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Name-alytics

　　By Kelli Brady, thenamefreak.com 　　I am so very excited to finally announce the release of my eBook! Name-alytics: An In-Depth Analysis of the Top 100 Names in the United States Since 1880, a project I have been working on for over a year now. I had the idea and started the...

Jan 12, 2025

Mythological Baby Names: They’re on the rise

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Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin

Top Baby Names 2013: Noah the New Number 1!

Occupational Surnames: Far from a fad Most Popular Baby Names of 2014….so far Unusual Vintage Names: Which might come back? Short, Simple, Chic Baby Names Twin name trends in this week’s baby names news The Most Popular Names Over Time Baby Names that Bridge Generations: Allison and Kyle Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility

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Welsh Nickname Names: Iolo, Betsan and Llio

Jan 12, 2025

　　The major headline for British baby names in the last decade has undoubtedly been the rise of diminutives as given names. Alfie, Archie, Charlie, Tommy, Evie, Millie, Maisie and many others are boundless in our playgrounds as parents opt for cheerful and breezy short forms. But this phenomenon is certainly not...

Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　The other night a friend asked me what happens to kids with really strange names. Not made up names, or names with crazy spellings, he clarified. Names like Apple. Or Bartholomew. Names that make you do a double take when you spot them on the...

The #1 Baby Names: How popular are they?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　Most of us know that the top names on the Social Security list aren’t given to as many babies as they once were. Here, data whiz Kelli shows how the Number 1 names have become less and less popular through the years, tracing the percentages of babies...

Starbaby News: The Jagger Dynasty, gender-bending and more

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Mick Jagger is a great-grandfather. 　　The frontman of the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band welcomed a new grandson and his first great-granddaughter a few months ago. Their names were just revealed last week. If you’re counting, that brings the Jagger progeny to seven children, five grandchildren,...

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Pretty Girl Names: This week’s Nameberry 9

Name the All-Girl Quints! Top Girls’ Names of 2012 Classic Girls’ Names: Good Charlotte Four Syllable Middle Names: Longer choices beyond Elizabeth Kimye Kname Kraziness Unusual Girls’ Names: Lotus, Arrow, Pehr, and the rest of the Nameberry 9 Looking Beyond Emma and Ella: Who’s next? Stylish Baby Names: The Nameberry 9–from Winter Victoria to Vivian Vespa

Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On

Jan 12, 2025

　　Angela Mastrodonato, creator of the trend-watching blog Upswing Baby Names, will be a regular contributor to our Bonus Blog. Today she looks at girls’ names with a new twist at the end. 　　There’s one vowel that’s found at the end of seemingly every girl name. That vowel, of course, is...

Great A Baby Names for Girls

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Heartbroken that Addison and Amelia are so popular? Did your best friend just name her daughter Aria Alexandra, stealing two of your long-time favorites? Never fear! Here are some of my favorite A names for girls – and none of them currently rank in...

Girls’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Jan 12, 2025

　　Around this time every year, we peek behind the Nameberry curtain to see which names are the most popular with our visitors. This Top 100 for each gender, which reflects views of the name pages on our site, indicates which names have captured the most interest since the start of...

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Boys’ Baby Names: 9 Ways to Name a Son

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Scottish Boys’ Names: Fresh choices beyond Keith and Kyle

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　There are many Scottish names for boys that have become so familiar that we don’t even recognize their roots—names like Malcolm and Cameron and Gavin and Gordon and Keith and Kyle. But there are others that have never reached our shores and that might be worth considering,...

Celebrity Baby Names for Boys

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Here’s something we hear again and again: naming a boy is hard! 　　Parents tend to play it safe – or at least safer – when it’s time to name a son. The reasons are many: a tendency to hand down family names, fewer possible variations of popular...

1950s Boys’ Names: Where are they now?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Kara Cavazos, The Art of Naming 　　Let’s take another look at the past! The year 1950 was smack dab in the middle of the century. Babies born that year will celebrate their 65th birthday this year. Many of them are grandparents now and may even be lending their own...

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Gender-Bending Baby Names 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 12, 2025

　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Jan 12, 2025

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 12, 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...

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Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Jan 12, 2025

　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Jan 12, 2025

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Jan 12, 2025

　　Christian names combine spirituality with style, conveying a faith-based message with contemporary sensibility. 　　These modern Christian names with an evangelical feel aren’t traditional biblical names, well-worn virtues, or even the old prophet names that are so popular nowadays. No, this is a fresh, 21st-century style of Christian names that shout...

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

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How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Jan 12, 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...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 12, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 12, 2025

　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...

Updating Popular 1950s Names

Jan 12, 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...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...