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The Untold Truth Of Jessa Duggar

Writer James Rogers

Before Blue Ivy Carter, North West, and Dream Kardashian, newborn Apple Martin was making headlines for her unconventional name. Why did Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin name their daughter after a fruit? Would there ever be a name more bizarre than Apple? The answer, of course, is yes — though, we never thought it would come from a Duggar.

When Jessa and Ben announced their first pregnancy in 2015, fans immediately launched into speculating what the baby's name would be. Try as they might, no amount of speculation could have possibly predicted the name that was to come: Spurgeon Elliot Seewald. 

Unlike Paltrow and Martin, who chose the fruity moniker because it was "so unique and sounded cool," the Seewalds' inspiration for their firstborn's name came from an influential figure in their lives — 19th century British preacher, Charles Spurgeon. According to the couple, Spurgeon's sermons and texts deeply impacted the couple, and continue to "impact many, many people" to this day. When their second son was born in 2017, he was also given a name taken straight from the history books — Henry Wilberforce Seewald. His namesake, William Wilberforce, was an English philanthropist, politician, and leader within the movement which ended the slave trade.