North West has two special people to thank for her unique name, and it’s not her parents. Kim Kardashian revealed on YouTube that Jay Leno and Pharrell Williams convinced them to name her North! Kim said that her friends, including Pharrell Williams, started telling her that the name could work for her now six-year-old daughter. “Everyone was coming up to me like, ‘It’s such a cool name. You should really think about it.’ And then Pharrell had all these cool meanings.”