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Modern Girl Names: Sleek and Rare

　　Modern girl names, simple and sleek yet rare and distinctive, provide a refreshing counterpoint to the elaborately feminine vintage names so popular for girls in recent years . 　　These lovely modern names for girls are standouts among the kree8tiv spellings and strange inventions that also rank among contemporary names. 　　Some...

Jan 9, 2025

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Girl Baby Names: A Compromise Needed

Jan 9, 2025

　　He’s all about Lorelei. She’s convinced there’s another name out there. But what goes well with Jackson, Scarlett, and Logan? 　　Becky writes: 　　My husband is stuck on a name I don’t love. 　　We have three kids: Jackson Owen, Scarlett Olivia, and Logan Orion. 　　Now we are expecting our 4th (and...

Fresh Surname Names for Girls

Jan 9, 2025

　　They love surname names, but can’t agree on the right one for their December daughter. 　　Erin writes: 　　We are expecting a little girl in December. We have two boys, Paxton David and Crosby Jordan. 　　We like surnames as first names, as you can see. For a girl, I like Emerson,...

Don’t pick these baby names if you want to be unique!

Jan 9, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　So you’ve come up with what you’re sure is a unique name for your baby. A Biblical/word/animal/place name no one else has thought of using. Right? Wrong! That special, singular, clever, utterly distinctive name that you imagine no one else has considered was actually used by as...

Sweet Girl Names With New Style Power

Jan 9, 2025

　　By Joe Satran 　　Nice girls don’t always finish last — at least when it comes to baby names. 　　Sure, many newly fashionable girls’ names are either tomboyish (Avery, Harper, Brooklyn) or opulently feminine (Sophia and Isabella). But a countervailing trend is starting to emerge. In the past few years, girls’ names with a distinctly...

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Transforming Top to Uncommon Girl Names

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Fanciful Girl Names Go Over-the-Top

Jan 9, 2025

　　There’s never been a better time to give a daughter a fanciful, over-the-top name. Over the past few years, everyone has had to cut back and restrain themselves from life’s normal luxuries. But one place where you can still really go for it is with your child’s name. 　　Fanciful girl...

Mom Names: the New Generation

Jan 9, 2025

　　Today’s Mom Names might be familiar to you as the names of the friends who came to your first sleepover or your roommates in college: forever young. But many of the 1980s names and 1990s names, once considered the cool girl names, have become today's new Mom Names. 　　It stands...

Olive or Olivia, Sophie or Sophia?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Do you prefer your girl names plain or fancy? Streamlined or frilly? In other words, are you Team Olive or Team Olivia? 　　Popular tastes today run towards girl names ending in A. Seven of the Top 10 popular names for girls end in A, starting with Olivia at number one....

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Red Carpet Names: Boys’ Edition

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When Siblings Get Into the Baby-Naming Act

Jan 9, 2025

　　I had my three children over 11 years, and of all the disadvantages of spreading your kids that far apart, one of the biggest is that the older kids will insist on having a say in their baby brother or sister’s name. 　　When we found out our youngest child would...

The Principles of Patronymics

Jan 9, 2025

　　Back when there was a very limited stockpot of names, and there might be, for example, two Roberts in a village who had to be distinguished from one another, they began to be identified by nicknames and by the names of their fathers: one would be known as Robert Will’s...

Red Carpet Baby Names: Boys’ Edition

Jan 9, 2025

　　Today, on the eve of Oscar night, ABBY SANDEL, creator of one of our favorite blogs, the witty and informative appellationmountain.net, looks back through the annals of Oscar history and unearths an interesting group of winning male winner names. 　　Plenty of today’s most popular names conjure up Hollywood at its...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 9, 2025

　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

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Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Color names, either flat-out color names like Blue or names with colorful meanings like Aurelia, are more and more popular. 　　But do you know the secret meanings behind the color behind that name you love? 　　Color-related meanings are drawn from a wide range of cultures and are often even older...

Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

Jan 9, 2025

　　Astrology names are inspired by the stars and planets, the four elements, and the symbols and characteristics connected to the zodiac signs. 　　Coinciding with the recent cultural obsession with astrology, we’ve observed a rise in names relating to the zodiac and all things celestial. 　　Millennials and Gen Z have taken...

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Comeback Candidates: Are we ready for babies Gregory, Susan and Mark?

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They Wrecked My Baby Name!

Jan 9, 2025

　　It was a headline we couldn’t resist: Names You Like That Have Been “Ruined” for You. 　　Visitors to the forum have as many ways their favorites have been ruined — by movies, celebrities, and insensitive friends — as they have lamented name loves. 　　The topic is so provocative we thought...

Popular Baby Names: What’s your favorite?

Jan 9, 2025

　　Popular baby names get a bad rap, especially — okay, we admit it — here on Nameberry. 　　But popular baby names are popular for a reason: A lot of people like them for a lot of good reasons. Popular names often have a sound and feel that’s right in step...

Sweet Spot Baby Names: Fitting in and standing out

Jan 9, 2025

　　Obviously, everyone has their own definition of what a perfect name is, but for Pam and me, as expressed in our books, it has always been distilled into the phrase fitting in/standing out. 　　Located in the sweet spot between the hundreds of names that are epidemically popular–common enough for their...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 9, 2025

　　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...

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Jan 9, 2025

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

Updating Popular 1950s Names

Jan 9, 2025

　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...