Scarlett Johansson received some pushback from her family when she shared what she’d named her son.

The actress, 41, guest co-hosted the Thursday, Dec. 4 episode of Today with Jenna & Friends and spoke about naming her 4-year-old son Cosmo. Johansson, who shares Cosmo with her husband Colin Jost. revealed that some members of her family weren’t as enthusiastic about the name as others.

“When we named our son Cosmo, I actually didn’t tell anybody for that very reason. I didn’t want any of the weird faces. You know when you tell someone they go like this, ‘Oh that’s…that’s different,’ ” said Johansson. “You know when they do that, and you’re like, ‘What’s happening? You don’t like it?’”

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“My mom loved it, which was great. It was like, phew. She was like, ‘Oh, I had a, you know, I had like a…my third grade crush was Cosmo,’ ” she continued. “It had a great meaning for her.”

However, Johansson said her mother-in-law didn’t really understand why she and Jost had chosen the name.

“My mother-in-law was like, a few days after she goes, ‘Cosimo is a name I can find. That’s a recognizable name,’ ” she recalled.

The Black Widow star has two kids: daughter Rose Dorothy, 11, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and son Cosmo with Jost.

Speaking with Extra about her directorial debut in Eleanor the Great, Johansson shared about how she and Jost balance their careers with parenting. The proud mom of two told host Derek Hough that the couple has “two wonderful babysitters” helping them balance it all.

“We have two wonderful babysitters that are helping us out. So, shout-out to them,” she shared. “Really, truly couldn’t do it without help. It’s hard to balance between two busy schedules, but we do as much as we can.”

She went on to say that the couple strives to maintain as much of a routine as possible, which means they can’t always do everything.

“My kids are young. They thrive on a routine. So, you try to make a routine possible. And sometimes it means that you’re not doing everything,” she said. “You feel guilty that you’re missing certain elements of work that you should be responsible for, and then you’re home, and when you’re at work, you feel like you’re missing some elements of parenting that you should be responsible for. So there’s always that.”

“But, I think if you can close the gap as much as possible by sharing responsibilities with the other person and communicating that’s that’s how you do it.”

Back in January, while appearing on another episode of Today with Jenna and Friends, Johansson shared more about her relationship with her daughter Rose, adding that she’d recently introduced her to the concept of “ghosting.”

The guest co-host said she had a conversation with Rose when her daughter shared that she stopped talking to a boy who liked her.

“I just had this conversation with my 10-year-old daughter about ghosting because there was this little boy that liked her, and then she wasn’t feeling the same,” she began. “She just stopped talking to him straight up, and he felt terrible. And I was telling her, I introduced the ghosting concept.”

“It really makes the other person feel terrible about themselves. It kind of sets them on this spiral,” added Johansson, before admitting that she’s ghosted people when she was dating. “I hate confrontation.”