The 50-Year Rule: 1962 names revisited
　　Conventional wisdom holds that baby names tend to follow the Hundred-Year-Rule, cycling back after a century has passed. But with everything speeding up exponentially in modern life, and with the great interest in all things mid-century, we’re thinking maybe we should change that to the Fifty-Year-Rule. 　　Which prompts us to...
Jan 10, 2025
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Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa
Jan 10, 2025
　　The term Latin American, of course, takes in a number of countries and cultures, with both shared name histories and trends and distinctly individual ones. The names in Portuguese-speaking Brazil are, for example, quite different from those in the various Spanish-speaking cultures.  Some currently popular names prove to be international...
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...
Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?
Jan 10, 2025
　　Today’s QOW was inspired by a comment from jgirl525. 　　This week it’s a two-parter: 　　a.  What’s your response when you meet someone who shares your own first name? Do you feel an instant kinship or do you feel more proprietary?  If it’s a popular name, do you immediately start comparing nicknames...
Baby Names 2012: The third quarterly report of Nameberry newbies
Jan 10, 2025
　　The time has rolled around again when I get to do one of my favorite things—browse through the Birth Announcement Forum and get to see a snapshot of the gorgeous names Berries have chosen over these past three months–the latest installment of Baby Names 2012.  Because each quarter they seem...
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Muslim Baby Names Are Full of Meaning
Muslim Baby Names Are Full of Meaning
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200 Best Twin Girl Names 2023
Jan 10, 2025
　　What are the best twin girl names for 2023? 　　We've compiled our top 100 sets of twin girl names — that's 200 names! — with the right style, substance, and vibe for this year. 　　You can find twin girl names by style — cute twin girl names, badass twin girl names; names...
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...
Feminizations Carry Girl Power
Jan 10, 2025
　　Looking for a girl name that honors a boy name? There are so many possibilities, whatever your style. 　　Feminizations are girl names that build on traditionally male names, or which have a masculine equivalent. They’re a varied group with lots of interesting options that are full of feminine spirit. 　　What...
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How I Named My Baby: Aden Parker
How I Named My Baby: Aden Parker
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Rare Bible Names for Boys
Jan 10, 2025
　　Once the preserve of deeply religious parents, historically unique Bible names for boys are becoming an increasingly mainstream trend. 　　Just look at Noah, Elijah, Levi, Asher, Josiah and Ezra: six contemporary Biblical favorites, all in the current US Top 50 for boys, none of which had ever ranked in the...
How I Named My Baby: Hugo Kyle
Jan 10, 2025
　　Ashley and Peyton Orgill, a 4th grade teacher and Navy Reserve member, live in Virginia. They welcomed their first child, son Hugo Kyle, on November 28, 2021. 　　We spoke to Ashley and Peyton about how they named their little boy. 　　How did you name Hugo?P: Our name list goes back...
Best O Names for Boys
Jan 10, 2025
　　Boy names that start with O have been getting a lot of love recently, from vintage revival Oliver to modern favorite Owen. However, there are many O names that have yet to reach the US, but which have endless potential and charm. Here are 15 outstanding O names that we...
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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?
Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?
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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...
50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up
Jan 10, 2025
　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...
America's Top Unisex Names of 2022
Jan 10, 2025
　　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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Celebrity Baby Names: Predicting what’s next
Celebrity Baby Names: Predicting what’s next
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January Birth Announcements: Caius, Cormac & Clementine
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　January was a month when some especially unusual and creative names landed on our berrybaby birth announcements—and for their siblings as well. For girls alone we saw Ezrie, Islington, Yvaine, Oswin, Dorthea, Elia, and Salomea, while boys included Callister, Isao, Ender, Maximo, Forde and Ransom. 　　Here’s the...
Celebrity Baby Names: What’s next?
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Sophie Kihm 　　Every family has its own traditions and values when it comes to naming their children, and that’s true of celebrities as well. Some, like Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, like the meanings of their children’s names to be packed with significance. Their daughters are named Honor and...
CONTEST: Guess the Newest Names on the List
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel 　　In just one more week, the US Social Security Administration will release the new Top 1000 list of popular baby names of 2016. It’s Mardi Gras meets the Super Bowl for name lovers, and we’ve all got our ideas about what the data will bring. 　　We’ve already...
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How Popular Is Too Popular?
How Popular Is Too Popular?
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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...
Scottish Baby Names: What’s hot with the Scots
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Eleanor Nickerson 　　This March saw the official statistics for Scottish baby names released for 2015. Once again, Emily and Jack were the number one choices – Emily for the second year running, and Jack for the eighth – and overall very little change to the top 10 names. 　　The largest...
10 Favorite Colonial Names for Today
Jan 10, 2025
　　Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, let’s take a look at some Colonial names that were used in 1700s America and could be still considered fashionable today. Colonial names are chock full of history and laced with virtues and biblical associations. 　　You probably won’t see many boys named Comfort or girls named Modesty...
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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name
How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name
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The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup
Jan 10, 2025
　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...
9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby
Jan 10, 2025
　　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...
How to Change Your Baby’s Name
Jan 10, 2025
　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....
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