Ryan Reynolds reckons that he and Blake Lively are keeping mum about their baby daughter’s name to protect themselves from future teenage strops.

The couple welcomed their first child in December, but have not confirmed exactly when she was born or what her name is.

He said: “There’s zero secret about it. That little girl will grow up to be a teenager who will find out that I blurted her name out on national television and probably make me pay for it. She will exact her revenge in searing, psychic pain.”

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds (Thibault Camus/AP)

Ryan, 38, and Blake, 27, have managed to keep their private life to themselves in the past, too – they were married in a secret South Carolina ceremony in September 2012.

However, the actor said he realised that they couldn’t keep a lid on their fame all of the time: “When you put yourself in the public eye you have to accept certain aspects of it.”

Adding that he “signed up for this,” Ryan continued: “I think to some degree if you don’t court it you don’t have to deal with it so much.”