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Boy Baby Names: A time for compromise

　　They don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, but they do know the names – or they did. Now friends have chosen their top boy baby name, and it’s back to the drawing board for Anna and her husband. 　　Anna writes: 　　We’ve got a bit of a dilemma...

Dec 26, 2024

Cool Boy Names: They’re ending in R!

Baby Names: Solving the Popularity Puzzle

100 Brilliant Boy Names in Translation

Boy Baby Names: The 12 Jazziest

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Nine Boy Baby Names to Watch…

Dec 26, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Robin Tunney chose Oscar. Cait Jenner’s new grandson is Bodhi. And last month, Natalia Vodianova named her youngest Roman. 　　What do the names have in common? They all appear on the new Nameberry Top 100. 　　Based on nearly 40 million page views from the first half of...

Baby Names Dilemma: Everyone Hates It!

Dec 26, 2024

　　They’ve chosen the perfect name for their son due later this year. The only problem? Their friends and family hate the name. The Name Sage has some wise words for the parents. 　　Jocelyn writes: 　　I’m due in November with a boy! 　　We have picked the name Riggins Blaine. Blaine is his father’s...

Nickname-Proof Boy Names

Dec 26, 2024

　　Their lists are so close – but agreeing on the right name for their son has proven impossible! Can they find a nickname-proof name with a possible built-in nickname? It sounds crazy, but the answer might be yes … 　　Angela writes: 　　When we decided we were ready for kids, we...

12 Unique Nature Names for Boys

Dec 26, 2024

　　Unique nature names for boys are a lush and varied category, and one that’s expanding all the time. The most visible nature names tend to be on the girls’ side: the popular flower names such as Lily and Violet along with tree names like Willow and bird names such as...

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A Sad Farewell to The Nook of Names

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Top 100 Girl Names of 2014

Dec 26, 2024

　　Imogen may still not have cracked the US Top 1000, but she continues her reign as the Number 1 girls’ name on Nameberry for 2014. 　　The real news with girls’ names, though, is Khaleesi, which vaulted to Number 2 on our list thanks to Game of Thrones. Given that Nameberry’s...

12 Literary Ladies: Unique names from Abra to Sapphira

Dec 26, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Novels and plays are filled with wonderful character names that provide great naming inspiration–recently we’ve seen that reflected in the newfound popularity of Holden from Catcher in the Rye, Atticus and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, Scarlett from Gone with the Wind. 　　Today we’re looking at some of the...

Hiding in Plain Sight: the Secret Popularity of Lynn and Lee

Dec 26, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　In my last post, I wrote about how baby names are getting longer — with choices like Isabella and Olivia (four syllables each) trumping old-fashioned picks such as Mary and Anne. 　　While I was sifting through the data for that piece, I noticed something interesting. Some of...

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Name the All-Boy Quints!

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Nickname-Proof Boys’ Names: Ace, Holden, and Ford

Dec 26, 2024

　　This week, Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel finds boys’ names that are anything but traditional, and wonders if nickname-free is the new priority when naming a son. 　　Flip through on an old high school yearbook, and you’ll probably find pictures of William “Billy” Jones and Mary “Mimi” Smith. 　　For generations, there...

Memorable Memorial Day Names: Marcellus, Maxcy and Moonlight

Dec 26, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Before you fire up the barbie or pack up the picnic basket, why not take a minute to think about what Memorial Day memorializes. 　　The holiday—originally called Decoration Day—was first commemorated on May 30, 1868, not long after the Civil War had ended, and was given that...

Preppy boys’ names ending with S: Ames, Keats, and Yates

Dec 26, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　There’s something about a name that ends with the letter s. 　　They’re preppy. Sometimes they sound plural or possessive. But they’re also fresh. In our age of Aiden and Asher, we’re not expecting to meet a kiddo with an s ending name. 　　I’m not...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 26, 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...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Dec 26, 2024

　　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...

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Dec 26, 2024

　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

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Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

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Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Dec 26, 2024

　　Christian names combine spirituality with style, conveying a faith-based message with contemporary sensibility. 　　These modern Christian names with an evangelical feel aren’t traditional biblical names, well-worn virtues, or even the old prophet names that are so popular nowadays. No, this is a fresh, 21st-century style of Christian names that shout...

These Names Are At Their Peak

Dec 26, 2024

　　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...

What's a Classic Name?

Dec 26, 2024

　　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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Baby Names Before 1850

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Dec 26, 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...

Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Dec 26, 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....

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

Dec 26, 2024

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Dec 26, 2024

　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Dec 26, 2024

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Dec 26, 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...