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Unusual Baby Names: 10 same-but-different girl names

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　It’s a common baby name dilemma: You love a name like Cora or Lila forever, holding it close as your own special secret choice, and then bang! Right when you’re finally in a position to use it, you discover it’s become a trendy new favorite, vaulting...

Bold Names for Girls

Name the All-Girl Quints!

Newest Girl Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Ada to Xanthe

Sassy Short Girl Baby Names: Blythe, Blake, Blair

Your Favorite Literary Names for Girls Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far) North West: Behind Kim and Kanye’s baby name Luna, Ozzie and Vernon: Bold Girls, Vintage Boys Rare Royal Girls’ Names: Christabel, Eugenie and Melita Kimye Kname Kraziness Four Syllable Middle Names: Longer choices beyond Elizabeth Pretty Girl Names

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The Blooming of Lily

　　By K. M Sheard of Nook of Names 　　I have been musing about names which, on the surface, appear to be straightforward adoptions of English words, but are, in fact — in origin at least — entirely unrelated. The most popular name of this kind currently in use is Lily. 　　Lily...

Creative Girls’ Names: Xia, Djena, and Geneva

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Are we becoming more tolerant of creative names? 　　My kids’ friends and classmates are a diverse lot, and their names reflect it. There’s Seamus and Shivarama, a boy named Delaney and a girl called Jordan. Yes, we have Matthew and Sam...

Classic Girls’ Names: The Claire Contingent–Claire, Clara and Clarissa

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The crystalline clear classic Claire has seen an impressive rise recently—entering the Top 50 for the very first time in 2011—and bringing Cousin Clara and other relatives slip-streaming along with her. The perfect time to take a closer look at this clear-eyed family. 　　CLAIRE—Currently favored spelling Claire...

Baby Name Nicknames: The ubiquitous Addie

　　By Aimee Reneau Tafreshi__ 　　I was at a 1950’s-style diner with my young daughter Addie when an older waitress asked me what the name was short for. “Adair,” I said, and was shocked when the waitress told me that her grown daughter’s name was also Adair, called “Dare.” I was impressed...

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Elizabeth: The Name That Has Everything

Elizabeth: The Name That Has Everything

Girl Names You Never Knew Were in the Top 50 Stunning Spanish Names for Girls and Boys 12 Girl Names That Deserve More Love 100+ Rare Girl Names You Don’t Know (Yet!) The Best Badass Princess Names Don't Name Your Daughter Harper Rose Alternatives: Fresh Twists on a Classic Lilting Girl Names Lift the Spirits

How I Named My Baby: Kilmer Dove

　　Bethany C. Meyers, founder and CEO of the be.come project, and Nico Tortorella, an actor who starred in TV's Younger, based on the novel by Nameberry creator Pamela Redmond, live in Weehawken, New Jersey with their daughter Kilmer Dove. 　　Kilmer was born on March 5, 2023. Here, Bethany and Nico...

New Geek Chic Names For Girls

　　Question: What do Cora and Sadie, Vivian and Josephine, Violet and Hazel all have in common? 　　Answer: These stylish vintage girls’ names — which already feel like modern classics — have all rejoined the US Top 100 in just the last decade (or less!) 　　Fashion moves fast, and some of...

Ann Alternatives: Updating a Classic

　　Searching for alternatives to the classic girl name Ann? Perhaps you want to honor a loved one, or you're looking for a fresh route to sweet nickname Annie. We take a look at some of the most stylish Ann variants and alternatives. 　　Ann: Former Classic Fallen From FavorUntil the late 20th...

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Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names

Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names

Occupation Names: A Labor Day Salute Boys’ Names Ins and Outs Classic Names: The Fred Factor Popular Baby Names 2010: Top 100 Boys’ Names So Far Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names Baby Names 2010: Top 100 For Boys How About Harvey? What About Walter? John Today, Gianni Tomorrow

FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads

　　Once more this year we commemorate Father’s Day with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). As with the moms we displayed on Mother’s Day, it turns out that quite...

Boys’ Names: Unusual, Stylish Picks

　　Looking for boys’ names that feel contemporary and stylish but that you won’t hear coming and going? Here are our picks of unusual boys’ names – used for fewer than 100 boys, but at least 50 (those borders were picked to keep the collection manageable) – that are in step...

Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

　　Maybe contemplating the name Rufus sparked my revelation. Or it might have hit me when I encountered an Otis. Whatever the inspiration, I suddenly realized that my most-loved boys’ names end in the letter s. Yep, almost all of them. 　　Amias? One of my all-time underappreciated favorites. 　　Amadeus and Miles? ...

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100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State Gender-Bending Baby Names Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

　　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...

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...

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

　　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...

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Irish Names Now: What’s doing in Dublin?

Irish Names Now: What’s doing in Dublin?

L Names to Love Names of the Future California Desert Names Scottish Baby Names: What’s ‘in’ in Inverness? I-Initial Names: Eyes on the ‘I’s’ Latin Baby Names: Most influential choices TV Character Names: Dynasty & Dallas Baby Name Timeline

What Are The Top Baby Names of the Future?

　　Here at nameberry, we’re not so much in the business of tracking which names are popular now – the Social Security Administration does that more accurately than we ever could – but of predicting which names are going to be popular in the future. The reason for all this prognosticating:...

2009 Baby Names: What Was In, Out, Hot, Not This Year

　　The biggest baby name news of 2009 was Emma’s rise to the number one spot for girls’ names, becoming only the ninth girls’ name in U.S. history to claim first place. 　　EMMA unseated EMILY, which slipped to number three, after a 12-year-reign. ISABELLA moved up to number two, but if...

New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple

　　Ah, New York, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And if you can name your baby here without needing therapy or Xanax, then I applaud you. 　　That’s because like everything else in NYC, baby naming is intense. If most people think naming children...

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The Top Baby Names A-Z

The Top Baby Names A-Z

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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

　　Have you ever known the excitement of meeting a Ben who is not Just Another Benjamin but is, in fact, Benedict? Or Nicki whose “secret” full name is Danika? If so, this list is for you. 　　Rare full names with familiar nicknames can be the best of both worlds, for...

How Gen Z Is Your Name?

　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous Name Change Resources How to Cope With Baby Name Regret The Best Baby Name Advice

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: Honoring Grandma Elaine

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

　　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...

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