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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...

Dec 12, 2025

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No Dumb Names: And 21 other baby name rules worth following

Dec 12, 2025

　　A few weeks ago we asked the Nameberry moms and dads to tell us their best baby names rules. What followed were hundreds of suggestions, from the idiosyncratically individual (All middle names must be Celtic and begin with R) to rules so universal they might apply to everyone. 　　Rule Number...

Middle Names: How To Make A Distinguished Choice

Dec 12, 2025

　　No sooner had we declared the death of such old-style middle names as Ann, John, and Marie – mere connective tissue between the first name and the last – than we started seeing the rise of a whole new generation of undistinguished middle names. 　　There are now officially enough little...

The Top Ten Baby Name Problems: And how to solve them

Dec 12, 2025

　　Ideally, choosing your baby’s name is a fun, inspired endeavor, but too often baby name problems get in the way. Here are the problems we hear most often, and how to fix them: 　　Your family interferes with your name choice 　　Your mom wants you to name the baby after her. ...

Global Baby Names: Picking a border-crossing name

Dec 12, 2025

　　Canadian guest blogger and name book writer Shandley McMurray offers some advice on global baby names–picking a name that will travel well. (And those are her beautiful kids in the illustration.) 　　Growing up with a name like Shandley in Canada wasn’t always easy. I became tired of correcting people’s spelling and...

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13 Intriguing Island Baby Names for Girls

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Emily Cardoza 　　Though summer vacation has just about ended, visions of white sand beaches and gentle waves endure – even if only as screensavers. Why not continue the summer holidays through an exploration of island-inspired baby names for girls? 　　Each of these names corresponds to one of the thousands...

My Name is Gay

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Gay Cioffi 　　As the youngest in my family of five, I am the only one who was not named for a grandparent or beloved aunt or uncle. As it happened, I was named for a fondly remembered childhood acquaintance of my mother. 　　While not only was breaking from that family...

Vintage Girl Names: 9 Fresh Ideas

Dec 12, 2025

　　Vintage girl names can make great choices for a daughter born today. They’re tied to the past, have plenty of great namesakes, and yet feel fresh and unexpected, too. 　　The only problem? Many of them are far more popular than you might expect. 　　Anna Chlumsky, the My Girl child star...

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On Choosing a (mega) Popular Baby Name

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Celebrity Baby Names for Boys

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Here’s something we hear again and again: naming a boy is hard! 　　Parents tend to play it safe – or at least safer – when it’s time to name a son. The reasons are many: a tendency to hand down family names, fewer possible variations of popular...

New Baby Name Trend: The Lu/Lou boys

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　After a rash of girls’ names beginning with the ‘Loo’ sound—Lucy and Lucille and Luna and Lulu–we’re suddenly seeing an even bigger bounce for boys’ names with that beginning syllable—spelled in a variety of ways, from Luca to Lewis to Llewelyn. So could Lou be about to...

9 Unique Celebrity Baby Names for Boys

Dec 12, 2025

　　Celebrities are known for choosing unique celebrity baby names. Academy Award-nominated Terrence Howard is the latest to join the ranks of daring baby namers. 　　It isn’t just about choosing an outlandish name. It’s about finding inspiration from the wider world. Sure, the names on this list have seldom – or...

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Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

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...

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Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

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How Millennial Is Your Name?

Dec 12, 2025

　　Millennial names define their generation. John and Mary were the Number 1 names for The Greatest Generation, Linda and Gary emblematic names of the Baby Boom, and now Jessica and Michael emerging as the top names for Millennials. 　　Nameberry tabulated the names of all babies born from 1982 until 2004,...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Dec 12, 2025

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

Babyberries: Class of 2023!

Dec 12, 2025

　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2023! 　　Birth announcements for 93 new Babyberries – 47 girls and 46 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...

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New Top British Baby Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　The most popular British names for 2018 are hot off the press from the Office of National Statistics. 　　Once again, Oliver was top in England and Wales, for the sixth year, and Olivia remained the top name for girls for the third year in a row. 　　New (or back) into the Top 100 are Grayson,...

Nameberry’s Top Names of the Decade

Dec 12, 2025

　　Nameberry’s top names of the decade are led by Charlotte at Number 1 for girls and the biblical Asher in the top spot for boys. 　　Our 2010s baby name popularity list is calculated according to which names attracted the lion’s share of the nearly 125 million views of our name...

Unique Baby Names in the News

Dec 12, 2025

　　This week’s news includes unique baby names, the hottest names in Switzerland, celebrity baby names that make a statement, and parents who changed their baby names to keep their families happy…would you? 　　Top Swiss baby names: Liam and LeniaSwitzerland is a small country with a diverse range of languages and...

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Name Change Resources

Dec 12, 2025

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Dec 12, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...