Chrissy Teigen Reveals Sweet Inspiration Behind Daughter Esti's Name

The TV personality and author chose her daughter’s name during a trip to Italy with her husband John Legend

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Chrissy Teigen has revealed the sweet reason she named her daughter Esti.

During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the 37-year-old discussed how she and husband John Legend, 44, chose their 10-week-old daughter’s moniker during a trip to Europe.

“We were on vacation where we got married in Italy and I was looking up at the hotel and I kept seeing the Este of it, and then I was like I love the name Este,” said Teigen, who tied the knot with Legend in Lake Como in September 2013.

“I was just playing around with it and then we came up with Esti,” she continued, before revealing the couple then discovered a sweet family connection to the name.

“John, after we named her Esti, learned that it was actually his great-grandmother’s name,” Teigen explained. “I guess maybe it was Esther and then they turned it to Esti.”

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Singer Legend has previously revealed that Esti’s middle name, Maxine, also has a family connection.

“We wanted to already name her middle name Maxine after my grandmother, whose middle name was Maxine. So, it’s a lot of my family in the name,” he told E! News.

During her TV appearance, author Teigen also called their little one “such a light and a joy” as she opened up about how her and Legend’s elder children — daughter Luna Simone, 7, and son Miles Theodore, 4 — have adjusted to having a new baby around the house.