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Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names

　　They snap, crackle, and pop—which is one reason why alliterative names are so widely used for the characters in children’s stories—from nursery rhymes like ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ to picture books like Mike Mulligan’s Steam Shovel to Young Adult book characters like Harry Potter‘s Luna Lovegood. 　　Here, the distinguished name scholars Don...

Jan 10, 2025

Conan: From saint to savage, comic book to comic

A Dozen Neglected Biblical Boys’ Names

John Today, Gianni Tomorrow

Baby Jock Names: 25 surprising sports star choices

Popular Baby Names 2010: Top 100 Boys’ Names So Far FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads Hot Baby Names: Max in the Spotlight Classic Names: The Fred Factor Baby Boy Names: Tough, Tender, Traditional, Trendy? Hooray for Henry: The quirky classic that manages to stay cool Exotic Lite: Boys’ Edition Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Boys’ Names

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Baby Names 2010: Top 100 For Boys

Jan 10, 2025

　　Our focus on baby names 2010 continues today with the top 100 boys’ names. 　　The top seven names remain the same from the first quarter count, with Henry, Finn, and Oliver weighing in at numbers 1, 2, and 3. This greater stability on the boys’ side echoes the pattern in...

Top English Boys’ Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　Yesterday we took a look at the long-delayed UK Office for National Statistics’ list of most popular girls’ names in England and Wales for 2008–and now it’s the boys’ turn. We see many similar patterns across the gender divide, though perhaps even more names in the boy’ column that are less familiar in...

Baby Name Thomas: A Salute to Poor Tom Turkey

Jan 10, 2025

　　Not only is old Tom Turkey again making his annual holiday sacrifice, but the poor guy has also had to bear the shame of seeing his name slide down the popularity list, now being out of the Top 50 for probably the first time ever in this country. Multiple Thomases arrived...

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

Jan 10, 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...

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Names to Celebrate Earth Day

Beyond Ava & Aiden is Born Flower Fairy Names The Mary Month of May Oh, Susannah! She Suggests Names, He Vetoes Them: Can This Couple Negotiate? From Bertha to Angina: One Mom’s (Mostly Frustrated) Search for the Right Name Honoring A Grandmother By Reinventing Her Name WELSH NAMES: Beyond Gwyneth and Griffin

Nameberry Makeover: Renovating the Top Ten Girls’ Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　The brilliant visitors over on the Name Game board have done it again. The latest greatest game they’re playing is called Nameberry Makeover, in which they take the Top Ten names and come up with fresher, cooler sounding substitutes. 　　Some new players may have joined in by now and if...

OOH-LA-LA, TALLULAH!

Jan 10, 2025

　　Last week we talked about the la-la part of oo-la-la names, but it seems that a large proportion of currently hot names have the cool oo sound as well. Maybe it’s because the names do share the sound with that c-word (not to mention oomph, and it’s also just a...

Mom Names: The Names of Famous Mothers

Jan 10, 2025

　　In anticipation of Mother’s Day, we thought we’d turn the tables and look at the names of some distinguished moms. Turns out that a surprising number of past (and a few present) notables have had mothers with interesting names. Probably too far-fetched to think there’s any correlation, but in any...

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Exploring the Meaning of Julian

Aiden Names: the Rise And Fall of a Mega-Trend Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular Trending Boy Names 100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel How I Named My Baby: October Teddy Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus Brother Names

Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

Jan 10, 2025

　　The good news for lovers of vintage boy names is that they’ve never been cooler. 　　The bad news? Well... they’ve never been cooler. 　　That means it can feel increasingly difficult to find the perfect “I wish I’d thought of that first!” vintage boy name. You know: the sweet but strong,...

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...

12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Gender-Bending Baby Names 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State The Top Unisex Names in Every US State 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 10, 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...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 10, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

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Predicting 2014 Starbaby Names, Part 2

Owen? Max? Lucy? Will They Ever Make the Top 10? Contagious: What makes a name catch on? Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014 Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou French Baby Names: Trends and Predictions 2014 Do The Next Big Names Appear In Pottery Barn Catalogs? The Next Baby Name Style Wave Baby Names 2014: Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of?

Ava, Sid, and Bodhi: The New Reality of Baby Naming

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　You’ll never guess the name that repeats in my son’s third grade. 　　It isn’t Alex. Despite having a Top 20 name, he’s never had to share. His friend Matthew is also one of one, and has been since kindergarten. The same is true for Chloe...

The Most Notable Names of 2013

Jan 10, 2025

　　Noah has unseated Jacob to become the new Number 1 name for boys – the first new top boys’ choice of the 21st century. 　　The boys’ side of the list claims all the hottest news, in a turnaround from the usual pattern in which girls’ names dominate the trend shifts. Liam...

1913 Baby Names: Does the hundred-year rule still rule?

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Once a year, we like to stop and turn the calendar back a hundred years to see what parents were naming their babes a century ago and whether we might find some undiscovered treasures that, following the hundred-year rule, might be ready to be revived. 　　What was...

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Popular Baby Names: An overlooked perk in the Digital Age

Place Names for Babies: Malaysia’s Hot, Argentina Only Warmish British Popularity List 2013: Oliver and Amelia on top Seasonal Baby Names: How do they rank? Most Popular Names of the 21st Century Occupational Baby Names: A journalist named Jonah? An accountant named Adele? Unusual Baby Names: 100 Under 100 2013 Baby Names: The state of the States’ popularity Best Names Given to Only 5 Babies in 2013

20 Worthy Name Substitutes: Judson for Hudson

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Popular names are popular for a reason: They’re attractive, fresh, feel right for the times. 　　Their only problem is that they’re, well, popular. 　　If you like a name that you’re starting to hear a bit too often, we’ve come up with more original substitutes that may...

Early American Names Beyond George & Martha: What names were popular then and why?

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Brian Tomlin 　　Looking at names that were popular in the early days of the U.S. gives us a chance to reflect on how much we have changed and evolved over the last two centuries. We are clearly more multicultural as a society in terms of how many different countries,...

The Baby Name Class of 1915

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　At the start of 2015, it’s interesting to look back a hundred years to see what was happening in the world of baby names. 　　The Baby Name Class of 1915 included several choices that are once again stylish: Evelyn, Alice, Florence, Lillian, and Rose for girls;...

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How to Change Your Baby’s Name

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Jan 10, 2025

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

Updating Popular 1950s Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

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

Jan 10, 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...