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Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?

　　Today’s QOW was inspired by a comment from jgirl525. 　　This week it’s a two-parter: 　　a. What’s your response when you meet someone who shares your own first name? Do you feel an instant kinship or do you feel more proprietary? If it’s a popular name, do you immediately start comparing nicknames...

Jan 9, 2025

Popular baby names: The case for the common name

The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?

TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!

Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now

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Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa

Jan 9, 2025

　　The term Latin American, of course, takes in a number of countries and cultures, with both shared name histories and trends and distinctly individual ones. The names in Portuguese-speaking Brazil are, for example, quite different from those in the various Spanish-speaking cultures. Some currently popular names prove to be international...

Newest Babyberries: The quarterly report

Jan 9, 2025

　　Time again for one of my absolute favorite activities—rounding up the names that Berries have chosen over the past three-month period. These are the winning picks after all the options were weighed– so often the result of enlightened discussions with and suggestions from fellowberries. 　　Today’s Quarterly Report includes an even...

Breaking News: Amelia and Harry the new top UK baby names

Jan 9, 2025

　　The figures for the most popular names in the UK in 2011 have just been released by the Office for National Statistics, containing plenty of surprises and interesting tidbits. For one thing, it seems that despite a lot of cross-pollination, there is still a considerable divide in name popularity across...

Swedish Baby Names: What’s stylish in Stockholm?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Guest blogger and Sweden native Sarah–known to us Berries as Svea– gives us some insight on the trends behind the list of most popular Swedish baby names. 　　Being a Swedish Sarah (the #1 name the year I was born), I grew up in a sea of Saras and Sarahs, with...

Girl Names >

9 Glowing Girl Names: Brilliant and bright

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Warrior Girl Names: Finding the Right Fit for a Fighter

Jan 9, 2025

　　Their new daughter will need surgery shortly after birth. Time to find a strong name with the right meaning to encourage their little fighter! 　　Kristen writes: 　　We recently found out we were having our third girl and we were absolutely thrilled. Of course, I immediately dug up the master list...

Sunny Summer Solstice Names for Girls

Jan 9, 2025

　　Are you expecting a summertime daughter and still seeking her name? Maybe one that reflects the season of her birth, but doesn’t shout it out? 　　Here we’ve compiled a list of over two dozen more subtle choices, potential summer baby names that you may not have considered. 　　AinePronounced AWN-ya, this is...

10 Years of Beautiful Babyberry Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　By Emma Waterhouse 　　A look back at a decade of brilliant baby names, Nameberry style! 　　It all started with V… 　　Way back in November 2008, we proudly shared the first ever Babyberry birth announcement: a little girl given the beautiful name Vera Adelaide. Her parents had fallen in love with...

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Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

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New Geek Chic Names For Boys

Jan 9, 2025

　　Hipster, nerdy, funky-clunky… Call them what you will, there’s no denying that geek chic names for boys and girls are cool. 　　But fashion moves fast, and some of the original names on our Geek Chic Boys master list — like Jasper, Cyrus and Augustus — now feel almost mainstream. 　　So...

Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

Jan 9, 2025

　　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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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 9, 2025

　　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

Jan 9, 2025

　　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

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

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Ancient Names for Babies

Jan 9, 2025

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Jan 9, 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...

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Color names, either flat-out color names like Blue or names with colorful meanings like Aurelia, are more and more popular. 　　But do you know the secret meanings behind the color behind that name you love? 　　Color-related meanings are drawn from a wide range of cultures and are often even older...

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International Faves: Top names across the globe

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Swedish Baby Names: What’s stylish in Stockholm?

Jan 9, 2025

The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?

Jan 9, 2025

　　In The Nameberry 9 blog this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, addresseses the question of “What is a ‘normal name?” 　　The news was filled with so-called normal names this week. But what defines a normal name? Is it a Top Ten choice that plenty of people your age share? Or...

Nameberry’s Most Popular Features of 2012

Jan 9, 2025

　　Forget Katniss and Finn: Today we leave individual baby names behind and bring you the most popular features on Nameberry in 2012. 　　Sifting through nearly100 million page views on the site, these are our most-read blogs, our lists that attracted the highest number of viewers, our most commented-on forums, and...

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9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 9, 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...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Jan 9, 2025

　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Jan 9, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...