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Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

　　Heroes and villains, famous and infamous, real life, big and small screen characters and the actors who played them—there’s a whole genre of cowboy names that have a certain swagger and western twang all their own. 　　Here are a dozen of the best: who they were and why we like...

Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names

Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name A Boy Named Chelsea Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

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Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

　　_Covering the week of January 25 to 31st, Abby Sandel– creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– unearths some treasures in the male Oscar nominee names announced this week._ 　　The list of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards came out last week. Even though the only category in which I’ve actually seen all the...

Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

　　As promised, here is our first Week in Review by Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– bringing you a roundup of the latest baby name news of the week every Monday from hereon in. 　　Early January brought round-ups of The Most Popular Names of 2010, at least according to a...

How About Harvey? What About Walter?

　　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...

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

　　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...

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Hate Your Name? Change It!

Hate Your Name? Change It!

Baby Name Fever: Is There A Cure? Family Names: Naming from the Heart The Magic of Maya Nature Names: Will trees be the new flower names? Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular? Will This Baby Ever Get A Name? Place Names: New Destinations A Baby Named ….Seabiscuit?

The Lost Names of 1880

　　I was combing through the Top 1000 Names of 1880 the other day for another project (ah, the glamorous life of the baby name expert) and I was blown away by how many names on the list had been totally forgotten. I don’t mean just marginalized, like Ethel or Beulah,...

Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition

　　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...

Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing??

　　This blog is adapted from our most recent book, Beyond Ava & Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby 　　When people look for baby names online, they often put in a search for unique names. Some of them are trying to find names that are unusual and distinctive, but...

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

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

Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review Cowboy Baby Names: This week’s Nameberry 9 Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry!

　　Why does Henry consistently rank as one of the top two Nameberry favorite boys’ names? (Finn is the other one.) 　　Because in many ways Henry is the most perfect of the classic boys’ names—as historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it seem modern, and even hip. 　　Henry...

Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous

　　It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). It turns out that quite a number of past (and...

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

　　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...

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Irish Baby Names 2018

Irish Baby Names 2018

Modern Virtue Names Baby Name News of the Week A Girl Called Liam Naming Baldwin Gender Neutral Baby Names The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends Baby Names: The gender reshuffle What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

Unisex Baby Names: the new entries for 2013

　　By Brooke Cussans, Baby Name Pondering 　　One of the posts I did last year that I really enjoyed was Unisex Baby Names: Five new entries – a list of those names special enough to simultaneously debut for both girls and boys in 2012. There were just five, and it was...

Most Popular, Most Unisex Baby Names

　　Many unisex baby names are not truly unisex, meaning they’re used predominantly for one sex and only rarely for the other. 　　I’m thinking of names like Addison and Madison, which started as boys’ names but are now used nearly exclusively for girls, and names like James, in the Top 10...

Baby Name News: From fashion, sports and teentown

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes thoughts from teenagers about their names – popular and otherwise – fashionable cosmopolitan names, and some awesome alliteration. 　　Popular names: Emma and Sophia 　　Emma and Sophia are all grown up! Ok, not all of them – as we know, they were the first...

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Royal Baby Names: Hollywood’s Little Princes and Princesses

Royal Baby Names: Hollywood’s Little Princes and Princesses

Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily? Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule 70’s Baby Names: Beyond Tiffany & Todd Taking Baby Names Seriously Baby Name Timeline Cheery-O Names Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no Names of the Future

GOODBYE, GLADYS?

　　There’s a lively discussion going on over at our message boards on what names have gone out of style and will probably never come back. On the permanent Out List, by consensus, are: 　　BERTHA 　　BEULAH 　　BRUNHILDA (was this ever in, I mean since the 11th century?) 　　CLORIS 　　DORCAS 　　DORIS 　　EUNICE...

TV Character Names: Dynasty & Dallas

　　Once in a while some pop culture phenomenon comes along that doesn’t just reflect the name gestalt of its day, but actually influences it. This was the case with the glossy nighttime soaps of the late 70s and early 80s–most particularly Dynasty—which were all about wealth and greed, ambition, melodrama, campy...

THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE

　　It takes at least four generations for names to sound appealing again for babies. The names of today’s moms and dads – names popular from the late sixties through the eighties – are for the most part too familiar to foist upon an innocent newborn. You’ll find a lot of...

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

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

Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now Belgian Names: Beyond Flemish and French TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day! Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era? New Zealand Name Report Top UK Baby Names: Olivia and Oliver head the list Baby Names 2010: The Also-Rans Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries

Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa

　　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...

Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one? I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...

How Popular is Too Popular?

　　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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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names The Best Baby Name Advice What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name Updating Popular 1950s Names Name Change Resources Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

　　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...

How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

　　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...

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