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35 Names That Mean You Live on the West Coast

　　*Probably. 　　Have you met a baby named Clementine, Koa or Zephyr recently? If so, there’s a good chance you’re on America’s West Coast. 　　We wanted to know if some baby names are particularly distinctive to the US states bordering the Pacific — California, Oregon and Washington — so we delved...

Apr 13, 2025

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Babyberry Names: Class of 2022

Apr 13, 2025

　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2022! 　　Birth announcements for 103 new Babyberries – 61 girls and 42 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...

Baby Names As You've Never Seen Them Before

Apr 13, 2025

　　Recently, while writing our guide to 50 sites every name nerd needs, I revisited a lot of name sites I’d bookmarked over the years. Among them were several graphics and animations that make name data beautiful. 　　Interested? Here are eight we think you'll enjoy. 　　Some are a little out of date...

The Baby Names That Should Be on Everyone's List

Apr 13, 2025

　　The names that should be on everyone's list for 2023 are the most stylish up-and-coming choices for the year ahead. 　　We've identified 50 names — sourced from our Nameberry popularity charts, celebrity birth announcements, movies and television shows, and of course, our own intuition — that feel just right for 2023 babies....

16 Wild Baby Names You're About to Hear a Lot More Of

Apr 13, 2025

　　Wild and wacky baby names used to be the preserve of the rich and famous. Naming your child Fifi Trixibelle or Kal-El or Pilot Inspektor made a very public statement that the normal rules of the game did not apply. 　　But fast forward a couple of decades, and wild baby...

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Celebrity Baby Names Q+A: Elizabeth Holmes

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Traditional Girl Names with a Twist

Apr 13, 2025

　　Can Penelope’s sister have a name as short as Alice or Claire? More importantly, does this mom want her to? 　　Erin writes: 　　We are expecting our second girl and struggling to agree on a name! Our older daughter is Penelope Reese, and we absolutely love her name. 　　My husband is...

Girl Names: For International Women’s Day

Apr 13, 2025

　　Not only is March Women’s History Month, but today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. 　　So what better time than this to salute some of the women who are making history right now in the US political sphere? 　　When the 116th Congress recently convened, women made up almost a quarter...

Inspiring International Names from the Women’s World Cup

Apr 13, 2025

　　by Emma Waterhouse 　　The 2019 Women’s World Cup has captured the world’s imagination, with record numbers of viewers — around 1 billion (!), according to FIFA — tuning in over the course of the competition. 　　It’s been a great month for women’s sport, and a fantastic opportunity for some inspiring...

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BOYS’ NAMES 2011: The Underground Popularity List

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Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration

Apr 13, 2025

　　It’s Labor Day weekend, and so time once more to turn our attention to the original, pre-barbecue significance of the holiday and celebrate some hard-working occupational names. 　　We’re focusing on the more uncommon, fresher sounding examples, and those with less obvious meanings, so no Archer, Shepherd or Baker. The er-ending...

Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices

Apr 13, 2025

　　Are there really any good unusual boys’ names left in the Bible? Old Testament names for boys have been fashionable for going on half a century now, from the 1960s Adam to the present day Asher. Could there possibly be any obscure-yet-usable choices left? 　　Hundreds of them, in fact. The...

Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

Apr 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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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

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Surprisingly International Baby Names

Apr 13, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Apr 13, 2025

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Apr 13, 2025

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

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America's Next Top Baby Names

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These Names Are At Their Peak

Apr 13, 2025

　　Looking for a name everyone will love just as much as you do? You can’t go wrong with names at the top of their game. 　　Names that peaked in 2022, calculated in exclusive research and analysis by Nameberry, are baby names that rank higher in the USA than they have...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Apr 13, 2025

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

What's a Classic Name?

Apr 13, 2025

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

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British Baby Names: The Latest Crop

Apr 13, 2025

　　Every few months, about as often as I allow myself to relish a hot caramel sundae and with about the same amount of delicious anticipation, I dip into the London Telegraph birth announcements to see what the upper-crusty British baby namers are up to. 　　And as with that sundae, the...

Baby Names 2010: The Also-Rans

Apr 13, 2025

　　We’ve obviously been spending too much time in the depths of nameberry, checking out which names our visitors have been checking out. 　　And while Finn and Charlotte are the most-searched names for the first nine months of the year, and while we recently brought you our own nameberry Top 100...

The X Factor: Some x-cellently x-otic X names

Apr 13, 2025

　　The nameberry contributor known to us as “Auburn” ruminates here on that most powerful and mysterious initial: X. 　　We all know this naming business is tricky, especially if your aim is to find unusual monikers which still have history — and if you’re browsing Nameberry then it probably is. You...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Apr 13, 2025

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Apr 13, 2025

　　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

Apr 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...