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

　　For several years now, word names have been singled out as being at the extreme edge of cool—we may have been guilty of pushing that edge ourselves at times. But I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to pull back a little, and put the brakes on. Celebrities have tried to outdo...

Golden Girl Names

Science Heroine Names: Inspiration from scientific barrier breakers

Romantic Names for Girls

Hate Your Name? Change It!

Oscar Names: Girls’ edition Place Names: New Destinations President’s Day Names: All the Presidents’ children Popular Girls’ Names: The Real Top 10 (or 12 or 13) Top Baby Names 2010: 100 Most Popular Girls’ Names So Far The Lost Names of 1880 Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Girls’ Names Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part 2: Cultural Icons

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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...

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...

Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing??

　　This blog is adapted from our most recent book, Beyond Ava & Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby 　　When people look for baby names online, they often put in a search for unique names. Some of them are trying to find names that are unusual and distinctive, but...

BALLERINA NAMES: Names for the Nutcracker Season

　　One of the staples of the holiday season is The Nutcracker ballet, making this the perfect moment for balletomane Heather Stevenson‘s guest blog on the enchanted world of exotic ballerina names. 　　Many little girls proclaim that they want to be ballerinas when they grow up—most are drawn to the sequined tutus, the rhinestone...

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The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora

The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora

Classic Girls’ Names: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3! Top Girl Names 2011 Gender Shock! What to do when nature foils your naming plans? Girls’ Names: Naming a daughter the Pinkett-Smith way Heroine Names: A Memorial Day salute Can you help this teenberry love her name?

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations

　　In this era of boys’ or at least boyish names for girls, feminizations — classic feminine forms of male names such as Charlotte and Georgia — seem almost quaint. Why not just name your daughter Charlie….or George? 　　Well, there are a lot of reasons. And choosing a more traditional feminization...

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,...

Name Trends: Say yes to ‘S’

　　It’s pretty obvious that the first initial letters of names move in and out of fashion. The last several years have seen a rotation of vowels—A, E, O, I– as favored name-starters. But there have been instances, too, of ending sound name trends as well, which aren’t quite so apparent. Case in...

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I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming How I Named My Baby: October Teddy 100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel Strong Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide 12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love 150+ European Baby Boy Names Exploring the Meaning of Julian Brother Names

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

　　Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear...

Aiden Names: the Rise And Fall of a Mega-Trend

　　Aiden and boy names that rhyme with it have been all the rage since around the year 2000. Have you ever wondered about the history of this name trend? Or what the most popular Aiden-names are today? 　　Join us for a dive into this wave of names that swept the...

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...

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Unisex Names Across the Atlantic 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

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...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

　　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...

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

How Millennial Is Your Name? New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023 Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style! Babyberries: Class of 2023! Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich 60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...

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...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

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Popular baby names: The case for the common name

Popular baby names: The case for the common name

Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)? The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name? The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1 British Baby Names: Tops of the pops New Zealand Name Report Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries Newest Babyberries: The quarterly report Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

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...

Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one? I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...

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...

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Name Change Resources

Name Change Resources

Updating Popular 1950s Names Unique Twin Names to Inspire Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort 20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask How to Change Your Baby’s Name Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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...

The Best Baby Name Advice

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

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