Bachelor in Paradise couple Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon have revealed their baby boy's name inspired by a movie and why they picked it.
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"I want it to stay a not-so-popular name."
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The couple's first child is going to named Dawson Demitri Haibon.
"Ashley told me that she wanted to name our first born Dawson honestly when we were probably still just friends," Jared revealed.
Ashley wanted to name her future son Dawson after the Titanic character Jack Dawson, who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
"We always said it was something personal and one of Ashley's loves, so everybody knew that Tom Brady was out," Jared joked.
Ashley said she would have been "down" for Tom Brady, especially as a middle name, but Jared previously had a dog named Brady.
Jared shared how he loves the name Dawson for a boy, and Ashley added, "Boy or girl, I would have been cool with [Dawson for a name] either way. But I prefer it for a boy."
"I was totally onboard. I love Dawson and I also love Jack Dawson from Titanic," Jared noted.
Ashley added how Dawson is a "unique" name and they have "no mental ties" to another person named Dawson.
"We don't know a Dawson," Ashley confirmed. "And also, Jared and I are hopeless romantic, cinematic people. Naming a kid after a Leo character is very natural for us. What a leading romantic man when it comes to characters!"
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW"But also, it's not over the top," Jared noted. "It's not like we named our kid DiCaprio."
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And Ashley and Jared apparently just like the name Demitri. Ashley's father's name is Dominic, but they decided to pass on that for a middle name since Ashley's sister would like to name her future son Dominic.
"And then Demitri just slipped out of our mouths," Jared said.
Ashley said they initially liked Demetrius and opted to shorten it. Jared also likes it because Demitri happened to be Tom Cruise's alias in one of his Mission Impossible movies.
The couple had also considered Ethan, Anakin, Logan, Cameron, and Sebastian. However, Ashley admitted she hated the name Sebastian because she thinks of the crab from The Little Mermaid.
Ashley, who is currently 36 weeks pregnant, and Jared are living apart until the baby's birth.
Ashley told Us Weekly that she's staying at her parents' house in Virginia so she can give birth at the hospital where her father works as an anesthesiologist. Meanwhile, Jared is running the couple's coffee house and lounge in Rhode Island, which opened in December 2021.
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The pair then announced in August 2021 that Ashley is pregnant with a baby boy and they already had a name picked out for him.
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"We always thought it was going to be a boy, even before I was pregnant," Ashley said at the time. "When I was pregnant and getting so sick, everyone was like, 'You are definitely having a girl."
Ashley admitted she "did want a girl" when she got pregnant and it "took a little bit" of time for her to come around to the idea of having a son since there are so many women in her family.
Ashley and Jared got married on August 11, 2019 at United Congregational Church Newport, RI, followed by a reception at Rosecliff, an oceanfront Gilded Age mansion in the seaside city.
Ashley has said in the past she would be happy to have up to three children.
Ashley and Jared met in 2015 on Season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise.
On the show, they sparked an on-again, off-again confusing romance that simmered into a friendship in which Ashley largely pined for Jared as he dated other women during the show's second and third seasons.
Jared admittedly realized his feelings for Ashley and wanted what he couldn't have when she sparked up a romance with Canadian firefighter Kevin Wendt on The Bachelor Winter Games.
Jared eventually won Ashley over and the couple confirmed they were dating in May 2018.
Jared then proposed marriage to Ashley and they got engaged the following month in Mexico while the fifth season of Bachelor in Paradise was filming.
Prior to their appearances on Bachelor in Paradise, Ashley competed for Chris Soules' heart on The Bachelor's nineteenth season and Jared found fame on Kaitlyn Bristowe's edition of The Bachelorette for Season 11.
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