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President’s Day Names: All the Presidents’ children

　　We’re all pretty familiar with the names of the presidents whose surnames have beeen commonly used for children–Jackson, Jefferson, Taylor, Tyler, Lincoln, Truman, Madison, Wilson, Kennedy et al– and we’re equally familiar with the names of most of their wives as well. 　　But less well known are the ones they chose for...

Top Baby Names 2010: 100 Most Popular Girls’ Names So Far

The Lost Names of 1880

Science Heroine Names: Inspiration from scientific barrier breakers

Word Names for Babies: What’s in a word?

Romantic Names for Girls Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing?? Popular Girls’ Names: The Real Top 10 (or 12 or 13) BALLERINA NAMES: Names for the Nutcracker Season Hate Your Name? Change It! Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part 2: Cultural Icons Golden Girl Names Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Girls’ Names

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Place Names: New Destinations

　　Feeling that geographical names have become kind of ho-hum? It’s true that many people have tired of Paris and some of the over-visited names from the American West like Cheyenne, Sierra, Dakota and Dallas. But that’s no reason to write off the whole category—we can renew our passports and look...

Family Names: Naming from the Heart

　　Today’s guest blogger, Ilya Welfeld, describes her journey towards the perfect–and inevitable –name for her daughter. 　　Is it wrong to admit that I sometimes want another child just to name it? That at times, that desire is so powerful as to supersede memories of chafed breasts, sleepless nausea and the...

Black History Names: Cultural heroines of the Harlem Renaissance

　　Harlem Renaissance names related to the cultural heroines of that movement comprise this year’s celebration of Black history names. These women—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors and musicians– all played significant roles in the movement that flourished from the end of World War I through the mid-1930s, during which a group...

Oscar Names: Girls’ edition

　　In honor of the Academy Award nominations announced yesterday, one of our favorite bloggers, Abby Sandel, creator of the always informative and witty appellationmountain.net, continues the tradition she started last year with boys’ red carpet names, and has again searched through the annals of Oscar history to come up with some great...

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Name Trends: Say yes to ‘S’

Name Trends: Say yes to ‘S’

Classic Girls’ Names: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Heroine Names: A Memorial Day salute Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3! Stylish vs. Popular Names: Do you know the difference? The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations Top Girl Names 2011

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Does one name have it all?

　　This week’s Berry Question of the Week comes from a Kansas mom named Amy, who is excitedly awaiting the arrival of a daughter to add to her trio of well named boys. Problem is, she’s waited so long to have a little girl that she feels the name she’s looking for can be...

Vanishing Names: So long, Susan; Bye bye, Barbara

　　One of my favorite poems, for reasons that will soon be obvious, is called “Mourning the Dying American Female Names,” by Hunt Hawkins. You can read the whole poem here, but I’ll give you a few choice lines: 　　Many names are almost gone: Gertrude, Myrtle, 　　Agnes, Bernice, Hortense, Edna, Doris,...

Gender Shock! What to do when nature foils your naming plans?

　　Remember Kristen, the mom who was suffering from Baby Name Desensitization Disorder and just couldn’t settle on a name for the little brother she was expecting for Colette and Weston? Well, her problem turned out not to be BNDD or even Boy Name Ambivalence but something much more dramatic. We’ll...

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition Brother Names Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus Strong Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide New Geek Chic Names For Boys 150+ European Baby Boy Names How I Named My Baby: Koda Florian

Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

　　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...

Trending Boy Names

　　New parents — those who haven't spent much time around today's babies — may not be up on today's trending boy names. Does this sound like you? You might be shocked to learn the hottest boy names right now. 　　What are trendy boy names? Trendy boy names are more popular than...

I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

　　Fifteen hours into labor, a new nurse came into our hospital room and gave us a cheerful hello. My husband and I looked away from the television. The 2010 Winter Olympics were on though neither of us were paying much attention. 　　Just after midnight, I’d woken up to my water...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Surprisingly International Baby Names Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

　　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...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

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Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style 60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest Babyberries: Class of 2023! Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names How Millennial Is Your Name?

Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

　　Astrology names are inspired by the stars and planets, the four elements, and the symbols and characteristics connected to the zodiac signs. 　　Coinciding with the recent cultural obsession with astrology, we’ve observed a rise in names relating to the zodiac and all things celestial. 　　Millennials and Gen Z have taken...

These Names Are At Their Peak

　　Looking for a name everyone will love just as much as you do? You can’t go wrong with names at the top of their game. 　　Names that peaked in 2022, calculated in exclusive research and analysis by Nameberry, are baby names that rank higher in the USA than they have...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

　　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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Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era? Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1 International Faves: Top names across the globe Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name? Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now British Baby Names: Tops of the pops

British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations

　　Yesterday, to launch British Names Week on Nameberry, Eleanor Nickerson identified the five strongest current naming trends in the UK. 　　Today we zero in on the popularity of individual names on both sides of the Atlantic, seeing which names have shared success and which haven’t. 　　We Yanks sometimes tend to...

New Zealand Name Report

　　New Zealand native Anna Hamilton parses the recently released Kiwi name statistics and analyzes what’s up and down, in and out, including such surprise (to us) hits as Aria, Ayla, Anahera, Manaia, and Sione.. 　　BOYS 　　Looking first at the boys: The big news here is that after a five-year reign,...

Belgian Names: Beyond Flemish and French

　　Belgian native and guest blogger Sarah B. unscrambles the pieces of the complicated jigsaw puzzle that is the diverse naming structure of her native land by analyzing its Most Popular list of 2010. 　　Belgium is a small country with a mere 10 million inhabitants. Yet it sits right in the heart...

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Test-Driving Your Baby Name Updating Popular 1950s Names It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup How to Change Your Baby’s Name Unique Twin Names to Inspire Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

　　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...

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...

Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...

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