Nelly Furtado’s daughter Nevis is named after what?

Before the release of her sophomore album, Folklore, Furtado gave birth to her first child, daughter Nevis (purportedly named for the Caribbean island Nevis on which she was conceived but in actuality named for the Latin word "Nevi"[10]). On September 20 2003 in Toronto, she had a home birth with midwives. She has said about motherhood, "It's actually pretty incredible. It's a lot more instinctual than I thought".

Nevis's father is Furtado's then boyfriend, DJ/producer Jasper Gahunia a.k.a. Lil' Jaz. Furtado and Gahunia, who broke up in 2005, were together for four years and friends for several years before that. She has stated, "We're fully active co-parents and really close friends, so things are irie".

Nevis is ethnically a quarter Filipino, a quarter Indian, and half Portuguese. Furtado has chosen to raise her in Toronto due to the city's cultural diversity, open-mindedness, and grassroots political activism.