Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor welcomed their daughter, Raha Kapoor, on November 6, 2022. The name, suggested by Ranbir's mother, Neetu Kapoor, signifies divine path, peace, joy, freedom, and bliss, reflecting the couple's feelings upon her birth, but did you know Alia and Ranbir Kapoor decided another name earlier? In a recent podcast with Jay Shetty, Alia revealed that they initially favored a boy's name before settling on Raha. While soliciting name suggestions from family, they identified a boy's name they loved but ultimately chose Raha, partly because Neetu Kapoor felt it would pair well with that boy's name should they have a son in the future.
She said, “I think, so this was when both Ranbir and I were, you know, like eager parents asking, we have a family group, asking all the family members to give both boys and girls names, so we’re prepared. So, we can zero down on like a girl name and a boy name. So there were multiple boy names and multiple girl names, and we really liked one boy name. We said, ‘okay this is a lovely boy name’, which I’m not going to reveal now, and we said, ‘okay this name is lovely, now any more girl’.”
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“And then my mother-in-law (Neetu Kapoor), Ranbir’s mum, suggested ‘what about Raha? It’ll go very well with the boy name as well if you ever have a boy. If you have a boy and girl both it will be a really good combination’. Then she suggested a girl and girl combination as well. But Ranbir and I instantly loved Raha, so we had two names, just boy and girl, ready.”
Fans eagerly await the name they've chosen for their second child. Meanwhile, Alia and Ranbir are set to star alongside Vicky Kaushal in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film, Love & War.