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Atticus Tops Baby Names 2015

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Atticus makes major baby name news by topping Nameberry’s count of Most Popular Names for the first half of 2015, on the publication day of the new Harper Lee novel casting the inspirational namesake Atticus Finch as a racist. 　　The ancient Roman boys’ name Atticus, which...

Dec 27, 2024

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The Au-some New Baby Name Trend

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18 Hottest New Baby Names

Dec 27, 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...

States’ Most Popular Names 2014

Dec 27, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　So we’ve parsed the new Social Security national list from almost every conceivable angle. When, a few days after its release, we got to see which names were most popular in which states in 2014, it’s allowing us to delve into more regional patterns. 　　It turns out...

The Way We Name Today: 9 Baby Name Trends

Dec 27, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　When it comes to baby name trends, it’s tempting to declare that the classics are back, or that originality is the new rule. And some weeks, it does feel like everyone is sticking with tried-and-true names, or turning to the dictionary, or just drawing letters from a...

Name Trends of the 1880s: Everything old is new again

Dec 27, 2024

　　By Arika Okrent, mentalfloss.com 　　The Social Security website has data on the thousand most popular baby names for boys and girls going back to 1880, when John and Mary came in first. A look at the old lists shows that the most popular names are always changing, but some of...

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Buttoned-up Girls’ Names

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Top Royal Baby Girl Names

Dec 27, 2024

　　What are the top 　　royal names for girls in contention for the new princess born to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge? Will the royal baby girl be named Alice, the favorite with bookmakers? Diana, the crowd-pleasing choice? Or Elizabeth, one of the most royal names of all — or maybe something completely...

Hiding in Plain Sight: the Secret Popularity of Lynn and Lee

Dec 27, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　In my last post, I wrote about how baby names are getting longer — with choices like Isabella and Olivia (four syllables each) trumping old-fashioned picks such as Mary and Anne. 　　While I was sifting through the data for that piece, I noticed something interesting. Some of...

1950s Girls’ Names: Where are Sharon and Sandra now?

Dec 27, 2024

　　By Kara Cavazos of The Art of Naming 　　The baby girls who were born in 1950 are now grandmothers. They will turn 65 this year! It is safe to say, though, that a lot of their first names may not be getting passed down to their grand-daughters at the same rate...

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Cool Character Names: Secret Shakespeareans

Welsh Names for Boys Traditional Male Names with a Wow Factor Nickname in the News: Hal Boys’ Name Joe Gets Its Own Holiday Dad Names: Updates for Alpha Babes Choosing Offbeat Boy Names Seeking a Traditional but Modern Boy Name 15 Fabulous French Boy Names

Baby Naming Battles: They Don’t Agree on Anything

Dec 27, 2024

　　They’re the baby battlers – the couple thrilled to be expecting, but struggling to find any one single name that they can agree on. Let’s help them find a great name for their son that they can both like. 　　Annie writes: 　　We are expecting a son in November, and my...

Awesome V Names for Boys

Dec 27, 2024

　　So you’re looking for a V names for boys. And for your own personal reasons, you’ve eliminated the most obvious, Victor and Vincent. But where do you go from there? Admittedly, this isn’t the broadest group in the alphabet, but here are some very viable boy names starting with V...

Help the Bode Millers Name Their Twin Boys!

Dec 27, 2024

　　Olympic skier Bode Miller and wife Morgan Beck Miller recently became the parents of identical twin boys — but now they need twin names! 　　The Millers told People Magazine that they were having trouble agreeing on names for their twins. 　　“It’s a daily battle to the point where some days we...

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Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

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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...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Dec 27, 2024

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Dec 27, 2024

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

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ANNE HECHE’S ATLAS JOINS THE PANTHEON OF STARBABY GODS & GODDESSES

Newest Baby Names: Clara Is This Year’s Claire Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!! COWBOY (& COWGIRL) NAMES Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily? Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule Biblical Names: From The Baby Name Bible L Names to Love CAREFUL, KAL-EL; WATCH OUT WHIZDOM!

DE-HIPSTERIZE THAT BABY NAME

Dec 27, 2024

　　One thing we learned when we wrote about hipster baby names is that nobody wants one. Many people were horrified if they found their favorite names — or worse, their actual children’s names — on our list of hipster names. No matter how much they’d loved the name before, they...

Baby Name Trends: Heading Up

Dec 27, 2024

　　Yesterday we looked at our list of names that peaked in 2007 and predicted general baby name trends. Today, we’re identifying those names we expect to be hearing a lot more of in the future. 　　Not included on this list are the trendy choices like Addison and Aiden that everybody...

GOODBYE, GLADYS?

Dec 27, 2024

　　There’s a lively discussion going on over at our message boards on what names have gone out of style and will probably never come back. On the permanent Out List, by consensus, are: 　　BERTHA 　　BEULAH 　　BRUNHILDA (was this ever in, I mean since the 11th century?) 　　CLORIS 　　DORCAS 　　DORIS 　　EUNICE...

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New Zealand Name Report

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Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?

Dec 27, 2024

　　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...

Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training!

Dec 27, 2024

　　There are countless books for kids with first names in their titles—from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Madeline to Fancy Nancy to Olivia—but there aren’t very many books for children about names, with scenarios revolving around such name issues as how they relate to identity, popularity, etc 　　I have found a...

Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era?

Dec 27, 2024

　　VINTAGE NAMES: What era are you? 　　Unless you’re a baby namer focused on finding a newly created or cutting-edge name, chances are you’ve considered using one from the past. But which part of the past? An ancient name or one from earlier in the 20th century? 　　So, the question of the...

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How to Change Your Baby’s Name

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Dec 27, 2024

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Dec 27, 2024

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Dec 27, 2024

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...