Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back
　　I don’t you know if you’ve noticed a growing trendlet—at least among celebrities—for what we might call generic-boy-nickname-names.  In other words, these aren’t specific short forms like Charlie or Archie, but ol- timey macho boy tags like Buddy and Buster. 　　In the recent past, we’ve seen Noel Gallagher’s Sonny, a...
Jan 13, 2025
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Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way
Jan 13, 2025
　　This week Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel follows the lead of Jada Pinkett (with son Jaden) in showing us how to find boys’ names honoring a female namesake. 　　Jaden Christopher Syre Smith turns 13 next month.  Smith is Hollywood royalty, the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, and his name is...
Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names
Jan 13, 2025
　　Heroes and villains, famous and infamous, real life, big and small screen characters and the actors who played them—there’s a whole genre of cowboy names that have a certain swagger and western twang all their own. 　　Here are a dozen of the best: who they were and why we like...
Boys’ Names Ins and Outs
Jan 13, 2025
　　Yesterday we took a look at the girls’ names moving in and out of fashion and now we turn our attention to their brothers. 　　And here we find a somewhat different picture. 　　Overall, it confirms the fact that there is much greater consistency on the boys’ side of the fence, with...
NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name
Jan 13, 2025
　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week?  　　Me neither.  　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration.  But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...
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10 Great Girl Names from the French Top 100
10 Great Girl Names from the French Top 100
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Playing it Safe Baby Names
Jan 13, 2025
　　UPDATE: She’s here! Scroll to the bottom of the post to learn what they chose for their daughter. 　　L. writes: 　　We are expecting our first baby later this year, a girl, and we are stuck on names. 　　For many years, I thought I would name my future daughter Chloe. My...
A boy name trend now hot for the girls!
Jan 13, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The er suffix has always been popular for boy names, in part because it’s such a common one in occupational surname names like Cooper and Hunter. But for girls—not so much. Of course Jennifer was the behemoth of the 70s and 80s, and borrowed-from-the-boys Harper is now #10...
Unique Girl Names from Nature
Jan 13, 2025
　　Unique girl names are a wide and varied group, bur perhaps the very best are drawn from nature. 　　If you love nature names for girls, you have a world of choices beyond the obvious River and Rose. 　　The girl names here live below the US Top 1000 baby names, yet...
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Top English Boys’ Names
Top English Boys’ Names
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FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads
Jan 13, 2025
　　Once more this year we commemorate Father’s Day with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). As with the moms we displayed on Mother’s Day, it turns out that quite...
Baby Boy Names: Tough, Tender, Traditional, Trendy?
Jan 13, 2025
　　Boy names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold. 　　The trendiest boy names are not exactly feminine, or even androgynous, but are decidedly...
Nameberry Faves II: The Boys’ Names Nameberryites Love Most
Jan 13, 2025
　　A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the favorite girls’ names on a Nameberry Message Board thread–led by the lovely Beatrix, Penelope and Clementine–and now it’s time to look over at the boys’ side. 　　The most striking result is the strong showing for the good old traditional, timeless classics, with...
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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around
Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around
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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity
Jan 13, 2025
　　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....
50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up
Jan 13, 2025
　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...
Unisex Names Across the Atlantic
Jan 13, 2025
　　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...
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Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no
Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no
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Number One Names: So Long, Jacob and Emily?
Jan 13, 2025
　　On Friday the official list of most popular names will be announced, and we’ll find out whether Jacob and Emily will continue their reign or end their long runs as the Number One Names in the U.S. 　　(Plus, everyone who’s entered the Nameberry Mother’s Day Contest will see whether their...
Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!!
Jan 13, 2025
　　Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and to baby name fanatics that means one thing beyond cards and flowers: that the release date of the latest figures from the Social Security Administration is only a few weeks away. We’ll soon know whether or not Emily and Jacob have finally been overtaken...
Baby Name Timeline
Jan 13, 2025
　　When we were preparing the article “Bizarre Baby Names: A Growing Trend?” for the July issue of  Reader’s Digest magazine that’s just hit the stands, we put together a lonnnnnng timeline of the key markers in American names –much longer than they could possibly use with the story.  So here we offer you...
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Australia’s Fastest Rising Top 100 Names
Australia’s Fastest Rising Top 100 Names
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Happy Hanukkah Baby Names
Jan 13, 2025
　　By Hannah Katsman 　　We recently posted a blog about modern Hebrew names used in Israel; now, on the eve of Hanukkah, we turn to our Israeli correspondent Hannah Katsman, for a little history of the holiday and eight traditional names—one for each day of the holiday– that are still popular,...
Most Popular Spanish Baby Names
Jan 13, 2025
　　The most popular Spanish baby names have been revealed by Spain’s national statistics office, with parents choosing more traditional names over modern monikers. 　　Spain’s national statistics office (INE) has released a list of the 100 most popular baby names in 2013 (the most up to date data) and the trend...
Literary Baby Names in the News
Jan 13, 2025
　　Let’s talk literary baby names. 　　Jennifer Love Hewitt’s new son has a name borrowed from one of the hottest sources of baby name inspiration today: the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. 　　Noah Wyle’s new daughter has a Mockingbird middle. Her first is associated with a beloved children’s author, too,...
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How to Change Your Baby’s Name
How to Change Your Baby’s Name
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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine
Jan 13, 2025
　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her.  　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing?  　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...
20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask
Jan 13, 2025
　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...
Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous
Jan 13, 2025
　　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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