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How I Named My Baby: Xander Steele

　　Kristen, a stay-at-home mom, and Alex, a mechanic, live in Elmont, Michigan with their six-month-old son. Their baby boy Xander Steele was born on April 6, 2021. 　　Below, we speak with Kristen about how she and Alex chose the name Xander Steele for their little boy. 　　Tell me about how...

How I Named My Baby: Hollis Benjamin Ash

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Scandinavian Boy Names Hit the Sweet Spot

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How I Named My Baby: Mercer Joaquin

　　Allison and Roberto Carrera, a stay-at-home-mom and a Hispanic program director at a seminary, live in Louisville, Kentucky with their three children. After two daughters, Adele Gianna and Margo Anaís, they welcomed a son named Mercer Joaquin on August 14, 2021. 　　Below, we talk to Allison about how she and...

Dad Names Get a Reboot

　　Happy Fathers’ Day! Let’s freshen up those Dad Names. 　　Dad Names are boy names that peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. This means they’re most likely to belong to men in their twenties and thirties now: today’s new dads. 　　If you’re a first-time parent, you might not know many young...

The Best Cool Undiscovered Boy Names

　　Undiscovered boy names come in styles to suit every taste. There are cool unique boy names from history, which include such rare edgy choices as Erasmus and Sequoyah. Then there are undiscovered classic names for boys that have fallen off the radar but deserve a fresh look, such as Humphrey...

Can I Name My Child After Myself?

　　Rebecca writes:My husband and I are trying to come up names for baby Number 2, a sibling for our daughter Clara. We’re team green and are currently trying to tackle our boys' list. 　　Beckett/Beck has been on my mind, but my husband isn’t sold. He thinks it’s too similar to my name, Rebecca. But...

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Fresh Vintage Baby Names for Girls

Fresh Vintage Baby Names for Girls

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Name Sage: Girlish Baby Names with Boyish Nicknames

　　Shae writes: 　　My wife and I are expecting our first daughter in early July and cannot lock in a name. 　　I love distinctively classic feminine names that have a touch of alternative, like Florence, Clementine, and Estelle. 　　My wife likes more “tomboy” names like Pippa, Hudson, and Quinn. None of...

Pretty Baby Names: 9 Kinds of Names for Girls

　　By Abby Sandel 　　What’s wrong with pretty? 　　Some weeks it seems like all of the newborn girls are being called James. Or Dashiel, Ryan, Wilder, Arlo, or Charlie, all names that appeared on celebrity girls’ birth announcements last year. 　　But pretty names for girls still carry the day. Nine of...

Name Sage: But what will we name a girl?!?

　　Laura writes: 　　We are expecting our first child in July, and I do not want to leave the hospital with Baby M! 　　My husband is a tad on the more traditional side when it comes to names, while I am more open. 　　Our last name is a German three-syllable beast...

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Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

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Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

　　The good news for lovers of vintage boy names is that they’ve never been cooler. 　　The bad news? Well... they’ve never been cooler. 　　That means it can feel increasingly difficult to find the perfect “I wish I’d thought of that first!” vintage boy name. You know: the sweet but strong,...

How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

　　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...

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

　　Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear...

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200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

　　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...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...

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Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?

Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?

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Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　For some time now we’ve been seeing a profusion of soft El-starting names, from Ella to Eleanor, Eloise, Elliot, Ellery, Elodie, et al. And now we’ve begun to notice some of her stronger, sharper, Ev-starting cousins coming into the picture, ranging from the ancient Eve to the...

Twin name trends in this week’s baby names news

　　Twin names present double the naming challenge but can also be double the fun. Naming twins is a rare opportunity to choose two related baby names at the same time that are compatible but also distinct. 　　With twins, it can be more tempting to use rhyme, sound play, and same...

Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Certain names seem as likely to be on children as on their parents, but are unimaginable on grandparents and great-grandparents. 　　These names are modern classics, names that have been highly ranked on the Social Security list for about 30-40 years, but were very...

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20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

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Baby Names Before 1850

　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

　　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...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

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9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

　　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...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...

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