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Wonder why Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban named their bundle of joy Sunday Rose? Little Sunday was born in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday and Antony Kidman insists his daughter and son-in-law Keith Urban didn’t get their days mixed up.

New-Grandpa Kidman told the Australian media that Sunday was the name of Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s muse.

Gramps revealed he and Grandma Kidman had suggested it to Keith and Nicole: “I have read a bit about Sunday Reed and her husband John - she was a key mover and shaker in the arts around the beginning of the century. The name Sunday struck me as being a nice name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it.”

Sunday Reed was famous for her patronage of the arts, but also for her relationship with Sidney Nolan. Reed and her husband took part in a menage-a-trois type affair with the artist, which lasted nine years in the 1930s and resulted in Sunday becoming Nolan’s muse.

Antony Kidman claims the couple was inspired by a Nolan quote scrawled across a wall at the art show: “When you are young you are given a good view of life, because of your closeness to birth.”

Urban’s brother Shane revealed the baby’s second name was a tribute to their late grandmother, Rose.”It’s a wonderful wonderful thing, I’m so, so proud,” he said.

There are those that think the name Sunday has a second more insidious purpose.  The pretty laughable theory offered is:

“Nicole is a Catholic, and Sunday was an important religious day for her until she was involved in Scientology,” said the source. “She’s still bitter about her experience with Scientology and the fact her baby’s name could be perceived as one last jab doesn’t exactly upset her.”