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Pop Culture Names: Cora, Aurora and Devora

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　It happens all the time. 　　You’re expecting your first – or second, or third – and the perfect name eludes you. There are lots of possibilities and maybes, but none of them are The Name. 　　And then along comes a movie, a...

Apr 10, 2025

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Disney Princess Names: How influential are they really?

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　As the mother of a five year-old girl, Frozen was required viewing over the recent school holidays. Somewhere between the first appearance of talking snowman Olaf and the happy ending, I found myself musing about the popularity of Disney-princess names. 　　I’ve long thought that any...

Unusual Girls’ Names: 100 excellent choices

Apr 10, 2025

　　One of our most popular blog posts ever was on 100 wonderful names given to 25 or fewer girls each year. (We did a boys’ version too.) 　　But what, we wondered recently, would happen if we narrowed the parameters even more? If we looked only at names given to ten...

Baby Name Influencers: What name did someone else make you love?

Apr 10, 2025

　　My friend Kim loved the name Cordelia. This was in my pre-Nameberry days, and Cordelia‘s been off the Top 1000 since 1950: It certainly wasn’t a name that it occurred to me to love. 　　Still…..Cordelia. The more I thought about it, the more I loved Cordelia. Thanks, Kim, for the...

Anything Goes for Girls: Apple, Willow, Mia, and Cai

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　I’m imagining next Christmas morning at Buckingham Palace. 　　Sure, it is a palace. Even the simplest room is probably chock full of history and priceless antiques. 　　The children opening presents might be members of the royal House of Windsor, but they will share their rather...

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Princess Names: Princesses by Marriage (Hi, Kate!)

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GIRLS’ NAMES 2011: The Secret Popularity List

Apr 10, 2025

　　You may know Nameberry’s most popular girls’ names 2011: from Top 3 Charlotte, Violet, and Amelia down to Molly, Maya, and Mary. 　　You may even know our hottest girls’ names 2011, which include such celebrity-influenced picks as Pippa and Mila. 　　But we’ve got a quieter, less obvious, but potentially more...

Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3!

Apr 10, 2025

　　Rachel, a mom of two from Grand Rapids, Michigan, is expecting her third child in March and is having trouble finding the right name. She writes: 　　“My four-year-old daughter is named Avery Grace. My two-year-old son is named Isaiah Joel. We are having a third and final baby, a girl,...

Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls?

Apr 10, 2025

　　Today’s Question of the Week is a two-parter: 　　Last week we talked about naming styles for boys, now it’s the girls’ turn. 　　With girls’ names, there are even more style preference category possibilities. How would you characterize the names you like best? Girly girl, boyish, or truly gender neutral names? ...

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Labor Day Names: Occupational names for your little Pilot or Poet

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Classic Boy Names: John’s Extended Family

Apr 10, 2025

　　Let’s say you come from a family that has an abundance of male members named John—unsurprising for a name that for four centuries ruled as the Number 1 boys’ Christian name and is still in the US Top 30 with one of its nicknames, Jack, almost as high. And there’s...

Boy Name: How to honor Grandma Jacqueline?

Apr 10, 2025

　　They’d love to honor grandma Jacqueline … but a cousin has already used their first choice! Time to ask the Name Sage for some fresh alternatives. 　　Sandra writes: 　　My husband and I are expecting our first child and we just found out it’s a boy! 　　Baby is due September 28th...

25 Perennially Popular Bible Names for Boys

Apr 10, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Of the profusion of male names in the Old Testament, only 25 of them seem to have been consistently in the US Top 1000, year after year after year. And even those have fluctuated in popularity: a prime example being today’s Number one boy name Noah, which...

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Apr 10, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Apr 10, 2025

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Apr 10, 2025

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

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Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

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The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Apr 10, 2025

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Apr 10, 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...

What's a Classic Name?

Apr 10, 2025

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

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30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

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Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

Apr 10, 2025

　　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...

How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Apr 10, 2025

　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...

Baby Names Before 1850

Apr 10, 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...

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How Not to Steal a Baby Name

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Apr 10, 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...

Name Sage: Finding Dramatic and Unexpected Baby Names

Apr 10, 2025

　　Jodie writes:I have a daughter with a beautiful Italian name: Ravenna, which I believe is fairly unusual. 　　The sex of baby number two is a surprise! 　　Should we keep the Italian theme? I have no ties to Italy. 　　Or maybe it would be good to choose another unusual name, even...

How to Name a Last Baby

Apr 10, 2025

　　Five years ago today, I was six weeks pregnant with our first child, convinced it was a girl, and already firmly set on the perfect name: Juno Matilda. (It was, and we used it.) 　　Three years ago today, I was five months pregnant with our second and we’d just found...