Ex-Olympic skier Bode Miller and wife Morgan finally REVEAL baby daughter's name
Bode Miller, a former Olympic skier, and his wife Morgan, a 34-year-old former professional volleyball player, may have settled on a name for their baby girl nine weeks after she was born. Morgan revealed on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday that she and her husband have named the kid Nona for "no name" and that it's "kind of sticking". They've been publicly toiling for weeks to come up with an appropriate name, even seeking votes from their Instagram followers to help them choose the name. The couple had even gone on the Today show with the baby near the end of last month and disclosed that they still hadn't decided on a name.
With the help of a midwife, the couple welcomed their daughter on November 26 at their home in California. They had been calling her Ocho which is Spanish for "eight" while attempting to come up with a name for her because she was the eighth child in their family. Morgan recently revealed that they were considering adding a portion of their late daughter Emmy's name, Emeline Grier Miller, into their newborn daughter's name.
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"It’s hard because her personality is different, and I think we’re all trying to get used to it," Bode, 44, said via live video feed from their Montana home to Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. "She’s stumped us on names so far," he continued. "We have a lot that we like, but she hasn’t smiled or high-fived or anything when we say them to her, and we say them to her all the time."
Bode, who also runs a ski academy in Colorado, said he had a personal favorite but is concerned that it is too well-known. "I’m a huge fan of Liv, Olivia," he said. "It’s a little bit frustrating that it’s one of the most popular names this year because most of the names of our children aren’t terribly popular, but we’re not going to let that stand in the way, obviously."
Bode and Morgan are parents to sons Nash, six, Easton, three, and twins Asher and Aksel, two, and deceased daughter Emmy in addition to their infant. Emmy drowned in a neighbor's pool in June 2018 when she was 19 months old. She was retrieved from the water, but paramedics were unable to save her, and she died in the hospital later. Since her death, her parents have devoted themselves to raising awareness about infant drownings and encouraging other parents to enroll their children in swimming lessons as soon as possible.
"Emmy was such a great balance because she was such a powerhouse and then when she passed, it was shocking because you really felt this energetic shift in the house," he said on the Today show. "Obviously, we were all suffering and everything, too, but there was this gap there for all the boys. And now they have this little girl. It just makes them gentle. You'd be blown away."
Morgan used her Instagram Stories after their Today show appearance to present their name ideas with her 165,000 Instagram followers and urged them to vote on their baby girl's first and middle names. They favor Scarlet or Skylar for a first name, as she mentioned earlier in the morning, and they're considering naming her Liv if she goes by her middle name Olivia.
Khione, the Greek goddess of snow, or Grier, the middle name of her late sister, are the two options for her second middle name. Scarlet Olivia Khione, Skyler Olivia Khione, Scarlet Olivia Grier, and Skylar Olivia Grier are the four potential combinations. Bode and Morgan have both stated that this will be their only girl child, and they were overjoyed when they heard they were having a daughter last May.