Vice President JD Vance Says Name Not Chosen for Fourth Child, First Born to Sitting Vice President in Modern History

Vice President JD Vance said he and his wife Usha have not yet chosen a name for their fourth child, a baby boy due in July. “We have not decided on the name yet,” Vance told USA Today during a telephone interview tied to the release of his new book, “Communion,” which comes out June 16. The couple’s existing children are Ewan, age 9; Vivek, age 6; and Mirabel, age 4.

Vance said he and Usha chose names for their first three children very late, settling on two of the three only after birth. “Usha and I have very different perspectives on what to name kids, and so we're always kind of debating names as we go into the delivery room and then once we see the baby, that's usually when we decide,” he said.

Usha Vance indicated in an interview last summer with Meghan McCain that she did not want additional children but did not rule out a fourth.

“Never say never,” she said at the time. The couple announced they were expecting a fourth child in January of this year. Vance wrote in the book that Usha changed her mind about having more children after the death of Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last September.

“For years I had asked Usha to have another baby, and for years she had told me she was done – especially now that public service had elevated us into the national spotlight,” he wrote. An excerpt from “Communion” appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In an interview with NBC News, Vance said he will bring his older children to work at the White House while Usha bonds with the newborn.

The children enjoy visiting the White House because they get to eat junk food and watch television, he told NBC News. Speaking to USA Today about the arrangement, Vance said no one in the Cabinet has offered to babysit the older children. “Nobody's offered [to] babysit, but it's funny, nobody minds when the kids [are] around, either,” he said.