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28 Gorgeous Girls’ Names We Love

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Nameberry is lucky enough to have millions of visitors every month, and one of our favorite things to do is check out the baby names that catch your interest. It’s the basis of the Nameberry Top 1000, a list that includes many a favorite in the US...

Nov 26, 2024

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Silent Screen Actress Names: The Virgins and The Vamps

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Bree Ogle 　　In the first third of the 20th century, movies began to take hold in America and Europe. Although theatre was still prominent (and movie actors and actresses were considered ‘lowly’ by theatre people), the birth of the “star” only truly came about when motion pictures became popular....

Is Sailor the New Harper? Hot Girl Names Ending with R

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Girl names ending in R are joining their brothers as some of the hottest names around. 　　Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler recently welcomed baby number three, and it’s a girl! Saylor James joins big brothers Camden Jack and Jaxon Wyatt. 　　No sooner had Cavallari shared her happy...

Name Sage: A name for a girl Junior’s sister

Nov 26, 2024

　　Andrea writes: 　　We are expecting our second daughter on January 11th. I have been obsessed with naming children for as long as I can remember. My best friend even gave me the book Beyond Jennifer and Jason as a present in the sixth grade. 　　Surprisingly enough, I never imagined it...

Sassy Double-Syllable Names for Girls

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　Anyone who watches panda videos online (and what kind of monster doesn’t?) knows that the animals often have names with repeating syllables: Bei Bei, Gao Gao, Lun Lun and so on. 　　This is a popular naming convention in China, where pandas originate, and it’s undeniably cute. In...

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Rare Royal Girls’ Names: Christabel, Eugenie and Melita

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Pretty Girl Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　One of the search terms that sends a lot of people to Nameberry every day is “pretty girl names.” 　　Are they searching for names that are pretty, we wonder, or names that sound as if they belong to pretty girls? Or maybe what people are after...

Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On

Nov 26, 2024

　　Angela Mastrodonato, creator of the trend-watching blog Upswing Baby Names, will be a regular contributor to our Bonus Blog. Today she looks at girls’ names with a new twist at the end. 　　There’s one vowel that’s found at the end of seemingly every girl name. That vowel, of course, is...

Most Popular Girls’ Names of 2013….so far

Nov 26, 2024

　　Imogen widened her lead over Charlotte as the most popular girls’ name on Nameberry for the first nine months of the year. Imogen edged past Charlotte to claim the Number 1 spot for the first time at the 2013 half year mark, leading by fewer than 500 names out of...

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Boy Baby Names: A time for compromise

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Newest Word Names for Boys

Nov 26, 2024

　　Last month we looked at the newest word names for girls. From Alannis Morrisette’s Onyx Solace to Nicky Hilton Rothschild’s Lily–Grace, word names are everywhere – both the traditional and the unexpected. 　　This week the same is true, but now we’re looking at baby boy names. 　　A trio of high...

Geek Chic Names for Boys

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Pamela Satran 　　Geek is chic, at least when it comes to boys’ names. Looking at classic boys’ names that lie below the Top 1000, a lot of them are sweetly geeky. These are not the obvious Cool Guy names like Nico and Shane; instead, they’re the names of the...

Boy Baby Names: The 12 Jazziest

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Parents have been plucking more and more baby name ideas from the worlds of pop and rock music—from Jagger to Lennon to Hendrix to Bowie—but there’s a whole universe of classic and modern jazz names that’s also rich with possibility. These include first names, surnames, and even...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Nov 26, 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...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Nov 26, 2024

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

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Popular Baby Names: The next top names

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Combo Names: When 1 plus 1 equals 1

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Reminiscent of fifties doo-wop songs and southern cotillions, combo names are finding their way back to baby name lists after a decades-long absence. 　　Combo names are two existing names combined to create one. They can also be called “smoosh names” or “mash-up names”...

Trendy Baby Names: The trendiest of all time

Nov 26, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Trendy baby names have been around a lot longer Miley Cyrus or any of the famous Kardashians. From the dawn of recorded U.S. baby name history — aka 1880, when the federal government began keeping records — we’ve adopted names inspired by current events and popular...

Unusual Baby Names: Top choices under the radar

Nov 26, 2024

　　The big news in baby names this week has been the Most Popular Names 2012: Top 1, Top 10, Top 100, Top 1000. 　　But swimming just below the surface — not quite on the radar but not truly off, either — are dozens of more unusual baby names poised to...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

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20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Nov 26, 2024

　　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....

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　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

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

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How to Change Your Baby’s Name

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

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

Nov 26, 2024

　　Baby name regret — also known as baby name remorse — is a common source of shame among new parents. It allegedly affects between 10-20% of new parents, yet the perceived stigma deters many from sharing their feelings or stories. 　　Lately, celebrities have been opening up about their own experiences with baby...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 26, 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...