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Baby Naming Advice: Teacher Edition

　　If you’re a teacher, every name can already feel taken by a former student! What’s the best approach – choose something truly unusual? Or choose a baby name you love, knowing that it might appear on your class list, too? 　　Caity writes: 　　We are having trouble agreeing on a girls’...

Jan 16, 2025

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Reinventing Grandma Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　Grandma is over the rainbow about her new little namesake. Except how, exactly, do you honor a Glenda in 2018? 　　Tess writes: 　　My partner and I are expecting our first, a little girl, and are overjoyed! We are debating on first names right now, but know that we want the...

Girl Baby Names: Harlow, Cleo, or Willow?

Jan 16, 2025

　　They’ve narrowed their list to three great names for their new daughter: Cleo, Harlow, or Willow. But how do they decide which is best? 　　Penny–May writes: 　　I’d really appreciate your help with our name choice. We are in Australia, so name trends are different than in the US. 　　My husband...

Valentine’s Day Names: Lovable Love Words

Jan 16, 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)...

Girl Baby Names: 50 Sweetest Sweet-Spot Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We recently posted a list of fifty boys’ names that we consider to be currently in the sweetest sweet spot—that is, instantly recognizable but not mega-popular—just the kind of fitting in/standing out name that many parents are looking for. These were all found in the lower regions...

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Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On

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Girls’ Names 2013: Our 10 newest choices

Jan 16, 2025

　　We’re always adding new names to Nameberry, and the ten newest on the site all just happen to be for girls. 　　Half of these names existed on Nameberry before as variations of other names, but without commentary of their own, and the other half are new entries. All have ancient...

Girl Baby Names: Plain and fancy, from Arya to Tess to Zetta

Jan 16, 2025

　　This week’s Nameberry 9 by Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel shows us the wide range of girl baby names available to today’s parents. 　　Did you read Swistle’s post about a woman named Justin? 　　Some of us probably felt vindicated. Of course you shouldn’t give a boy’s name to a girl! 　　Others probably...

Baby Names Trend: The Jennifer Juggernaut

Jan 16, 2025

　　Yes, there are baby names that have had longer runs at the top of the popularity list. Mary and John, certainly, and, more recently, Michael, who ruled for 44 years, yet none of them came to be seen as an epidemic or to signify a whole generation in the way...

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Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

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Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Jan 16, 2025

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

Jan 16, 2025

　　Looking for a boy name that feels both fashionable and original, that stands out for its rarity but fits with current trends? 　　Boy names are evolving at lightning speed right now, with parents more willing than ever to branch out from traditional choices and embrace individuality in their sons’ names...

Trending Boy Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　New parents — those who haven't spent much time around today's babies — may not be up on today's trending boy names. Does this sound like you? You might be shocked to learn the hottest boy names right now. 　　What are trendy boy names? Trendy boy names are more popular than...

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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　Unisex nature names blend two of the coolest categories of baby names right now, so it’s no wonder they’re attracting a lot of attention! 　　The top gender neutral names in the US include several nature-inspired options, and the natural world is also a wonderful place to look for unique unisex...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Jan 16, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

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These Names Are At Their Peak

Jan 16, 2025

　　Looking for a name everyone will love just as much as you do? You can’t go wrong with names at the top of their game. 　　Names that peaked in 2022, calculated in exclusive research and analysis by Nameberry, are baby names that rank higher in the USA than they have...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Jan 16, 2025

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Jan 16, 2025

　　New York baby namers love sleek, streamlined girl names like Rose and Claire, while Dallas favorites like Willa and Evangeline bring a touch of Southern charm. 　　Scottish namers are drawn to rugged boy names with a local flavor, such as Innes and Struan. And in Auckland, New Zealand, you'll find...

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Undiscovered Baby Names: What New Names Have You Heard Lately?

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Unusual Baby Names: Why They’re Really On The Rise

Jan 16, 2025

　　Unique baby names are more, well, common these days than ever before, according to a new study. 　　This is not really news, and you don’t need to be a name researcher or statistician to realize it. Anyone who’s spent any time around children in the last few decades knows that...

Australian Baby Names: Digging Up Names From Down Under

Jan 16, 2025

　　Even though Australian baby names are a lot like British names, they do also have their own distinctive flavor. The blend of cultures Down Under and the strong presence of several enduring indigenous languages and groups have a powerful influence on Australian baby names (the complex Aboriginal naming traditions definitely...

The Baby With No Name

Jan 16, 2025

　　One of the last celebrity babies of the year, Baby Boy Bundchen Brady, spent his first ten days of life much the way one of 2009’s first celebrity babies did: without a name. 　　Born December 8, the infant son of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and quarterback Tom Brady went home from...

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

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 16, 2025

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 16, 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...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Jan 16, 2025

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...