Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's newborn daughter, North West, is not alone. Records dating back to 1790 show thousands of parents have named their kids after a cardinal direction -- one boy even got South East as a first name and West as a last name.
Sixty-two people have been named North West with the first known occurrences happening in the 1830s, according to U.S. records Mashable obtained from FindMyPast.com.
The family history website also identified a surprising number of occurrences for each direction:
North: 3,479 as of July 2013
West: 25,993
East: 639
South: 833
Kardashian gave birth on June 15, the day before Father's Day, and a few days before West's sixth studio album, Yeezus, dropped. When the world discovered the baby's name, many Twitter users poked fun at it, causing it to become a worldwide trending topic.
Kardashian and North West, as a Fathers' Day gift, gave Kanye old Apple mice signed by co-founders Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs. This revelation came just weeks after Wozniak became one of the first people to set eyes on North West after she was born.
FindMyPast.com says its search results come from census records, church records, marriage records, baptism records, death records, education records, immigration records, military service records and other sources.
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