Top Girls’ Names of 2012
　　Our tally of the 100 most popular girls’ names of 2012 on Nameberry is in, and we have a new Number 1: Katniss. 　　The predominance of Katniss is more a testament to the power of the Hunger Games franchise than to baby name trends. 　　Our Number 2 girls’ name Charlotte,...
Dec 13, 2025
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Girl Baby Names: The newsiest names, from Talulah to Lula to Rue
Dec 13, 2025
　　It’s an all girl baby names issue of Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names this week. 　　Did you hear?  Barack Obama declined to offer baby name advice. 　　The president hosted a fireside chat on Google+ last week.  He tackled complex, divisive topics like the environment and the economy....
Girl Detective Names: Trixie, Theolinda, Thursday and Tuppence
Dec 13, 2025
　　Hear the words ‘detective’ or ‘private eye,’ and you probably picture a tough guy like Mickey Spillane or a cooler customer like Sam Spade.  But it turns out that mystery fiction also features a lot more female sleuths than you might think, dating back to Loveday Brooke in the 1890s...
Pretty Girl Names: This week’s Nameberry 9
Dec 13, 2025
　　Some pretty girl names–and a couple of attractive boys’ too–are highlighted by Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel for this week’s The Nameberry 9. 　　It was a good week for gorgeous girl names. From current favorites to up and coming possibilities, pop culture gave us a quartet of new daughters with noteworthy...
Unusual Girls’ Names: Lotus, Arrow, Pehr, and the rest of the Nameberry 9
Dec 13, 2025
　　Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain focuses this week on some bold and daringly unusual girls’ names that made baby name news. 　　Some weeks I’m astonished by the range of names we can choose for girls. 　　We love our children regardless of gender, but when it comes to talking baby names, many of...
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Girl Baby Names: 50 Sweetest Sweet-Spot Names
Girl Baby Names: 50 Sweetest Sweet-Spot Names
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9 Glowing Girl Names: Brilliant and bright
Dec 13, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　There are many girls’ names that mean light.  There’s the whole Lu-name contingent: Lux and Luz, Lucy and Lucia, Lucille and Lucinda, for starters. And the bright and clear Clara, Claire, Clarissa contingent. And all the Helen, Helena, Ellen, Leonora et al names that mean ‘bright, shining...
Warrior Girl Names: Finding the Right Fit for a Fighter
Dec 13, 2025
　　Their new daughter will need surgery shortly after birth. Time to find a strong name with the right meaning to encourage their little fighter! 　　Kristen writes: 　　We recently found out we were having our third girl and we were absolutely thrilled. Of course, I immediately dug up the master list...
Baby Naming Advice: Teacher Edition
Dec 13, 2025
　　If you’re a teacher, every name can already feel taken by a former student! What’s the best approach – choose something truly unusual? Or choose a baby name you love, knowing that it might appear on your class list, too? 　　Caity writes: 　　We are having trouble agreeing on a girls’...
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Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus
Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus
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How I Named My Baby: October Teddy
Dec 13, 2025
　　Michelle, a breastfeeding counselor, and Neil, a research scientist, live in Ames, Iowa with their four children: Eisley, Avonlea, Idalia Rae, and October Teddy. 　　October was born on March 4, 2023. Here, we talk to Michelle about how she and Neil named their little boy. 　　Tell me October’s name story!I...
How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique
Dec 13, 2025
　　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
Dec 13, 2025
　　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...
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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around
Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around
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200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Dec 13, 2025
　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...
Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl
Dec 13, 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...
How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
Dec 13, 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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Ancient Names for Babies
Ancient Names for Babies
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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones
Dec 13, 2025
　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...
Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023
Dec 13, 2025
　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...
60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest
Dec 13, 2025
　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...
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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames
Rare Names With Popular Nicknames
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20 Chic French Names You Should Know About
Dec 13, 2025
　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....
5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name
Dec 13, 2025
　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...
Top Czech Names Follow International Trends
Dec 13, 2025
　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....
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Name Change Resources
Name Change Resources
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Unique Twin Names to Inspire
Dec 13, 2025
　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...
What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name
Dec 13, 2025
　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...
Test-Driving Your Baby Name
Dec 13, 2025
　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...
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