{"id":23885,"date":"2019-05-17T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042542"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:29:07","slug":"decoding-psalm-west-the-meaning-behind-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-wests-baby-boys-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/decoding-psalm-west-the-meaning-behind-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-wests-baby-boys-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Psalm West: The Meaning Behind Kim Kardashian and Kanye West&#8217;s Baby Boy&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201949\/rs_600x600-190509130128-600.-kkw-family.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.277300613497\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.00245398773\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1023308\/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-name-baby-no-4-psalm-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed the name<\/a> of their fourth child: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/psalm_west\">Psalm West<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/em> star and the Grammy winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1025472\/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-welcome-baby-no-4-via-surrogate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed their baby boy<\/a> via a surrogate on May 9. The following day, Kim announced her son&#8217;s arrival on social media, writing, &#8220;He&#8217;s here and he&#8217;s perfect!&#8221; The star&#8217;s rep&nbsp;also shared that the couple&#8217;s bundle of joy weighed in at six pounds and nine ounces.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 17, Kim shared the baby boy&#8217;s name with the world, along with the first photo. The announcement post was a screenshot of a text conversation between Kim and Kanye, in which the &#8220;Stronger&#8221; rapper sent his wife a photo of their son sleeping in his crib.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beautiful Mother&#8217;s Day,&#8221; the text read. &#8220;With the arrival of our fourth child we are blessed beyond measure. We have everything we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Kim captioned the post with the baby&#8217;s name, writing, &#8220;Psalm West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.798449612403\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.34219269103\">\n<p>Coming from the&nbsp;Hebrew origin, the name Psalm means &#8220;song.&#8221; The name is&nbsp;also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/psalm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defined<\/a> as&nbsp;a sacred poem,&nbsp;as in one of the&nbsp;poems and prayers in the Book of Psalms.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the name announcement, fans had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/1041028\/all-the-fan-theories-on-what-kim-kardashian-is-naming-baby-no-4?query=kim%20kardashian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speculating about the baby boy&#8217;s moniker.<\/a> On May 11, Kim shared a post on social media that created a buzz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We celebrated our baby boy about a week ago and now he&#8217;s here! He&#8217;s so perfect!&#8221; Kim wrote. &#8220;Here are some pics of my CBD baby shower. I was freaking out for nothing because he is the most calm and chill of all of my babies so far and everyone loves him so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The KKW Beauty founder also added a teddy bear emoji in her message, which many fans believed was a hint at the baby&#8217;s name. But, it sounds like Kim and Kanye, who are also parents to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/north_west\">North West<\/a><\/strong>, 5, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/saint_west\">Saint West<\/a><\/strong>, 3, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chicago_west\">Chicago West<\/a><\/strong>, 16 months,&nbsp;had another name in mind for their son!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to meet you, Psalm West!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/em> will return with an all-new episode Sunday, May 26 at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042542\/decoding-psalm-west-the-meaning-behind-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-s-baby-boy-s-name?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have revealed the name of their fourth child: Psalm West! The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and the Grammy winner welcomed their baby boy via a surrogate on May 9. The following day, Kim announced her son&#8217;s arrival on social media, writing, &#8220;He&#8217;s here and he&#8217;s perfect!&#8221; The star&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:56:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}