Katie & Stephen Miller Welcome Baby No. 4: The Hidden Meaning Behind Their Newborn’s Name

Katie Miller has welcomed her fourth baby with husband Stephen Miller, the controversial U.S. homeland security adviser and deputy chief of staff to President Donald Trump.

Katie, a former adviser at the Department of Government Efficiency turned conservative podcast host, announced the birth of their son, Hawthorne Hayes, on Wednesday, June 10.

“It’s been a very exciting week in the Miller household,” she wrote on Instagram. “Hawthorne Hayes Miller was born on June 3rd at 9:04am growing our crew to 4 kids 5 and under. Babies are the absolute best.”

Katie, 34, and Stephen, 40, are also parents to a daughter and two other sons.

Stephen and Katie initially shared the news of their pregnancy in a joint post on Instagram on Dec. 31, 2025. In a photo from Trump’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Katie held a hand to her baby bump while posing alongside Stephen.

The couple wed at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., in February 2020, and have since welcomed daughter Mackenzie, 5, and sons Jackson and Hudson, respectively aged 4 and 2.

The Millers’ fourth baby comes shortly after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, welcomed her second baby, Viviana, with husband Nicholas Riccio, 60, on May 1.

Second lady Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, is also expecting her fourth baby later this summer, the couple announced in January.

The birth of the Millers’ fourth child comes weeks after a photo went viral of Stephen holding onto Katie as they were evacuated during the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The dinner, which took place on April 25, devolved into chaos after shots were fired outside the ballroom, and Trump, Vance and several other administration officials were escorted out of the ballroom by security, followed by guests and journalists. Among those evacuated were Stephen and Katie, during which the deputy chief of staff was pictured gripping his wife — who was eight months pregnant at the time — in front of him.

Critics online accused Stephen of using his wife as a “human shield,” which Katie pushed back against.

Two days after the shooting — for which suspect Cole Thomas Allen had been arrested, on charges of attempting to assassinate the president — Katie appeared on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle and defended Stephen’s actions during the dinner. Katie noted that “the threat was behind us,” and the couple’s security detail had told Stephen, “She goes first.”

“They had to make me the target,” she added, per a report by The Wrap. “And you know what? To that, I would say Stephen did a phenomenal job, and he was behind me and protecting not only me, but our baby.”

Katie also denied that Stephen was “copping a feel” during the evacuation, saying her husband was avoiding grabbing her pregnant belly. Her pregnancy had made it difficult to move quickly, she said, so Stephen was trying to lift her.

“What everyone sees is my husband maybe copping a feel, but what I would say is that he wasn’t going to put his hands on my stomach, because that’s where our baby is,” she said.

Stephen is a far-right figure in the Trump administration who is largely credited as the architect for the president’s hardline anti-immigration policies during his second term.

Katie, who previously worked as Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director, is a political adviser who led communications for Elon Musk’s DOGE effort at the start of 2025. She now hosts a self-titled podcast for Republican woman, which she has likened to a conservative version of Call Her Daddy.