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Yes, Millennial Mom Names Can Work for Alpha Era Girls!

　　Millennials, those born in the eighties through mid-nineties, are the generation having babies in 2019. These children are a part of the emerging Generation Alpha, defined as anyone born from 2010-2025. Gen Alphas come into the world with iPads in hand and social media handles pre-claimed—a vastly different experience from...

Dec 28, 2024

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Girl Middle Names: What’s best for Gracie?

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Abby Sandel 　　Let’s solve the riddle of the girl middle name for their due-in-December daughter. 　　Stephanie writes: 　　We are expecting our first child, a daughter, in December. We are going with Gracie for her first name (not Grace, but Gracie), but we cannot find a middle name we love....

Mom Names: Lady Gaga’s Mama and more!

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It’s become a Nameberry tradition. In celebration of Mother’s Day, we honor a dozen moms who not only have raised highly successful offspring, but who also happen to have—yes—memorable names themselves. Here is this year’s list of the Top 12, including the mom names of Lady Gaga,...

Girl Names: For International Women’s Day

Dec 28, 2024

　　Not only is March Women’s History Month, but today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. 　　So what better time than this to salute some of the women who are making history right now in the US political sphere? 　　When the 116th Congress recently convened, women made up almost a quarter...

Celebrity Baby Names Q+A: Elizabeth Holmes

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Our latest celebrity baby names Q+A: 　　We were so thrilled to talk to Elizabeth Holmes, journalist and creator of “So Many Thoughts.” She and husband Matt Stuart have two sons, and are expecting a daughter later this summer. 　　What are your children’s names? 　　Fitzgerald and Oliver 　　How...

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International Women’s Day Baby Names: Malala and Mirabai

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Girls’ Baby Names: Stylish but Unusual Choices

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Girls’ names that end in the lee sound – from Ellie to Lily to Natalie to Riley and Everly – have been growing in popularity in recent years. In fact, sometimes it seems as if almost any girls’ name that ends in ly or ley or...

Blockbuster Baby Names: The Movie Girls of Summer

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in the US, and that means movies. 　　Not just any movies, either. The summer schedule is packed with potential blockbusters – as much romance and action and intrigue as you can stuff into two hours and a bucket...

Name Sage: Do rules make baby naming easier?

Dec 28, 2024

　　Do too many rules make naming a baby impossible, or is a solid list of must-haves the key to finding a great name for daughter number three? 　　Kate writes: 　　We are counting down the days until our fifth child and third daughter arrives at the end of June. We cannot...

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Goldilocks Classics for Boys: Holden, Noah, Wyatt and Beau

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Boy Names: The Top 100 of 2013 (so far)

Dec 28, 2024

　　Which boy names have been most popular on Nameberry so far this year? 　　The big news in baby boy names: Asher is back on top, a spot he held in our 2011 popularity list but lost to Finn in 2012. Finn is still enormously popular with Nameberry’s parents, holding onto...

Baby Men Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Baby Men Names are names that sound perennially middle-aged, born wearing ties and carrying leather briefcases, buttoned-up and oh-so-adult. 　　These names carry several advantages: They’re rooted in tradition, of course, and so give your child a solid base for any grownup pursuit. And since so many...

20 Best Super Sleuth Names for Boys

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　A few months ago, we blogged about lady detectives, clueing you in to some fabulous names like Trixie, Temperance and Thursday, Loveday and Precious. Now it’s time to investigate their male counterparts—and there are some real doozies—drawn from a variety of genres– from early crime novels to...

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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 28, 2024

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

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Celebrity Baby Names: Coming Attractions!

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The New Top 10 Contest Winner

Dec 28, 2024

　　Congratulations to our Berry Amy, known in the comments as Orchid_Lover, who won our “Guess the New Top 10” contest! 　　Amy’s predictions for the Top 10 baby names of 2018 were as follows: 　　1. Emma 　　Noah 　　2. Olivia 　　Liam 　　3. Ava 　　William 　　4. Sophia 　　Oliver 　　5. Isabella 　　Benjamin 　　6. Charlotte...

Starbabies: Predicting the next celebkid names

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　The most exciting celebrity baby news of the past few weeks has undoubtedly been that of the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s little prince. Archie Harrison does not have any family names, but his middle name honors Dad—Harrison literally means Harry’s son. 　　Back on this...

What Uncommon Names Do You Hear a Lot?

Dec 28, 2024

　　For me, it’s Huxley. 　　At #556 in England & Wales last year, and me being British, you’d think I’d be lucky to meet a single Huxley. And yet, it seems like every time I’m out with my kids, we meet yet another little one with the name. Ditto Rafferty (#278),...

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What Took So Long?: Why Huck and Holden and Atticus now?

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New British Popularity List: Harry and Amelia still reign

Dec 28, 2024

　　Our top UK correspondent, Eleanor Nickerson, has the following lead story on today’s release of the new popularity data from the UK Office for National Statistics on her blog British Baby Names. Check there for a lot more fascinating statistics on top names by region and month and those most popular...

2013 Playground Analysis: How combined spellings change the rankings

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady, The Name Freak! 　　For a second year, I present the “real” Top 50 by combining the different spellings of each name. Because when you hear “Jacob!” on the playground, you have no idea how his name is spelled, but you know you hear the name a lot....

In Favor of Fitting In: Harper, Haven and Hudson

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　How far would you go to find a truly stand-out name for your child? 　　Self-described geek dad Stephen McLaughlin has decided to let the internet name his daughter. His wife insisted that they retain veto power, so the #1 name doesn’t automatically win. 　　Good thing,...

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Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Dec 28, 2024

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 28, 2024

　　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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Dec 28, 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...