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Top Boy Names 2011

　　Nameberry’s top boy names 2011 includes big news: Asher has leapfrogged over Henry and Finn, last year’s number one and two, to take the top spot. 　　The Nameberry popularity lists track which names attracted the most views on our site this year. Consider them a predictor of which names parents...

Dec 12, 2024

Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices

Celebrity Babies: Reese Witherspoon’s boy Tennessee James

Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition

Top Boy Names 2012

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best ‘You-can-call-me-Al’ names Boys’ Names in Limbo: Is Roy ready to return? How about Howard? Classic Names: A trio of Theos Cool Boy Names: The Nameberry 9 Boys’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100 Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned Todd and Troy, Keith and Kent: Can those old surfer-boy names resurface? Can’t Find A Name You Love? Maybe you’ve got BNDD

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Nickname-Proof Boys’ Names: Ace, Holden, and Ford

Dec 12, 2024

　　This week, Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel finds boys’ names that are anything but traditional, and wonders if nickname-free is the new priority when naming a son. 　　Flip through on an old high school yearbook, and you’ll probably find pictures of William “Billy” Jones and Mary “Mimi” Smith. 　　For generations, there...

Would You Crowd-Source Your Baby’s Name?

Dec 12, 2024

　　Okay, you’re Berries, of course you wouldn’t. 　　On the other hand, if crowd-sourcing your baby’s name is good enough for the most powerful new mom in corporate America….. 　　Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and venture capitalist husband Zack Bogue had their first baby, a boy, on Sunday, and took to Twitter...

To V or Not To V? Can this Mom break family tradition?

Dec 12, 2024

　　Megan , who lives just outside Philadelphia, is expecting her first boy after two little girls in June. Her daughters both have family names, but now her husband, Thomas IV, would like to continue the tradition of naming the boys in his family Thomas, making their son Thomas V. Problem...

Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh

Dec 12, 2024

　　What with the movie Ted, starring an outrageously potty-mouthed teddy bear, having been a box office sensation, and celebs giving their baby boys the actual first or middle name of Bear, this seems like a perfect time to think about Teddy and other fictional bear names for possible inspiration. 　　So,...

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Unusual Baby Names: 10 same-but-different girl names

Unusual Girls’ Names: 100 excellent choices Classic Girls’ Names: The Claire Contingent–Claire, Clara and Clarissa Newest Girl Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Ada to Xanthe Baby Name Influencers: What name did someone else make you love? The Blooming of Lily Bold Names for Girls Sassy Short Girl Baby Names: Blythe, Blake, Blair Most Popular Girls’ Names of 2013….so far

Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far)

Dec 12, 2024

　　See all the girl names on Nameberry here. 　　There’s a new girl in town, and her name is Imogen — the breakout Number 1 among girl names on Nameberry for the first half of 2013. 　　Imogen unseated longtime favorite Charlotte as our most-viewed girl name so far this year. In...

Georgian Girls Names: Alethea, Augusta and Jane

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Haley Sedgwick 　　I’ve always loved reading classic books. By the time I was twelve, I’d read a few Shakespearean plays, Pride & Prejudice, and Sense & Sensibility. Shakespeare was great of course; however, Jane Austen gave me even more. With her novels, I got the charming, delightful gentlemen I’d...

Baby Name Nicknames: The ubiquitous Addie

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Aimee Reneau Tafreshi__ 　　I was at a 1950’s-style diner with my young daughter Addie when an older waitress asked me what the name was short for. “Adair,” I said, and was shocked when the waitress told me that her grown daughter’s name was also Adair, called “Dare.” I was impressed...

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To V or Not To V? Can this Mom break family tradition?

Australian Baby Names: Focus on Banjo Todd and Troy, Keith and Kent: Can those old surfer-boy names resurface? Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned Would You Crowd-Source Your Baby’s Name? Classic Names: A trio of Theos Biblical Baby Names: Why Noah now? Celebrity Babies: Reese Witherspoon’s boy Tennessee James

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best ‘You-can-call-me-Al’ names

Dec 12, 2024

　　One of Paul Simon‘s biggest hits was a song titled “You Can Call Me Al.” But, really, who calls anyone Al anymore? 　　Once upon a time, a century ago or so, Al was almost as commonplace a nickname as Joe or Jim, Bill or Bob. Al itself stood independently at Number 298, a casual...

Boys’ Names in Limbo: Is Roy ready to return? How about Howard?

Dec 12, 2024

　　Last week we took a look at the ladies in limbo, the girls’ names not old enough to fall under the Hundred Year Rule, but were most popular from the 1920s to the 1960s, to question whether any of them were eligible for resuscitation. 　　And now, as promised we perform the...

Papal Baby Names: Possibilities beyond Pius and Innocent

Dec 12, 2024

　　Just as the billows of white smoke emanating from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City signal the election of a new pope, so does the name he chooses for himself signal his aspirations for his papacy. Pope Francis broke precedent by picking one that had never been used before, but which...

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200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Dec 12, 2024

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Dec 12, 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...

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

Babyberries: Class of 2023!

Dec 12, 2024

　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2023! 　　Birth announcements for 93 new Babyberries – 47 girls and 46 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...

Ancient Names for Babies

Dec 12, 2024

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

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Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1 Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)? Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era? Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name? Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training! Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries How Popular is Too Popular?

Belgian Names: Beyond Flemish and French

Dec 12, 2024

　　Belgian native and guest blogger Sarah B. unscrambles the pieces of the complicated jigsaw puzzle that is the diverse naming structure of her native land by analyzing its Most Popular list of 2010. 　　Belgium is a small country with a mere 10 million inhabitants. Yet it sits right in the heart...

TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!

Dec 12, 2024

　　Today is officially Soap Opera Day (woo hoo!) and though this isn’t as big of a deal in the baby name world as it once was, with a lot fewer sudsers on TV than there were when soap operas were the main staple of daytime programming, we have to acknowledge...

Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

Dec 12, 2024

　　Popular baby names are the Number 1 topic of the week, but today we thought we’d turn the tables and ask instead about favorite baby names. What are your personal Top 10 names for each gender? 　　The criteria: Those you love best, period. Put them in order, with Number 1...

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Updating Popular 1950s Names

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Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Dec 12, 2024

　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...