Cardi B Named Her Son Grey and Threw a Grey's Anatomy Party. He Turned One

Cardi B revealed on Wednesday, Nov. 4, that her son with Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs is named Grey Marsean Diggs. She did it in an Instagram tribute for his first birthday, which had a Grey's Anatomy theme, and it was the first time she'd shown his face. Diggs had already given the name his blessing in an interview with People a few days earlier, which is the modern way: the father finds out about his son's name around the same time the magazine does.

A Grey's Anatomy party for a one-year-old. That's a bold theme for a person who can't yet hold a spoon, let alone a scalpel. I'd have gone with something simpler, like a party about naps, which is all a one-year-old cares about and, at my age, all I care about too. But the child will grow up knowing that at his first birthday, his mother looked at a show about doctors sleeping with one another in supply closets and said, that's my boy.

And it's a good name, Grey. There's a whole philosophy in it. Most celebrities pick names that sound like a brand of sparkling water or a weather event over Montana. Cardi had already gone with Kulture, Wave and Blossom for her three children with Offset, so Grey is practically a return to tradition. It's the first color a baby can't spell, and the last one most of us turn.

She also kept the face hidden for a full year, which is longer than most celebrities keep a marriage. There are presidents who held fewer secrets. The world waited, the internet guessed, and in the end it was a perfectly nice baby with a perfectly nice name, which is how most mysteries turn out, including the ones on Grey's Anatomy, which ran so long that the original interns are now old enough to be patients.

So happy birthday to Grey M.D., who has already been to more themed parties than I have been to weddings. Fame is a strange inheritance: you can't spend it, you can't refuse it, and it shows up before your teeth do.