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The Most Notable Names of 2013

　　Noah has unseated Jacob to become the new Number 1 name for boys – the first new top boys’ choice of the 21st century. 　　The boys’ side of the list claims all the hottest news, in a turnaround from the usual pattern in which girls’ names dominate the trend shifts. Liam...

Nov 25, 2024

Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility

Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin

French Baby Names: Trends and Predictions 2014

Contagious: What makes a name catch on?

British Name Trends 2013:The Bees, the Evs and the Teds Ava, Sid, and Bodhi: The New Reality of Baby Naming Trendy Names in the News: Maceo, Azura, and Knox: Do The Next Big Names Appear In Pottery Barn Catalogs? Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014 The Next Baby Name Style Wave Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?

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Predicting 2014 Starbaby Names, Part 2

Nov 25, 2024

　　by Tara Ryazansky 　　It seems like I can’t check my email or stand in a grocery store line these days without being bombarded with images of pregnant celebrities. I’m not complaining though. A new pregnancy announcement means we can expect an interesting name announcement to be coming. But instead of...

Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Brian is your brother-in-law, Bill’s your uncle, and Barbara is your mom. But could B be the new letter to watch for baby names? 　　Up until recently we were all mad for Aiden and Ava, Amelia and Alexander. A was the most popular letter for...

Baby Names 2014: Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of?

Nov 25, 2024

　　Happy New Year! 　　It’s time to usher in the new and look ahead to baby names 2014. 　　Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of this year? 　　We’d love to hear your predictions for: 　　— Trendy names you think will zoom to the top of the popularity lists....

Unpopular Names: Which ugly ducklings grow up to be swans?

Nov 25, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　One of the biggest baby name stories this week is The Week’s look at the least popular baby names in the U.S. from 1880 through 1932. 　　While such monikers as Handy, Spurgeon, Icy, and Toy, culled from the bottom of the Top 1000, are indeed laugh-inducing,...

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Baby Name Theft?

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Top Ten Girl Names: Too Popular to use?

Nov 25, 2024

　　Their favorite name has been among the top girl names for years! Should they find something new, or embrace a very popular name? 　　Sara writes: 　　My husband and I are expecting our second daughter. We thought we had arrived at the right name, but I keep having second thoughts. 　　Our...

Celebrity Baby Names: Naming the newest Hanson!

Nov 25, 2024

　　We’ve been lucky enough to share some wonderful blogs from celebrity mom/cool baby namer Natalie Hanson, focusing on her and husband Taylor‘s choices of the names Viggo and Wilhelmina. And now we’re delighted to report that our Hanson connection expands with the addition of Natalie‘s sister-in-law Kate, wife of Zak,...

Great Christmas Names Beyond Noel and Natalie

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　When you’re looking for names for a Christmastime baby, you can go the obvious route with Noel and Noelle, Mary or Merry, or you could consider a more subtle reference. Here are Nameberry’s 2016 picks of 12 great Christmas baby names. 　　Christmas Baby NamesBalthazar 　　Balthazar, also spelled...

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I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

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

Nov 25, 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

Nov 25, 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...

12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

Nov 25, 2024

　　Looking for a boy name that feels both fashionable and original, that stands out for its rarity but fits with current trends? 　　Boy names are evolving at lightning speed right now, with parents more willing than ever to branch out from traditional choices and embrace individuality in their sons’ names...

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity The Top Unisex Names in Every US State Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State 50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up Unisex Names Across the Atlantic 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Nov 25, 2024

　　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...

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Nov 25, 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...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Nov 25, 2024

　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...

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Starbaby News: The Jagger Dynasty, gender-bending and more

A peek inside the Nameberry bubble Hot Baby Names: 20 choices heading for the top Most Popular Baby Names of 2014….so far The #1 Baby Names: How popular are they? Portuguese Baby Names: The aristo trend The Most Popular Names Over Time Mythological Baby Names: They’re on the rise Eclectic Naming Trends: Global, Gender-Neutral, Classic

Occupational Surnames: Far from a fad

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　Back in 2012, I heard about parents naming their babies Draper in honor of Mad Men. I remember thinking the idea was daring but a little silly. These people were taking the last-name-as-first-name trend to an absurd conclusion, I griped. 　　It had been a few years since...

Sibling Names: The latest from London

Nov 25, 2024

　　Sibling names add a whole layer of complexity to naming a baby. Naming your first child may have been challenge enough — finding names that you like, agreeing on a single name with your partner — but naming a sibling comes with its own set of tasks. 　　The goal of naming siblings...

Welsh Nickname Names: Iolo, Betsan and Llio

Nov 25, 2024

　　The major headline for British baby names in the last decade has undoubtedly been the rise of diminutives as given names. Alfie, Archie, Charlie, Tommy, Evie, Millie, Maisie and many others are boundless in our playgrounds as parents opt for cheerful and breezy short forms. But this phenomenon is certainly not...

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The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

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50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Nov 25, 2024

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

Popular Twin Names

Nov 25, 2024

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Nov 25, 2024

　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...

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The Best Baby Name Advice

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Nov 25, 2024

　　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...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Nov 25, 2024

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Nov 25, 2024

　　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...