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Middle Names Q & A

　　I’m looking for a short and simple middle name for my daughter, but certainly don’t want to go back to the tired old standbys of my childhood like Lynn and Lee and Sue and Ann. Any fresh ideas?There are loads of more modern and imaginative one-syllable options these days. Many...

Sibling Names: 7 Things Every Parent Should Know

The 7 Biggest Mistakes Newbie Baby Namers Make

5 Routes to Baby Name Happiness

19 Signs You’ve Found the Right Baby Name

The Top Ten Baby Name Problems: And how to solve them 9 Ways to Choose an Unusual Baby Name The Timeless + Timely Baby Name Formula 5 Mistakes Even Smart Baby Namers Make No Dumb Names: And 21 other baby name rules worth following Middle Names: How To Make A Distinguished Choice How Close is Too Close? 10 Factors to Consider Global Baby Names: Picking a border-crossing name

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Unusual Names: 5 Ways to Stay on the Right Side of Weird

　　Unusual names can be attractive, distinctive, intriguing….until they cross the line to weird. Parents in search of unusual names often worry about how to stay on the right side of that line. 　　Here, five ways to choose unusual names that have all the best qualities of the genre and...

Baby Name Flow: How First-Middle-Last Names Can Play Nice Together

　　Middle names are entering a new era for 2023 and beyond. It’s almost imperative today that middle names be meaningful — whether they honor a relative, relate to a parent’s passion, or reflect an important family value. 　　But middle names today should also be fun. Parents are taking advantage of...

6 Ways Not To Fight About Baby Names

　　Conceiving your child may have made you feel, more than any other step you’ve taken together, as if you and your spouse had finally and truly become one. Choosing its name can remind you that, nope, you’re still actually two. 　　There are all those people with all those names that...

Do Kre8iv Spellings Make Names More Special?

　　Guest blogger JILL BARNETT discovers that yooneek names are more prevalent than she’d realized. And every bit as confusing. 　　On a beautiful Saturday in July, I found myself where most people would love to be on a beautiful Saturday in July: sitting in a painfully boring continuing education seminar, hopelessly...

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Double Trouble: Name plus Nickname Search

Double Trouble: Name plus Nickname Search

Movie Star Characters: When Marilyn was Elsie Baby Name Remorse: A Name Nerd’s Apology Vintage Girl Names: 9 Fresh Ideas 100 Gorgeous Girl Names in Translation Baby Names: Spelling Counts Influential Baby Names: Show biz ladies Unexpected Girl Names for Jonah’s Sister How to Reinvent Family Names for Baby

Single-Syllable Names for Girls

　　Middle names are entering a new era for 2023 and beyond. It’s almost imperative today that middle names be meaningful — whether they honor a relative, relate to a parent’s passion, or reflect an important family value. 　　But middle names today should also be fun. Parents are taking advantage of...

Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia!

　　By Lauren Der 　　Olivia has been the second most popular girls’ name in the US for the two years running, and Golden Age Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland was one of the first people to bring it to prominence here decades ago. The last surviving star of Gone With the...

19 Biblical Girl Names You Should Consider

　　Have you noticed that biblical names go in and out of style? 　　These days, Old Testament boy names dominate the popularity list, with Noah, Jacob and Benjamin in the Top 10, as well as Archangel Michael, but with only Abigail on the girl side. 　　This was not true in the...

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Zodiac Baby Names for Boys

Zodiac Baby Names for Boys

The Agony of Choosing A Name The ABCs of Boys’ Names Name Sage: Finding a Subtle Honor Name New McBaby Names for Boys Name Sage: A Name to Remember Dad 9 Unique Celebrity Baby Names for Boys Seeking a Science-Inspired Name Above-aVERage Names for Boys

Great Alternatives to the Top Boy Names

　　By Kara @ The Art of NamingFor those parents who may secretly like the sound of the top names but hate their popularity, I’ve created a list of alternative options to the Top 10 names for boys. The names may be similar in sound, syllables, initial letter, meaning, origin or...

Names for Twin Boys

　　Twin names present double the naming challenge but can also be double the fun. Naming twins is a rare opportunity to choose two related baby names at the same time that are compatible but also distinct. 　　With twins, it can be more tempting to use rhyme, sound play, and same...

Comeback Kid Nicknames for Boys

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Here is Part 2 of our search for fresh vintage nickname names, and this time we’re looking at boys’ names that at one time registered on the Top 1000 list. 　　Bear in mind, though, that, because of the growth of the overall population we can sometimes be...

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic Gender-Bending Baby Names Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

　　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...

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Babyberries: Class of 2023! 60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich America's Next Top Baby Names 60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

What's a Classic Name?

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

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Best New Names in the Top 1000

Best New Names in the Top 1000

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Word Names: The hottest ones right now

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Doesn’t it sometimes seem that just about any word in the dictionary can find its way onto a birth certificate these days? (Yes, looking at you, Kardashians!). And it’s not only color and flower and occupational nouns, but even adjectives and adverbs that were never conceived of...

Top British Baby Names: Some fun facts

　　This week’s news includes fun facts from the new top British baby names data, name inspiration from the football pitch to the pizza parlor, and an out-of-this-world naming challenge for the Teenberries out there… 　　Best of Top British Baby Names: making a splash across the pondOh frabjous day! The England...

Baby Name Trends: Names on the rise

　　This week’s news includes baby name trends, the fastest-rising names of the last five years, cute and clever nicknames for girls, and names you’ve never heard before from Scandinavia and South Africa. 　　Baby Name Trends: Fast risersIf you like to know which names are shooting up the charts, you’ll enjoy...

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The Best Baby Name Advice

The Best Baby Name Advice

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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

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