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The Best Badass Princess Names

　　Badass princess names fit an image that not only appeals to contemporary little girls but to parents. 　　Like hipster cowboy names, badass princess names are appealing not so much because of their sound or their style but because of the complex image they convey. These are girl names that are...

Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation

Girl Names You Never Knew Were in the Top 50

Hello, Cutie! Rare Vintage Girl Names Ending in -ie

My Name, My Story: Zara

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How I Named My Baby: Esme Virginia

　　Bailey Carroll, who works in healthcare technology, and Jon Wakelin, a strategy consultant, live in Lexington, Massachusetts with their two daughters: Louisa Wu "Lulu", and Esme Virginia Wu. 　　Esme was born on November 25, 2022. Below, we speak to Bailey about how she and Jon named their little girl. 　　Tell...

Stunning Spanish Names for Girls and Boys

　　If you’re interested in Spanish names for your baby-to-be, you’re probably familiar with the many Spanish choices popular in the US, like Sebastián and José, Camila and Sofia. But there are many intriguing baby names that are popular in Spain and Latin America but virtually unknown to anglophones. 　　Sure, classic Spanish names...

How I Named My Baby: Pippen Carol

　　Courtney and David Denker live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with their daughter Pippen Carol. 　　Pippen was born on August 31, 2022. Here, we talk to Courtney about how she and David named their little girl. 　　Tell me Pippen’s name story!After my husband David and I had been dating for about a...

Little Black Dress Names Are Always in Style

　　Little black dress baby names ooze style and sophistication, but they do so with classically understated flair. 　　Chic, Sleek and TimelessWhen legendary French fashion icon Coco Chanel designed the first little black dress in the 1920s, Vogue dubbed it “Chanel’s Ford”. Like the car brand, the LBD was designed to...

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Most Popular Girls’ Names of 2013….so far

Most Popular Girls’ Names of 2013….so far

Pretty Girl Names Baby Girl Names: Short and sweet Newest Girl Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Ada to Xanthe Baby Name Influencers: What name did someone else make you love? Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far) Unusual Baby Names: 10 same-but-different girl names Bold Names for Girls The Blooming of Lily

Luna, Ozzie and Vernon: Bold Girls, Vintage Boys

　　by Abby Sandel/Appellation Mountain 　　Do you name boys and girls the same way? 　　We often reserve antique gems for girls – lady-like appellations like Charlotte, Amelia, Lydia, and Hattie. But this week, parents proved that retro picks work for boys, too. Several high-profile birth announcements revived grandpa-chic choices for our...

Kimye Kname Kraziness

　　It’s close to midnight after noon, the end middle of Day 2 3 or maybe we can call this Day 3 4 of the Kim and Kanye Baby Name Watch. You know they’re not going to announce the name tonight right this minute, because most sane journalists are already asleep out to lunch. 　　We’ll find...

Creative Girls’ Names: Xia, Djena, and Geneva

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Are we becoming more tolerant of creative names? 　　My kids’ friends and classmates are a diverse lot, and their names reflect it. There’s Seamus and Shivarama, a boy named Delaney and a girl called Jordan. Yes, we have Matthew and Sam...

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Baby Names: Solving the Popularity Puzzle

Baby Names: Solving the Popularity Puzzle

12 Ever-Cool Boy Names Boy Baby Names: More great choices for #5 Boy Baby Names: A time for compromise Cool Eurostyle Names for Boys Middle Name Danger Boy Baby Names: The 12 Jazziest It’s Not Easy Being Donald Family Name Drain: They’ve Used Them All!

Influential Baby Names: Show Biz Boys

　　By Nancy Man, Nancy’s Baby Names 　　Idris, Benedict, Shia…several of today’s uniquely-named leading men are now influencing the U.S. baby name charts. But what about the male movie stars of bygone eras – did they have the same kind of impact? 　　Yes! Here are a dozen famous performers who influenced...

New Baby Names: Great berrybaby choices of September!

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The September baby names in this month’s Babyberry report includes one of the most original middle names we’ve seen: Violet WHIMSEY. The girls’ names are running long, in the sense that there is a preponderance of three and four-syllable choices. Again, lots of floral appellations and an...

Wild Baby Names: Names with secret animal meanings

　　Nature-inspired baby names are the trend that keeps on giving – from classic choices like Rose and Robin to contemporary picks like Aspen, Clementine, River and Sage. 　　But if you’re pairing with a difficult surname, looking for a name that works in multiple languages, or compromising with a more traditional...

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

　　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...

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

　　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

　　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...

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Names on the Cusp

Names on the Cusp

Unusual Baby Names: Top choices under the radar Hyperlocal Baby Names: What’s hot where you live? Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014 Dog Names: What’s cool, what’s smart, what’s hot, what’s not 1913 Baby Names: Does the hundred-year rule still rule? Baby Names 2012: The Best of the New Popular Names 2012: Guess the Top 10 and win! Springtime in Paris: A New Generation of French Names

Unpopular Names: Which ugly ducklings grow up to be swans?

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　One of the biggest baby name stories this week is The Week’s look at the least popular baby names in the U.S. from 1880 through 1932. 　　While such monikers as Handy, Spurgeon, Icy, and Toy, culled from the bottom of the Top 1000, are indeed laugh-inducing,...

Trendy Names in the News: Maceo, Azura, and Knox:

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Styles change. 　　In hemlines and hairdos, in music and cuisine and baby names, too. 　　Once upon a time, Mildred was a Top Ten name in the US. Clarence, Connie, Randy, Dawn, Eugene, Norman, Norma, Crystal, Dustin, Myrtle, and Elmer have all ranked in the...

Popular Baby Names: The next top names

　　Popular baby names aren’t always replaced at the top by similar names, though sometimes it feels that way. Emily moves down, Emma moves up. Jason slips, while Jacob and Mason rise. 　　With the new US popularity list due out in less than a month, we thought it would be fun...

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Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

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Popular Twin Names

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

　　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...

100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

　　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,...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name The Best Baby Name Advice Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister Test-Driving Your Baby Name How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Updating Popular 1950s Names

　　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...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....

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