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

　　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? ...

Apr 14, 2025

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Comic Book Names: The names behind the superwomen

Apr 14, 2025

　　In her previous blog, Appelation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel revealed the alter ego names of the male superheroes, and this week it’s the girls’ turn. 　　Last week we looked at comic book names inspired by Clark Kent and Peter Parker – the mild-mannered alter egos of Superman and Spider-Man. 　　More women have...

New! First-Ever Berry Question of the Week

Apr 14, 2025

　　We’re turning around the Question of the Week format, so that you ask the questions of us and of the general Berry population. 　　Looking for advice on naming your baby? Negotiating a name problem with your partner or mother-in-law? Or simply have a larger name question you’d like to ask...

Girls’ Names in Limbo: When can Kay come out to play?

Apr 14, 2025

　　We’ve all pretty much on board with the Hundred Year Rule that says it usually takes a full century for a name to shake off its musty image and start to sound fresh again. Which is why so many turn-of-the-last-century names have returned, names we don’t associate with any older person we have...

Classic Girls’ Names: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Apr 14, 2025

　　I recently watched one of the seemingly countless Masterpiece Theater/BBC/theatrical versions of Jane Eyre, and I couldn’t help noticing how many times this particularly dreamy Rochester (Toby Stephens) repeated the heroine’s name, imbuing it each time with various shades of sweetness, sadness, passion, and more–and it made me fall in love...

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Unusual Baby Names: A search for the unique

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Unexpected Girl Names for Jonah’s Sister

Apr 14, 2025

　　They thought finding a name for their daughter would be a snap! But now they’re struggling to narrow down names that are classic, but not too common, to find the perfect unexpected – but not too out-there! – name for Jonah’s sister. 　　Brittany writes: 　　My husband and I have a son...

Girls’ Baby Names: Amabel, Amity and Amaryllis

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　When you think of all the wonderful words that start with the syllable _am—_amiable, amorous, amity, amazing, amusing, ambitious—you can see that giving a child a name with this beginning element might give him or her a terrific head start. And if you’re up on your Latin,...

Romantic Girl Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Love your girl names romantic, flowery, and with syllables to spare? Even as parents embrace boy names for their daughters, and put mini names like Ava and Mia in the US Top Ten, other families are going the opposite direction. 　　Favorites like Isabella and Olivia have led...

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New Baby Name Trend: The Lu/Lou boys

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The Brave New World of Boys’ Names: Zion, Dashiell, and Ocean

Apr 14, 2025

　　The way we name boys is changing, and that’s a good thing. 　　For years, parents played it safe when naming their sons. We were more likely to pass down family names, and less likely to choose something really different or novel. 　　Why? Maybe we worried that boys were more likely...

Celebrity Baby Names for Boys

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Here’s something we hear again and again: naming a boy is hard! 　　Parents tend to play it safe – or at least safer – when it’s time to name a son. The reasons are many: a tendency to hand down family names, fewer possible variations of popular...

Ancient Baby Names: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Trajan

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The Roman Empire reigned for more than five hundred years, led by 140 different emperors. In modern times, though, with a couple of exceptions, the names of these august figures were considered far too august and imposing for a twentieth/twenty-first century kid. But the times they are...

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Newsy Names this Week: Aberdeen, Hercules and Via

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes names from this year’s biggest movies, inspiration from cities, soccer players and mythical heroes, and the perennial question: when to reveal the name? 　　Names from the movies: Solo and ShuriIf you’re a movie-goer, you might have already clocked some great names in cinemas...

The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends

Apr 14, 2025

　　It used to just be one of those quirks reserved for the parents of future celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Taylor Swift, Hayden Panettiere and Blake Lively, but now giving baby girls a traditional boy name is on trend. 　　Evelyn, Mackenzie, Billie, Frankie, Addison, Tyler, Dylan,...

10 Years of Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We launched Nameberry in October 2008, the same month the economy collapsed and a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president. 　　In that decade, 40 million babies were born in the US, and 235 million people viewed 1.5 billion pages of our...

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America's Next Top Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

How Millennial Is Your Name?

Apr 14, 2025

　　Millennial names define their generation. John and Mary were the Number 1 names for The Greatest Generation, Linda and Gary emblematic names of the Baby Boom, and now Jessica and Michael emerging as the top names for Millennials. 　　Nameberry tabulated the names of all babies born from 1982 until 2004,...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Apr 14, 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,...

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Unique Baby Names: Tiger, Mojave and Renoir

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Contest: Guess the New Top 10 and Win!

Apr 14, 2025

　　If there ever was a holiday for baby namers, it would be the Friday before Mother’s Day. For this is the day that the Social Security Administration releases the data on the most popular baby names of the previous year. This Friday, May 10th, the official list of US Most...

The Top Baby Names in Every State

Apr 14, 2025

　　The most popular names by state can look very different from the national statistics. 　　The top baby names USA were once again Liam and Emma, but depending on where you live, you might not be able to relate. Emma took the top spot in only fifteen of the fifty states, while...

New Top French Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　French baby names are just one feature of this week’s news. It also includes new popularity lists from several other countries, alternative ways to pick a baby name, and the ups and downs of sharing your name with someone famous. 　　French Baby Names and Other International Name NewsName data lovers:...

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

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Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Apr 14, 2025

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Apr 14, 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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Apr 14, 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...