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NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week? 　　Me neither. 　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration. But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...

Jan 13, 2025

Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

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Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom Irish Baby Names: Last Names First Top Boys Name For Each Letter: a 130-year survey Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back How About Harvey? What About Walter?

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A Boy Named Chelsea

Jan 13, 2025

　　This guest blog by a guy named Chelsea lets us in on his gender-bender life experiences. 　　There’s nothing that unusual about being named after a place, except when that place name becomes one of the more popular names for girls during the 1990’s and you are a boy. That’s what happened to me. My...

Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn

Jan 13, 2025

　　When Presidents Day rolls around, on our site and others, a lot of attention is paid to the influential names of our past presidents—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Taylor, Truman, Lincoln, Kennedy et al—and sometimes the names of their wives and children as well. And so I thought that this year it...

Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

Jan 13, 2025

　　_Covering the week of January 25 to 31st, Abby Sandel– creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– unearths some treasures in the male Oscar nominee names announced this week._ 　　The list of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards came out last week. Even though the only category in which I’ve actually seen all the...

Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

Jan 13, 2025

　　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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Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part I-Trailblazers

Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part 2: Cultural Icons Place Names: New Destinations Family Names: Naming from the Heart Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition The Lost Names of 1880 Will This Baby Ever Get A Name? Hate Your Name? Change It! The Magic of Maya

Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular?

Jan 13, 2025

　　The top English girls’ names for the current year are listed on Nameberry here. You can also see popularity statistics for English names on the individual name pages. 　　English name standings have not been published consistently every year. At the beginning of 2009, the UK ‘s Office for National Statistics...

Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing??

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Baby Name Fever: Is There A Cure?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Guest blogger 　　Jennifer Maselli finds herself nursing Baby Name Fever, and the only (elusive) cure is the perfect name. 　　Since finding out that our third and final child – due this fall – is a girl, I have become afflicted with something I like to call “Baby Name Fever.” I’ve...

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Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry! Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV A Boy Named Chelsea Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!! Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again

Jan 13, 2025

　　Just as we’ve been heralding the trend towards cowboy names, it looks like we could be in for a posse of new ones. 　　In the L.A. Times the other day, an article talked about prime-time television’s “reinvigorated love of the western, where projects are sprouting like cactus in the desert…and...

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

Jan 13, 2025

Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

Jan 13, 2025

　　The current popularity lists are full of Irish names that are also surname names—Ryan, Riley, Brody, Brady, Brennan, Connor, Keegan, and Quinn, to name just a few—and have been for quite some time. For the most part, they have been two- and occasionally one-syllable names; we’d like to suggest that...

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Most Popular, Most Unisex Baby Names

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Baby Names: The gender reshuffle

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Eve Newman 　　What actually makes a name female or male? Most names seem to have been assigned a strict gender based on previous usage, but recently more and more we are seeing boy names used for girls and girl names used for boys. You could say this is the...

The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends

Jan 13, 2025

　　It used to just be one of those quirks reserved for the parents of future celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Taylor Swift, Hayden Panettiere and Blake Lively, but now giving baby girls a traditional boy name is on trend. 　　Evelyn, Mackenzie, Billie, Frankie, Addison, Tyler, Dylan,...

Gender Neutral Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　When we named Gender Neutral Baby Names as our Number 1 trend for 2016, we were mostly just guessing. Oh sure, the guess was backed up by some strong cultural trends, from marriage equality to trans recognition, as well as a raft of gender neutral celebrity baby names. 　　But when...

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Latin Baby Names: Most influential choices

Newest Baby Names: Clara Is This Year’s Claire Is Your Favorite Name More Popular Than You Think? New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no Cheery-O Names GOODBYE, GLADYS? TV Character Names: Dynasty & Dallas CAREFUL, KAL-EL; WATCH OUT WHIZDOM!

Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!!

Jan 13, 2025

　　Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and to baby name fanatics that means one thing beyond cards and flowers: that the release date of the latest figures from the Social Security Administration is only a few weeks away. We’ll soon know whether or not Emily and Jacob have finally been overtaken...

Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule

Jan 13, 2025

　　The day every baby name addict waits for all year is finally here, as the Social Security Administration released its list of Top 1000 Boy and Girl Names this morning. To many people’s surprise–including a sizable number of our contest entrants–Emma leapfrogged over Isabella–last year’s #2– to become the most...

Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily?

Jan 13, 2025

　　On Friday the official list of most popular names will be announced, and we’ll find out whether Jacob and Emily will continue their reign or end their long runs as the Number One Names in the U.S. 　　(Plus, everyone who’s entered the Nameberry Mother’s Day Contest will see whether their...

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Baby Names 2010: The Also-Rans

Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name? British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations Popular baby names: The case for the common name How Popular is Too Popular? International Faves: Top names across the globe Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa Belgian Names: Beyond Flemish and French

Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training!

Jan 13, 2025

　　There are countless books for kids with first names in their titles—from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Madeline to Fancy Nancy to Olivia—but there aren’t very many books for children about names, with scenarios revolving around such name issues as how they relate to identity, popularity, etc 　　I have found a...

The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain ‘s Abby Sandel travels around the country and across the pond to discover which names ranked Number 1 where. 　　Baby name news is fast and furious at year’s end. Lists of Worst and Best Celebrity Baby Names abound. (Did anyone else notice that Zuzu Audrey, daughter of Top...

TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!

Jan 13, 2025

　　Today is officially Soap Opera Day (woo hoo!) and though this isn’t as big of a deal in the baby name world as it once was, with a lot fewer sudsers on TV than there were when soap operas were the main staple of daytime programming, we have to acknowledge...

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Updating Popular 1950s Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...