Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?
　　Today’s QOW was inspired by a comment from jgirl525. 　　This week it’s a two-parter: 　　a.  What’s your response when you meet someone who shares your own first name? Do you feel an instant kinship or do you feel more proprietary?  If it’s a popular name, do you immediately start comparing nicknames...
Jan 10, 2025
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British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations
Jan 10, 2025
　　Yesterday, to launch British Names Week on Nameberry, Eleanor Nickerson identified the five strongest current naming trends in the UK.  　　Today we zero in on the popularity of individual names on both sides of the Atlantic, seeing which names have shared success and which haven’t. 　　We Yanks sometimes tend to...
Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops
Jan 10, 2025
　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one?  I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...
The Nameberry 9: Unusual but usable boys’names
Jan 10, 2025
　　For The Nameberry 9 this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel finds a nonet of  familiar boys’ names that you might not have considered. 　　Are you watching The League?  The FX comedy is about a group of friends who form a fantasy football league.  Draft picks matter, in real sports as...
The 50-Year Rule: 1962 names revisited
Jan 10, 2025
　　Conventional wisdom holds that baby names tend to follow the Hundred-Year-Rule, cycling back after a century has passed. But with everything speeding up exponentially in modern life, and with the great interest in all things mid-century, we’re thinking maybe we should change that to the Fifty-Year-Rule. 　　Which prompts us to...
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Jan 10, 2025
　　Naming a dog and naming a baby, while similar in some respects, are two totally different tasks. We have different requirements for our pet names and our baby names. Children need names that can serve them in multiple contexts over the many stages of life. Dogs don’t. 　　This is why...
My Name, My Story: Zara
Jan 10, 2025
　　Names can tell a powerful story, but as a US immigrant from China, the English names I was given didn’t mean anything to me. This is my journey through those names, to choosing my own English name that continues my story. 　　Chinese Names 101Born in China to Chinese parents, I...
How I Named My Baby: Aadya Dash
Jan 10, 2025
　　Puja, a service analyst, and Partha, an engineer, are a Bangladeshi-Canadian couple living in Toronto. Their daughter, Aadya Dash, was born in September 2022. 　　Here, we speak with Puja about how she and Partha named their baby girl. 　　Tell me how you named Aadya!We first had to decide which letter...
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Best K Names for Boys
Jan 10, 2025
　　Boys names starting with K are some of the trendiest in this millenium so far. Many names traditionally starting with a C have taken off with their alternative K spellings, including Karson, Karter, Kameron, and Kaleb. The Aiden revolution has led Kayden, Kaiden, Kaden, and many other spellings to bloom...
How I Named My Baby: Osric Theo Peregine
Jan 10, 2025
　　Anna, a writer, and Ian, who works in metal recycling, live in Virginia with their four children: Adelaide Iria, Evelina Story, Seraphine Clementine, and Osric Theo Peregrine. 　　Their fourth and final child, Osric Theo, was born on July 5, 2021. Here, we talk to Anna about how she and Ian...
Best N Names for Boys
Jan 10, 2025
　　Yes, Noah is one of the most popular names for boys of this century, and N is probably the most popular ending for boy names, so there are plenty of popular Boy Names That Start with N. And yet, if you’re looking for an N-starting name for your baby boy,...
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Jan 10, 2025
　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...
How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham
Jan 10, 2025
　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...
The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State
Jan 10, 2025
　　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...
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The Fran Clan: Frances, Francesca and Frankie Return
Jan 10, 2025
　　It’s almost as though the various members of the Fran-name family got together for a big reunion celebrating at the joint revival of these names, sparked in part by the election of the newest Pope taking on the name of Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. Suddenly we...
British Baby Name Trends 2017
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Eleanor Nickerson 　　It’s time once again to look back at the most prevalent trends that have influenced baby names in Britain in 2017. 　　HOT SOUNDS OF 2017: OR and WIL 　　For girls, the hottest vowel sound has been O this year in the UK, especially if it made up the...
Starbaby Names: The Latest Predictions
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Sophie Kihm 　　When it comes to naming siblings, families have different approaches. Some choose an obvious theme, like Coleen and Wayne Rooney, whose children are named Kai, Klay, and Kit. Others, like Lisa and Jack Osborne, don’t feel the need to have coordinating sibling names—one of their daughters has...
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Jan 10, 2025
　　Celebrities have the power to turn unusual or outmoded baby names into contemporary hits. Many of the baby names in the Top 100 have Hollywood roots, from Ava to Violet, Jayden to Wyatt, and once-bizarre names from Hazel to Huckleberry have come to seem normal after celebrities chose them. Which...
Strictly Scottish Names: Innis, Jura & Jock
Jan 10, 2025
　　It’s a good time of year to think about Scottish names. You might have welcomed the new year by singing Auld Lang Syne or be celebrating Burns Night on 25 January. Name nerds can also celebrate because Scotland has already released its provisional Top 100 for 2015 – we can...
9 Names I Can’t Stop Recommending
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel 　　Are there baby names that you suggest to every expectant friend? Maybe they’re names that you can’t use for one reason or another. Or maybe they’re names you might consider for a future child – assuming your friends don’t follow your suggestions first. 　　In the Nameberry forums...
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Jan 10, 2025
　　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...
The Best Baby Name Advice
Jan 10, 2025
　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...
Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names
Jan 10, 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...
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