Baby Name News of the Week
　　It’s been another week of new discoveries about favorite American names in 2016. 　　The big news was the release of the top names in every state. If you’re based in the US and concerned about the popularity of a name, you may want to know how it ranks in your...
Dec 27, 2024
Baby Name News of the Week
Unusual Baby Names: Eclipse, Pancake and Pip
Berry Faves of 2017 IRL
Baby Name Popularity: Changing perceptions
Popular Baby Names: Inside the Top 100 of 2016 The Great-Grandparents Baby Name Rule 2016 Baby Names: The Playground Analysis Top Baby Names: England and Wales, 2016 Baby Name News from All Over Top Baby Names 2017 Most Notable Names of 2017 Ella, Alexander, and Other Baby Names in the News
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It’s Reigning Baby Names: Duke, Prince and Royalty
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　In 1789, when George Washington was unanimously elected the first president of the nation—the first elected president in the world– there was a lot of discussion about what he should be called. John Adams and others favored royal titles such as Your Highness and Your Majesty, even...
Popular Baby Names Around the World
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes statistics from England, Wales and Israel, names inspired by musicians, title names, and boats. 　　Top names in England and Wales 　　If you’d like to know what’s hot in Britain, it’s an exciting week: the baby name data for England and Wales in 2016...
Popular Baby Names: From Nameberry, Italy and Celebrityville
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes the names Strummer, Sofia, Sunday… and Santa! 　　Before we dive in, have you seen our top names of 2017? These are the names that have been the most looked-at this year. A few highlights: Atticus rose to the top spot for boys, and...
Marvel Universe Movie Names: How influential are they?
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Joe Satran 　　Updated with names from Black Panther on March 5. 　　At the movie theater, we’re living in the Age of Marvel. It only took Black Panther three weeks to hit $500 million at the U.S. box office — faster than almost any other movie in history. Thor: Ragnarok, the previous entry in...
Girl Names >
Polly put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nursery rhyme name!
Polly put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nursery rhyme name!
Rare Girls’ Names of the 1940s: Avis, Marigold and Jinx Top Royal Baby Girl Names Accentuating the Positive: Baby names with accents Classic Girls’ Names: What’s your favorite? Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana! Top 100 Girl Names of 2014 1950s Girls’ Names: Where are Sharon and Sandra now? A Sad Farewell to The Nook of Names
Buttoned-up Girls’ Names
Dec 27, 2024
　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　The trendiest girls’ names of recent years have been flowery and elaborate: Isabella and Sophia, Olivia and Arianna.  They end in vowels….and often begin with them too.  And if they’re not exotic confections, stylish girls’ names are often gender-and-tradition-confounding novelties such as Harper and Hadley and...
The Spellings of Classic Name Katherine
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　As I reveal in my book, Name-alytics, there are three spellings of Katherine that have been in the Top 100… Catherine, Katherine and Kathryn (the Big 3). Catherine reached its peak in 1914, Katherine reached its peak in 1988, and Kathryn reached its peak in 1951....
Flower Baby Names: A rose by any other name…
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Joanna Walker 　　In Romeo & Juliet, Juliet faces a dilemma– she has fallen in love with the son of her father’s sworn enemy: a Montague. Juliet famously asks: “What’s in a name?” She concludes that names are irrelevant and uses the garden rose to illustrate her point “That which...
Boy Names >
Surname Names for Boys: Help wanted!
Surname Names for Boys: Help wanted!
Modern Traditional Boy Names Seeking a Traditional but Modern Boy Name Nickname in the News: Hal 15 Fabulous French Boy Names Gentleman Cowboy Names Have a Rein on Style Help the Bode Millers Name Their Twin Boys! Boys’ Name Joe Gets Its Own Holiday Choosing Offbeat Boy Names
Surprise Name News of the Week: Archie Harrison
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Clare Green 　　What a week this is for baby name lovers! We’ve had some long-awaited announcements in this week’s name news, including a royal baby, and new popularity charts from several countries. And that’s just for starters: tomorrow we’re expecting the main course of the USA 2018 baby name...
Nature Names for Boys
Dec 27, 2024
　　Their firstborn is Cedar. Now they need ideas for nature names for boys that are just as perfect for his little brother. 　　Lisa writes: 　　We have a son named Cedar, and we’re expecting another boy in September. 　　If it was a girl, we were considering Aurora, Juniper, or Sequoia. I...
Cool Character Names: Secret Shakespeareans
Dec 27, 2024
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　There are a lot of surprisingly cool character names hiding in Shakespeare’s plays. You only have to look beyond the more obvious Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, Hamlet and Horatio. Just among the male characters, we find many attractive and usable options if we move past the...
Unisex Names >
How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? The Top Unisex Names in Every US State The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State 50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Unisex Names Across the Atlantic
100 Unique Unisex Middle Names
Dec 27, 2024
　　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...
The Coolest Unisex Nature Names
Dec 27, 2024
　　Unisex nature names blend two of the coolest categories of baby names right now, so it’s no wonder they’re attracting a lot of attention! 　　The top gender neutral names in the US include several nature-inspired options, and the natural world is also a wonderful place to look for unique unisex...
Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames
Dec 27, 2024
　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...
Trends & Predictions >
Sam and Sadie: Geezer Names for Babies
Sam and Sadie: Geezer Names for Babies
L Names to Love Baby Name Trends: View from the Peak Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily? Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!! French Baby Names: Prune, Anyone? Taking Baby Names Seriously Baby Name Trends: Heading Up COWBOY (& COWGIRL) NAMES
NAMES OF THE NEW WEST
Dec 27, 2024
　　Names from television and movie Westerns sometimes got a lot more adventurous than Josh and Jesse.In fact, Westerns are responsible for reviving scores of antiquated classics that might otherwise have disappeared completely, along with introducing unconventional animal and word names as firsts.Some Western character names from the classic shows and movies...
CAREFUL, KAL-EL; WATCH OUT WHIZDOM!
Dec 27, 2024
　　We all know how the media likes to jump on every new ‘weird’ starbaby name, predicting dire consequences down the road for the likes of poor little Moxie CrimeFighter, Pilot Inspektor, Bronx Mowgli, and Apple. Well, only time will tell how these kids will actually meet that particular challenge as...
Irish Baby Names: Hot Off The Press
Dec 27, 2024
　　Our latest book, Cool Irish Names for Babies, will be hitting the bookstores in a few weeks and we’ll be offering you a few hors d’oeuvres (that doesn’t sound very Irish) before then. The book contains lots of undiscovered Irish baby names drawn from myth, legend and history, cool celebrity and...
Name Popularity >
The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1
The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1
Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training! Happy Second Birthday To Us! Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries Belgian Names: Beyond Flemish and French New Zealand Name Report How Popular is Too Popular? Popular baby names: The case for the common name The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?
Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops
Dec 27, 2024
　　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...
International Faves: Top names across the globe
Dec 27, 2024
　　As we eagerly await the revelation of what the top names were in the US last year, we thought it might be fun to see what international faves were heading the lists in other parts of the world.  Which American favorites were also among the three preferred choices in other...
Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa
Dec 27, 2024
　　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...
Baby Naming Advice >
How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby
How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby
Name Change Resources 9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine How to Change Your Baby’s Name Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister How to Cope With Baby Name Regret Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous Unique Twin Names to Inspire
Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names
Dec 27, 2024
　　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...
The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup
Dec 27, 2024
　　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...
It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name
Dec 27, 2024
　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...
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