Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey welcomed a new daughter into the world on Tuesday and GUESS WHAT (she writes, practically shouting across the internet with excitement): they named her after a character from the hit Israeli TV series Srugim!

The show, which charts the love lives of a group of Modern Orthodox friends living in Jerusalem, is a more chaste, serious version of Girls, tinged with the drama of a telenovela. It was championed earlier this year by Slate‘s Willa Paskin, who described it as “comfort food you’ve never tasted before.” Jewcy contributor Miriam Krule appeared on Slate‘s DoubleX podcast singing its praises, too.

Anyway, the name, the name! The baby is named Avri, after Hodaya’s sexy, secular archeologist boyfriend (Avri is short for Avraham), who gives the rabbi’s daughter her first taste of treyf and drives her to the beach on Shabbat and… no more spoilers! Watch it here.

And here:

Girl Joy!! Avri Roel Downey, 7lbs, 20 in., 3:22 a.m. 11-4-14… Pretty like mama, and dimples like my uncle Jim!

— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) November 5, 2014

Disclaimer: The baby’s named could be pronounced “Ay-vree,” not “Ahv-ree.” It is also possible that Downey has never seen Srugim and that I’m projecting a lot of my own issues onto his child’s name. This is a technicality I’m willing to overlook, if you are.

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So, Maggie Gyllenhaal got a fun surprise last year when she learned—at the age of 35!—that her real first name was not Maggie, but Margalit, which is Hebrew for ‘pearl.’ (Thanks, Kveller baby name finder.)

The Guardian first reported the news in July (they spelled it Margolit—which is some creative vowel usage, right? Or… a typo? A British thing? Gyllenhaal’s actual spelling? SO MANY QUESTIONS), but the actress elaborated on the story for the first time when she appeared on Live Kelly & Michael last week.

The inconsistency emerged when the Secretary star decided to adopt her husband’s surname last year, in addition to Gyllenhaal. To make the change official, she needed her birth certificate, and after much searching the document was unearthed—but her first name was listed as Margalit, not Maggie. Apparently everyone in the family just kind of, well… forgot what her official name was. Post-birth euphoria or something.

Gyllenhaal seemed bemused by the confusion, but adamant that she wouldn’t be adopting her ‘real’ first name anytime soon. “Maggie’s on everything: Maggie’s on my driver’s license, my passport… my mother still insists my name is not Margalit… I wish that were my name, but it isn’t.”

Maggie, Margalit—we don’t care. That which we call a Maggie by any other name would smell as sweet.

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