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Your Favorite Names from the Top 100

　　Many of us at Nameberry automatically dislike names that are “too popular.” 　　But look more closely at the most popular names and you’ll find lots of wonderful names that deserve their widespread use. Names that have stood the test of time, that have intrinsically pleasing sounds, that are associated with...

Jan 11, 2025

Unusual Baby Names: Hidden in plain sight

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New British Popularity List: Harry and Amelia still reign

Jan 11, 2025

　　Our top UK correspondent, Eleanor Nickerson, has the following lead story on today’s release of the new popularity data from the UK Office for National Statistics on her blog British Baby Names. Check there for a lot more fascinating statistics on top names by region and month and those most popular...

Underused Classic Baby Names: Calvin, Martin and Miriam

Jan 11, 2025

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Legions of expectant parents search for that “underused classic” name each year. 　　But what exactly is an “underused classic” name? Do underused classic names even exist? Are they some impossible standard like names that are universally appealing and forever-guaranteed-to-stay-unique? 　　“Classic” can be interpreted...

Comeback Candidates: Are we ready for babies Gregory, Susan and Mark?

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names. 　　Every decade or two the name landscape transforms. New names are on the way in. Old names are on the way out. But as names rise and fall, the qualities parents seek in baby names remain constant. As a result, today’s top names share...

Classic Baby Names: Where do they stand?

Jan 11, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks at the “quiet” classic baby names and measures how they stand in the new popularity ratings. 　　 There were dozens of stories in the baby name news last week, but they all shared a common theme: the Social Security Administration’s release of the 2012...

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Top Ten Girl Names: Too Popular to use?

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Carrie Fisher Character Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Emily Cardoza, Nothing Like a Name 　　After the tragic double loss of daughter and mother Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds within a day of each other, Emily Cardoza pays tribute by looking at the names of some of their most iconic characters. First, Carrie Frances Fisher. 　　Carrie 　　Alright, so...

Most Popular Baby Names 2016

Jan 11, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Olivia has bumped Charlotte to become the Number 1 among Nameberry’s popular baby names for girls in 2016. 　　A Shakespearean name meaning “olive tree,” Olivia is Number 2 on the official lists for both the U.S. and England. While it’s unfailingly on the Nameberry Top 10,...

9 Girl Names Inspired by Ines

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds waited months before sharing their daughter’s name – again! The family of four recently made their first public appearance, to celebrate dad’s new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Not long after, they made the big reveal. 　　Her name is Ines....

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Brother Names

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Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

Jan 11, 2025

　　Love Gus as a short name for a boy, but not a fan of Augustus and related names like August and Augustine? 　　One option is to simply use Gus on its own. This vintage nickname is charming, no-nonsense, and you’ll never need to spell it out. It was popular in...

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

Jan 11, 2025

　　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

Jan 11, 2025

　　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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Gender-Bending Baby Names

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 11, 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...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 11, 2025

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

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The Baby Names We're Totally Over

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Best New Baby Names in the Top 1000

Jan 11, 2025

　　America’s top baby names of 2020 have been announced! We’ve seen the most popular names at the top of the list, so now let’s look further down, at the new names in the Top 1000. 　　To make it into the Top 1000, a name had to be given to at...

Old-Fashioned Names Are New Again

Jan 11, 2025

　　Old-fashioned names, if they’re the right choices, are being dusted off and elevated to the height of fashion. Just a few years ago, you might have cringed if the family expected you to name the baby after Great-Aunt Martha or Grandpa Harold. Today, those old-school names and the others on...

Top Baby Names 2020: The Playground Analysis

Jan 11, 2025

　　These are the real top names you will most often hear on the playground! 　　The Playground Analysis groups the names from the SSA list according to their sound and then ranks the groups instead of the individual spellings. Grouping the various spellings together gives us a more accurate view of...

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Baby Names Before 1850

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Jewish names are a diverse set, represented by Hebrew names, biblical names, Yiddish names, and gentile names that gained popularity among the American Jewish community. 　　A recent report by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion's Jewish Language Project reveals the most popular Jewish names in the US. This...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Jan 11, 2025

　　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...

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

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Name Change Resources

Jan 11, 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...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Jan 11, 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...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 11, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...