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Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh

　　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,...

Dec 12, 2024

Classic Names: A trio of Theos

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

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Celebrity Babies: Reese Witherspoon’s boy Tennessee James

Dec 12, 2024

　　The revelation of Tennessee as the name of Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth’s baby boy came as something of a surprise to the celebrity babies‘ name-watching world—but perhaps it shouldn’t have been, what with other recent starkids named Alabama, Indiana and Arizona. And a simple Google search will tell you that though...

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...

Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices

Dec 12, 2024

　　Are there really any good unusual boys’ names left in the Bible? Old Testament names for boys have been fashionable for going on half a century now, from the 1960s Adam to the present day Asher. Could there possibly be any obscure-yet-usable choices left? 　　Hundreds of them, in fact. The...

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...

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

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Most Popular Girls’ Names of 2013….so far

Dec 12, 2024

　　Imogen widened her lead over Charlotte as the most popular girls’ name on Nameberry for the first nine months of the year. Imogen edged past Charlotte to claim the Number 1 spot for the first time at the 2013 half year mark, leading by fewer than 500 names out of...

The Blooming of Lily

Dec 12, 2024

　　By K. M Sheard of Nook of Names 　　I have been musing about names which, on the surface, appear to be straightforward adoptions of English words, but are, in fact — in origin at least — entirely unrelated. The most popular name of this kind currently in use is Lily. 　　Lily...

Creative Girls’ Names: Xia, Djena, and Geneva

Dec 12, 2024

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Are we becoming more tolerant of creative names? 　　My kids’ friends and classmates are a diverse lot, and their names reflect it. There’s Seamus and Shivarama, a boy named Delaney and a girl called Jordan. Yes, we have Matthew and Sam...

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

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Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition

Dec 12, 2024

　　Yesterday we did a rundown on the divide between the girls’ names that are stylish to the point where it feels like they must be popular and those that are actually, statistically widely used. It’s especially hard to distinguish when it comes to the names we see appearing so often in berry...

Boys’ Baby Names: They’re getting cooler all the time

Dec 12, 2024

　　This week in her Nameberry 9 blog, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel offers evidence that boys’ baby names are rapidly catching up with the girls’ in terms of creativity. 　　A few days ago, my daughter Clio announced that girls’ names are pretty, but boys’ names are awesome. 　　She also informed me...

Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned

Dec 12, 2024

　　This week, for her Nameberry 9, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel picks the newsiest names on the boys’ side of the gender divide. 　　Midway through compiling this week’s list, I realized just how many great boys’ names are out there. 　　This is a subject of some debate. Creativity in naming a...

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Dec 12, 2024

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Dec 12, 2024

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

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Ancient Names for Babies

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Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Dec 12, 2024

　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Dec 12, 2024

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

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Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era?

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Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops

Dec 12, 2024

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel looks beyond the Top 1000 most popular baby names list to find some still undiscovered goodies. 　　Wasn’t yesterday a little bit like a birthday/Fourth of July/belated Mother’s Day celebration all rolled into one? I’ll admit it: I hung up on my own mother to...

British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations

Dec 12, 2024

　　Yesterday, to launch British Names Week on Nameberry, Eleanor Nickerson identified the five strongest current naming trends in the UK. 　　Today we zero in on the popularity of individual names on both sides of the Atlantic, seeing which names have shared success and which haven’t. 　　We Yanks sometimes tend to...

The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?

Dec 12, 2024

　　In The Nameberry 9 blog this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, addresseses the question of “What is a ‘normal name?” 　　The news was filled with so-called normal names this week. But what defines a normal name? Is it a Top Ten choice that plenty of people your age share? Or...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 12, 2024

　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...