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Names to Celebrate Earth Day

　　Nameberry commemorates Earth Day with this guest blog contributed by Elisabeth Wilborn, creator of one of our favorite blogs, You Can’t Call It “It” . Elisabeth, a writer, artist, and mom, lives in Brooklyn, New York 　　Milkvetch. Wallflower. Toothwart. 　　Yes, the Earth is indeed a wellspring for baby names. 　　Actually...

Jan 9, 2025

Poetic Baby Names

Baby Girl Names from Ancient Rome

The Mary Month of May

Beyond Ava & Aiden is Born

Yes, Virginia, Your Name Could Make a Comeback Princess Names From Bertha to Angina: One Mom’s (Mostly Frustrated) Search for the Right Name WELSH NAMES: Beyond Gwyneth and Griffin OOH-LA-LA, TALLULAH! Flower Fairy Names Middle Name Rose: Is The Bloom Off? Oh, Susannah!

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Mom Names: The Names of Famous Mothers

Jan 9, 2025

　　In anticipation of Mother’s Day, we thought we’d turn the tables and look at the names of some distinguished moms. Turns out that a surprising number of past (and a few present) notables have had mothers with interesting names. Probably too far-fetched to think there’s any correlation, but in any...

Honoring A Grandmother By Reinventing Her Name

Jan 9, 2025

　　A return engagement by one of our all-time favorite bloggers, Abby Sandel of appellationmountain.net. 　　Call it the Great Naming Compromise of 2001. 　　Other couples sign pre-nups. My husband and I negotiated our children’s names before we cut our wedding cake. The agreement was simple. Our firstborn son would receive his...

Nameberry Makeover: Renovating the Top Ten Girls’ Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　The brilliant visitors over on the Name Game board have done it again. The latest greatest game they’re playing is called Nameberry Makeover, in which they take the Top Ten names and come up with fresher, cooler sounding substitutes. 　　Some new players may have joined in by now and if...

She Suggests Names, He Vetoes Them: Can This Couple Negotiate?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Lookydaddy.com’s Brian Sargent, today’s guest blogger, is the stay-at-home dad of now-four-year-old twin girls and a third-grader. Those are his daughters, above. 　　My wife and I knew it would be tough to name twin girls, so we assigned ourselves jobs. My wife’s job was to suggest possible names for consideration....

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How I Named My Baby: Kilmer Dove

100+ Rare Girl Names You Don’t Know (Yet!) The Best Badass Princess Names Rose Alternatives: Fresh Twists on a Classic Don't Name Your Daughter Harper Ann Alternatives: Updating a Classic Where to Find A Cool Vintage Girl Name My Name, My Story: Zara How I Named My Baby: Winnie Jean

Stunning Spanish Names for Girls and Boys

Jan 9, 2025

　　If you’re interested in Spanish names for your baby-to-be, you’re probably familiar with the many Spanish choices popular in the US, like Sebastián and José, Camila and Sofia. But there are many intriguing baby names that are popular in Spain and Latin America but virtually unknown to anglophones. 　　Sure, classic Spanish names...

How I Named My Baby: Pippen Carol

Jan 9, 2025

　　Courtney and David Denker live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with their daughter Pippen Carol. 　　Pippen was born on August 31, 2022. Here, we talk to Courtney about how she and David named their little girl. 　　Tell me Pippen’s name story!After my husband David and I had been dating for about a...

Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation

Jan 9, 2025

　　Compound girl names – those formed by combining two separate names – have moved on since the days of Maryann and Annemarie! 　　Today’s smoosh names for girls are less likely to take classics like Mary and Anne as their base, and more likely to build on already fashionable or novel...

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Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

Cowboy Baby Names: This week’s Nameberry 9 Can’t Find A Name You Love? Maybe you’ve got BNDD Top Boy Names 2011 Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom Boys’ Names in Limbo: Is Roy ready to return? How about Howard? Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous

Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way

Jan 9, 2025

　　This week Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel follows the lead of Jada Pinkett (with son Jaden) in showing us how to find boys’ names honoring a female namesake. 　　Jaden Christopher Syre Smith turns 13 next month. Smith is Hollywood royalty, the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, and his name is...

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry!

Jan 9, 2025

　　Why does Henry consistently rank as one of the top two Nameberry favorite boys’ names? (Finn is the other one.) 　　Because in many ways Henry is the most perfect of the classic boys’ names—as historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it seem modern, and even hip. 　　Henry...

Boys’ Names: Nameberry’s newsiest boys’ names this week

Jan 9, 2025

　　It’s all-boy week in Abby (Appellation Mountain) Sandel’s latest round-up of the most recent interesting baby names. 　　Happy Halloween, berries! Let’s start off with a very important piece of business. The winner of the bookplate give-away from Etsy shop My Kids Eat Off the Floor is Emily (emily.m******@*****.com). You should have already...

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Surprisingly International Baby Names 100 Unique Unisex Middle Names Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Jan 9, 2025

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

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The New International Names

Baby Name Image: Seeking a glamorous Gertrude Celebrity Baby Names: The V, X, and Z epidemic Starbabies 2014: The luscious and the ludicrous The Top Baby Names of 2014! A Tale of 2 Popularity Lists Cool Names: Baby names more stylish across the ocean Future Top Ten Names: Avery, Jaxon, and Hadley Baby Names Ending in R

On-Trend Celebrity Babies: Nova, Cy, and Etta

Jan 9, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Do you remember those fifteen trend predictions for 2015 posted about a month ago? And the trend-spotting from the UK, courtesy of Elea? 　　It’s only been a few weeks, but it feels like high profile parents are following along. Recent birth announcements all reflect the...

Vintage Baby Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　I was asked by a magazine interviewer recently why I thought some vintage names come back and others don’t. Why Cora and Flora and not Dora? Why Edward and not Edwin? All of which got me thinking about the influences that do propel names out of the attic and into...

The Royals are Coming: King, Prince and Princess

Jan 9, 2025

　　Will and Kate are expecting a prince or princess in 2015, but there could be thousands of royal births in the coming year. 　　Confused? 　　Nameberry’s 2015 trend report started with Defining Names – names that create a clear and powerful identity. 　　A great many of those identities are clad in...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East 20 Chic French Names You Should Know About New Popular Irish Names Revealed 5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name Top Names in Each State Revealed! 80 Great New Sweet Spot Names The Best of the Rarest Baby Names Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Jewish names are a diverse set, represented by Hebrew names, biblical names, Yiddish names, and gentile names that gained popularity among the American Jewish community. 　　A recent report by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion's Jewish Language Project reveals the most popular Jewish names in the US. This...

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 9, 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...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Jan 9, 2025

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...