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How I Named My Baby: Rozella Jayne

Dec 12, 2024

　　Author Georgia Clark and Lindsay Ratowsky, founder of Brightside and co-founder of Esther Perel Global Media, live in Brooklyn. They welcomed their daughter Rozella Jayne Ratowsky-Clark on February 27, 2022. 　　We spoke with Georgia, whose sixth novel, Island Time, was released on June 14. Below, she shares Rozella's name story...

Best O Names for Girls

Dec 12, 2024

　　Girl names that start with O feel fresh and fantastic now that names starting with A and then E have had their turns in the spotlight. 　　Here are ten more wonderful names for girls that start with this most cheery, open and optimistic of vowels: 　　OceanNames that mean water are...

Best Z Names for Girls

Dec 12, 2024

　　There aren’t very many usable names beginning with Z, and there are even fewer girl names that start with Z than there are for boys. Yet the very rarity of girls’ names starting with Z of the alphabet immediately gives them an element of distinction. 　　Over the years, Zelda has...

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100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel

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Exploring the Meaning of Julian

Dec 12, 2024

　　Julian is a quiet classic, which has been in steady use throughout history but never wildly popular. It currently ranks at #35 in the US, appreciated for his jolly but understated charm. 　　Up to a point, the origins of the name are clear and undisputed: it comes from the Roman...

Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Dec 12, 2024

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

80+ Woodsy Names for Boys That Will Make You Want to Have a Son

Dec 12, 2024

　　What do you get if you cross cottagecore with cowboy names? Meet woodsy names for boys. Woodsy names are the best of each trend — the rugged handsomeness of cowboy names blended with the romantic pastorality and natural elements of cottagecore names. 　　These are the names of woodland heroes and forest...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Dec 12, 2024

　　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 Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Dec 12, 2024

　　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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Surprising Homespun Nicknames: Elsie, Sadie & Effie

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States’ Most Popular Names 2014

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　So we’ve parsed the new Social Security national list from almost every conceivable angle. When, a few days after its release, we got to see which names were most popular in which states in 2014, it’s allowing us to delve into more regional patterns. 　　It turns out...

The New International Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　There was a time when the top baby name lists of different countries reflected their own distinctive native cultures. When John and Mary headed those of most English-speaking countries, just as Giovanni and Maria and Juan and Maria and Jean and Marie et al were in first...

The Newest, Hottest, Oldest Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Every year, the US government issues a list of the names that are making the biggest leaps up the popularity list. And there, among the reality TV-inspired Daleyzas and Jayceons, sprinkled in with the new-fangled Jurnees and Zayns, is a collection of vintage names that for...

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Popular Twin Names

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20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Dec 12, 2024

　　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....

Baby Names Before 1850

Dec 12, 2024

　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Dec 12, 2024

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 12, 2024

　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...

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

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...