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Boys’ Names 2014: New guys on the block

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　There’s a new class of boys’ names trending today that has a short clipped sound, contains only one syllable, is undeniably masculine yet not traditionally so. Many of these boys’ names barely existed a generation or two ago: They’re definitely not your father’s or grandfather’s baby...

Nov 26, 2024

Top Names of 2033: Boys edition

Baby Name Ronan: One of these kids–and his name– is not like the others.

Old Testament Baby Names: On choosing Job

Presidents’ Day Names: The mighty middles–Quincy, Knox and Gamaliel

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World Cup Baby Names: Thiago, Memphis & Jozy

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Maya Reyes-Solano 　　The World Cup has officially started in Brazil, which means the majority of the world will spend the next month glued to their TV screens, filled with patriotic pride- even in countries like the US, where soccer is slowly building a fan base. I highly suggest everyone watch...

Your Top 5 Boy Names!

Nov 26, 2024

　　Last week was the girls’ turn; now, we’re going to invite you to list your Top 5 boys’ names. 　　These can be names you’ve already used or are planning to use for a son, or just may be your five favorite names for boys. 　　If you can’t limit yourself to...

Auto Pioneer Baby Names: Ford, Nash, Hudson & Tucker

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　If you’re like me, your favorite baby names are ones that peaked at least 100 years ago. But I always seem to have an easier time finding great “century names” for girls than boys. (When we named our kids, my female list was much longer than my...

Baby Name Choice: Ryder– A name ahead of its time

Nov 26, 2024

　　By Gay Cioffi 　　When my son was about to be born, close to thirty years ago, there were very few resources for parents-to-be to turn to for ideas for names. Nothing as wonderful as Nameberry, for sure! As a veteran nursery school teacher of ten years, I had the added challenge...

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Middle Name Rose: Is The Bloom Off?

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Honoring A Grandmother By Reinventing Her Name

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

From Bertha to Angina: One Mom’s (Mostly Frustrated) Search for the Right Name

Nov 26, 2024

　　We found Stephany Aulenback’s wonderful blog Crooked House when she wrote about nameberry, and now we’re fans. Here, Stephany‘s take on looking for a name for her baby girl, due in June, and finding that nothing, old or new, feels quite right. 　　It was around Christmas time when we started...

Poetic Baby Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　 Since April is National Poetry Month, this seems like a perfect time to look at some of the most poetic of baby names. We’ve already seen starbabies named Poet (Soleil Moon Frye), Sonnet (Forest Whitaker), Auden (Noah Wyle), Tennyson (Russell Crowe), and of course any number of Dylans (traceable back...

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100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel

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How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

Nov 26, 2024

　　Classic boy names are wonderful except for the fact that they’re so common. Yes, there have been many august Williams; sure, it’s a name resonant on your family tree; except, there are thousands (11,282, to be exact) of baby Williams out there. 　　But among the wonderful qualities of classic boy...

150+ European Baby Boy Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　European baby names have a long and illustrious history of use in the US. After all, many of the most popular boy names today – contemporary classics like Leo and Lucas, Mason and Mateo, Oliver and Owen – have European origins. 　　But there is so much cultural and linguistic variety...

Brother Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Surprisingly International Baby Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Nov 26, 2024

　　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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Baby Names 2012: Trend Predictions?

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Baby Name News: This week’s most notable names, from Ami to Zia

Nov 26, 2024

　　We’re so pleased to announce that starting today, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel will be presenting a regular baby name news recap and analysis every Monday. 　　If you’re a Nameberry aficionado, you might recall that this column started out as a week in review, then morphed into a more conventional list of names based...

Happy 3rd Birthday to Nameberry!

Nov 26, 2024

　　You know you’ve been around a while when you forget your birthday. The third anniversary of Nameberry’s launch, earlier in October, came and went without any of us realizing it. But now that we have, we want to pause and take stock of how far we’ve come with the help...

Baby Name Trends: Ha Ha names are nothing to laugh at!

Nov 26, 2024

　　Have you noticed the sudden pop in popularity of girls’ names starting with the happy-go-lucky syllable ‘Ha’—some on them shamelessly stolen from the boys? Caught in the spotlight by two recent high-profile starbabies, Harper Seven Beckham and Jessica Alba’s Haven Warren, this is among the baby name trends that seem...

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Nov 26, 2024

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

The Top Baby Names A-Z

Nov 26, 2024

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

Nov 26, 2024

　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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Name Change Resources

Nov 26, 2024

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Nov 26, 2024

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 26, 2024

　　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...