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How to Name Your Baby After Your Grandpa

　　You want to name your son after your beloved grandpa… but Richard just isn’t your style. What to do? 　　The good news is there are lots of other options. You could stick Richard in the middle name slot, or try an alternative honor name that connects to him in a...

Apr 10, 2025

15 Cool Country Boy Names For Your Little Cowboy

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How I Named My Baby: True Luck

Apr 10, 2025

　　Chelle and Chris Roman live in San Diego, California with their three sons: Cyler Michael-Anthony, Rook Drace, and True Luck. 　　After a lucky birth and no real frontrunners for his name, Chelle and Chris committed to a name they never thought they’d use — True Luck. 　　Here, we talk to Chelle...

The Best Cool Undiscovered Boy Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Undiscovered boy names come in styles to suit every taste. There are cool unique boy names from history, which include such rare edgy choices as Erasmus and Sequoyah. Then there are undiscovered classic names for boys that have fallen off the radar but deserve a fresh look, such as Humphrey...

Earthy Boy Names: 100+ Friendly and Grounded Ideas

Apr 10, 2025

　　Looking for a name that's friendly, unpretentious and grounded? An earthy boy name could be the perfect choice. 　　Reading a request in the forums for earthy boy names made me rethink what the term means: is it a concept, or a literal meaning? Here are three different styles that can...

45+ Simple Yet Strong One-Syllable Boy Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　One-syllable boy names have never been more in style than they are right now. The coolest one-syllable names for boys move far beyond Jim, Joe, and Tom -- even beyond Sam and Max. Not that there's anything wrong with those short, simple, classic one-syllable names. But the newest and coolest...

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12 Literary Ladies: Unique names from Abra to Sapphira

Let’s hear it for the Ola Names: Lola, Viola and Finola Buttoned-up Girls’ Names Bye-bye, Meghan. So long, Marisa. Girl names leaving the Top 1000 What makes a name a name? The Long and the Short of Girl Names Accentuating the Positive: Baby names with accents Girl Baby Names: Something Old, Something New Modern Girls’ Names: Zhuri, Marlowe, and Vale

Girls’ Name Hazel: Will a new movie make her the next Jennifer?

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Nick Turner 　　In 1970, the novel Love Story captured America‘s imagination with the tale of a wealthy Harvard jock who meets a girl from the other side of the tracks. It was soon followed by a movie of the same name — a tear-jerker that became the top box-office draw...

Adelaide or Adeline?

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Brooke Cussans, Baby Name Pondering 　　Both Adelaide and Adeline are beautiful, classic sounding names that have been gaining popularity for the past decade. Although similar, they are also distinct enough that it’s very possible they would both appear on many people’s lists. So how do you choose if you are partial to both? Sometimes it helps...

Baby Name Trendspotting: Hello, Dolly!

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Eleanor Nickerson, British Baby Names 　　Even though they didn’t make the top 20 list of names which had moved up the most in 2013, one thing I particularly noticed about the recent England and Wales data release was the number of “Dol” names that had shot onto the scene....

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Name Sage: Can We Still Use Our Favorite Name?

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Girl-Boy Twin Names: Naming Nora’s Twin Brother

Apr 10, 2025

　　Twin names present double the naming challenge but can also be double the fun. Naming twins is a rare opportunity to choose two related baby names at the same time that are compatible but also distinct. 　　With twins, it can be more tempting to use rhyme, sound play, and same...

Comeback Kid Nicknames for Boys

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Here is Part 2 of our search for fresh vintage nickname names, and this time we’re looking at boys’ names that at one time registered on the Top 1000 list. 　　Bear in mind, though, that, because of the growth of the overall population we can sometimes be...

9 Great Sports-Inspired Baby Name Stories

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　How far would you go to show your loyalty to your team? 　　You’ll buy season tickets, of course. Play the team’s signature song at your wedding reception? Maybe. Name your pet after a star player? Possibly. 　　But give your kiddo a name that clearly honors the team?...

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Apr 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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Apr 10, 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...

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Apr 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...

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60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Apr 10, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Color names, either flat-out color names like Blue or names with colorful meanings like Aurelia, are more and more popular. 　　But do you know the secret meanings behind the color behind that name you love? 　　Color-related meanings are drawn from a wide range of cultures and are often even older...

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

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The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...

Baby Names Before 1850

Apr 10, 2025

　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...

Popular Twin Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Apr 10, 2025

　　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...

It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Apr 10, 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...

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Apr 10, 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...