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Fancy Schmancy Starbaby Names

　　Looking through the lists of recent celebrity baby names, there was one little trendlet that jumped out at me — maybe you’ve noticed it too. It’s a certain type of surname name with an aristo vibe, mostly with three or four syllables, many with a clipped British accent. I call...

Jan 12, 2025

Baby Name Doubt: Is This Name Too Different?

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Bold Boy Names: What Goes with Riggins?

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Boy Name: How to honor Grandma Jacqueline?

Jan 12, 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...

Boy Baby Names: Let’s talk about Liam

Jan 12, 2025

　　The biggest news of the 2017 SSA popularity list release was that we have a brand new boy at the top. It’s Liam, who heralds a new era in several ways. It’s the first name with such distinctive non-biblical, non Anglo-Saxon roots. And it’s the first to be a shortened...

Lost Latin Names Ready to Return: Aurelius to Octavius

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Andy Osterdahl, The Strangest Names in American Political History 　　Thanks to mass mega-phenomena like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, we’ve been exposed to lots of previously fusty-sounding ancient Latinate names, and some of them are beginning to sound more and more wearable as baby names—in fact several have landed...

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

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It’s become a Nameberry tradition, almost since the beginning to celebrate occupational names on Labor Day. This year we’re not only featuring those whose original occupations might no longer exist in the modern world, though they’re all good, wearable, sometimes trendy names, but also some of the...

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Mom Names: the New Generation

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How I Named My Baby: Esme Virginia

Jan 12, 2025

　　Bailey Carroll, who works in healthcare technology, and Jon Wakelin, a strategy consultant, live in Lexington, Massachusetts with their two daughters: Louisa Wu "Lulu", and Esme Virginia Wu. 　　Esme was born on November 25, 2022. Below, we speak to Bailey about how she and Jon named their little girl. 　　Tell...

My Name, My Story: Zara

Jan 12, 2025

　　Names can tell a powerful story, but as a US immigrant from China, the English names I was given didn’t mean anything to me. This is my journey through those names, to choosing my own English name that continues my story. 　　Chinese Names 101Born in China to Chinese parents, I...

Transforming Top to Uncommon Girl Names

Jan 12, 2025

　　When it comes to baby names — particularly girl names — popularity can get a bad rap. Uncommon girl names are often seen as more desirable — it’s cool to be different! 　　But the popular girl names are at the top for a reason: they’re fashionable, lovable, and appeal to a...

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Boys’ Names: Which do you think is the very best?

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Honoring a beloved grandfather by taking his name

Jan 12, 2025

　　The following essay is re-published with the permission of its original author Robbie Blair. You can view the full essay here. 　　A name is not a small thing. I didn’t realize its full weight until I read Helen Keller‘s account of her genesis in the world of language and identity....

Goldilocks Classics for Boys: Holden, Noah, Wyatt and Beau

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　It’s been a great week for welcoming boys! 　　Eric Christian Olsen, Kate Levering, Fergie and Josh Duhamel have all brought home new sons. The parents have something in common besides making headlines. Their naming style might be called modern classic. 　　On Friday, Angela wrote...

Preppy boys’ names ending with S: Ames, Keats, and Yates

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　There’s something about a name that ends with the letter s. 　　They’re preppy. Sometimes they sound plural or possessive. But they’re also fresh. In our age of Aiden and Asher, we’re not expecting to meet a kiddo with an s ending name. 　　I’m not...

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Surprisingly International Baby Names

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 12, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Jan 12, 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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 12, 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...

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44 Names from 1917 You Should Use Now!

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The Most Popular Baby Names Of 2017… So Far

Jan 12, 2025

　　By the Editors of Nameberry 　　The Most Popular Baby Names of 2017 at the half-year mark are in. The big news, for a change, is with boys’ names, with Asher reclaiming the crown from Ezra at Number 1. 　　And there’s more hot news: Nearly a fifth of all boys’ names...

What Will Be the Next Liam…and Sophia?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Lisa Spira 　　Before Liam became the second most popular baby name in the United States, as it has been since 2013, it was a lesser-known Irish short form of William. It was distinctively Irish. Today, however, Liam is so popular that it feels more “American” than anything else. 　　It’s...

Nickname Names: Johnny be gone

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Nick Turner 　　There’s no record of a single newborn named Dick in the United States last year. 　　In fact, there hasn’t been a baby Dick recorded in the U.S. during the past decade. (It last popped up in the Social Security Administration databanks in 2005.) 　　This is no shock....

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

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Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Jan 12, 2025

　　When it comes to classic names, there are two stories we like to tell. Sometimes it’s that classics have been abandoned. Time to name your baby Chicago, Koala, or True, because nobody would dare call a kid Elizabeth or James in the year 2023. 　　The other story? Classic baby names...

The Top Baby Names A-Z

Jan 12, 2025

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

Jan 12, 2025

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

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Unique Twin Names to Inspire

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9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 12, 2025

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 12, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Jan 12, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...