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Best G Names for Girls

Jan 10, 2025

　　Girl names that start with G are led by red-hot Italian name Gianna, which has shot up in popularity in recent years to place her as high as number 13 in the rankings. Other popular G names in the Top 100 include Grace, Genesis, and Gabriella. However, there are many...

Unraveling the Origins of Evelyn

Jan 10, 2025

　　At first glance, Evelyn fits in comfortably alongside the likes of Eva and Adalynn on the US popularity charts. Marrying some of the most stylish sounds with an Edwardian poise and elegance, it’s no surprise that she is so well appreciated at the moment. 　　Despite this apparent simplicity, when you...

Best A Names for Girls

Jan 10, 2025

　　Girl names that start with A are first in the alphabet and first in parents’ hearts. A has been the most popular initial for girl names in the US for many years. 　　Our favorite A names for girls change with each generation. Thirty years ago, Amy, Amber, Ashley and Amanda...

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

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Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Jan 10, 2025

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide

Jan 10, 2025

　　Traditional boy names remain perennially popular with parents today, in spite of the broader trend towards ever more unique baby names for both sexes. 　　But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all traditional names for boys are popular. As well as the core classic boy names – like John, James and...

Exploring the Meaning of Julian

Jan 10, 2025

　　Julian is a quiet classic, which has been in steady use throughout history but never wildly popular. It currently ranks at #35 in the US, appreciated for his jolly but understated charm. 　　Up to a point, the origins of the name are clear and undisputed: it comes from the Roman...

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The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 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...

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Not Your Mama’s Baby Name!

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Celebrity Baby Names: Brand New Predictions!

Jan 10, 2025

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　I’ve been making predictions on Nameberry long enough now that I’m forecasting names of the younger siblings of children whose names I’ve predicted before. Such is the case with Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. In my very first set of predictions for Nameberry, almost two years ago, I...

2016 Baby Name Faves

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Have your favorite baby names changed this year? 　　Thinking about the names that captured my attention, week after week, I sense a theme. The names feel modern, but have history and roots. They’re not invented, exactly, but in most cases, they wouldn’t have seemed like given names...

Coming Attractions: Latest starbaby predictions

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　New year, new celebrity pregnancy announcements! And boy did we start off with a bang. Zooey Deschanel, who is often credited with giving us the best baby name of 2015 (Elsie Otter!) is going to be a mom for the second time. Jill Duggar is also pregnant...

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The Top Baby Names A-Z

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

Jan 10, 2025

　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Jan 10, 2025

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

Baby Names Before 1850

Jan 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...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 10, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

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

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...