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Israeli Baby Names

　　To commemorate the Feast of Purim this weekend and the other major Jewish holidays coming up on the calendar, we turned to Israel-resident Hannah Katsman for an overview of current trends in Israeli baby names. 　　When Israelis are choosing names for their babies, they tend to focus on meaning as much as the sound of the name....

Jan 16, 2025

Modern Hero Names: Monroe Is Just The Beginning

Baby Name News: This week’s most notable names, from Ami to Zia

Isabella and Jacob Still #1

Stylish Names: What’s Their Secret?

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Popular Names 2010: Interesting or ho-hum?

Jan 16, 2025

　　Question of the Week: What were your responses to the new Social Security list of Popular Names 2010? 　　Last week we asked for your predictions of the popular names 2010, and some of you came up with very spot-on forecasts—a special shout-out to names4real for anticipating the rise of Bentley (who is shown...

The Hottest Celebrity-Inspired Baby Names 2011

Jan 16, 2025

　　We all know that the names of celebrities and their babies inspire real life baby names, but which celebrities’ names are the most influential right now? 　　To find out, we went behind the scenes at nameberry and looked at which names enjoyed the biggest bumps up in traffic at the...

W-Names: Where’s Waldo?

Jan 16, 2025

　　Once upon a time, in the now distant past, popularity lists–particularly for boys–were teeming with names starting with the letter ‘W’. 　　In 1920, for example, there were twenty-seven of them in the boys’ Top 500, including every conceivable appendage to the first syllable Wil. Aside from the eternal William, there were Willie,...

70s Names Ready for Revival? Baby Brandon, anyone?

Jan 16, 2025

　　Nameberry’s Question of the Week: What 70s to 80s name or names do you consider ready for revival? 　　Looking back over the popular names of two and three decades ago, are there any whose comeback time has come? 　　As a reminder: 　　The top girls’ names of the 1970s were Jennifer,...

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Reinventing Grandma Names

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Playground Analysis 2017: The REAL Top 50 List!

Jan 16, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady 　　After seeing the SSA’s 2017 Popular Baby Names list, did you wonder why you aren’t hearing the #1 name as much as a name further down on the list? Do you hear a lot more “Sophia!” on the playground than “Emma!”? One way to try to explain...

MayBerry Arrivals: Cecilia Lilac and Godric Nickleby

Jan 16, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　May was an extraordinary month in the Nameberry Birth Announcement forums. We had a girl named Tully, boys called Godric and Endymion and Ignatius, middle names Lilac and Nickleby, brothers Atlas and Apollo, and nicely paired twins August Matthias and Thomas Nathaniel. 　　Parents drew inspiration from sources...

Baby Name Trends: The latest ley-ending girls

Jan 16, 2025

　　By John Kelly 　　The Social Security Administration’s 2017 baby name data is now in, charting the Top 1000 names on its card applications for newborns dating back to 1880. They also help track our ever-changing tastes and trends in baby names. 　　One of those trends suggests that we’re increasingly enamored...

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Hooray for Henry: The quirky classic that manages to stay cool

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Classic Names: The Fred Factor

Jan 16, 2025

　　A few days ago, I was introduced to Fred Gooltz, COO of the hot new obsession site itsasickness.com. Wow, I thought, Fred, one of my favorite cool retro classic names. But it soon became evident that Fred didn’t share my enthusiasm, expressing his negative feelings about growing up with a name...

RIP, Ben: A Mom Mourns Her Once-Favorite Name

Jan 16, 2025

　　BENJAMIN – Laura Dunphy and her husband, Mike, are mourning the loss of the name Benjamin, which was terminated from their Baby Name List on Friday May 21, 2010, after a long and debilitating ailment. 　　Almost 11 years ago, Benjamin – as they called him, Ben – was the very...

Nameberry Faves II: The Boys’ Names Nameberryites Love Most

Jan 16, 2025

　　A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the favorite girls’ names on a Nameberry Message Board thread–led by the lovely Beatrix, Penelope and Clementine–and now it’s time to look over at the boys’ side. 　　The most striking result is the strong showing for the good old traditional, timeless classics, with...

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100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

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10 Years of Baby Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We launched Nameberry in October 2008, the same month the economy collapsed and a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president. 　　In that decade, 40 million babies were born in the US, and 235 million people viewed 1.5 billion pages of our...

Unisex Names: and other baby name news of the week

Jan 16, 2025

　　This week’s news includes popular gender-neutral names, trends in South Africa, and what it’s like to share a name with someone famous. 　　Unisex names in the US and beyondGender-neutral names are a big trend now, but they’re not a new phenomenon. This cool map by NetCredit shows the most popular...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 16, 2025

　　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...

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Jan 16, 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...

Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Jan 16, 2025

　　New York baby namers love sleek, streamlined girl names like Rose and Claire, while Dallas favorites like Willa and Evangeline bring a touch of Southern charm. 　　Scottish namers are drawn to rugged boy names with a local flavor, such as Innes and Struan. And in Auckland, New Zealand, you'll find...

Ancient Names for Babies

Jan 16, 2025

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

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Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Jan 16, 2025

　　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...

The Top Baby Names A-Z

Jan 16, 2025

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Jan 16, 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...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Jan 16, 2025

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　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...

How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Jan 16, 2025

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...