Baby names | Name list - www.zdname.com

The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?

　　In The Nameberry 9 blog this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, addresseses the question of “What is a ‘normal name?” 　　The news was filled with so-called normal names this week. But what defines a normal name? Is it a Top Ten choice that plenty of people your age share? Or...

Jan 10, 2025

TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!

Baby Names 2012: The third quarterly report of Nameberry newbies

Newest Babyberries: The quarterly report

Popular baby names: The case for the common name

Swedish Baby Names: What’s stylish in Stockholm? The 50-Year Rule: 1962 names revisited British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations International Faves: Top names across the globe Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)? Name Popularity: The Nameberry 9–Ezra, Etta and June Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa The Nameberry 9: Unusual but usable boys’names

Popular recommendations >

The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1

Jan 10, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain ‘s Abby Sandel travels around the country and across the pond to discover which names ranked Number 1 where. 　　Baby name news is fast and furious at year’s end. Lists of Worst and Best Celebrity Baby Names abound. (Did anyone else notice that Zuzu Audrey, daughter of Top...

Breaking News: Amelia and Harry the new top UK baby names

Jan 10, 2025

　　The figures for the most popular names in the UK in 2011 have just been released by the Office for National Statistics, containing plenty of surprises and interesting tidbits. For one thing, it seems that despite a lot of cross-pollination, there is still a considerable divide in name popularity across...

Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

Jan 10, 2025

　　Popular baby names are the Number 1 topic of the week, but today we thought we’d turn the tables and ask instead about favorite baby names. What are your personal Top 10 names for each gender? 　　The criteria: Those you love best, period. Put them in order, with Number 1...

Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

Jan 10, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one? I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...

Girl Names >

200 Best Twin Girl Names 2023

How I Named My Baby: Leni Jean Inspirational Names of Forgotten Feminists Transforming Top to Uncommon Girl Names Olive or Olivia, Sophie or Sophia? 150+ European Baby Girl Names Fanciful Girl Names Go Over-the-Top Muslim Baby Names Are Full of Meaning Cool Girl Names: Charmed Circles

Mom Names: the New Generation

Jan 10, 2025

　　Today’s Mom Names might be familiar to you as the names of the friends who came to your first sleepover or your roommates in college: forever young. But many of the 1980s names and 1990s names, once considered the cool girl names, have become today's new Mom Names. 　　It stands...

How I Named My Baby: Aadya Dash

Jan 10, 2025

　　Puja, a service analyst, and Partha, an engineer, are a Bangladeshi-Canadian couple living in Toronto. Their daughter, Aadya Dash, was born in September 2022. 　　Here, we speak with Puja about how she and Partha named their baby girl. 　　Tell me how you named Aadya!We first had to decide which letter...

How I Named My Baby: Zeraphyn Miu

Jan 10, 2025

　　Selina Hotaru Ng and Jeff Fan live in Singapore with their three children: sons Zenith Ryuu and Zephyr Haruu, and daughter Zeraphyn Miu. 　　Zeraphyn was born on December 4, 2022. Here, we speak with Selina about how she and Jeff named their little girl. 　　Tell me how you named Zeraphyn!We...

Boy Names >

How I Named My Baby: Hugo Kyle

Baby Name Wolf is Nameberry’s New #1! Cool Boy Names Hillbilly Names Have Rugged Charm The Boys of Summer: Apollo, Elio and Leo How I Named My Baby: Cyrus Canyon Best H Names for Boys How I Named My Baby: Osric Theo Peregine How I Named My Baby: Lark Berens Hall

Best N Names for Boys

Jan 10, 2025

　　Yes, Noah is one of the most popular names for boys of this century, and N is probably the most popular ending for boy names, so there are plenty of popular Boy Names That Start with N. And yet, if you’re looking for an N-starting name for your baby boy,...

Best J Names for Boys

Jan 10, 2025

　　Boy names starting with J have been hugely popular ever since the days (okay, centuries) when John was number one. Today, the J names at the top of the charts include other biblical classics like James, Jacob and Joseph, and modern favorites like Jackson and Jayden. 　　If you’re looking for...

Best E Names for Boys

Jan 10, 2025

　　Thinking of using one of the many boy names that start with E? Beyond classic Edward and high-ranking Elijah and Ethan, there are endless possibilities. 　　Enjoy our pick of the very best boy names that start with the letter E. It’s an eclectic mix of styles and rankings, from up-and-coming...

Unisex Names >

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names The Coolest Unisex Nature Names How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names America's Top Unisex Names of 2022 Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 10, 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...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Jan 10, 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...

Trends & Predictions >

Celebrity Baby Names: Predicting what’s next

Popularity, trends and a new baby Princess Celebrity Baby Names: Latest predictions US vs UK Baby Names 2016 CONTEST: Guess the Newest Names on the List The Top Welsh Names in Wales January Birth Announcements: Caius, Cormac & Clementine 100 Top Baby Names 2018 Starbaby Names: The Latest Predictions

Step-Sibling Sibsets: Starbaby predictions

Jan 10, 2025

　　Sibsets with half-siblings can be tricky. Often there is the desire to create a completely cohesive sibset. But new partners can introduce new tastes and preferences for baby names, so a harmonious posse isn’t always possible. 　　When it does work out though, it is incredibly satisfying. Stanley Tucci has done...

Latest Starbaby Name Predictions!

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　Celebrities are the taste-makers of the baby name world. Sid and McCoy–two names that were on nobody’s radar screen–now have serious style cred thanks to the Biggs and Porter families. I would not be surprised to see McCoy break into the top 1000 for 2016 (which comes...

Not Your Mama’s Baby Name!

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　The names in the news this week probably aren’t ones you heard growing up. Some of them have exploded in popularity in the last decade or two. Others are still undiscovered, but would fit right into nurseries and playgrounds today. 　　Let’s take a look at some new...

Name Popularity >

Buried Treasures on the British List

Swedish Baby Names: Elsa tops the list 10 Favorite Colonial Names for Today The 12 Most Influential Celebrity Baby Names A Different Kind of College Ranking People Names for Dogs Strictly Scottish Names: Innis, Jura & Jock Scottish Baby Names: What’s hot with the Scots How Star Athletes Influence Baby Names

9 Names I Can’t Stop Recommending

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Are there baby names that you suggest to every expectant friend? Maybe they’re names that you can’t use for one reason or another. Or maybe they’re names you might consider for a future child – assuming your friends don’t follow your suggestions first. 　　In the Nameberry forums...

Unisex Names of the 2014 Top 1000

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　There are 67 names in the 2014 Top 1000 that charted for both boys and girls. More if you count the ones that are spelled differently. It’s quite interesting to see which gender has taken over the name, as well as which names are given to...

Which are the Most Popular State Names?

Jan 10, 2025

　　With city names like Brooklyn, Madison, and Charlotte getting popular, let’s expand to larger locations and consider the most popular names by state. So today, I’ll be looking at which United States’ names have made it into the 2014 Top 1000 baby names. Most of them go to the girls – only Dakota made it onto the...

Baby Naming Advice >

Name Change Resources

How to Change Your Baby’s Name Test-Driving Your Baby Name Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort Updating Popular 1950s Names How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby Unique Twin Names to Inspire How to Cope With Baby Name Regret How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

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

Jan 10, 2025

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Jan 10, 2025

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Jan 10, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...