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The Case of the Britney Baby Moniker Mix-Up

Tue., Oct. 24, 2006 12:28 PM PDT by Gina Serpe

Either tabloid magazines are off their game or it's a sign of the apocalypse: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have outwitted the press.

More than a month ago, the southern-fried couple welcomed the birth of their second child, a son whom popular opinion—and sources close to the couple—determined had been named Sutton Pierce. Now comes word that the couple's reign of cutesy "SPF" monikers began and ended with Sean Preston.

According to a copy of the child's birth certificate, filed at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's office and obtained by E! News, the pop princess' latest offspring is one Jayden James Federline.

The document was signed by Kevin Federline on Sept. 13, the day after his son's birth at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and was registered with the county two days later. (Federline has two other children from a previous relationship.)

Sutton Pierce was widely reported to be the child's name and was taken as fact after no one from the Spears-Federline camp denied the speculation. Of course, they never confirmed it, either.

The notion of a moniker mix-up surfaced earlier this month and gained traction when Federline refused to answer questions about either the name or sex of his newest born during a Seattle radio show interview.

"Isn't that strange when you hear that, when you have a child and people tell you the sex is a different one?" the deejay asked.

"Yeah, it's crazy. Well, it's even crazier when people are telling me my child's name," Federline replied.

Cue the media frenzy.

The aspiring rapper's quasi revelation led people to question not only the baby's name but its sex as well, particularly after Spears was photographed buying pink baby clothes in a Malibu clothing store.

The confusion was exacerbated—and conspiracy theories strengthened—by the fact that no photos have yet been released of the child, though some online wags have floated the idea that the family is holding out on publishing a Shiloh-like spread to better coincide with K-Fed's debut album, due out Oct. 31.

Jayden James more closely resembles one of the early alleged frontrunners for potential Federline baby names. Reports leading up to Spears' labor day declared that she would be christening her child Jailynn in tribute to her father, Jamie, and her mother, Lynne.

While there's no word yet on possible familial derivations for young Jayden James, at the very least, he won't be alone on the playground.

Jayden, which means "God has heard" in Hebrew, was the 88th most popular baby name of 2005 in an annual list compiled by the Social Security Administration.

It also ranks as one of the go-to names for the celeb set.

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Christian Slater and Ryan Haddon, Cheryl Tiegs and Rod Stryker, and Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi have all welcomed Jadens in recent years.