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Australian Baby Names: What’s up down under
Dec 12, 2025
  Today’s guest blogger, Aussie Anna Otto, tells us what she sees ahead for Australian baby names in 2012.   Baby Name Trends from Australia for 2012   Nameberry has brought us the hottest trends in baby trends for next year, and many of them are evident in Australia, as in other countries. But...
Baby Names of 1912: Hester, Chester & Sylvester
Dec 12, 2025
  Another new year, another opportunity to test out the 100-Year Rule, a chance to look at the pop lists of 1912 to see if we can find some undiscovered gems to excavate and polish up.   Looking first at the boys’ 1912 Top 10, we see that it consisted completely of...
Hottest Baby Name Trends: a century ago
Dec 12, 2025
  If you were naming a baby in 1911, you certainly wouldn’t be thinking about the hottest baby name trends or what was cool or hip.  Ah, those were the days!   But it is interesting to look back and see what patterns were in evidence then, which names—some of them really surprising—have obeyed the...
Baby Name News: This week’s most notable names, from Ami to Zia
Dec 12, 2025
  We’re so pleased to announce that starting today, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel will be presenting a regular baby name news recap and analysis every Monday.   If you’re a Nameberry aficionado, you might recall that this column started out as a week in review, then morphed into a more conventional list of names based...
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