratulations to them
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Congrats. Is it a tradition in Ireland that babies take their mother’s last name, even when they are married? I would have thought that the name would be Kila Cassidy Lord, since they are married.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I like how Kila has her mom’s last name. Neat tradition
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Congratulations to them!! I have to say, this is one of the 1st times I really liked the name of a celeb baby. Kila is a really pretty name!!
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Kila is a lovely name….
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I LOVE the name…one to add to my list lol.
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
congrats!! cute name – but it reminds me of tila tequila for some reason lol
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
whoever she is, I find her terribly pretty for some reasons. nice name, too. congrats!
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
How wonderful that the baby has her mother’s last name! We’ll know men and women are truly equal when half the time a baby gets its mother’s last name.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I don’t think the name has anything to do with equality of men and women, it’s just tradition. They probably didn’t like the last name LORD so they gave her Cassidy
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Tradition tends to be rooted in patriarchy.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
It says Kíla Lord Cassidy, so she has both last names.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 am
The name reminded me of a place in Ireland I once heard of (pronounced Ki-la-lu; I have no clue on the spelling though).
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:41 am
Congatulations!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Not a tradition in Ireland at all I a sure you. But perhaps it is simply a case of which way the names work best. If they intend on giving her a double barrel name. Its probs just about how it sounds.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
It doesn’t look like a double-barrel name. If so, then she doesn’t have a middle name. It looks like she has her father’s name as a middle name and her mother’s name as a last name. A refreshing change from the more usual reverse.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
How refreshing that every comment I have read has been positive.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Aw. How lovely.
Congrats to both of them.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Congrats! She was great in A Room with a View too. She’s a beautiful actress, I’m sure her daughter will be too. Kila is a lovely name.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Congratulations to Elaine Cassidy and Stephen Lord. Kila is a beautiful name.
I’m an avid fan of Elaine Cassidy. I love her on harper’s island, a room with view and ghost squad. And of course her fans fall in love with her on fingersmith.
I hope she’ll make more movies or mini-series in the near future.