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Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing??

　　This blog is adapted from our most recent book, Beyond Ava & Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby 　　When people look for baby names online, they often put in a search for unique names. Some of them are trying to find names that are unusual and distinctive, but...

Dec 15, 2024

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

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Romantic Names for Girls

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Place Names: New Destinations

Dec 15, 2024

　　Feeling that geographical names have become kind of ho-hum? It’s true that many people have tired of Paris and some of the over-visited names from the American West like Cheyenne, Sierra, Dakota and Dallas. But that’s no reason to write off the whole category—we can renew our passports and look...

President’s Day Names: All the Presidents’ children

Dec 15, 2024

　　We’re all pretty familiar with the names of the presidents whose surnames have beeen commonly used for children–Jackson, Jefferson, Taylor, Tyler, Lincoln, Truman, Madison, Wilson, Kennedy et al– and we’re equally familiar with the names of most of their wives as well. 　　But less well known are the ones they chose for...

Oscar Names: Girls’ edition

Dec 15, 2024

　　In honor of the Academy Award nominations announced yesterday, one of our favorite bloggers, Abby Sandel, creator of the always informative and witty appellationmountain.net, continues the tradition she started last year with boys’ red carpet names, and has again searched through the annals of Oscar history to come up with some great...

Science Heroine Names: Inspiration from scientific barrier breakers

Dec 15, 2024

　　To commemorate this week’s International Women’s Day (we’re only a day late), we thought that this time we’d look not at creative artists or political figures, but at accomplished female scientists and mathematicians. These range in time from the 4th century BC to the recent past, all of them women...

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Movie Names: Alfred Hitchcock’s Golden Girls

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Why I Named my Son Jayne

Dec 15, 2024

　　By Meagan Botterill, Todays Parent 　　I’m going to talk about my son Jayne. 　　Jayne is a sometimes happy, sometimes whiny, always snuggly terror of a two-and-a-half-year-old. Basically, he’s a typical toddler. Jayne is also big. He’s tall and very dense, and people constantly think he’s older than he is. I’m...

12 Brilliant Biblical Girl Names

Dec 15, 2024

　　Bible names for girls have been among the most widely-used in the Western world for centuries. Bible names include many that we consider the most classic girls' names: Anne, Elizabeth, Sarah, and of course, Mary. 　　In the past, a narrow number of Old Testament girls’ names have been in the...

Strong, Feminine, Uncommon Girl Names

Dec 15, 2024

　　Katie has a few favorites, but none seem like The Name! What would you name a sister for Dash and Rory? 　　Katie writes: 　　I never anticipated I’d need your help as I was fairly confident when naming my first two boys: Dashiel “Dash” and Rory. 　　I’m expecting my third baby,...

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Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

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Aiden Names: the Rise And Fall of a Mega-Trend

Dec 15, 2024

　　Aiden and boy names that rhyme with it have been all the rage since around the year 2000. Have you ever wondered about the history of this name trend? Or what the most popular Aiden-names are today? 　　Join us for a dive into this wave of names that swept the...

80+ Woodsy Names for Boys That Will Make You Want to Have a Son

Dec 15, 2024

　　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...

How I Named My Baby: Koda Florian

Dec 15, 2024

　　Cinthia, a surgical technologist, and Benjamin Shaver, who works in warehouse maintenance, live in Seattle, Washington with their son, Koda Florian. 　　Koda was born on December 8, 2022. Below, we speak with Cinthia about how she and Ben named their little boy. 　　Tell me Koda’s name story!I overwhelmed myself with...

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Dec 15, 2024

　　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

Dec 15, 2024

　　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...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 15, 2024

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

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Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest

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Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin

Dec 15, 2024

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Certain names seem as likely to be on children as on their parents, but are unimaginable on grandparents and great-grandparents. 　　These names are modern classics, names that have been highly ranked on the Social Security list for about 30-40 years, but were very...

Name-alytics

Dec 15, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady, thenamefreak.com 　　I am so very excited to finally announce the release of my eBook! Name-alytics: An In-Depth Analysis of the Top 100 Names in the United States Since 1880, a project I have been working on for over a year now. I had the idea and started the...

Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility

Dec 15, 2024

　　By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science 　　When my husband announced the birth of our first child to my family last June, they were convinced, thanks to a bad cell phone connection, that we had named our daughter Tetra. My dad Googled the tropical fish, and my brother, who was wielding a...

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The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

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Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Dec 15, 2024

　　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 Popular Irish Names Revealed

Dec 15, 2024

　　Good news for lovers of Irish baby names! The latest popular Irish names data for 2022 has just been released, and it’s a treasure trove of intriguing options from the Emerald Isle. 　　Happy St Patrick’s Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! 　　Top 10 Irish Girl Names 　　There has been a...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Dec 15, 2024

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Dec 15, 2024

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Dec 15, 2024

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...

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

Dec 15, 2024

　　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...