The Hottest Baby Names of 2011
　　Click here for the Top 200 Baby Names of 2011What are the hottest new baby names this year? Based on an analysis of over 23 million page views at Nameberry since January, we’ve pegged these choices as the Hottest Names of 2011. 　　It’s a surprising list, driven by unexpected celebrities,...
Dec 12, 2025
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Stylish Names: What’s Their Secret?
Dec 12, 2025
　　Some stylish names share a first initial: Vowel names are particularly popular right now, for instance. Other times, it’s a rhythm or ending sound: Boys’ names with two syllables that end in N or R are big these days. 　　Still other fashionable names share an ethnic origin such as Irish...
Baby Name Trends: Ha Ha names are nothing to laugh at!
Dec 12, 2025
　　Have you noticed the sudden pop in popularity of girls’ names starting with the happy-go-lucky syllable ‘Ha’—some on them shamelessly stolen from the boys?  Caught in the spotlight by two recent high-profile starbabies, Harper Seven Beckham and Jessica Alba’s Haven Warren, this is among the baby name trends that seem...
Nameberry Nine: Trendy with a twist
Dec 12, 2025
　　This week, in her Nameberry Nine round-up of the latest newsy names, Abby Sandel, of Appellation Mountain, looks at recent celebrity and other interesting name sightings. Also, take advantage of our CyberMonday Nameberry ebook special! Buy our ebooks for just $3.99 today only, in our store. 　　If you’re an avid follower of all things onomastic,...
Baby Names Trends: Cassia, Caspian and Cash
Dec 12, 2025
　　Here in our baby name bubble, in case you haven’t noticed, we tend to parse every element of every name for hints of incipient baby name trends.  This would include first syllables, middle letters (like the current x), and endings like en and er for boys. 　　Just recently we’ve been...
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Stylish Baby Names: The Nameberry 9–from Winter Victoria to Vivian Vespa
Stylish Baby Names: The Nameberry 9–from Winter Victoria to Vivian Vespa
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Girls’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100
Dec 12, 2025
　　Around this time every year, we peek behind the Nameberry curtain to see which names are the most popular with our visitors.  This Top 100 for each gender, which reflects views of the name pages on our site, indicates which names have captured the most interest since the start of...
Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On
Dec 12, 2025
　　Angela Mastrodonato, creator of the trend-watching blog Upswing Baby Names, will be a regular contributor to our Bonus Blog.  Today she looks at girls’ names with a new twist at the end. 　　There’s one vowel that’s found at the end of seemingly every girl name. That vowel, of course, is...
Baby Names Trend: The Jennifer Juggernaut
Dec 12, 2025
　　Yes, there are baby names that have had longer runs at the top of the popularity list.  Mary and John, certainly, and, more recently, Michael, who ruled for 44 years, yet none of them came to be seen as an epidemic or to signify a whole generation in the way...
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Top 100 Boy Names of 2013
Top 100 Boy Names of 2013
Boys Baby Names: The viable and the verboten Winter Olympic Baby Names: Part 2–The Boys The New Everyboy Names: Emmett, River, and Axel Baby Names for Boys: Popularity of “S” and “Sh” sounds The Story of O Names: Then and Now Baby Names from Books: 6 choice choices for boys Baby Name Trends: The n-ending boys’ names epidemic Your Top 5 Boy Names!
Presidents’ Day Names: The mighty middles–Quincy, Knox and Gamaliel
Dec 12, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　On previous Presidents’ Days, we’ve looked at the first and last names of the Chief Executives, their wives and their children’s appellations.  So what’s left? 　　Their middle names! And in this era of middle-name mania, we think they merit our attention. 　　Many of the early people in...
Baby Name Choice: Second thoughts on Laszlo?
Dec 12, 2025
　　By Joel Stein, columnist, Time magazine 　　We’ve had second thoughts. Specifically, my lovely wife Cassandra has had second thoughts that were my first thought. Levi, which she thought was trending too close to popularity and therefore rejected to my great disappointment, didn’t become so popular and she thinks it might...
Baby Name Choice: Ryder– A name ahead of its time
Dec 12, 2025
　　By Gay Cioffi 　　When my son was about to be born, close to thirty years ago, there were very few resources for parents-to-be to turn to for ideas for names.  Nothing as wonderful as Nameberry, for sure!  As a veteran nursery school teacher of ten years, I had the added challenge...
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Gender-Bending Baby Names
Gender-Bending Baby Names
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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
Dec 12, 2025
　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...
100 Unique Unisex Middle Names
Dec 12, 2025
　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...
The Top Unisex Names in Every US State
Dec 12, 2025
　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...
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Irish Baby Names: Hot Off The Press
Irish Baby Names: Hot Off The Press
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DE-HIPSTERIZE THAT BABY NAME
Dec 12, 2025
　　One thing we learned when we wrote about hipster baby names is that nobody wants one.  Many people were horrified if they found their favorite names — or worse, their actual children’s names — on our list of hipster names.   No matter how much they’d loved the name before, they...
Sam and Sadie: Geezer Names for Babies
Dec 12, 2025
　　Sam, Max and Jake were once seen as cigar-chomping movie moguls who had retired to Miami Beach to become pinochle-playing Grandpas.  But they’ve all gone on to be popular baby names, both in their nickname and long forms, with Jacob topping the list since 1999. 　　Samuel, Jacob and cousin Benjamin are...
ANNE HECHE’S ATLAS JOINS THE PANTHEON OF STARBABY GODS & GODDESSES
Dec 12, 2025
　　Yesterday we got the news flash that Anne Heche named her son Atlas and last week we learned that Erykah Badu chose Mars for her baby girl. Do we smell the beginnings of a trendlet? 　　Yes,  some celebrity parents do seem to be intent on making little gods and goddesses–instant objects of...
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New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
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Forgotten Names Making a Comeback
Dec 12, 2025
　　Looking for a niche source of rare baby names? Try the comeback kids of 2022. 　　These names were once used for babies in the US, but then vanished for decades. Just when you might think they were lost forever, they've re-appeared in the official baby name data for 2022. 　　The...
Baby Names Before 1850
Dec 12, 2025
　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...
80 Great New Sweet Spot Names
Dec 12, 2025
　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...
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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby
How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby
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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine
Dec 12, 2025
　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her.  　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing?  　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...
Updating Popular 1950s Names
Dec 12, 2025
　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...
How to Change Your Baby’s Name
Dec 12, 2025
　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....
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