Peta Murgatroyd, Maksim Chmerkovskiy Reveal 2nd Son’s Name

Dancing With the Stars professionals Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy discovered the perfect name for their second child after he was born on Sunday, June 18.

“Rio John Chmerkovskiy 💙,” Murgatroyd, 36, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, June 21. “We’re overjoyed to share our child boy with all of you. @shai.aleksander is already the best big brother and all of us really feel very full. Life is sweet.”

The couple, who’re already mother and father to 6-year-old son Shai, picked the title John as Rio’s center title to honor Murgatroyd’s late father after his December 2022 death.

The New Zealand native gave birth to Rio on Father’s Day earlier than Chmerkovskiy, 43, shared his first picture.

“Joyful Father’s Day to me,” the Ukraine native captioned a Sunday Instagram picture as he held his new child son. “#MadeInPeta.”

The duo, who wed in 2017, revealed in January that they were expecting baby No. 2 after struggling previous miscarriages and failed IVF cycles.

“It wasn’t like I used to be leaping up out of the lavatory, like, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t wait to [tell everyone].’ It was nearly like I used to be scared,” the Peta Jane Magnificence founder exclusively told Us Weekly in March of studying she was pregnant. “It was a positively scary second for me as a result of it wasn’t one thing that I used to be positive of. It wasn’t one thing that I knew would final. I undoubtedly wished to, simply kind of, conceal my feelings a bit bit and simply type of put a protecting protect round myself to not let myself get too excited earlier than this [turned] into one thing actual.”

Rio arrived almost 5 months after his uncle Val Chmerkovskiy and aunt Jenna Johnson welcomed their first child. Val, 37, and Johnson, 29, additionally sought a travel-inspired moniker for his or her child boy: Rome.

“The Chmerkovskiy clan is de facto going by means of a renaissance in the meanwhile,” Maksim previously gushed to Us in January. “I can not look ahead to this subsequent technology. … [Peta and my] youngsters are gonna be six years aside, which is mainly the very same distance that Val and I’ve. Plus, Val’s son is born in January, and my son and I are Capricorns [too].”

The Masked Dancer alum added: “There are a lot of these [similarities and] I’ve an image the place I’m holding Val when he was a new child and I used to be 6, after which we put it aspect by aspect with an image of my son, who’s 6, holding Val’s son, who’s a new child, and it was superb.”