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Top Boys Name For Each Letter: a 130-year survey

　　Yesterday, we looked at the girls’ names, and today, as promised, it’s the boys’ turn. Again, we present the Top 10 baby names for every letter of the alphabet—from Anthony to Zecheriah—compiled by nameberry’s own Nephele. (The U.S. Social Security Administration’s complete names lists spanning a 130-year period were used in the tabulation...

Jan 13, 2025

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back

Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn

A Boy Named Chelsea

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Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Heroes and villains, famous and infamous, real life, big and small screen characters and the actors who played them—there’s a whole genre of cowboy names that have a certain swagger and western twang all their own. 　　Here are a dozen of the best: who they were and why we like...

Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel follows the lead of Jada Pinkett (with son Jaden) in showing us how to find boys’ names honoring a female namesake. 　　Jaden Christopher Syre Smith turns 13 next month. Smith is Hollywood royalty, the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, and his name is...

Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

Jan 13, 2025

　　Yesterday we took a look at the girls’ names moving in and out of fashion and now we turn our attention to their brothers. 　　And here we find a somewhat different picture. 　　Overall, it confirms the fact that there is much greater consistency on the boys’ side of the fence, with...

Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Until recently, Italian names–particularly for boys– have rarely ventured outside their own neighborhoods, but lately we’ve seen several popping up in the celebrisphere—though usually, if not always, used by celebs with Italian roots. There have been at least four Mateo/Matteos, two Roccos, two Romeos, Annabeth Gish’s Enzo, Ricky Martin’s Valentino, and...

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Hate Your Name? Change It!

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Word Names for Babies: What’s in a word?

Jan 13, 2025

　　For several years now, word names have been singled out as being at the extreme edge of cool—we may have been guilty of pushing that edge ourselves at times. But I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to pull back a little, and put the brakes on. Celebrities have tried to outdo...

Name Shame

Jan 13, 2025

　　Hate your name? Feeling less-than-wonderful about your own moniker can inspire a larger love of a different kind of name, says guest blogger Jill Barnett. 　　I was four years old, and dressed in my best Wonder Woman Underoos, complete with lasso and headband. I had just finished watching my favorite...

Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular?

Jan 13, 2025

　　The top English girls’ names for the current year are listed on Nameberry here. You can also see popularity statistics for English names on the individual name pages. 　　English name standings have not been published consistently every year. At the beginning of 2009, the UK ‘s Office for National Statistics...

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Boys’ Names: 8 greats under the radar

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Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again

Jan 13, 2025

　　Just as we’ve been heralding the trend towards cowboy names, it looks like we could be in for a posse of new ones. 　　In the L.A. Times the other day, an article talked about prime-time television’s “reinvigorated love of the western, where projects are sprouting like cactus in the desert…and...

Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　I have a friend, a pretty quirky guy, who has one of those generic boys’ names: Bill. I was thinking recently what an advantage it is for Bill to be named Bill rather than something like Jasper or Jarvis, one of those boys’ names that’s his equal in quirkiness. Bill...

Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

Jan 13, 2025

　　The news is out–even if it hasn’t been formally announced–that the soon-to-arrive third Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck baby will be a boy. This provides us all with a perfect opportunity to display our sibset-crafting skills. 　　I think all will agree that the couple made gorgeous (and trend-setting) choices for...

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Baby Name News: From fashion, sports and teentown

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Baby Name Trends: Sleek, simple, cool names

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　People often ask us how we come up with our baby name trend predictions. 　　The short answer: It’s a mix of science and inspiration, with a dash of magic. 　　One of our major predictions for baby names 2015, for instance, was a trend toward short, simple...

Most Popular, Most Unisex Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Many unisex baby names are not truly unisex, meaning they’re used predominantly for one sex and only rarely for the other. 　　I’m thinking of names like Addison and Madison, which started as boys’ names but are now used nearly exclusively for girls, and names like James, in the Top 10...

Baby Name News: Norse names, nicknames and more

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes gender-neutral names for boys, lots of creative nicknames, and inspiration from revolutionaries, Norse myth, and the internet. 　　Unisex names for boys 　　Sometimes it feels like when a name crosses genders, it tends to go more from the boys to the girls than the...

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Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily?

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70’s Baby Names: Beyond Tiffany & Todd

Jan 13, 2025

　　When we talk about vintage names, we’re usually harking back to the Gay ’90s or the Roaring ’20s at the latest. But what about more recent vintage vintages? Are there any names that were popular just a couple of decades ago that are already ready for revival?–or are they all...

GOODBYE, GLADYS?

Jan 13, 2025

　　There’s a lively discussion going on over at our message boards on what names have gone out of style and will probably never come back. On the permanent Out List, by consensus, are: 　　BERTHA 　　BEULAH 　　BRUNHILDA (was this ever in, I mean since the 11th century?) 　　CLORIS 　　DORCAS 　　DORIS 　　EUNICE...

Cheery-O Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　From the time we wrote our very first name book, we’ve both been totally charmed by the unique verve and spirit of names ending in the letter ‘o’. And, over time, our love for them has only increased. We’re glad to see that more and more people seem to be agreeing with...

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British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations

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Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one? I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...

Top UK Baby Names: Olivia and Oliver head the list

Jan 13, 2025

　　At long last, the official list of the most popular names for baby girls and boys born in England and Wales in 2009 has been released. And, to cut to the chase, here are the Top 10 for each gender–all of which were there last year, with several remaining in the same spot:...

Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era?

Jan 13, 2025

　　VINTAGE NAMES: What era are you? 　　Unless you’re a baby namer focused on finding a newly created or cutting-edge name, chances are you’ve considered using one from the past. But which part of the past? An ancient name or one from earlier in the 20th century? 　　So, the question of the...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 13, 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...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Jan 13, 2025

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...