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Eclectic American Girl Doll Names: Cecile, Kanani, and Marie-Grace

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　My seven-year-old daughter didn’t inspire my interest in American Girl dolls, one of their names did. 　　My daughter hasn’t expressed any interest in American Girl dolls and doesn’t own any. 　　But an American Girl doll has one of my favorite names. A retired...

Movie Star Character Names: A salute to Shirley Temple and the roles she played

40+ Neglected Namesake Names–Girls Edition

Georgian Girls Names: Alethea, Augusta and Jane

Doctor Who Names, Part 2–Companion Names: Ace, Tegan and Sarah Jane

Flower Names for Girls: The coolest right now Anything Goes for Girls: Apple, Willow, Mia, and Cai Our Top 100 Girl Names of 2013 Invented Names Past and Present: From Vanessa to Iridessa Winter Olympics Baby Names–Part 1, The Girls Disney Princess Names: How influential are they really? Sundance Catalog Names Nameberry Picks: 14 jazziest jazz singers’ names

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Unusual Girls’ Names: 100 excellent choices

　　One of our most popular blog posts ever was on 100 wonderful names given to 25 or fewer girls each year. (We did a boys’ version too.) 　　But what, we wondered recently, would happen if we narrowed the parameters even more? If we looked only at names given to ten...

Baby Names from Books: 6 choice choices for girls

　　by Anna Otto, Waltzing More Than Matilda 　　1. Arrietty 　　Arrietty Clock is a teenage “borrower” from Mary Norton’s classic children’s fantasy book series, The Borrowers. The borrowers are tiny people who live by “borrowing” everyday items from the Big People they call “human beans.” Because of the spirited Arrietty’s curiosity, she and...

Unexpected Names for Girls: Edelweiss, Marceline, and Cee Cee

　　Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　It’s been a quiet week for high profile arrivals. Sure, Michael Weatherly of NCIS fame and wife Bojana welcomed son Liam. It’s a great name – friendly, upbeat, accessible. Liam is also a solid favorite in the US, just like big sister’s...

Pop Culture Names: Cora, Aurora and Devora

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　It happens all the time. 　　You’re expecting your first – or second, or third – and the perfect name eludes you. There are lots of possibilities and maybes, but none of them are The Name. 　　And then along comes a movie, a...

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Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar

Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar

Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls? The Mary Month of May Top Girl Names 2011 Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3! The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora New! First-Ever Berry Question of the Week GIRLS’ NAMES 2011: The Secret Popularity List

He Says Shayla, She Says Cecilia: Help this couple agree on a baby name!

　　Our Berry Question of the Week comes from Jen Barnes of Seattle, who’s facing a common problem in Baby Name Land: She and her husband are having trouble agreeing on a name for their second daughter. Here, the names he likes and those that she likes. Your job, dear berries,...

Comic Book Names: The names behind the superwomen

　　In her previous blog, Appelation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel revealed the alter ego names of the male superheroes, and this week it’s the girls’ turn. 　　Last week we looked at comic book names inspired by Clark Kent and Peter Parker – the mild-mannered alter egos of Superman and Spider-Man. 　　More women have...

Princess Names: Princesses by Marriage (Hi, Kate!)

　　Princess names are a subject of fascination for us, one we last covered by detailing all the royal names of the next generation of little princesses, from Aiko to Eleonore. 　　Now, in honor of the newest princess by marriage, Catherine of Wales, we look at the names of women who,...

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Brother Names

Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming How I Named My Baby: Koda Florian Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus Exploring the Meaning of Julian 80+ Woodsy Names for Boys That Will Make You Want to Have a Son I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

　　Classic boy names are wonderful except for the fact that they’re so common. Yes, there have been many august Williams; sure, it’s a name resonant on your family tree; except, there are thousands (11,282, to be exact) of baby Williams out there. 　　But among the wonderful qualities of classic boy...

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

　　Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear...

Trending Boy Names

　　New parents — those who haven't spent much time around today's babies — may not be up on today's trending boy names. Does this sound like you? You might be shocked to learn the hottest boy names right now. 　　What are trendy boy names? Trendy boy names are more popular than...

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Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State Gender-Bending Baby Names How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

　　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...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

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Predicting 2014 Starbaby Names, Part 2

Predicting 2014 Starbaby Names, Part 2

Top Baby Names 2013: Noah the New Number 1! French Baby Names: Trends and Predictions 2014 Baby Names 2014: Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of? Do The Next Big Names Appear In Pottery Barn Catalogs? Taking Stock of Baby Names: A novel approach Unusual Vintage Names: Which might come back? Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014 Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest

Unpopular Names: Which ugly ducklings grow up to be swans?

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　One of the biggest baby name stories this week is The Week’s look at the least popular baby names in the U.S. from 1880 through 1932. 　　While such monikers as Handy, Spurgeon, Icy, and Toy, culled from the bottom of the Top 1000, are indeed laugh-inducing,...

Contagious: What makes a name catch on?

　　By Jonah Berger, author of Contagious 　　In this year’s third-grade classes, teachers might have noticed an unusual number of Kaylas, Katies and Kyles. This follows an earlier bump for Alexes and Amandas, and other names that start with A. Why? One factor might be…the weather. 　　As part of our research...

Short, Simple, Chic Baby Names

　　When Americans think about chic European names, they tend to imagine the exotic, the elaborate, the intriguingly complicated and foreign. 　　Yet when Europeans think about chic names, they often these days mean the short and simple and sometimes even the Anglo-Saxon: Tom, Emma, Lou. Think of them as the baby...

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About New Popular Irish Names Revealed Classic Baby Names on the Rise How Gen Z Is Your Name? Rare Names With Popular Nicknames The Top Baby Names A-Z Forgotten Names Making a Comeback 80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Top Names in Each State Revealed!

　　Popular names by state can look very different from the national count. Find out which states' top names conform to the US popular names list and which go in a different direction. 　　Olivia and Liam held on to their titles as the most popular names in the United States for...

Popular Twin Names

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

　　Presidential baby names – the famous last names and, in a few cases, first names of America’s presidents – are more popular than ever in the US. The presidential connection may be more direct in some cases (Lincoln) than others (Taylor). 　　Naming a child for – or, in some cases,...

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Updating Popular 1950s Names

Updating Popular 1950s Names

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name How to Change Your Baby’s Name Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

　　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,...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

　　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...

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