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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...

Dec 12, 2025

Middle Names: How To Make A Distinguished Choice

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Sibling Names: 7 Things Every Parent Should Know

5 Mistakes Even Smart Baby Namers Make

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6 Ways Not To Fight About Baby Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

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...

9 Ways to Choose an Unusual Baby Name

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　There’s more than one way to choose an unusual name. 　　Classics like William and Elizabeth are evergreen. And who doesn’t love Ava and Mason? 　　But if you think you’d like something different – maybe even dramatically different – for your child’s name, it can be tough to...

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

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

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Baby Names: Spelling Counts

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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...

Baby Name Patterns: To Keep Going or Break the Mold?

Dec 12, 2025

　　What do you do when you’ve created a baby name pattern, and now none of the names you love fits? Does your next baby break the mold, or does family unity carry the day? 　　Katie writes: 　　My due date is September 30 and we are expecting a girl, our fourth...

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...

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Above-aVERage Names for Boys

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Rare Boys’ Names of the 1940s

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Anna Otto, Waltzing More Than Matilda 　　The most popular boys’ names of the 1940s were John, Peter, Robert, and David, but what were the least popular names? Here are ten names which were only chosen once in any year between 1944 and 1949 in South Australia, making them unique...

The Agony of Choosing A Name

Dec 12, 2025

　　by Paul Ratner 　　As my wife and I are counting down to the birth of our son, we are happy, eager, completely discomforted (well, that’s mostly my heroic wife) and stuck in agonizing limbo over choosing a name for our upcoming guy. It seemed like a simple enough thing 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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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Dec 12, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...

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...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Dec 12, 2025

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

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New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

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Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

Dec 12, 2025

　　Astrology names are inspired by the stars and planets, the four elements, and the symbols and characteristics connected to the zodiac signs. 　　Coinciding with the recent cultural obsession with astrology, we’ve observed a rise in names relating to the zodiac and all things celestial. 　　Millennials and Gen Z have taken...

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,...

Ancient Names for Babies

Dec 12, 2025

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

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Unique Baby Names: Fresh From the Faroes

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Contest: Guess the New Top 10 and Win!

Dec 12, 2025

　　If there ever was a holiday for baby namers, it would be the Friday before Mother’s Day. For this is the day that the Social Security Administration releases the data on the most popular baby names of the previous year. This Friday, May 10th, the official list of US Most...

Top Baby Names 2018!

Dec 12, 2025

　　The top baby names of 2018 are in, with Emma and Liam continuing their reign as the Number 1 girl and boy names. 　　The top baby girl names remain exactly the same as last year in the first five places: Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella, and Sophia. 　　Among the most popular baby boy names,...

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,...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Dec 12, 2025

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Dec 12, 2025

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Dec 12, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...