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The Timeless + Timely Baby Name Formula

　　By Kara Blakley 　　As an art historian, my friends and family often like to teasingly debate what I consider to be art, and what not. While that is a discussion in its own right, one of my criteria for considering whether something is ‘art’ is if it holds to the...

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No Dumb Names: And 21 other baby name rules worth following

Dec 12, 2025

　　A few weeks ago we asked the Nameberry moms and dads to tell us their best baby names rules. What followed were hundreds of suggestions, from the idiosyncratically individual (All middle names must be Celtic and begin with R) to rules so universal they might apply to everyone. 　　Rule Number...

Global Baby Names: Picking a border-crossing name

Dec 12, 2025

　　Canadian guest blogger and name book writer Shandley McMurray offers some advice on global baby names–picking a name that will travel well. (And those are her beautiful kids in the illustration.) 　　Growing up with a name like Shandley in Canada wasn’t always easy. I became tired of correcting people’s spelling and...

Do Kre8iv Spellings Make Names More Special?

Dec 12, 2025

　　Guest blogger JILL BARNETT discovers that yooneek names are more prevalent than she’d realized. And every bit as confusing. 　　On a beautiful Saturday in July, I found myself where most people would love to be on a beautiful Saturday in July: sitting in a painfully boring continuing education seminar, hopelessly...

6 Ways Not To Fight About Baby Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　Conceiving your child may have made you feel, more than any other step you’ve taken together, as if you and your spouse had finally and truly become one. Choosing its name can remind you that, nope, you’re still actually two. 　　There are all those people with all those names that...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia!

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Lauren Der 　　Olivia has been the second most popular girls’ name in the US for the two years running, and Golden Age Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland was one of the first people to bring it to prominence here decades ago. The last surviving star of Gone With the...

Newest Word Names for Girls

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Back in 2007, Thirty Rock’s Cerie told Liz Lemon that she already had baby names picked out. “If it’s a girl, Bookcase, or Sandstorm, or maybe Hat, but that’s more of a boy’s name.” 　　While Hat and Bookcase remain – thankfully – unused, parents continue to embrace...

Vintage Girl Names: 9 Fresh Ideas

Dec 12, 2025

　　Vintage girl names can make great choices for a daughter born today. They’re tied to the past, have plenty of great namesakes, and yet feel fresh and unexpected, too. 　　The only problem? Many of them are far more popular than you might expect. 　　Anna Chlumsky, the My Girl child star...

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New Baby Name Trend: The Lu/Lou boys

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Great Alternatives to the Top Boy Names

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Kara @ The Art of NamingFor those parents who may secretly like the sound of the top names but hate their popularity, I’ve created a list of alternative options to the Top 10 names for boys. The names may be similar in sound, syllables, initial letter, meaning, origin or...

Name Sage: A Name to Remember Dad

Dec 12, 2025

　　Barbie writes: 　　I would like to honor my recently deceased father, Early Bernard, but I am drawing a blank! I just cannot see myself naming my child a name that would be shortened to Earl. His nickname was Early Bird, so I have flirted the idea of incorporating Bird somehow....

Celebrity Baby Names for Boys

Dec 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Here’s something we hear again and again: naming a boy is hard! 　　Parents tend to play it safe – or at least safer – when it’s time to name a son. The reasons are many: a tendency to hand down family names, fewer possible variations of popular...

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Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Dec 12, 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...

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Dec 12, 2025

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

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What's a Classic Name?

Dec 12, 2025

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Dec 12, 2025

　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Dec 12, 2025

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

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Dec 12, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　The last couple of weeks have seen some big baby name stories in the news, including the release of the US 2018 popularity charts and a new baby for pop royalty – plus scintillating snippets from the rest of the world. 　　America’s top baby names, state by...

Contest: Guess the New Top 10 and Win!

Dec 12, 2025

　　If there ever was a holiday for baby namers, it would be the Friday before Mother’s Day. For this is the day that the Social Security Administration releases the data on the most popular baby names of the previous year. This Friday, May 10th, the official list of US Most...

Nameberry’s Top Names of the Decade

Dec 12, 2025

　　Nameberry’s top names of the decade are led by Charlotte at Number 1 for girls and the biblical Asher in the top spot for boys. 　　Our 2010s baby name popularity list is calculated according to which names attracted the lion’s share of the nearly 125 million views of our name...

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Dec 12, 2025

　　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...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Dec 12, 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...