Britt Nilsson from The Bachelor and her husband Jeremy Byrne have welcomed their first baby! Their daughter was born on June 23rd.

Nilsson announced the arrival of their baby girl in an Instagram photo. In the caption she explained all about her name, Noa Ellis Joy:

“NOA is a Hebrew girls’ name that means “movement” or “motion”. In Japanese it means “My love” or “from love”. In Hawaiian it means “freedom” or “sea of freedom”. In Arabic it means “higher” and “genius”. To us, it means the cutest little squishy warrior princess angel nugget ever born on this earth. It’s also a biblical story in Numbers about 5 daughters asking Moses for their fathers’ inheritance and God blessing their request before that was even remotely happening in society. Get it girl! So basically we love it for all the reasons! ELLIS means “Yahweh is God”, “My God is Jehovah” or “The Lord is my God”. JOY means JOY!!!”

Noa is the couple’s first child and the pregnancy was announced on December 14th with a YouTube video of them reading the results of the pregnancy test. According to PEOPLE, the two were married in September 2017 in Southern California after two years of dating.

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Britt was a contestant on the 19th season of The Bachelor where she was eliminated in week 7 and one of two Bachelorettes chosen for the 11th season of The Bachelorette, but was eliminated in the first episode. Her husband Jeremy is a hairdresser and owns his own hair studio.

Congratulations to Britt and Jeremy!

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Kees Andersen (they/them) is a longtime BabyNames.com member and content creator for the site. They first became interested in names when researching for stories they were writing as a young child and it snowballed into a lifelong passion. Kees attended Western Washington University and majored in history, which helped inspire a love of historical names.

Kees resides in Washington state with husband Peyton and two cats Nimue and Caspian. In their spare time they love to travel, read, fawn over their cats, and take photos.