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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...

Dec 12, 2025

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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...

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...

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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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...

Baby Names: Spelling Counts

Dec 12, 2025

　　She’s found the perfect name for her Fall 2016 baby. But how to spell it? The Name Sage wades into the data to find the best answer – but wants to hear your opinion, too! 　　Lindsey writes: 　　I’m trying to decide on a name for my little girl and I’m...

How to Reinvent Family Names for Baby

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　This week brought us two celebrity baby names inspired by loved ones. But they’re not just simple honor names. 　　Lacey Chabert revealed that her new daughter, Julia Mimi Bella, is named for Lacey’s mom, Julie. Julia is the first child for Lacey and husband Dave Nehdar. 　　Actor...

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Name Sage: Can We Still Use Our Favorite Name?

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On Choosing a (mega) Popular Baby Name

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Jen Simon 　　Is there any easier way to judge our fellow parents than by their children’s names? A name is the first thing we learn about a person. It’s how they’re presented to the world. It’s the defining declaration a parent makes when labeling his or her child. Often,...

Great Alternatives to the Top Boy Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

New McBaby Names for Boys

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Mackenzie, Makayla, and Mckenna have had a long run as go-to names for girls. 　　Is there any energy left in this trend? 　　The answer seems to be yes. And among the more interesting of the Mc- and Mac– names are some great options for boys, as parents...

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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...

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Dec 12, 2025

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

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　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...

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How Millennial Is Your Name?

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60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Dec 12, 2025

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Dec 12, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

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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These Unique Names Are Getting More Popular

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　　How can a name be popular and unique at the same time? 　　It can sit at the top of second tier of 1000 most popular names, lying just out of sight beneath the much-publicized Top 1000, ranking Number 1001 to 2000 and used for an average of 100 to 200...

Baby Name Trends: Names on the rise

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

Best New Names in the Top 1000

Dec 12, 2025

　　According to the latest baby name data from the SSA, the pool of baby names chosen by new parents in the US has never been wider. The percentage of babies receiving a name in the Top 1000 continues to trend downwards, with almost a third of those born in 2018...

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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...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Dec 12, 2025

　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...

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...