Boys’ Names for Girls
　　We all know about boy names for girls like Madison and Addison, Harper and Avery that were once exclusively male, later to be counted among the most popular girl names. 　　Then there are the newer names crossing the gender divide toward the girls’ side. These may still be more widely...
Dec 4, 2024
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See The Most Popular Baby Names by State!
Dec 4, 2024
　　When you look 　　popular names by state, it’s clear we live in a nation divided. There’s the United States of Ava and William (the South), the United States of Olivia and Oliver (the Great Plains) and the United States of Emma, Liam and Noah (most of the rest: coastal population...
MayBerry Arrivals: Cecilia Lilac and Godric Nickleby
Dec 4, 2024
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　May was an extraordinary month in the Nameberry Birth Announcement forums. We had a girl named Tully, boys called Godric and Endymion and Ignatius, middle names Lilac and Nickleby, brothers Atlas and Apollo, and nicely paired twins August Matthias and Thomas Nathaniel. 　　Parents drew inspiration from sources...
Marian Names Way Beyond Mary, Marie and Maria!
Dec 4, 2024
　　By Katherine Morna Towne 　　The name Mary and its variants Marie and Maria have been given to girls from humble families, royal families and every family in between for centuries (it was even suggested that the new Prince Louis might have been named Mary if he’d been a girl). In...
Baby Name Trends: The latest ley-ending girls
Dec 4, 2024
　　By John Kelly 　　The Social Security Administration’s 2017 baby name data is now in, charting the Top 1000 names on its card applications for newborns dating back to 1880. They also help track our ever-changing tastes  and trends in baby names. 　　One of those trends suggests that we’re increasingly enamored...
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Word Names: A Dozen of the Best for Girls
Word Names: A Dozen of the Best for Girls
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Freckle-Faced Names: Polly, Peggy & Penny
Dec 4, 2024
　　There’s a certain species of girls’ names that we’ve referred to in our books as freckle-faced, pigtailed and button-nosed: they’re the kind of character names inhabited by Shirley Temple as a curly-haired moppet, and Judy Garland as a wide-eyed, innocent teen, as well as starring in dozens of old popular...
Most Popular Girls’ Names: 130-Year Overview
Dec 4, 2024
　　We often look at the name stats of the most popular girls’ names for a year, or even a decade, but sometimes it’s enlightening to take a longer view.  Our ever resourceful and creative contributor Nephele has taken on the task of tabulating what the highest numbers of names were given...
Heroine Names: A Memorial Day salute
Dec 4, 2024
　　When Memorial Day—then called Decoration Day—was first observed on May 30, 1868 to honor and decorate the graves of the Civil War dead, much of the impetus for it came from women—particularly in the South.  It was a woman poet who conceived the idea of wearing poppies on Memorial Day...
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Boys’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100
Boys’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100
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Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh
Dec 4, 2024
　　What with the movie Ted, starring an outrageously potty-mouthed teddy bear, having been a box office sensation, and celebs giving their baby boys the actual first or middle name of Bear, this seems like a perfect time to think about Teddy and other fictional bear names for possible inspiration. 　　So,...
Top Boy Names 2012
Dec 4, 2024
　　Finn has taken over as Nameberry’s top boy name for 2012, claiming the Number 1 spot held last year by Asher.  Former most popular boys’ name Henry drops to Number 3. 　　The names on our boys’  Top 10 remain the same as last year, except that Owen and Felix have...
Australian Baby Names: Focus on Banjo
Dec 4, 2024
　　By Anna Otto of Waltzing More Than Matilda 　　February 17th is the birthdate of Andrew Barton Paterson, affectionately known as “Banjo” Paterson.  He was named Andrew after his Scottish-born father, and his middle name Barton was a family name from his mother’s side; he was related to Edmund Barton, who...
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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022
Dec 4, 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...
The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State
Dec 4, 2024
　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...
Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction
Dec 4, 2024
　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...
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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones
Dec 4, 2024
　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...
New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names
Dec 4, 2024
　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...
60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style
Dec 4, 2024
　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...
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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?
Dec 4, 2024
　　Presidential baby names – the famous last names and, in a few cases, first names of America’s presidents – are more popular than ever in the US. The presidential connection may be more direct in some cases (Lincoln) than others (Taylor). 　　Naming a child for – or, in some cases,...
Classic Baby Names on the Rise
Dec 4, 2024
　　When it comes to classic names, there are two stories we like to tell. Sometimes it’s that classics have been abandoned. Time to name your baby Chicago, Koala, or True, because nobody would dare call a kid Elizabeth or James in the year 2023. 　　The other story? Classic baby names...
Top Czech Names Follow International Trends
Dec 4, 2024
　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....
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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous
Dec 4, 2024
　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...
Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names
Dec 4, 2024
　　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...
What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name
Dec 4, 2024
　　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...
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