Baby names | Name list - www.zdname.com

Frills-Free Girl Names

　　They’ve chosen two great names for their daughters, but now sister number three is on the way! Let’s help them find a not-too-wacky, not-too-common name that’s also frills-free and feminine. 　　Jennifer writes: 　　We’re not sure what to name our third daughter, due at the end of June. With less than...

Dec 29, 2024

Vintage Modern Girl Names: Margot or Juliet?

25 Unusual Names Inspired by Celebrities

Sibling Names: Should They Share the Same Initial?

Sibling Names: Stick with the theme?

Modern Girl Names: Sleek and Rare Dad’s Favorite Baby Name is Taken … by the Dog! Trendy Celebrity Baby Names Wonder Women Names: Strong names for girls Best Unusual Girl Names: Twyla, Thora, and Lake TV Baby Names: Quirky new girl names from the new shows Most Popular Baby Names In Every State The Case for the Many-Nicknamed Name

Popular recommendations >

Unusual Vintage Names for Girls

Dec 29, 2024

　　We’ve been digging around in the baby name lists from the 1880s (around here, that’s called fun) and we’ve come up with dozens of rare and surprising names for girls. 　　These vintage names for girls go way beyond traditional choices like Mary and Jane that we think of as 19th...

Modern Romance Girl Names: Sienna and Vienna

Dec 29, 2024

　　When we talk modern girl names, we’re often thinking about picks like Harper and Sloane, or Willow and Sage. They’re surname names and word names, choices that trend girl, but could just as easily be given to boys. Tailored and trim, these unique baby names feel right at home in...

Playing it Safe Baby Names

Dec 29, 2024

　　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...

Unique Girl Names from Nature

Dec 29, 2024

　　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...

Girl Names >

Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana!

Top-Ten-Then Girls: Shirley, Bertha and Bessie Top Royal Baby Girl Names PERfect Girls’ Names: juniPER, harPER and PERsephone Hiding in Plain Sight: the Secret Popularity of Lynn and Lee Nicknames: Waltzing with Tilda and Tilly Top 100 Girl Names of 2014 A Sad Farewell to The Nook of Names Accentuating the Positive: Baby names with accents

Rare Girls’ Names of the 1940s: Avis, Marigold and Jinx

Dec 29, 2024

　　By Anna Otto, Waltzing More Than 　　Matilda 　　The most popular girls names of the 1940s were Margaret, Patricia, Judith, and Helen, but what were the least popular names? Here are ten names which were only chosen once in any year between 1944 and 1949 in South Australia, making them unique...

Polly put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nursery rhyme name!

Dec 29, 2024

　　With their lilting rhythms and catchy rhymes, nursery rhymes have delighted successive generations of children since the first publication of Mother Goose in the 1700s—though the original meanings, some of them political, have been lost. (Who knew that ‘Ring Around a Rosy’ referred to the Great Plague of 1665?) The...

Perfect P Baby Names for Girls: Poppy and Pauline

Dec 29, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　The two biggest celebrity baby name announcements featured girl names starting with P, and both of those names are pretty unusual in the US. Designer Nate Berkus became the dad of a little girl with the P-starting name Poppy, and actor Vin Diesel became the father of...

Boy Names >

Boy Names: Seeking something fresh

Baby Name Doubt: Is This Name Too Different? Boy Baby Names: 50 sweetest sweet-spot names Nicknamed Starbabies: Boys edition Old Man Names: What’s next? Classic Boy Names: John’s Extended Family New Royal Baby Name! Sibling Names: Unusual Baby Names with Great Meanings Lost Latin Names Ready to Return: Aurelius to Octavius

Emerging Biblical Boy Names

Dec 29, 2024

　　This week’s news includes rare biblical boys’ names becoming more visible, a case of TV name theft, and a baby girl named after a restaurant. 　　Celebrity babies: Moses, Paris, and last-minute predictionsIt’s a boy for Tamron Hall, formerly of the Today show. She’s named him Moses, one of those biblical...

Celebrity Baby Names Q+A: Gemma Burgess

Dec 29, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Our newest celebrity baby names Q&A: 　　Author and screenwriter Gemma Burgess and her husband Fox Barry are parents to three sons—Errol Fletcher (age seven), Ned William (age five), and Arthur Noel (age five months). We recently chatted with Gemma about her naming philosophy and what it was...

Happy Veteran’s Day: Unusual World War Hero Names

Dec 29, 2024

　　Happy Veteran’s Day! And what a special Veteran’s Day it is, too—the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I — making it the perfect time to commemorate special hero names of that era. 　　Recently, I researched veterans’ names from WWII, names of those killed in the line of...

Unisex Names >

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022 Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names The Coolest Unisex Nature Names 50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? Gender-Bending Baby Names Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Dec 29, 2024

　　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...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Dec 29, 2024

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Dec 29, 2024

　　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...

Trends & Predictions >

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

The Secret Meanings of Color Names Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023 How Millennial Is Your Name? Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities These Names Are At Their Peak Babyberries: Class of 2023!

Ancient Names for Babies

Dec 29, 2024

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Dec 29, 2024

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Dec 29, 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...

Name Popularity >

These Unique Names Are Getting More Popular

Word Names: The hottest ones right now New Top French Baby Names The Top Baby Names in Every State 2018 Most Popular Names: The Playground Analysis Top Baby Names of the 2010s Released Unique Baby Names in the News New Top British Baby Names Baby Name Trends: Names on the rise

Unique Baby Names: Fresh From the Faroes

Dec 29, 2024

　　What’s hot in the Faroe Islands?Well… not much, if you’re talking about the weather! This autonomous Danish territory, located in the North Atlantic about halfway between Norway and Iceland, reaches a mean temperature of just 50°F during the summer months. 　　But if it’s unique and unconventional baby names you’re interested...

Top Baby Names 2018!

Dec 29, 2024

　　The top baby names of 2018 are in, with Emma and Liam continuing their reign as the Number 1 girl and boy names. 　　The top baby girl names remain exactly the same as last year in the first five places: Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella, and Sophia. 　　Among the most popular baby boy names,...

Best New Names in the Top 1000

Dec 29, 2024

　　According to the latest baby name data from the SSA, the pool of baby names chosen by new parents in the US has never been wider. The percentage of babies receiving a name in the Top 1000 continues to trend downwards, with almost a third of those born in 2018...

Baby Naming Advice >

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby How to Change Your Baby’s Name Updating Popular 1950s Names Name Change Resources 20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 29, 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...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Dec 29, 2024

　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Dec 29, 2024

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...