Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins Are Officially Out-Daughtered — Meet Their Kids!

When Lauren Akins, the wife of country star Thomas Rhett, traveled to Uganda in ____ on a mission with 147 Million Orphans, she met 1-year-old Willa Gray, a 1-year-old.

She immediately knew she had to do something, and the couple adopted the baby girl.

"When I met Willa, her story was pretty intense," Lauren explained in an interview with People. "All orphans have heart-wrenching stories, but it felt like this specific baby was ours."

Since then, Thomas and Lauren have welcomed three more kids to their family: daughters Ada, Lennon, and Lillie. In August 2025, the couple announced that they are expecting baby No. 5.

Here is a complete breakdown of the Rhett family!

They started thinking about adoption roughly around the same time as Lauren was first introduced to Willa (nicknamed Blessing) at the Ugandan orphanage where she was working at the time.

"I think that the Lord knew what he was doing when he did not let us get pregnant," Lauren said. "She was a total orphan and didn’t have any biological relatives, no one. Her life was going to be at the children’s home unless someone else tried to give her a home."

Lauren soon discovered that she was pregnant with her second daughter, Ada James, while on a safari trip in Africa. She and Thomas Rhett were already in the process of adopting Willa, and the revelation turned their carefully-made plans upside down.

Ugandan adoption laws require prospective parents to spend a year fostering their child in the country before they are allowed to welcome them to their family. To comply with the strict criteria, Lauren and Thomas Rhett were traveling back and forth between the U.S. and the East-African country.

It was during one of these trips that they likely learned that Lauren was pregnant.

"It killed me not being able to bring [Willa] home, but looking back, I think it was a blessing in disguise because I got to be home and nest before she got here — and catch up on my sleep so I wasn’t so jet-lagged!" she added. 

The adoption process was finalized in May 2017. The couple welcomed daughter Ada James just a few months later, on Aug. 12, 2017.

The couple consciously chose names for their daughters that reference the names of other family members. Willa Gray is named after Thomas Rhett's grandfather, Willard, and Lauren's brother, Grayson.

Likewise, Ada is named after Lauren's grandmother, Ada. James is a name on both sides of the family.

Thomas shared the exciting news of the birth of their third child, Lennon Love, on social media.

"It was such a joy to watch this little angel be brought into the world," he wrote.

"Watching our kids meet Lennon for the first time was probably the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life! Ada James and Willa Gray are going to be the best big sisters on the planet. The Lord is so good and I’m so grateful for my beautiful growing family!!"

On May 9, 2021, Thomas took to Instagram to reveal that Lauren was pregnant with the couple's fourth child — another daughter.

"Well... we are pregnant again! Tonight, when I was on stage in Fort Worth about to play 'To the Guys That Date My Girls,' my wife talked to me in my (ear monitors) and said, 'You can tell them if you want,' so anyways, now you know," he captioned a photo of himself and Lauren.

On November 15, 2021, their fourth daughter, Lillie Carolina, was born.

"Watching a child being born is legit a miracle. 4 under 6 here we go," Thomas wrote at the time of her birth.

In a video shared to Instagram on August 26, 2025, Thomas and Lauren revealed that they would soon be a family of seven with a fun song.

"Here we go again! We’ve got some really excited big sisters in our house. God is so good," Thomas captioned the video. Now, the couple will have five kids under the age of 10.