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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...

Jan 14, 2025

Rare Royal Girls’ Names: Christabel, Eugenie and Melita

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

Sassy Short Girl Baby Names: Blythe, Blake, Blair

Four Syllable Middle Names: Longer choices beyond Elizabeth

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

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

Pretty Girl Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　One of the search terms that sends a lot of people to Nameberry every day is “pretty girl names.” 　　Are they searching for names that are pretty, we wonder, or names that sound as if they belong to pretty girls? Or maybe what people are after...

Kimye Kname Kraziness

Jan 14, 2025

　　It’s close to midnight after noon, the end middle of Day 2 3 or maybe we can call this Day 3 4 of the Kim and Kanye Baby Name Watch. You know they’re not going to announce the name tonight right this minute, because most sane journalists are already asleep out to lunch. 　　We’ll find...

North West: Behind Kim and Kanye’s baby name

Jan 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their newborn daughter North, and less than 24 hours after the announcement, all directional jokes have officially been cracked. 　　Although that won’t stop anyone from continuing to make them for the rest of little North...

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Ann Alternatives: Updating a Classic

Stunning Spanish Names for Girls and Boys New Geek Chic Names For Girls How I Named My Baby: Pippen Carol Elizabeth: The Name That Has Everything Little Black Dress Names Are Always in Style Rose Alternatives: Fresh Twists on a Classic Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation Hello, Cutie! Rare Vintage Girl Names Ending in -ie

How I Named My Baby: Winnie Jean

Jan 14, 2025

　　Kimberly and Josh Harvey live in South Florida with their three daughters: Lux Ann, Liv Hunter, and Winnie Jean. 　　Winnie was born on February 10, 2023. Here, we speak with Kimberly about how she and Josh named their little girl. 　　Tell me Winnie’s name story!Josh found the name. He texted...

100 Best Girl Names Below the Top 1000

Jan 14, 2025

　　Uncommon and unique girl names are more sought after than ever by new parents. Long gone are the days when there were five Jennifers or three Ashleys in every class! In 2022, a third of American baby girls received a name outside the Top 1000 most popular. 　　The great news...

How I Named My Baby: Kilmer Dove

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

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Antiquarian Names: Colonial craftsmen names

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Popular Baby Names 2010: Top 100 Boys’ Names So Far

Jan 14, 2025

　　UPDATE!! Check out our final list of popular baby names 2010 for boys! 　　Our most popular baby names 2010 for boys are a mix of the traditional and trendy choices like Jacob and Aiden that dominate the official list of popular baby names 2010 plus a variety of more intriguing...

Top Boys’ Names: One Mom Puts Her Picks To The Test

Jan 14, 2025

　　We first discovered Teresa Strasser when she mentioned us on her hilarious blog, Exploiting My Baby, to be published as a book next year. (That’s her at the right, pretending to be Heidi Klum.) Like many moms, Teresa spent her entire pregnancy obsessing about names, except unlike most moms, she...

FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 14, 2025

　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

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What Are The Top Baby Names of the Future?

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Scottish Baby Names: What’s ‘in’ in Inverness?

Jan 14, 2025

　　Looking through the birth announcements in the Scottish newspapers of the last few months-a site which also sometimes include the regions just below the Scottish border and the Isle of Man–a couple of prominent trends jump out. 　　First of all it’s the nickname names, which right now seem to be even...

Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule

Jan 14, 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...

Favorite Name Too Popular? Here Are Some Fresh Substitutes

Jan 14, 2025

　　It’s become a truism that once a name gets too popular, no one wants to use it anymore. (Which reminds me of the famous Yogi Berra saying: Nobody goes to that place anymore. It’s too crowded.) 　　So what do they use instead? Often, a name that’s the same but different....

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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 14, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

Popular Twin Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

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

Jan 14, 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 14, 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...