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Name the Next Beckham Baby

　　Question of the Week: What should David and Victoria Beckham name their fourth child? 　　So Posh and Becks are expecting a new member of their team this summer. They’ve been both imaginative and trendsetting when choosing the names for their three boys: Brooklyn Joseph, Cruz David and Romeo James. Due...

Dec 24, 2024

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British Baby Names: Hot New Trends

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Question of the Week: Is a nickname enough of a name?

Dec 24, 2024

　　It’s a trend that took off first in the UK, with prams populated by baby Archies and Alfies, Edies and Ellies—and now it has definitely crossed the ocean–the idea of going straight to the nickname and skipping the full, formal name completely. 　　We see boys being christened Sam and girls christened Sam, boys...

Nameberry Week in Review: January 16-24

Dec 24, 2024

　　Covering the week of January 16 to 24th, 　　Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog–brings you a roundup of the latest and juciest baby name news. 　　I’ll admit it: I obsessively read the Pottery Barn Kids catalog not for the color-coordinated, impossibly organized nurseries and playrooms, but for the names. They tend...

The Fastest-Rising Names in the UK

Dec 24, 2024

　　The following post on the fastest-rising names in the UK is a guest post by Luke Eales from BabyNames.co.uk, one of the UK’s leading baby names websites. Established in 2007, the BabyNames.co.uk helps parents on the path to finding the perfect baby name. 　　Having read Nameberry’s recent article on popular...

The Top 100 Names of All Time

Dec 24, 2024

　　Popular baby names change every year, but here we bring you the top names in the U.S. of all time — or at least since the government started keeping count. 　　A week or so ago, we presented to you Nephele‘s lists of the most popular baby names for each letter...

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Rare Royal Girls’ Names: Christabel, Eugenie and Melita

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Disney Princess Names: How influential are they really?

Dec 24, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　As the mother of a five year-old girl, Frozen was required viewing over the recent school holidays. Somewhere between the first appearance of talking snowman Olaf and the happy ending, I found myself musing about the popularity of Disney-princess names. 　　I’ve long thought that any...

Unexpected Names for Girls: Edelweiss, Marceline, and Cee Cee

Dec 24, 2024

　　Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　It’s been a quiet week for high profile arrivals. Sure, Michael Weatherly of NCIS fame and wife Bojana welcomed son Liam. It’s a great name – friendly, upbeat, accessible. Liam is also a solid favorite in the US, just like big sister’s...

Sundance Catalog Names

Dec 24, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　At this time of year, catalogs flood the house every day – the poor mail deliverer! – only to be promptly thrown into the recycling bin. 　　One of the few exceptions is the Sundance Catalog. It’s not as if I ever order anything from there, though...

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

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100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel

Dec 24, 2024

　　Boy names ending in a vowel (or a vowel sound) feel lively and distinctive, in an era where consonant names for boys – particularly those ending in N and R – have long dominated the list of popular names. 　　There are now five boy names ending in a vowel sound...

12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

Dec 24, 2024

　　Looking for a boy name that feels both fashionable and original, that stands out for its rarity but fits with current trends? 　　Boy names are evolving at lightning speed right now, with parents more willing than ever to branch out from traditional choices and embrace individuality in their sons’ names...

How I Named My Baby: Cleo Cruize

Dec 24, 2024

　　Brittany, a physician, and Tyrice Johnson, a solutions consultant, live in Southern Orange County, California with their son Cleo Cruize. 　　Cleo was born on May 16, 2023. Here, Brittany shares how she and Tyrice named their baby boy. 　　Tell me Cleo’s name story!His name story actually starts with my own....

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100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Dec 24, 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...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Dec 24, 2024

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Dec 24, 2024

　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

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New Starbaby Name Predictions: What’s next?

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Baby Name News of the Decade

Dec 24, 2024

　　By Clare Green 　　“Mr and Mrs Smith of Townsville name their daughter Emma”…said no headline ever. 　　Millions of babies are named every year, but only a few of them ever make the news. When there’s something really unusual about a name, or its story, or the parents, or the world’s...

X, Y, Z Take Middle Place

Dec 24, 2024

　　X, y, and z are the trendiest middle letters in baby names today. 　　X appears in the middle most often in boys’ names: all the Alex, Max, and Jaxon variations. 　　Y stands in for just about any other vowel, as in Londyn and Myles, and also can help clarify pronunciation...

The Decade’s Hottest Baby Name Trends

Dec 24, 2024

　　At Nameberry, we use a combination of data and cultural information to identify current baby name trends and predict future ones. So for our 10th anniversary, we undertook the massive project of comparing how many babies in the US were given which names 10 years ago compared with today. Then...

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30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

Dec 24, 2024

　　Presidential baby names – the famous last names and, in a few cases, first names of America’s presidents – are more popular than ever in the US. The presidential connection may be more direct in some cases (Lincoln) than others (Taylor). 　　Naming a child for – or, in some cases,...

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Dec 24, 2024

　　Looking for a niche source of rare baby names? Try the comeback kids of 2022. 　　These names were once used for babies in the US, but then vanished for decades. Just when you might think they were lost forever, they've re-appeared in the official baby name data for 2022. 　　The...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Dec 24, 2024

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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Updating Popular 1950s Names

Dec 24, 2024

　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Dec 24, 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...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Dec 24, 2024

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...