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Girl Names: For International Women’s Day

　　Not only is March Women’s History Month, but today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. 　　So what better time than this to salute some of the women who are making history right now in the US political sphere? 　　When the 116th Congress recently convened, women made up almost a quarter...

Jan 13, 2025

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Cool Short Middle Names for Girls

Jan 13, 2025

　　Think of cool short middle names for girls that go with everything, and May – or another spelling like Mae or Mei – is sure to spring to mind. 　　With its timeless streamlined feel, May can lighten up a long first name (like Elizabeth or Persephone), make a short sweet...

Cross-Cultural Names: German American girls

Jan 13, 2025

　　Cross-cultural names: Naming across languages means extra challenges – and more choices, too! Let’s help this family find the right cross-cultural name for their German-American daughter. 　　Anna writes: 　　My husband and I are at an impasse for deciding on a name for our baby girl due end of November and...

Mom Names: Lady Gaga’s Mama and more!

Jan 13, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It’s become a Nameberry tradition. In celebration of Mother’s Day, we honor a dozen moms who not only have raised highly successful offspring, but who also happen to have—yes—memorable names themselves. Here is this year’s list of the Top 12, including the mom names of Lady Gaga,...

Yes, Millennial Mom Names Can Work for Alpha Era Girls!

Jan 13, 2025

　　Millennials, those born in the eighties through mid-nineties, are the generation having babies in 2019. These children are a part of the emerging Generation Alpha, defined as anyone born from 2010-2025. Gen Alphas come into the world with iPads in hand and social media handles pre-claimed—a vastly different experience from...

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Traditional Girl Names: The Ultimate Guide

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New Geek Chic Names For Girls

Jan 13, 2025

　　Question: What do Cora and Sadie, Vivian and Josephine, Violet and Hazel all have in common? 　　Answer: These stylish vintage girls’ names — which already feel like modern classics — have all rejoined the US Top 100 in just the last decade (or less!) 　　Fashion moves fast, and some of...

Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation

Jan 13, 2025

　　Compound girl names – those formed by combining two separate names – have moved on since the days of Maryann and Annemarie! 　　Today’s smoosh names for girls are less likely to take classics like Mary and Anne as their base, and more likely to build on already fashionable or novel...

How I Named My Baby: Kilmer Dove

Jan 13, 2025

　　Bethany C. Meyers, founder and CEO of the be.come project, and Nico Tortorella, an actor who starred in TV's Younger, based on the novel by Nameberry creator Pamela Redmond, live in Weehawken, New Jersey with their daughter Kilmer Dove. 　　Kilmer was born on March 5, 2023. Here, Bethany and Nico...

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

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Transforming Top to Uncommon Male Dog Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　It’s a common name-nerd conundrum — wanting a name that’s stylish and familiar yet under the radar. We hear this request all the time. 　　This extends beyond baby names. People are looking for unique dog names, too. Now that there’s data on popular names for dogs and cats, pet owners...

Exploring the Meaning of Julian

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Unique Boy Names A to Z

Jan 13, 2025

　　You’re looking for unique boy names… but where to start? 　　Each year, the names parents give their children get more varied, reflecting the importance of values such as diversity, creativity and individualism. Fifty years ago, nearly 40% of baby boys in the US were given a Top 20 name. Thirty...

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 13, 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...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 13, 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...

The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Unisex nature names blend two of the coolest categories of baby names right now, so it’s no wonder they’re attracting a lot of attention! 　　The top gender neutral names in the US include several nature-inspired options, and the natural world is also a wonderful place to look for unique unisex...

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THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE

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Royal Baby Names: Hollywood’s Little Princes and Princesses

Jan 13, 2025

　　As reported in the not always reliable Star magazine, Nicole Richie, mother of Harlow Winter Kate, has at the top of her list of names for her baby-to-be Baron, inspired by Donald Trump’s little Barron. (Her other two published possibilities being Kypher and Martavious, about which I’ll restrain my comments). ...

Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule

Jan 13, 2025

　　The day every baby name addict waits for all year is finally here, as the Social Security Administration released its list of Top 1000 Boy and Girl Names this morning. To many people’s surprise–including a sizable number of our contest entrants–Emma leapfrogged over Isabella–last year’s #2– to become the most...

Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no

Jan 13, 2025

　　There are some celebrity kids’ names that are immediately embraced by other parents and become instant hits. Take Kingston, for example, the name chosen for personal reasons relating to the city in Jamaica by Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale: it had all the ingredients to make it a success– accessibility,...

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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...

Popular Twin Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Jan 13, 2025

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Jan 13, 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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 13, 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...