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Valentine Names: Romancing the Name

　　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)...

Jan 9, 2025

Bridesmaid Names: Pippa and beyond

Name Trends: Say yes to ‘S’

Heroine Names: A Memorial Day salute

Annette & Paulette: The ‘ette’ girls

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Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Today’s Question of the Week is a two-parter: 　　Last week we talked about naming styles for boys, now it’s the girls’ turn. 　　With girls’ names, there are even more style preference category possibilities. How would you characterize the names you like best? Girly girl, boyish, or truly gender neutral names? ...

The Mary Month of May

Jan 9, 2025

　　For the arrival of May, official month of the Virgin Mary, we revisit her classic name and some of its many variations as possibilities for May baby names. 　　May, as any Catholic schoolchild can tell you, is the official month of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Which might make Mary an appropriate name...

Word Names: A Dozen of the Best for Girls

Jan 9, 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...

Unisex Names: Yes? No? Boy? Girl?

Jan 9, 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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Freckle-Faced Names: Polly, Peggy & Penny

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Unisex Baby Names: How To Achieve Baby Name Equality

Jan 9, 2025

　　Unisex baby names, meaning those that are used for both boys and girls, are not always that equal. Some of the most popular are heavily weighted toward one gender or the other: Emerson is 61 percent girls and 39 percent boys, for instance, while Rowan is the other way around....

Most Popular Girls’ Names: 130-Year Overview

Jan 9, 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...

Nameberry Week in Review: Oscar-inspired Girls’ Names

Jan 9, 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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12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

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Brother Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

Jan 9, 2025

　　Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear...

80+ Woodsy Names for Boys That Will Make You Want to Have a Son

Jan 9, 2025

　　What do you get if you cross cottagecore with cowboy names? Meet woodsy names for boys. Woodsy names are the best of each trend — the rugged handsomeness of cowboy names blended with the romantic pastorality and natural elements of cottagecore names. 　　These are the names of woodland heroes and forest...

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Jan 9, 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...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 9, 2025

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

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60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Jan 9, 2025

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Jan 9, 2025

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Jan 9, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

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How Gen Z Is Your Name?

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Top Names in Each State Revealed!

Jan 9, 2025

　　Popular names by state can look very different from the national count. Find out which states' top names conform to the US popular names list and which go in a different direction. 　　Olivia and Liam held on to their titles as the most popular names in the United States for...

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...

Popular Twin Names

Jan 9, 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...

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Jan 9, 2025

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Jan 9, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 9, 2025

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...