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Literary Character Surnames: Wentworth, Gatsby and Holmes

　　by Kelli Brady of NameFreak! 　　Wentworth Miller, the actor from the former hit show Prison Break, has a very distinctive name. He is a third, after his father and grandfather, and he may share his name with a few others in the world, but his first name is by no...

Nov 27, 2024

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Honoring a beloved grandfather by taking his name

Preppy boys’ names ending with S: Ames, Keats, and Yates

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Boy Names: The Top 100 of 2013 (so far)

Nov 27, 2024

　　Which boy names have been most popular on Nameberry so far this year? 　　The big news in baby boy names: Asher is back on top, a spot he held in our 2011 popularity list but lost to Finn in 2012. Finn is still enormously popular with Nameberry’s parents, holding onto...

Baby Boy Names: The long and short of it

Nov 27, 2024

　　A friend is searching for baby boy names that start out long – three or more syllables long – and can be reduced to one-syllable nicknames. 　　If you’ve got a two-syllable last name, this is a good strategy. You end up with not one but two euphonic pairings. And your child...

Biblical Baby Names: Why Noah now?

Nov 27, 2024

　　It seems that just about every few decades since the 1940’s, one Old Testament patriarch name has entered the popularity list’s Top 5, some lingering longer than others. From the forties through the early eighties it was David, joined by Joshua in 1983, Daniel for the single year 1985, Jacob...

Retro Boy Names: The Motorcycle-Riding Poets

Nov 27, 2024

　　by Angela Mastrdonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Boy names have inspired me lately. Here are some brilliant names with masculine swagger and a bit of 1960’s charm. If I were to write a novel with beatnik characters, these would be the names of the male characters. In my opinion they...

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Rose Alternatives: Fresh Twists on a Classic

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Mom Names: the New Generation

Nov 27, 2024

　　Today’s Mom Names might be familiar to you as the names of the friends who came to your first sleepover or your roommates in college: forever young. But many of the 1980s names and 1990s names, once considered the cool girl names, have become today's new Mom Names. 　　It stands...

How I Named My Baby: Aadya Dash

Nov 27, 2024

　　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...

Girl Names You Never Knew Were in the Top 50

Nov 27, 2024

　　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...

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How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

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Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Nov 27, 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...

Brother Names

Nov 27, 2024

　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...

I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

Nov 27, 2024

　　Fifteen hours into labor, a new nurse came into our hospital room and gave us a cheerful hello. My husband and I looked away from the television. The 2010 Winter Olympics were on though neither of us were paying much attention. 　　Just after midnight, I’d woken up to my water...

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Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Nov 27, 2024

　　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....

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Nov 27, 2024

　　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...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Nov 27, 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...

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Popular names: Nameberry vs US

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Names That Will Define the Next Decade

Nov 27, 2024

　　Given that we’re looking at all things decade-related, we analyzed which baby names dominated the 2010s. Read our analysis in the New York Times and on Nameberry. 　　But if you’re expecting a baby at the end of 2019 or in 2020, you’re probably more concerned about which names are going...

Classic Baby Names: Current comebacks

Nov 27, 2024

　　When the new US popularity data comes out, we all look for certain things. Are we still giving our babies for Game of Thrones names? (Most certainly yes.) How about the royal family? (Meghan, I’m looking at you.) 　　But there’s a quieter trend to watch, something that happens in the...

The Hottest Nickname Names of 2018

Nov 27, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　We’ve taken a hint from the Brits, as nicknames are being used as given names more and more in the US each year. Liam outranks William, Lily is more common than Lillian, and names like Bella, Jack, Ellie, Eli, and Sadie are all in the Top 100....

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Baby Names Before 1850

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New Popular Irish Names Revealed

Nov 27, 2024

　　Good news for lovers of Irish baby names! The latest popular Irish names data for 2022 has just been released, and it’s a treasure trove of intriguing options from the Emerald Isle. 　　Happy St Patrick’s Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! 　　Top 10 Irish Girl Names 　　There has been a...

Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

Nov 27, 2024

　　Baby name influencers don't set out to start name trends, but ultimately, their names go viral. 　　When it comes to influential names, there’s a formula for success. Whether the name is that of a celebrity or their child, it needs to be connected to someone who’s highly visible in the...

The Top Baby Names A-Z

Nov 27, 2024

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Nov 27, 2024

　　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...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Nov 27, 2024

　　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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 27, 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...