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The Most Popular Names Over Time

　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　Ever wonder which name has been given the most overall? Of course I have! To satisfy my curiosity on the matter, I totaled the raw numbers of all names ever recorded by the SSA since the data has been collected (1880). I must say the results...

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

The Next Baby Name Style Wave

Ava, Sid, and Bodhi: The New Reality of Baby Naming

Top Baby Names 2013: Noah the New Number 1!

Short, Simple, Chic Baby Names Do The Next Big Names Appear In Pottery Barn Catalogs? Baby Names that Bridge Generations: Allison and Kyle Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility British Name Trends 2013:The Bees, the Evs and the Teds Baby Names 2014: Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of?

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French Baby Names: Trends and Predictions 2014

　　To check out the latest trends in French baby names, we turn once again to our go-to expert,_ _Stéphanie Rapoport, creator of the popular site [_meilleursprénoms.com](http://meilleursprenoms.com/) and author of L’Officiel des Prénoms 2014 . For anyone conversant in French, the site is filled with interesting lists, charts and analysis on French baby names...

Unusual Vintage Names: Which might come back?

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The folks at the Social Security Administration publish not only the thousand most popular names for every year dating back to 1880, but also the Top 200 names for every decade, making it possible to see broader patterns and trends. 　　I was scanning these decade lists to...

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

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　The other night a friend asked me what happens to kids with really strange names. Not made up names, or names with crazy spellings, he clarified. Names like Apple. Or Bartholomew. Names that make you do a double take when you spot them on the...

Taking Stock of Baby Names: A novel approach

　　By Nick Turner 　　Investors often rely on charts and technical analysis to decide whether to buy or sell a stock. That means they focus less on the fundamental qualities of the company (say, whether sales are growing or it has a good CEO), and instead concentrate on the movements of...

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Cool Girl Names: Charmed Circles

Cool Girl Names: Charmed Circles

How I Named My Baby: Esme Virginia Don't Name Your Daughter Harper Mom Names: the New Generation 12 Girl Names That Deserve More Love Girl Names You Never Knew Were in the Top 50 Muslim Baby Names Are Full of Meaning How I Named My Baby: Aadya Dash How I Named My Baby: Pippen Carol

How I Named My Baby: Zeraphyn Miu

　　Selina Hotaru Ng and Jeff Fan live in Singapore with their three children: sons Zenith Ryuu and Zephyr Haruu, and daughter Zeraphyn Miu. 　　Zeraphyn was born on December 4, 2022. Here, we speak with Selina about how she and Jeff named their little girl. 　　Tell me how you named Zeraphyn!We...

Lilting Girl Names Lift the Spirits

　　Names like Lily, Layla, and Leilani have one of the distinctive sounds of this generation. Although they are of different origins and styles, they share the L-vowel-L-vowel pattern: “La-La names”, we call them. Light and lilting, it’s no wonder parents lo-lo-love them. 　　Here's our guide to girl names with this...

Compound Names for Girls: The Next Generation

　　Compound girl names – those formed by combining two separate names – have moved on since the days of Maryann and Annemarie! 　　Today’s smoosh names for girls are less likely to take classics like Mary and Anne as their base, and more likely to build on already fashionable or novel...

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Short Boy Names: Hal, Heath and Hugh

Short Boy Names: Hal, Heath and Hugh

Best Unusual Boy Names: Cassian, Macsen, and Wolf Heroes vs Villains in Baby Name Land Vintage Boy Names: Grover and Friends Boy Names: Meaningful Minis 15 Offbeat Occupational Baby Names for Labor Day Unusual Boy Names Starting with C and K: Seeking fresh ideas Boy Names Starting with B: Billy and Bear Science-Inspired Surname Names

Boy Baby Names: Gone to the Dogs?

　　They have a favorite name picked out for their son, but some have dismissed it as a dog name. What does that mean, exactly, in 2017? Should they choose another name, or stick with their first choice? 　　Monica writes: 　　We are expecting our first baby boy in just a couple...

Coachella Boy Baby Names: Mac, Jai & Indio

　　by Abby Sandel 　　Another Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has just wrapped up. Every spring, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California transforms into a weekend-long music venue, the modern incarnation of Woodstock. 　　We’ve all heard of the 2017 headliners – Lady Gaga, stepping in for pregnant-with-twins Beyonce, Kendrick...

TV Baby Names: Quirky new boy characters

　　Last week we covered the quirky girl side of the character lists of the current TV shows and now, as promised, here come the boys. Some of these shows are just launching, joining the hundreds of shows currently found on the plethora of platforms now available. Below, some of the...

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100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

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...

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Top Dog Names 2022 Announced!

Top Dog Names 2022 Announced!

Old People Names: Predicting the Next Wave Babyberry Names: Class of 2022 The Baby Names That Should Be on Everyone's List New Top Baby Names UK Announced! Top Baby Names 2021: The Playground Analysis Unique Middle Names You Didn't Even Know Were Names French Names We Need To Borrow Now 35 Names That Mean You Live on the West Coast

16 Wild Baby Names You're About to Hear a Lot More Of

　　Wild and wacky baby names used to be the preserve of the rich and famous. Naming your child Fifi Trixibelle or Kal-El or Pilot Inspektor made a very public statement that the normal rules of the game did not apply. 　　But fast forward a couple of decades, and wild baby...

Adorable Names That Start With A

　　Names that start with A are hands-down the most popular in terms of first initial. Maybe that’s because parents know that children whose names start with A may do better in school (yes, really) or because A simply has an innate tendency to come in first. 　　You can find an...

The Top Names We’re Watching for 2023

　　It’s that time of year when we can’t help but indulge in a spot of crystal ball-gazing here at Nameberry HQ. 　　We all have names we’d love to see get more use – as well as those we’d rather stayed well under the radar. (I may be done having kids,...

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Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

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The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...

100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...

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...

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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

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What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...

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

　　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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

　　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...

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