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The Top 100 Names of All Time

　　Popular baby names change every year, but here we bring you the top names in the U.S. of all time — or at least since the government started keeping count. 　　A week or so ago, we presented to you Nephele‘s lists of the most popular baby names for each letter...

Dec 27, 2024

70s Names Ready for Revival? Baby Brandon, anyone?

Baby Names 2012: Trend Predictions?

The Hottest Celebrity-Inspired Baby Names 2011

Baby Names 2011: The Hottest Choices in Every Category

Celebrity Baby Names: Normal Names Rule Most Popular Names Predictions? The Baby Namers’ Alphabet Baby Name Popularity: How local is it? Why Names Starting with A Rank #1 New York City Baby Names: 2009′s Most Popular List British Baby Names: Hot New Trends Brits Take Bets on Baby Names

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Nameberry Week in Review: January 16-24

Dec 27, 2024

　　Covering the week of January 16 to 24th, 　　Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog–brings you a roundup of the latest and juciest baby name news. 　　I’ll admit it: I obsessively read the Pottery Barn Kids catalog not for the color-coordinated, impossibly organized nurseries and playrooms, but for the names. They tend...

Name the Next Beckham Baby

Dec 27, 2024

　　Question of the Week: What should David and Victoria Beckham name their fourth child? 　　So Posh and Becks are expecting a new member of their team this summer. They’ve been both imaginative and trendsetting when choosing the names for their three boys: Brooklyn Joseph, Cruz David and Romeo James. Due...

Israeli Baby Names

Dec 27, 2024

　　To commemorate the Feast of Purim this weekend and the other major Jewish holidays coming up on the calendar, we turned to Israel-resident Hannah Katsman for an overview of current trends in Israeli baby names. 　　When Israelis are choosing names for their babies, they tend to focus on meaning as much as the sound of the name....

Nameberry Picks: 12 Most Modern Mythic Names

Dec 27, 2024

　　Baby namers have started to dig deep back into ancient history and mythological names in their search for fresh and interesting choices. Roman names like Atticus are rising up the charts, and the whole pantheon of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses is up for rediscovery—already there have been such starbaby...

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Will This Baby Ever Get A Name?

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Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Girls’ Names

Dec 27, 2024

　　Within the pages of books from all periods of literary history—from classical, metaphysical and Elizabethan poetry and plays to the Romantics and the Realists, right up to modern novels—can be found gems of names that have been lost to time, either because they’ve been identified with a singular character or simply...

Place Names: New Destinations

Dec 27, 2024

　　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...

Oscar Names: Girls’ edition

Dec 27, 2024

　　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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Hanukkah Baby Names: Sweet-Spot Biblical Boy Names

25 Perennially Popular Bible Names for Boys Black Music Names from History Boy Baby Names: Let’s talk about Liam Baby Name News: Fresh and festive choices Royal Baby Name: It’s Louis Arthur Charles! Baby Name Challenge: Naming a 7th boy! Boy Name: How to honor Grandma Jacqueline? Boy Baby Names: Can Remy Be Saved?

1960s Baby Names: Flower power namesakes for boys

Dec 27, 2024

　　Few eras can claim the kind of mystique that the 1960s have. Flower power, social change, and good music are just a few things that immediately come to mind. 1967 saw the Summer of Love, a reaction against an unpopular war and a celebration of counterculture values. Since the 1967...

Baby Name News: Hemingway, Gatsby, Ultra-Violet & Boston-Blu

Dec 27, 2024

　　This week’s news includes Scotland‘s new top names, for girls and boys, celebrity baby names inspired by a café and a golf course, a TV sibset like no other, and controversy over honor names. 　　Honor names: yea or nay?Where do you stand on names that honor someone? Are they a...

Little Prince Louis Special Report

Dec 27, 2024

　　This week’s news is a royal names special – plus an unusual tough word name, and the names Kim and Kanye almost used. 　　Royal baby name: read all about it!The biggest name story of the week is, of course, the British royal baby. 　　A week ago, we were on the...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? 50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Dec 27, 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...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Dec 27, 2024

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Dec 27, 2024

　　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...

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New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024 America's Next Top Baby Names 60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style Babyberries: Class of 2023! Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023 Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna How Millennial Is Your Name?

Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Dec 27, 2024

　　Christian names combine spirituality with style, conveying a faith-based message with contemporary sensibility. 　　These modern Christian names with an evangelical feel aren’t traditional biblical names, well-worn virtues, or even the old prophet names that are so popular nowadays. No, this is a fresh, 21st-century style of Christian names that shout...

These Names Are At Their Peak

Dec 27, 2024

　　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...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Dec 27, 2024

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

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Baby Names Before 1850

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Popular Twin Names

Dec 27, 2024

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Dec 27, 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...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Dec 27, 2024

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

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

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 27, 2024

　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Dec 27, 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....

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Dec 27, 2024

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...