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Baby Names 2012: Heard any new names lately?

　　For the new year, we thought it would be fun to ask you to post the new baby names 2012 you’ve heard or see lately, on babies or in movie credits or in the newspaper or even new choices you’ve encountered on Nameberry. 　　We think we’ve heard them all…..until we...

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W-Names: Where’s Waldo?

Baby Name News: This week’s most notable names, from Ami to Zia

Stylish Names: What’s Their Secret?

Too trendy? Or just right…. Baby Name Spike: People vs pet names Bird Names: Avian options beyond Robin and Raven Celebrity Baby Names: The hottest and the nottest Baby Names Trends: Cassia, Caspian and Cash The Hottest Baby Names of 2011 Baby Names of 1912: Hester, Chester & Sylvester Australian Baby Names: What’s up down under

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Nameberry Nine: Trendy with a twist

　　This week, in her Nameberry Nine round-up of the latest newsy names, Abby Sandel, of Appellation Mountain, looks at recent celebrity and other interesting name sightings. Also, take advantage of our CyberMonday Nameberry ebook special! Buy our ebooks for just $3.99 today only, in our store. 　　If you’re an avid follower of all things onomastic,...

Baby Name Trends: Ha Ha names are nothing to laugh at!

　　Have you noticed the sudden pop in popularity of girls’ names starting with the happy-go-lucky syllable ‘Ha’—some on them shamelessly stolen from the boys? Caught in the spotlight by two recent high-profile starbabies, Harper Seven Beckham and Jessica Alba’s Haven Warren, this is among the baby name trends that seem...

Guess Beyonce’s Baby Name!

　　NEWS FLASH! Beyoncé gave birth last night to a baby girl with husband Jay-Z and the name is reportedly Blue Ivy….or maybe Ivy Blue. Stay tuned for breaking baby name news…. 　　The Beyoncé Baby Name Watch is in full swing, with rumors (false) flying that the singer’s baby girl with producer...

Hottest Baby Name Trends: a century ago

　　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...

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Girls’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Girls’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Girl Baby Names: The newsiest names, from Talulah to Lula to Rue Girl Baby Names: Plain and fancy, from Arya to Tess to Zetta Let’s hear it for Auntie Name! Unusual Girls’ Names: Lotus, Arrow, Pehr, and the rest of the Nameberry 9 A Celebrity Mom Talks About Her Surprising Name Choice Looking Beyond Emma and Ella: Who’s next? Classic Girls’ Names: All about Alice Girls’ Names 2013: Our 10 newest choices

Baby Girl Names: Two-for-One Choices

　　Maybe because Nameberry attracts such serious name lovers, many visitors to the site can’t settle for choosing just one name for their babies. 　　I’m not talking about the trend toward picking two middle names but about the taste for baby girl names that have two very different versions: a classic,...

Girl Detective Names: Trixie, Theolinda, Thursday and Tuppence

　　Hear the words ‘detective’ or ‘private eye,’ and you probably picture a tough guy like Mickey Spillane or a cooler customer like Sam Spade. But it turns out that mystery fiction also features a lot more female sleuths than you might think, dating back to Loveday Brooke in the 1890s...

Classic Girls’ Names: Good Charlotte

　　For the past couple of years, Charlotte has been at or near the top of the list of Berry favorites, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a name at the very center of the Sweet Spot of names with a ton of great attributes and references—literary, historic, and...

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Baby Name Choice: Second thoughts on Laszlo?

Baby Name Choice: Second thoughts on Laszlo?

The Story of O Names: Then and Now The Origins of Owen The New Everyboy Names: Emmett, River, and Axel 40+ Neglected Namesake Names–Boys’ edition Top Names of 2033: Boys edition Winter Olympic Baby Names: Part 2–The Boys Memorial Day Names 2014: 15 great Civil War hero names Top 100 Boy Names of 2013

Baby Names from Books: 6 choice choices for boys

　　By Anna Otto of Waltzing More Than Matilda 　　1. Caspian 　　Caspian is a character in C.S. Lewis’s fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. As a young boy in Prince Caspian, he had to fight for his throne against his usurping uncle to become king of Narnia, and as a youth...

Baby Name Choice: Ryder– A name ahead of its time

　　By Gay Cioffi 　　When my son was about to be born, close to thirty years ago, there were very few resources for parents-to-be to turn to for ideas for names. Nothing as wonderful as Nameberry, for sure! As a veteran nursery school teacher of ten years, I had the added challenge...

What’s your favorite classic boys’ name…and why?

　　Which classic boys’ name do you love the best? 　　Classic boys’ names encompass those that are traditionally popular such as John, William, and Thomas, along with classics fashionable today like Henry and Alexander. 　　And classic names for boys may also include biblical names such as Jacob and Joshua, along with...

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Gender-Bending Baby Names The Top Unisex Names in Every US State Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Surprisingly International Baby Names The Coolest Unisex Nature Names Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

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Is V the New Z?

Is V the New Z?

New York Baby Names NAMES OF THE NEW WEST Sam and Sadie: Geezer Names for Babies French Baby Names: Prune, Anyone? THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE Baby Name Trends: View from the Peak CAREFUL, KAL-EL; WATCH OUT WHIZDOM! Irish Baby Names: Hot Off The Press

Biblical Names: From The Baby Name Bible

　　When we finally finished researching and writing our encyclopedic name book, the day came when we had to decide what to call it. (The working title of Big Baby Name Book just wasn’t going to cut it.) 　　This turned out to be almost as laborious a task as writing the...

Baby Name Trends: Heading Up

　　Yesterday we looked at our list of names that peaked in 2007 and predicted general baby name trends. Today, we’re identifying those names we expect to be hearing a lot more of in the future. 　　Not included on this list are the trendy choices like Addison and Aiden that everybody...

COWBOY (& COWGIRL) NAMES

　　Cowboy names first galloped onto the scene in the 1950s and 1960s, along with the cool Western TV shows and movies of the era. A lot of these were Old Testament names that had not been heard much since, well, since the real Old West. Some of the early choices...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

New Popular Irish Names Revealed The Best of the Rarest Baby Names Top Names in Each State Revealed! 100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More Rare Names With Popular Nicknames Top Baby Name Influencers 2023 Popular Twin Names 5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....

Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

　　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....

New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names

　　Jewish names are a diverse set, represented by Hebrew names, biblical names, Yiddish names, and gentile names that gained popularity among the American Jewish community. 　　A recent report by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion's Jewish Language Project reveals the most popular Jewish names in the US. This...

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How to Change Your Baby’s Name

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup The Best Baby Name Advice It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name Name Change Resources 9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby 20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

Updating Popular 1950s Names

　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...

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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...

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