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The Long and Short of Baby Name News This Week

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes super short baby names, football and hockey namesakes, Indigenous Canadian names, and British trends over the last 180 years. 　　Juicy name stories: Tobermory and PerstephanieWho loves an unusual naming story? We do. These parents’ stories in HuffPost are particularly juicy: you’ll find out...

Apr 16, 2025

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Celebrity Names: April Starbaby Predictions

Apr 16, 2025

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　I’ve been the Name Guru to the Stars for a while now—long enough that I’m predicting the celebrity names for siblings of the babies I once made predictions for. 　　In the past, I forecasted the names of Michael Phelps, Alanis Morissette, Lauren Conrad, Miranda Kerr, and Daphne...

International Baby Names: Hottest in the UK, Poland and Japan

Apr 16, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s international baby names news includes the boldest and Britishest celebrity boy names, and what’s hot in Poland, Hungary and Japan, plus the benefits of multi-nickname names. 　　Baby boy names: vintage and vivaciousInternational baby names news this week has seen boy name announcements from both sides...

What Uncommon Names Do You Hear a Lot?

Apr 16, 2025

　　For me, it’s Huxley. 　　At #556 in England & Wales last year, and me being British, you’d think I’d be lucky to meet a single Huxley. And yet, it seems like every time I’m out with my kids, we meet yet another little one with the name. Ditto Rafferty (#278),...

The New Top 10 Contest Winner

Apr 16, 2025

　　Congratulations to our Berry Amy, known in the comments as Orchid_Lover, who won our “Guess the New Top 10” contest! 　　Amy’s predictions for the Top 10 baby names of 2018 were as follows: 　　1. Emma 　　Noah 　　2. Olivia 　　Liam 　　3. Ava 　　William 　　4. Sophia 　　Oliver 　　5. Isabella 　　Benjamin 　　6. Charlotte...

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Baby Name Nicknames: The ubiquitous Addie

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Baby Name Influencers: What name did someone else make you love?

Apr 16, 2025

　　My friend Kim loved the name Cordelia. This was in my pre-Nameberry days, and Cordelia‘s been off the Top 1000 since 1950: It certainly wasn’t a name that it occurred to me to love. 　　Still…..Cordelia. The more I thought about it, the more I loved Cordelia. Thanks, Kim, for the...

Luna, Ozzie and Vernon: Bold Girls, Vintage Boys

Apr 16, 2025

　　by Abby Sandel/Appellation Mountain 　　Do you name boys and girls the same way? 　　We often reserve antique gems for girls – lady-like appellations like Charlotte, Amelia, Lydia, and Hattie. But this week, parents proved that retro picks work for boys, too. Several high-profile birth announcements revived grandpa-chic choices for our...

Sassy Short Girl Baby Names: Blythe, Blake, Blair

Apr 16, 2025

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　After years of long-frilly girl names, the winds of fashion are once again shifting and one syllable names are getting recognition. 　　There are several lovely one syllable names with quaint femininity such as Jane, Rose, and Mae. And then there are one syllable...

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RIP, Ben: A Mom Mourns Her Once-Favorite Name

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Classic baby names: Peter, Paul or Mary?

Apr 16, 2025

　　Of course they’re still around, with a few like William and Daniel still in the Top Ten, but most of the standard classics are far from being the power names they once were–Peter, Paul and George, for example, have hit all-time lows. 　　And yes, Edward has that Twilight touch, and Jack is back with...

Baby Jock Names: 25 surprising sports star choices

Apr 16, 2025

　　If there’s one arena that may have been kind of neglected in the nameberry search for cool namesakes, it would probably be the wide, wide world of sports. 　　There are a couple of explanations for this. Number One is the fact that so many star athletes were known by nicknames—Mickey...

Antiquarian Names: Colonial craftsmen names

Apr 16, 2025

　　For a number of years, when I wasn’t writing about names, I was writing about antiques and collectibles for a syndicated newspaper column. But of course when I was thinking about antiques, I was still also thinking about names. 　　Looking at the field of antique furniture, for example, I found that...

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Apr 16, 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....

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Apr 16, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Apr 16, 2025

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

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How Millennial Is Your Name?

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Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Apr 16, 2025

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Apr 16, 2025

　　New York baby namers love sleek, streamlined girl names like Rose and Claire, while Dallas favorites like Willa and Evangeline bring a touch of Southern charm. 　　Scottish namers are drawn to rugged boy names with a local flavor, such as Innes and Struan. And in Auckland, New Zealand, you'll find...

New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

Apr 16, 2025

　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

Apr 16, 2025

　　Have you ever known the excitement of meeting a Ben who is not Just Another Benjamin but is, in fact, Benedict? Or Nicki whose “secret” full name is Danika? If so, this list is for you. 　　Rare full names with familiar nicknames can be the best of both worlds, for...

The Top Baby Names A-Z

Apr 16, 2025

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Apr 16, 2025

　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....

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