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　　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...

Jan 14, 2025

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Pretty Girl Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

Classic Girls’ Names: The Claire Contingent–Claire, Clara and Clarissa

Jan 14, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The crystalline clear classic Claire has seen an impressive rise recently—entering the Top 50 for the very first time in 2011—and bringing Cousin Clara and other relatives slip-streaming along with her. The perfect time to take a closer look at this clear-eyed family. 　　CLAIRE—Currently favored spelling Claire...

Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far)

Jan 14, 2025

　　See all the girl names on Nameberry here. 　　There’s a new girl in town, and her name is Imogen — the breakout Number 1 among girl names on Nameberry for the first half of 2013. 　　Imogen unseated longtime favorite Charlotte as our most-viewed girl name so far this year. In...

Your Favorite Literary Names for Girls

Jan 14, 2025

　　Great girls’ names abound in books, from classic characters like Jane Eyre and Scarlett O’Hara to more contemporary heroines like Matilda and Katniss. 　　So for our Question of the Week, we’d like to know: What are your favorite girls’ literary names? 　　Consult our master list of literary names for girls for inspiration....

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Little Black Dress Names Are Always in Style

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Girl Names You Never Knew Were in the Top 50

Jan 14, 2025

　　Ever feel like you’ve been through the most popular girl names so many times you know them inside out and back to front? Looking for fresh baby names that feel less worn, but still well-known and easy to love? 　　Allow us to inspire you with 50 girl names that make...

How I Named My Baby: Winnie Jean

Jan 14, 2025

　　Kimberly and Josh Harvey live in South Florida with their three daughters: Lux Ann, Liv Hunter, and Winnie Jean. 　　Winnie was born on February 10, 2023. Here, we speak with Kimberly about how she and Josh named their little girl. 　　Tell me Winnie’s name story!Josh found the name. He texted...

Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation

Jan 14, 2025

　　Compound girl names – those formed by combining two separate names – have moved on since the days of Maryann and Annemarie! 　　Today’s smoosh names for girls are less likely to take classics like Mary and Anne as their base, and more likely to build on already fashionable or novel...

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Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back

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Boys’ Names: Unusual, Stylish Picks

Jan 14, 2025

　　Looking for boys’ names that feel contemporary and stylish but that you won’t hear coming and going? Here are our picks of unusual boys’ names – used for fewer than 100 boys, but at least 50 (those borders were picked to keep the collection manageable) – that are in step...

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

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

Jan 14, 2025

　　Maybe contemplating the name Rufus sparked my revelation. Or it might have hit me when I encountered an Otis. Whatever the inspiration, I suddenly realized that my most-loved boys’ names end in the letter s. Yep, almost all of them. 　　Amias? One of my all-time underappreciated favorites. 　　Amadeus and Miles? ...

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Jan 14, 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...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 14, 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...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Jan 14, 2025

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

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New York City Names: Sophia and Jayden top the new list

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Baby Name Timeline

Jan 14, 2025

　　When we were preparing the article “Bizarre Baby Names: A Growing Trend?” for the July issue of Reader’s Digest magazine that’s just hit the stands, we put together a lonnnnnng timeline of the key markers in American names –much longer than they could possibly use with the story. So here we offer you...

L Names to Love

Jan 14, 2025

　　The J names had their day: Jennifer, Jason, Jessica. Then K was up, and we had lots of Kevins and Kaylas, Kaitlyns and Kyles. 　　What’s next? It just might be L’s turn. 　　Linda wrote about the delicious La-La names, from Lola to Lila to Lily, that are newly popular. And...

New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple

Jan 14, 2025

　　Ah, New York, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And if you can name your baby here without needing therapy or Xanax, then I applaud you. 　　That’s because like everything else in NYC, baby naming is intense. If most people think naming children...

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New Popular Irish Names Revealed

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How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Jan 14, 2025

　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Jan 14, 2025

　　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....

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The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 14, 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: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Jan 14, 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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 14, 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...