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Girl Names: Unusual, Stylish Choices
Feb 15, 2025
  Recently we looked at girls’ names that we were surprised were below the Top 1000, but that were given to at least 100 babies last year.   Today we survey the tier below that: fashionable yet unusual girls’ names used for fewer than 100 babies….but at least 50.  That may seem...
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Girls’ Names 2010: Most Popular So Far
Feb 15, 2025
  Three-quarters of the way through the year, we check in again with the most popular girls’ names 2010, nameberry style.   Once again, Charlotte heads the list of most-searched girls’ names on nameberry. In the number two spot is Violet, and former number two Seraphina has dropped to third place.   A...
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Popular Girls Names: Their ups and downs
Feb 15, 2025
  If I were a cookbook writer, I think my first title would be: “100 Ways to Dice and Slice the Social Security List.”  There is so much information to be found embedded in it and so many ways to look at it, that there seems to be no end of...
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New Nameberry Contest! Guess the Matt Damon Baby Name
Feb 15, 2025
  Nearly two years ago we ran a nameberry contest asking you to guess the name of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner‘s second child; now the challenge is to come up with the name of Affleck pal Matt Damon and wife Luciana‘s fourth daughter, due to be born any minute.   Matt...
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Matt Damon Baby Name Contest: And the winner is…
Feb 15, 2025
  The Nameberry Matt Damon Baby Name Contest came to a close just before Stella Zavala was born on Sunday, joining sisters Alexia, Isabella and Gia.   Almost 250 responses poured in, entering what seemed like just about every a-ending Latinate girl’s name from Adriana and Ariana to Verona and Viviana.   But one entrant...
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Gem Names Reappraised
Feb 15, 2025
  Since we last looked, jewel names have really begun to shine, some of them approaching the popularity they had when they were all the rage from the 1880s to the 1920s.  We thought it was time to take out our loupes and look at what’s up front in the jewelry-name case.   Currently on display...
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Nameberry Picks: 12 Best Glamour Girl Names
Feb 15, 2025
  From the early days of silent pictures to the present day, a sprinkling of stardust has stuck to the names of some of the most iconic glamour girls. Whether their allure was sexy or serene, these superstars’ names make Nameberry’s top dozen.   Audrey— The radiant Belgian-born actress (born Edda), style icon...
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Most Popular Girls’ Names: 130-Year Overview
Feb 15, 2025
  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...
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Freckle-Faced Names: Polly, Peggy & Penny
Feb 15, 2025
  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...
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Nameberry Week in Review: Oscar-inspired Girls’ Names
Feb 15, 2025
  Abby Sandel– [_creator of the wonderful](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Abby) AppellationMountain _blog–digs deeper into the Oscar nominee lists, this week on the female side of the fence, and comes up with some real name treasures.__   Last week we explored boys’ names drawn from the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards.  This week we turn...
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Valentine Names: Romancing the Name
Feb 15, 2025
  Valentine baby names mean love and romance in every possible way. Today we look at names that mean love, heart, sweetness, and more, to celebrate the holiday in the name of your own lovebug.   The Valentine FamilyLet’s begin with the star of the show. The name Valentine (in Latin, Valentinus)...
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Word Names: A Dozen of the Best for Girls
Feb 15, 2025
  The lovely Lemon, one of nameberry’s greatest treasures, guest blogs on her favorite word names.   I’d venture to say that many of the frequent posters on the Nameberry message boards consider themselves equipped with a “name-sense” of sorts, but for me it’s more of a “word-sense,” really.  After all, at...
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Unisex Names: Yes? No? Boy? Girl?
Feb 15, 2025
  Unisex names have been around forever, back to the era when Alice, Anne, Emma and Esmé were boys’ names that morphed over to the girls’ side, and Douglas and Clarence were female names.  In the sixties there were Jodys and Jamies of both genders, and now we have a whole new set...
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