Baby names | Name list - www.zdname.com

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry!

　　Why does Henry consistently rank as one of the top two Nameberry favorite boys’ names? (Finn is the other one.) 　　Because in many ways Henry is the most perfect of the classic boys’ names—as historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it seem modern, and even hip. 　　Henry...

Jan 11, 2025

Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition

Top Boy Names 2011

BOYS’ NAMES 2011: The Underground Popularity List

Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned

Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices Boys’ Names in Limbo: Is Roy ready to return? How about Howard? Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh Nameberry Picks: The 12 best ‘You-can-call-me-Al’ names Can’t Find A Name You Love? Maybe you’ve got BNDD Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!! Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again

Popular recommendations >

Cowboy Baby Names: This week’s Nameberry 9

Jan 11, 2025

　　There’s a whole posse of cowboy baby names in Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel’s roundup of this week’s newsiest names. 　　Some weeks, it feels like all of the birth announcements are from one big extended family. 　　Nameberry dubbed this style trend Iconoclastic Cowboy, and indeed, it does seem to be popular...

To V or Not To V? Can this Mom break family tradition?

Jan 11, 2025

　　Megan , who lives just outside Philadelphia, is expecting her first boy after two little girls in June. Her daughters both have family names, but now her husband, Thomas IV, would like to continue the tradition of naming the boys in his family Thomas, making their son Thomas V. Problem...

Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　I have a friend, a pretty quirky guy, who has one of those generic boys’ names: Bill. I was thinking recently what an advantage it is for Bill to be named Bill rather than something like Jasper or Jarvis, one of those boys’ names that’s his equal in quirkiness. Bill...

Boys’ Names: Nameberry’s newsiest boys’ names this week

Jan 11, 2025

　　It’s all-boy week in Abby (Appellation Mountain) Sandel’s latest round-up of the most recent interesting baby names. 　　Happy Halloween, berries! Let’s start off with a very important piece of business. The winner of the bookplate give-away from Etsy shop My Kids Eat Off the Floor is Emily (emily.m******@*****.com). You should have already...

Girl Names >

What’s your favorite flower name?

Happiness is just a thing called Jo The Two Aggies: Agatha and Agnes unbuttoned Hiding in Plain Sight: the Secret Popularity of Lynn and Lee 1950s Girls’ Names: Where are Sharon and Sandra now? Bye-bye, Meghan. So long, Marisa. Girl names leaving the Top 1000 Top 100 Girl Names of 2014 Girl Baby Names: Something Old, Something New Accentuating the Positive: Baby names with accents

12 Literary Ladies: Unique names from Abra to Sapphira

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Novels and plays are filled with wonderful character names that provide great naming inspiration–recently we’ve seen that reflected in the newfound popularity of Holden from Catcher in the Rye, Atticus and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, Scarlett from Gone with the Wind. 　　Today we’re looking at some of the...

Polly put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nursery rhyme name!

Jan 11, 2025

　　With their lilting rhythms and catchy rhymes, nursery rhymes have delighted successive generations of children since the first publication of Mother Goose in the 1700s—though the original meanings, some of them political, have been lost. (Who knew that ‘Ring Around a Rosy’ referred to the Great Plague of 1665?) The...

Buttoned-up Girls’ Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　The trendiest girls’ names of recent years have been flowery and elaborate: Isabella and Sophia, Olivia and Arianna. They end in vowels….and often begin with them too. And if they’re not exotic confections, stylish girls’ names are often gender-and-tradition-confounding novelties such as Harper and Hadley and...

Boy Names >

The Brave New World of Boys’ Names: Zion, Dashiell, and Ocean

9 Unique Celebrity Baby Names for Boys Classic Boys’ Names: The Alexandrians from Alex to Xander Ask the Name Sage: Is Peter a Problem? The Super Bowl of Football Names Seeking a Science-Inspired Name The Agony of Choosing A Name The PERfect Boy Name: PERcival and jasPer 25 Stylish-yet-Unusual Boys’ Names

Name Sage: A Name to Remember Dad

Jan 11, 2025

　　Barbie writes: 　　I would like to honor my recently deceased father, Early Bernard, but I am drawing a blank! I just cannot see myself naming my child a name that would be shortened to Earl. His nickname was Early Bird, so I have flirted the idea of incorporating Bird somehow....

On Choosing a (mega) Popular Baby Name

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Jen Simon 　　Is there any easier way to judge our fellow parents than by their children’s names? A name is the first thing we learn about a person. It’s how they’re presented to the world. It’s the defining declaration a parent makes when labeling his or her child. Often,...

The ABCs of Boys’ Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Everything you need to know about boys’ baby names, from A to Z. 　　A 　　While A is the second most-popular first initial for boys’ names (and the most popular for girls’), the real news is the rise in both the letter a and the a sound...

Unisex Names >

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Unisex Names Across the Atlantic The Coolest Unisex Nature Names How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 11, 2025

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Jan 11, 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....

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

Trends & Predictions >

America's Next Top Baby Names

Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones The Top Names We're Watching for 2024 Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich Ancient Names for Babies Babyberries: Class of 2023! Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities How Millennial Is Your Name? What's a Classic Name?

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Jan 11, 2025

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Jan 11, 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...

Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Jan 11, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

Name Popularity >

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names 20 Chic French Names You Should Know About The Top Baby Names A-Z How Gen Z Is Your Name? 5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name Top Names in Each State Revealed! 80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Baby Names Before 1850

Jan 11, 2025

　　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...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Jan 11, 2025

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

New Popular Irish Names Revealed

Jan 11, 2025

　　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...

Baby Naming Advice >

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts How to Change Your Baby’s Name It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup How to Cope With Baby Name Regret Unique Twin Names to Inspire

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Jan 11, 2025

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 11, 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...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 11, 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...