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5 Routes to Baby Name Happiness

　　In our best fantasies, here’s how we name our babies: 　　MOM-TO-BE — Darling, I just love the names Susannah and Henry, don’t you? 　　DAD-TO-BE — Oh, yes, dear. And I might also suggest Jane, after your mother, and John, after my dad. 　　MOM — What excellent ideas, sweetheart. So if...

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Baby Name Advice: Straddling two cultures

Nov 23, 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...

Unusual Names: 5 Ways to Stay on the Right Side of Weird

Nov 23, 2024

　　Unusual names can be attractive, distinctive, intriguing….until they cross the line to weird. Parents in search of unusual names often worry about how to stay on the right side of that line. 　　Here, five ways to choose unusual names that have all the best qualities of the genre and...

The Top Ten Baby Name Problems: And how to solve them

Nov 23, 2024

　　Ideally, choosing your baby’s name is a fun, inspired endeavor, but too often baby name problems get in the way. Here are the problems we hear most often, and how to fix them: 　　Your family interferes with your name choice 　　Your mom wants you to name the baby after her. ...

The 7 Biggest Mistakes Newbie Baby Namers Make

Nov 23, 2024

　　There are few things more thrilling in life than having your first baby. But newbie baby namers are prone to making some mistakes that more experienced name choosers are able to avoid. 　　If you’re choosing a baby name for the first time, don’t make one of these 7 common mistakes:...

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Disney Princess Names: How influential are they really?

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Baby Girl Names: Short and sweet

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Baby girl names have been trending toward the long and elaborate for some time now, with selections like Isabella and Elizabeth, Olivia and Sophia winning out over the kind of brisk no-nonsense names — Anne, Gail, Lynn — that dominated a couple of generations ago. 　　But...

Invented Names Past and Present: From Vanessa to Iridessa

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Angela Mastrodonato, Upswing Baby Names 　　With names, as with other subjects, once I learned my assumptions were wrong, I was put in my place. 　　Pre-kids, I was a name-snob who openly expressed disdain for invented names, grouping all invented names with experimental spellings, and modern word-play creations such as...

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Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　The good news for lovers of vintage boy names is that they’ve never been cooler. 　　The bad news? Well... they’ve never been cooler. 　　That means it can feel increasingly difficult to find the perfect “I wish I’d thought of that first!” vintage boy name. You know: the sweet but strong,...

How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

Nov 23, 2024

　　Classic boy names are wonderful except for the fact that they’re so common. Yes, there have been many august Williams; sure, it’s a name resonant on your family tree; except, there are thousands (11,282, to be exact) of baby Williams out there. 　　But among the wonderful qualities of classic boy...

Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Nov 23, 2024

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

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　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

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　　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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

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　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

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60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Nov 23, 2024

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

America's Next Top Baby Names

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　　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...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Nov 23, 2024

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

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　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....