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Italian Baby Names: Popularity and trends

　　Italian baby names often have layered meanings and a lot of romance, which makes them a great choice no matter what your nationality. At the same time – and for much the same reasons – searching for good Italian names can be tricky. 　　Names that sound perfectly fine to American...

Apr 16, 2025

Celebrity Baby Names: The V, X, and Z epidemic

Hot Baby Names: 20 choices heading for the top

Billy and Bob are Back in the Playground

Future Top Ten Names: Avery, Jaxon, and Hadley

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Unusual Baby Names: The Other A Names

Apr 16, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Everybody loves the letter A. 　　A is the most common first initial for baby names today. Many of the most popular baby names start with A, including Ava, Abigail, and Amelia for girls, and Alexander, Andrew, and the Aiden constellation for boys. And then there are...

On-Trend Celebrity Babies: Nova, Cy, and Etta

Apr 16, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Do you remember those fifteen trend predictions for 2015 posted about a month ago? And the trend-spotting from the UK, courtesy of Elea? 　　It’s only been a few weeks, but it feels like high profile parents are following along. Recent birth announcements all reflect the...

Eclectic Naming Trends: Global, Gender-Neutral, Classic

Apr 16, 2025

　　It’s tempting to predict the future. Difficult, too. 　　Last week, I stumbled across a 1994 article in the L.A. Times. Nameberry’s chief name expert Pamela Redmond predicted the stylish names of the future would be Felix and Frances, Charlotte and Claire, Hazel and Dexter. 　　Twenty years later, it’s all come...

Sibling Names: The latest from London

Apr 16, 2025

　　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...

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Girl Baby Names: 50 Sweetest Sweet-Spot Names

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Sister Names: Long or Short?

Apr 16, 2025

Prince and Princess Names: From fiction and fable and screen

Apr 16, 2025

　　If you like names that are classic and timeless, international and deep-rooted, royal names could be the perfect style for you. 　　These are the names worn by kings, queens, princes, princesses and their families (focussing on European ones here) from early medieval times to the present day — some names...

Yes, Millennial Mom Names Can Work for Alpha Era Girls!

Apr 16, 2025

　　Millennials, those born in the eighties through mid-nineties, are the generation having babies in 2019. These children are a part of the emerging Generation Alpha, defined as anyone born from 2010-2025. Gen Alphas come into the world with iPads in hand and social media handles pre-claimed—a vastly different experience from...

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Emerging Biblical Boy Names

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Welsh Names for Boys

Apr 16, 2025

　　Welsh names for boys have never been as popular in the US as Irish boy names. But over the years some have become widespread enough to lose much of their Welsh accents. I’m thinking names like Owen (#25), Evan (#86) and Dylan (#31) and Trevor (#380) and Griffin (#224) and...

15 Fabulous French Boy Names

Apr 16, 2025

　　When you think of French boy names –and girl names–, words like sophisticated and stylish come to mind. And rightly so. The fifteen French names for boys below are all that and accessible too—Remy, for example, has already been successfully imported, as has Beau. But for some of the rest, pronunciations...

New Royal Baby Name!

Apr 16, 2025

　　Archie! 　　If that name for the newborn son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made the bookies’ odds at all, it was down there with Boris and Keith and all the other ridiculous ideas. 　　Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. It’s kind of perfect. 　　Archie is both quintessentially British and quintessentially American,...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

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Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Apr 16, 2025

　　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...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Apr 16, 2025

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

Apr 16, 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...

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Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Apr 16, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

America's Next Top Baby Names

Apr 16, 2025

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Apr 16, 2025

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

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Baby Names Before 1850

Apr 16, 2025

　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Apr 16, 2025

　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....

100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

Apr 16, 2025

　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...

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

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Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Apr 16, 2025

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Apr 16, 2025

　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....

Name Change Resources

Apr 16, 2025

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...