Roman history has long captivated Mark Zuckerberg. He now has his own personal triumvirate.
The co-founder of Facebook revealed on Friday that he and his wife Priscilla Chan had had their third child, a girl they had named Aurelia.
In an Instagram post, Zuckerberg posted the first image of his newborn, describing her as “such a little blessing.”
This is the third time in as many try that Zuckerberg has given one of his daughters a name that refers to one of the most mighty empires in history; the name Aurelia is a tribute to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Maxima, a play on the Latin name Maximus, is the name of the 38-year-old woman’s first child. August, the name of his second child, is a nod to Augustus Caesar, the Roman ruler whom Zuckerberg has dubbed as one of history’s “most interesting” individuals.
Long before he became a father for the first time, the CEO developed an infatuation with Rome. In a 2018 interview with the New Yorker, Zuckerberg claimed that while taking Latin in high school, he developed an interest in ancient Rome.
“You have all these intricate, mixed-bag figures. At the time, he declared, “I believe Augustus to be one of the most fascinating. “Basically, he achieved two centuries of international peace with a fairly hard strategy.”
In fact, Zuckerberg and Chan’s honeymoon was spent in Rome after their 2012 wedding. The former emperor, according to Zuckerberg’s joke, was a constant on their journey.
He claimed that his wife had made fun of him by joking that she believed he and Augustus were the only two people on their honeymoon. “All the pictures were different Augustus sculptures.”
With 592 infants given the name, Aurelia ranked as the 516th most popular girl’s baby name in 2021, per Social Security Administration data.
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