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Top Boys Name For Each Letter: a 130-year survey

Jan 13, 2025

　　Yesterday, we looked at the girls’ names, and today, as promised, it’s the boys’ turn. Again, we present the Top 10 baby names for every letter of the alphabet—from Anthony to Zecheriah—compiled by nameberry’s own Nephele. (The U.S. Social Security Administration’s complete names lists spanning a 130-year period were used in the tabulation...

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week? 　　Me neither. 　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration. But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel leads us into the jungle for some wild animal names. 　　Not so long ago, baby boys were named Jason and Kevin and Joshua, and a lynx was something we saw at the zoo on the kindergarten field trip. 　　Now a growing number of boys...

How About Harvey? What About Walter?

Jan 13, 2025

　　The Nameberry Question of the Week: Would you name your baby boy Harvey or Stanley or any of the other up-and-coming oldies appearing on the recently released British pop list? 　　Is this another case where the Yanks will follow the Brits in baby-naming trends and revive such previously verboten Grandpa...

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A Baby Named ….Seabiscuit?

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Nature Names: Will trees be the new flower names?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Flower names for girls never go out of style, and for good reason! 　　Flower names have a fresh femininity which has appealed to parents throughout the ages, but they can also make a meaningful choice. 　　Choosing a seasonal flower name can be a sweet way to connect your baby girl...

Boys’ Names for Girls: A Key To Success?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Will giving your daughter a masculine name — as Heidi Klum and Seal did with their newborn daughter Lou — increase her odds for career success? 　　It might if she goes into the legal profession, according to a new study. Women with masculine names make more money as lawyers than...

Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition

Jan 13, 2025

　　There are some names that are not quite English, or American, but not quite not English either. These include international variations of classic English names – such as Katarina for Katherine – and names that are widely heard around the world but remain unusual in English-speaking countries. 　　The list below...

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Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

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Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn

Jan 13, 2025

　　When Presidents Day rolls around, on our site and others, a lot of attention is paid to the influential names of our past presidents—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Taylor, Truman, Lincoln, Kennedy et al—and sometimes the names of their wives and children as well. And so I thought that this year it...

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

Jan 13, 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...

Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names

Jan 13, 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...

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

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Jan 13, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes biblical rarities, celebrities’ unisex choices, classic names with meaning, and French names galore. 　　Neglected names from the Bible 　　It’s no secret that biblical names with an Old Testament (or Torah) feel are big right now. The top 100 is full of them, especially...

10 Years of Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We launched Nameberry in October 2008, the same month the economy collapsed and a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president. 　　In that decade, 40 million babies were born in the US, and 235 million people viewed 1.5 billion pages of our...

Gender Neutral Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　When we named Gender Neutral Baby Names as our Number 1 trend for 2016, we were mostly just guessing. Oh sure, the guess was backed up by some strong cultural trends, from marriage equality to trans recognition, as well as a raft of gender neutral celebrity baby names. 　　But when...

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Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Jan 13, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Jan 13, 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...

Ancient Names for Babies

Jan 13, 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...

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Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training!

Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10? Top UK Baby Names: Olivia and Oliver head the list Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)? Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day! Popular baby names: The case for the common name Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries

The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain ‘s Abby Sandel travels around the country and across the pond to discover which names ranked Number 1 where. 　　Baby name news is fast and furious at year’s end. Lists of Worst and Best Celebrity Baby Names abound. (Did anyone else notice that Zuzu Audrey, daughter of Top...

British Baby Names: Tops of the pops

Jan 13, 2025

　　British baby names were very much on the front burner this week, following the release of the official Top 100 popular British names lists for 2010. 　　At the top of the British names rankings was a pair of what sounds for all the world like matchy-matchy twin names, Olivia and Oliver. ...

How Popular is Too Popular?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Question of the Week: Would you choose a popular name? 　　When my daughter Chloe was little, her name was becoming well used in Britain and Australia, but was hardly heard in the U.S. In fact, a surprising number of people often didn’t know how to pronounce or spell it. And so, try as...

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How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

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...

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...