Guess the New Top 10 and Win!
　　The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2015 will be released by the Social Security Administration in a matter of days, and so in advance of the announcement, which we’re all awaiting with baited breath, we’re challenging you to predict which names will come out on top. 　　Will Noah be...
Apr 27, 2025
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2016 Baby Name Faves
Apr 27, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel 　　Have your favorite baby names changed this year? 　　Thinking about the names that captured my attention, week after week, I sense a theme. The names feel modern, but have history and roots. They’re not invented, exactly, but in most cases, they wouldn’t have seemed like given names...
Invent-a-Baby-Name Challenge Champs!
Apr 27, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Whew! 　　If we’ve ever had the slightest doubts about the creativity of the Nameberry community, they are hereby gone forever. 　　When we announced our latest Invent-a-Baby-Name challenge two weeks ago, we expected something like the healthy response we got last time—which was 222 entries. 　　This...
Jamie & Jools: Baby namers extraordinaire
Apr 27, 2025
　　Yesterday, Sophie Kihm presented her predictions for many of the forthcoming starbabies.  In today’s follow-up, she singles out one of the most intriguing celebrity-couple baby namers, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and wife Jools, for a more in-depth consideration. 　　If there ever was a celebrity baby name Hall of Fame, Jools...
Nameberry’s Names of the Year 2016
Apr 27, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz and Abby Sandel 　　The Defining Event of 2016 may have been the presidential election, but the political names that hit the headlines –Donald?  Hillary? Bernard?– are unlikely to find themselves on many new baby birth certificates. And so for Nameberry’s Names of the Year we’ve looked beyond...
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Cool Short Middle Names for Girls
Cool Short Middle Names for Girls
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Baby Name Compromise: When he hates her favorite
Apr 27, 2025
　　by Abby Sandel 　　Seeking their baby name compromise: She’s always known her future daughter’s name. But now they’re expecting a girl, and he’s not a fan of her favorite. How can they compromise on a name they’ll both love? 　　Annabel writes:My husband and I are expecting our first baby and...
Girl Middle Names: What’s best for Gracie?
Apr 27, 2025
　　by Abby Sandel 　　Let’s solve the riddle of the girl middle name for their due-in-December daughter. 　　Stephanie writes: 　　We are expecting our first child, a daughter, in December. We are going with Gracie for her first name (not Grace, but Gracie), but we cannot find a  middle name we love....
Girl Names: A sister for Isla and Elodie
Apr 27, 2025
　　by Abby Sandel 　　They both have their girl name favorites, but can’t agree! Where’s the middle ground between Olive and Auden for Isla and Elodie’s new sister? 　　Cristen writes: 　　We’re expecting our third girl very soon and are stuck on a name for her. Our first two are Isla and...
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Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide
Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide
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100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel
Apr 27, 2025
　　Boy names ending in a vowel (or a vowel sound) feel lively and distinctive, in an era where consonant names for boys – particularly those ending in N and R – have long dominated the list of popular names. 　　There are now five boy names ending in a vowel sound...
80+ Woodsy Names for Boys That Will Make You Want to Have a Son
Apr 27, 2025
　　What do you get if you cross cottagecore with cowboy names? Meet woodsy names for boys. Woodsy names are the best of each trend — the rugged handsomeness of cowboy names blended with the romantic pastorality and natural elements of cottagecore names. 　　These are the names of woodland heroes and forest...
Brother Names
Apr 27, 2025
　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...
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Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave
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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around
Apr 27, 2025
　　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...
Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl
Apr 27, 2025
　　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...
How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
Apr 27, 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...
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Trendy Baby Names: The trendiest of all time
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Unusual Baby Names: Top choices under the radar
Apr 27, 2025
　　The big news in baby names this week has been the Most Popular Names 2012: Top 1, Top 10, Top 100, Top 1000. 　　But swimming just below the surface — not quite on the radar but not truly off, either — are dozens of more unusual baby names poised to...
Owen? Max? Lucy? Will They Ever Make the Top 10?
Apr 27, 2025
　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　These names could be your middle-aged neighbor or a kid in your child’s class. These names are all familiar. Most are traditional. Most are likable. Most are timeless. 　　And not one has ever made the top 10 on the Social Security list since...
Springtime in Paris: A New Generation of French Names
Apr 27, 2025
　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　There’s a new generation of names popular in Paris, all fresh and chic-sounding beyond the French borders.  Will they translate to the English-speaking world?  The Francophiles among us might like to try. 　　These names are widely used in contemporary France and might make exotic choices for...
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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More
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Classic Baby Names on the Rise
Apr 27, 2025
　　When it comes to classic names, there are two stories we like to tell. Sometimes it’s that classics have been abandoned. Time to name your baby Chicago, Koala, or True, because nobody would dare call a kid Elizabeth or James in the year 2023. 　　The other story? Classic baby names...
Top Baby Name Influencers 2023
Apr 27, 2025
　　Baby name influencers don't set out to start name trends, but ultimately, their names go viral. 　　When it comes to influential names, there’s a formula for success. Whether the name is that of a celebrity or their child, it needs to be connected to someone who’s highly visible in the...
New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
Apr 27, 2025
　　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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Apr 27, 2025
　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...
Unique Twin Names to Inspire
Apr 27, 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...
Test-Driving Your Baby Name
Apr 27, 2025
　　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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