How I Named My Baby: Jeneva Mabelle
　　Kinda Saunders, a blogger, and Charles Saunders, a plant operator, live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with their six children. 　　Their youngest child, a daughter named Jeneva Mabelle, arrived on February 8, 2021, joining older siblings Lola Mailani, Charles Khari, Kaleia Jazara, Nyla Bijou, and Maliha Raine. Here, Kinda talks to...
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Name Guru to the Stars: Predicting the Seventh Hanson Baby Name
Nov 22, 2024
　　Natalie Hanson is a name-loving celebrity mom married to Taylor Hanson, lead singer of the band Hanson. She and Taylor have six children and are expecting their seventh baby at the end of this month. 　　Natalie is a dear friend of Nameberry, and we are thrilled to be hosting a...
How I Named My Baby: Natalie Mara
Nov 22, 2024
　　Lisa, an IT manager, and her husband Gene, who works in finance, live in the Chicago suburbs with their two children. 　　Their daughter Natalie Mara arrived on January 5, 2021, joining older brother Isaac Edward. We chatted with Lisa about family names, honoring heritage, and how she and Gene chose...
Name Sage: Replacing a Favorite Name
Nov 22, 2024
　　Leslie writes:My husband and I are due with our first baby in early May and have been struggling with names since the second we found out she’s a girl. 　　My main question is this: how do I let go of a name I LOVE, but my husband has vetoed? 　　We are Jewish...
How I Named My Baby: Callahan Bay
Nov 22, 2024
　　Courtney Williams, a graduate student in behavioral analysis, and Steven Jackson, a locomotive engineer, live outside of Atlanta, Georgia with their daughter Callahan Bay. 　　Here, Courtney talks with us about how she and Steve chose the baby name Callahan for their little girl. 　　 　　How long did it take you...
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Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Girls’ Names
Nov 22, 2024
　　Within the pages of books from all periods of literary history—from classical, metaphysical and Elizabethan poetry and plays to the Romantics and the Realists, right up to modern novels—can be found gems of names that have been lost to time, either because they’ve been identified with a singular character or simply...
Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular?
Nov 22, 2024
　　The top English girls’ names for the current year are listed on Nameberry here. You can also see popularity statistics for English names on the individual name pages. 　　English name standings have not been published consistently every year. At the beginning of 2009, the UK ‘s Office for National Statistics...
The Lost Names of 1880
Nov 22, 2024
　　I was combing through the Top 1000 Names of 1880 the other day for another project (ah, the glamorous life of the baby name expert) and I was blown away by how many names on the list had been totally forgotten.  I don’t mean just marginalized, like Ethel or Beulah,...
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Exploring the Meaning of Julian
Nov 22, 2024
　　Julian is a quiet classic, which has been in steady use throughout history but never wildly popular. It currently ranks at #35 in the US, appreciated for his jolly but understated charm. 　　Up to a point, the origins of the name are clear and undisputed: it comes from the Roman...
Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques
Nov 22, 2024
　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...
Brother Names
Nov 22, 2024
　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...
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Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction
Nov 22, 2024
　　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...
Unisex Names Across the Atlantic
Nov 22, 2024
　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...
Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave
Nov 22, 2024
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Nov 22, 2024
　　Linda and I have spent a lot of time over the years tracking the ups and downs of baby names and making sense of the movements.  Often, it’s possible to divine trends in the popularity lists: Girls’ names that end in a are marching up the ladder in seeming unison,...
New Baby Names: Debuts on the pop list, from Aleph to Zephyrus
Nov 22, 2024
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New Baby Names: Our ten freshest
Nov 22, 2024
　　New baby names are those that have never (or rarely) been used until recent years, but are red-hot for children now. 　　Each generation wants to do things differently from the last. For some parents that means looking wider for baby name inspiration, and choosing a name that they’ve never heard...
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Nov 22, 2024
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How Gen Z Is Your Name?
Nov 22, 2024
　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...
Top Czech Names Follow International Trends
Nov 22, 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....
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Naming (Other People’s) Babies
Nov 22, 2024
　　by Laura Dunphy 　　Don’t tell me you’re pregnant. 　　I mean, I’ll be happy for you and all. But even before the word “Congratulations!” can escape past my lips, I’ll be naming your baby. 　　You’ll say, “I’m thinking about calling it—” 　　And I’ll say, “Nope.” 　　And you’ll say, “But I didn’t...
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Nov 22, 2024
　　Five years ago today, I was six weeks pregnant with our first child, convinced it was a girl, and already firmly set on the perfect name: Juno Matilda. (It was, and we used it.) 　　Three years ago today, I was five months pregnant with our second and we’d just found...
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Nov 22, 2024
　　By Abby Sandel 　　After ten years, our database is chock full of amazing names. But every parent faces the same challenge: how to whittle those nearly 70,000 choices down to just one single name – plus a middle or two – for your child? 　　As Nameberry’s resident Name Sage, I...
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