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Baby Names LESS Popular Than They Seem

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　When the 2013 US Popular Baby Names list came out back in May, we ran Kelli Brady aka The Name Freak‘s wonderful Playground Analysis blog, with her count of the REAL Top 50 baby names. Kelli tallies all spelling variations of the top names to arrive...

Dec 12, 2024

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Names That Age Well

101 Not-Too-Hot, Not-Too-Cold Baby Names

Pairing Up the Most Unpopular Names of the Past: Orange & Leafy

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2013 Playground Analysis: How combined spellings change the rankings

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady, The Name Freak! 　　For a second year, I present the “real” Top 50 by combining the different spellings of each name. Because when you hear “Jacob!” on the playground, you have no idea how his name is spelled, but you know you hear the name a lot....

Celebs Embrace Popular Names: Jaxon, Maxim, and Evelyn

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Not only did we have a bumper crop of high profile birth announcements last week, but the Social Security Administration also released the eagerly anticipated 2013 baby name data. 　　Oh, the excitement! 　　Sure, the US isn’t the only country to share statistics – and we’re...

Names Hot in Hollywood…but nowhere else!

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　There are some names that we’ve become so accustomed to seeing on the covers of People et al, attached to the babes of Tinseltown, that we assume that their popularity has instantly spread beyond the confines of Malibu and Calabasas. But it ain’t necessarily so. There are...

British Popularity List 2013: Oliver and Amelia on top

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Eleanor Nickerson, British Baby Names 　　It’s official! The number 1 names in 2013 for England and Wales were Amelia, for the third year running, and Oliver, last at #1 in 2010. Steep climbers Ava and Isla both made it to the Top 5 and Oscar and Poppy were in the Top 10 for...

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Classic Girls’ Names: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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Princess Names: Princesses by Marriage (Hi, Kate!)

Dec 12, 2024

　　Princess names are a subject of fascination for us, one we last covered by detailing all the royal names of the next generation of little princesses, from Aiko to Eleonore. 　　Now, in honor of the newest princess by marriage, Catherine of Wales, we look at the names of women who,...

He Says Shayla, She Says Cecilia: Help this couple agree on a baby name!

Dec 12, 2024

　　Our Berry Question of the Week comes from Jen Barnes of Seattle, who’s facing a common problem in Baby Name Land: She and her husband are having trouble agreeing on a name for their second daughter. Here, the names he likes and those that she likes. Your job, dear berries,...

The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora

Dec 12, 2024

　　There’s been a lot of berry-buzz lately around the names Cora, Flora and Dora, a nostalgic bevy of beauties we might call the Floradora girls. 　　If you’re wondering about the origins of the term, it dates back to Florodora, one of the first big Broadway musical hits of the twentieth...

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Boys Baby Names: The viable and the verboten

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Nickname Names for Boys

Dec 12, 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...

Baby Names for Boys: Popularity of “S” and “Sh” sounds

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　I previously compared the popularity of girl names that began with the “S” and “Sh” sounds. Here are the boys! 　　As I explained last week, to do this research, I used the S and Sh names with percentage of use above 0.01% since 1938*. This cutoff was...

Top 100 Boy Names of 2013

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

Dec 12, 2024

　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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America's Next Top Baby Names

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What's a Classic Name?

Dec 12, 2024

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Dec 12, 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...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Dec 12, 2024

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

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New Top Baby Names

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8 Biggest Baby Naming Mistakes …

Dec 12, 2024

　　We hope you caught the great segment on this morning’s (Tuesday) Today Show featuring Abby giving her typically sage baby name advice to pregnant staffers Dylan Dreyer and Savannah Guthrie! Watch the video here. 　　By Abby Sandel 　　Your new baby is here, and you? You have a ballpoint pen and...

The 12 Most Influential Celebrity Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Celebrities have the power to turn unusual or outmoded baby names into contemporary hits. Many of the baby names in the Top 100 have Hollywood roots, from Ava to Violet, Jayden to Wyatt, and once-bizarre names from Hazel to Huckleberry have come to seem normal after celebrities chose them. Which...

The Berries Have Spoken: 89 More Great Baby Names Now

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Earlier this month, we shared our list of the Best Baby Names Right Now. We declared them the right mix of authentic and creativie, perfect for 2016, and wearable into the 22nd century, too. 　　It was so much fun to hear your reactions. Perhaps the most controversial...

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

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Dec 12, 2024

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Dec 12, 2024

　　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....