Desperate Housewives actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira, 36, and wife Marcea Dietzel have welcomed their second child. Daughter Belen Elysabeth Chavira arrived at 5:59 p.m. last night in San Antonio, Texas, weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 oz. She joins big brother Tomas, 5, at home.
News of the pregnancy was first revealed in April by Ricardo’s co-star Kathryn Joosten.
Source: Entertainment Tonight; Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images.
Oh I love the name Belen! Congrats!
- jasmine on
Congratulations to the family! Very cute name.
- Bea on
What does Belen mean?
I didnt know Ant was married or from San Antonia like his tv wife Eva.
Yea for Tomas, a lil sis to pick on. Very cool!
- april on
‘Belen” is a very common Catholic name, especially among latinos. It’s a female name that means Bethlehem. In the Bible, the city of Bethlehem is called ‘Belen’. By the way, I like the way Antonio and his wife spelled their daughter’s middle name ‘Elysabeth’. Nice name….not too common at all.
- Ali on
I love the name! so preyy and elegant
- victoria on
Congrats to them!
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE how they spelled Elysabeth!!! My oldest daughter is Alysabeth and This is the closest I have seen!
- Courtney on
I think Belen is also a city in Valencia County New Mexico….Not sure if this has any importance in their name selection but maybe?
- Mary Beth on
That’s a realy gorgeous name. Congrats.
- Erica on
My Grandmother’s name is Velen, my name is Belen, my Granddaughters name is Lizette Belen I love the name..I get so many complements on my name. Belen Elysabeth is a very pretty name it just flows off your tongue. Congratulations.
- Belen Robles on
arggg stole my fave girl’s name….spelled Bellan or Bellen………I cannot go on!
- Sasha on
Mary Beth, I hope the name choice has nothing to do with Belen NM, I lived in Los Lunas most of my life which is the neighboring town and no one liked Belen. Never thought of it as a name because of that but it does sound prettier to me now.
- AriaMP on
There are some really nice comments on this blog. I actually know the couple and the choose of their children’s names come from each of their latino families. They like old spanish names so I believe each of their children are named after older family members. Tomas (pronouced – To-Mas) and Belen (pronouced Ba-LEn) are two adorable children with very grown up names. It’s difficult to type the true spanish form on our American keyboards, which doesn’t type spanish stress marks.
Anyway, Congratulations to the couple. They deserve to be truly happy!
- gillian on
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