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Top 100 Boy Names of 2013

　　Asher is back on top! The hot biblical name has reclaimed the crown as Number One boys’ name from Finn, which snatched it last year. 　　Declan, an Irish choice that flirted with the Number One spot on Nameberry throughout 2013, finished at Number Two. 　　Finn’s star may be flickering, but...

Dec 28, 2024

Baby Names from Books: 6 choice choices for boys

The Fitzes: Beyond Mr. Darcy, F. Scott and JFK

Nameberry Picks: 13 best virtue names for boys

40+ Neglected Namesake Names–Boys’ edition

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Newest Boy Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Alaric to Zion

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We had that great bonanza of great girls’ names in Part One of this Quarterly Report yesterday, now here are the boys. This should once and for all put the kibosh on the idea that they aren’t as varied, interesting, copious and creative as their sisters’. Two...

The Best Boys’ Names: 10 great biblical choices

Dec 28, 2024

　　Our new book, The Nameberry Guide to the Best Baby Names for Boys, selects the 600 very best choices from the 20,000 boys’ names on Nameberry. 　　We wanted to pick the top choices from a wide range of different types of names – classics and new inventions, adventurous and conservative...

Nickname Names for Boys

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　A friend of ours recently named his baby Jake. Not Jacob, just Jake. 　　Why name the kid Jacob, he and his wife reasoned, when they weren’t really crazy about it and intended to call the little boy Jake all the time anyway? 　　Nickname names have become...

Boys Baby Names: The viable and the verboten

Dec 28, 2024

　　Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　A French film made its US debut this week. What’s in a Name? takes us to a dinner party. A happy couple announces that they’re expecting a son, and they’ve chosen a name. 　　Adolphe. 　　It’s as scandalous a choice in French as it...

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Girl Names: Long and Meaningful

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60 Highly Unusual Names Ready to Pop

Dec 28, 2024

　　Which unusual baby names today are most likely to be the hit names of the future? 　　We looked at Nameberry’s statistics for the past month versus the same period a year ago and put together this list of 60 names – 25 for girls, 25 for boys, and 10 unisex...

Marian Names Way Beyond Mary, Marie and Maria!

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Katherine Morna Towne 　　The name Mary and its variants Marie and Maria have been given to girls from humble families, royal families and every family in between for centuries (it was even suggested that the new Prince Louis might have been named Mary if he’d been a girl). In...

Presidential Girl Names: Kennedy, Madison, Monroe

Dec 28, 2024

　　Since the beginning of US history, from the time of George Washington on, aspirational parents have bestowed presidential surnames (with a few exceptions like Eisenhower and Bush) on their sons, in the old platitude that every American lad could grow up to hold the country’s highest office. 　　Even now, the...

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How I Named My Baby: October Teddy

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

Dec 28, 2024

　　Flower names for boys are a rare but beautiful bunch – a subset of the fashionable group of floral baby names which have proved particularly popular for girls in recent years. 　　Cool nature names for boys include tree names like Rowan and Oakley, wild animal names like Fox and Bear,...

Exploring the Meaning of Julian

Dec 28, 2024

　　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...

150+ European Baby Boy Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　European baby names have a long and illustrious history of use in the US. After all, many of the most popular boy names today – contemporary classics like Leo and Lucas, Mason and Mateo, Oliver and Owen – have European origins. 　　But there is so much cultural and linguistic variety...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Dec 28, 2024

　　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...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Dec 28, 2024

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 28, 2024

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

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60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

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America's Next Top Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

Babyberries: Class of 2023!

Dec 28, 2024

　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2023! 　　Birth announcements for 93 new Babyberries – 47 girls and 46 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...

How Millennial Is Your Name?

Dec 28, 2024

　　Millennial names define their generation. John and Mary were the Number 1 names for The Greatest Generation, Linda and Gary emblematic names of the Baby Boom, and now Jessica and Michael emerging as the top names for Millennials. 　　Nameberry tabulated the names of all babies born from 1982 until 2004,...

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They Wrecked My Baby Name!

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The Most Influential Starbaby Names (and namers)

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It’s an inarguable fact that celebrity baby name choices have an impact on the rest of the population. But which of them have had a lasting influence and which luminaries have hit the sweet spot more than once? 　　With some names it was not a single celeb...

Nearly Unique Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　The secret vault of truly unique baby names is real, but only the US government holds the key. 　　To protect privacy, the Social Security Administration doesn’t release names given to only one child, drawing the line at five or more. So the names given to five babies are the most...

The Top Berrybaby Names of 2012

Dec 28, 2024

　　This year, for the first time, we have–with the invaluable help of our invaluable intern Hannah Tenison, tallied the final name choices reported by Berries on the Birth Announcement forum. So here is what happened when all the hypotheticals were winnowed down to a single reality. 　　(Of course we know...

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How (Not) to Choose a Baby Name

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Baby Name Advice: Straddling two cultures

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Beth Grimm 　　As the proud mummy of two, soon to be three, bilingual children, who attend international school and are exposed to multiple cultures on a daily basis, I am constantly reminded of the need to consider the implications of names. The wrong name could cause frustration for family...

5 Things Every First-Time Parent Needs To Know About Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Welcome to the thrilling and mysterious world of parenthood. And welcome too to the new and radically different world of baby names. In the interest of helping you make the best possible name choice for your child, here is your initiation guide to all that’s changed...

5 Ways to Get Dads Excited About Baby Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　I’m that rare flower in the world of baby-name blogging: a man. 　　And while I’m content to be in a female-dominated field, it’s puzzling that more dads don’t take an interest in naming their kids. 　　It seems like it’s usually the mom who draws up lists and researches each...