Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are no strangers to the limelight, but they are insistent that their daughter will be.

The couple made no official announcement after welcoming their first child together in late December, and they have yet to reveal her name either.

Although a tweet reportedly sent by a member of staff at the Westchester Medical Center listed the newborn's name as Violet, Ryan stated earlier this week that this was not the case. "No that’s not the name. I don’t want to get into that but I don’t know where that came from," he told USA Today.

On an interview with David Letterman last night, the actor still refused to give an exact name – though he did give us a few more clues! 

During a grilling from David, Ryan admitted that their daughter had been given a "family name," though she is definitely not named for Blake's mum Elaine.

The actor stayed cool and shook his head as David ran through a list of names including Olivia, Sophia and Emma. When asked if he would let his daughter know her own name eventually, Ryan joked, "I'm thinking of letting her know."

The Proposal actor says he and Blake have a good reason for staying schtum, though. "I don't want to say it in a media context," he said. "I tell everyone who I meet, so it'll come out."

The actor gushed about his newfound life as a father, saying, "I'm not one for vomiting declarations of sentiment out across the airwaves, but when we had that baby, I fell more in love with my wife than I'd ever been in my entire life. I couldn't even believe it."

As for the daddy-daughter bond, Ryan admitted, "I used to say to [Blake], 'I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.'…And the second I looked in that baby's eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby."

Aaaaw… or not!

We’re not going to lie, we’ve been SO looking forward to finding out the name Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ newborn – but they’re keeping quiet.

One thing  that is now certain is that Violet, the name many believed the couple had given her, is completely WRONG!

The new dad spoke with USA Today and said that he had no idea where that name came from, but it most certainly is not his daughter’s name: “No that’s not the name. I don’t want to get into that but I don’t know where that came from.”

We bet that little girl has the prettiest name ever – we can’t wait to hear it! That is of course, unless Ryan got his way and called her Excalibur Anaconda Reynolds like he threatened to back in October…! We really, really hope not…

Ryan also spoke about the difficulties of being a new dad – namely lack of sleep: “It’s still so new that it’s hard to conceive being away for more than seven hours at a time. I had to go to Sundance this last week. I was more excited to get a good night’s sleep. It was borderline pornographic for me.”

Sounds as if Ryan and Blake have their hands full but are loving every minute of it! 

Yesterday, there was chaos as a tweet was released that claimed to reveal the name and sex of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' new baby. The information, which had not yet been released by Blake, Ryan or a rep was revealed in a tweet by a Westchester employee on Twitter who wrote: “Congrats @blakelively #blakelively glad to have you and baby girl violet in our care.”

However, a source for US Weekly has now said this information is false, and the tweet was fake.

The tweet was later deleted so it looks as if we will just have to wait for a rep or indeed the couple themselves to release the exciting details about the birth of their first child. We can't wait! Perhaps the couple will hear about the fake tweet and decide they really like the name Violet…who knows! 

The baby was born early before the new year and the couple managed to keep it quiet until Sunday.