The newborn baby, weighing six pounds, was registered on his birth certificate simply as "Baby Songkhla", as his father was addressed to as "Songkhla" by his classmates. Nine days after his birth, his official name reached Boston. Bestowed by his uncle, King Prajadhipok (Rama VII), it read Bhumibala Adulyadeja, words of Pali origin meaning "Strength of the Land, Incomparable Power". The spelling was later changed to Bhumibol Adulyadej. The King is the second monarch in the world to have been born in the United States,the first being his elder brother Ananda Mahidol, who became King Rama VIII in 1935 but who died prematurely by gunshot in 1946 at the age of 21.