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Baby Name News from All Over

　　By Clare Bristow 　　In the news this week: more on the British name data, colorful predictions for a Kardashian baby, and starbaby names from down under. 　　England and Wales: Arlo is hot, Nigel is not 　　It’s a big time of the year for looking at name trends in Britain, as...

Jan 11, 2025

Baby Name Popularity: Changing perceptions

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Popular Baby Names: From Nameberry, Italy and Celebrityville

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Name Popularity Countdown: The waiting game!

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes the final countdown to the 2017 name data, names inspired by Star Wars, country music and the Amazon, and fantastic four-letter names. 　　Your countdown to 2017’s top namesThis is not a drill: the US Social Security Administration will release the most popular baby...

Ella, Alexander, and Other Baby Names in the News

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s baby name news includes celebrity twins, the most popular names in Ireland and Latvia, and girls’ names with an “et” sound. 　　The Clooney twins are here!Amal and George Clooney have ticked all the stylish boxes with their twins’ names. Ella and Alexander are classic but...

Popular Baby Names Around the World

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes statistics from England, Wales and Israel, names inspired by musicians, title names, and boats. 　　Top names in England and Wales 　　If you’d like to know what’s hot in Britain, it’s an exciting week: the baby name data for England and Wales in 2016...

Popular Baby Names: Inside the Top 100 of 2016

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady 　　Now that the dust has settled on the new Social Security list, we’ve had time to dig deeper into the data, so let’s analyze the 2016 Top 100! Here are the most interesting finds, looking at some of the individual names! 　　NEW GIRLS: Adeline, Elena, Eliana, Kinsley,...

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Name Sage: A Long, Romantic Name for a Girl?

Perfect P Baby Names for Girls: Poppy and Pauline She Found the Perfect Name for Baby #7 Rare Girls’ Names of the 1940s: Avis, Marigold and Jinx Baby Name Etta-quette The Spellings of Classic Name Katherine Taylor Swift-Inspired Baby Names Flower Baby Names: A rose by any other name… Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana!

Cute Comeback-Kid Nicknames for Girls

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　After a brief hiatus following the Sandy–Mandy–Cindy–Mindy years, nickname names are making a strong comeback. Just recently we’ve seen starbabies with names like Andy (for a girl), Art, Cy, Gus, Josh and Sid on their birth certificates. So with this in mind, we’re embarking here on a...

Cool Word Names for Girls

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　It was a good week for girls’ names. 　　Sure, there were some great birth announcements for boys, too. The late Christopher Reeve is now a grandfather. Daughter Alexandra Reeve and husband Garren Givens named their son Christopher Russel, after both grandfathers. Actors Tiffani Thiessen and Brady Smith...

Best Botanical Baby Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Botanical names have been beloved for many generations. We’re all familiar with Rose, Violet, and Lily, but the scientific (genus and species) names for plants are actually a gold mine for beautiful, unique baby names. Hundreds of thousands of plant species exist, so here are just a few lovely finds...

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

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Exotic Lite: Boys’ Edition

Jan 11, 2025

　　We recently looked at girls’ names popular around the world yet exotic-sounding in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries, and today we turn to the boys’ version of this kind of name. 　　If you’re looking for a name for your son that has an international flavor yet is not too...

John Today, Gianni Tomorrow

Jan 11, 2025

　　Guest blogger SONIA TSURUOKA, who’s been interning at nameberry this month, examines the long rise and recent fall of the name John and the advent of its upstart cousins. 　　Pretty much everybody knows someone named John. 　　Backed by its rich history and plenty of timeless appeal, this all-time favorite enjoyed...

Hot Baby Names: Max in the Spotlight

Jan 11, 2025

　　Max, the name of both the child hero and the young actor who plays him in Where The Wild Things Are, is one of the hottest names for boys these days. 　　Max can stand on its own or may be a short form of the ancient Roman name Maximus, which...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 11, 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...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 11, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

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Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Color names, either flat-out color names like Blue or names with colorful meanings like Aurelia, are more and more popular. 　　But do you know the secret meanings behind the color behind that name you love? 　　Color-related meanings are drawn from a wide range of cultures and are often even older...

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Jan 11, 2025

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Jan 11, 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...

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Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

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Popular Twin Names

Jan 11, 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...

Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Jan 11, 2025

　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Jan 11, 2025

　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Jan 11, 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...

It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 11, 2025

　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 11, 2025

　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....