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Boy Name: How to honor Grandma Jacqueline?

　　They’d love to honor grandma Jacqueline … but a cousin has already used their first choice! Time to ask the Name Sage for some fresh alternatives. 　　Sandra writes: 　　My husband and I are expecting our first child and we just found out it’s a boy! 　　Baby is due September 28th...

Jan 8, 2025

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Memorial Day Names: Araminta to Zealous

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Though its current associations might run more to barbecues, picnics and parades, Memorial Day conjures up a load of historic references dating back to its post-Civil War origins, as well as some more contemporary traditions. 　　There are several blogs-worth of noteworthy Civil War generals’ names alone—Alpheus, Americus,...

Baby Name Challenge: Naming a 7th boy!

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Katherine Morna Towne 　　I can name twenty children on paper, easy. More, even. It’s not at all difficult for me to come up with exciting first name ideas paired with perfect middle names, with family names and saint names easily woven into each combination. I can construct each first+middle...

Labor Day Names: Occupational names for your little Pilot or Poet

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It’s become a Nameberry tradition, almost since the beginning to celebrate occupational names on Labor Day. This year we’re not only featuring those whose original occupations might no longer exist in the modern world, though they’re all good, wearable, sometimes trendy names, but also some of the...

Sibling Names: Unusual Baby Names with Great Meanings

Jan 8, 2025

　　Sibling names add a whole layer of complexity to naming a baby. Naming your first child may have been challenge enough — finding names that you like, agreeing on a single name with your partner — but naming a sibling comes with its own set of tasks. 　　The goal of naming siblings...

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New Girl Names: 11 Fresh Choices

Artistic Baby Names for Girls: Saskia and Simonetta Little Women Sets New Name Trends Narrowing Down Your Name List How I Named My Baby: Atlas Rose Finding Rare Celtic Girl Names Name Sage: Choosing Cute Classic Girl Names Teddi Mellencamp Needs a Name for her Daughter! How I Named My Baby: Calla Grace

What’s in a VSCO Girl Name?

Jan 8, 2025

　　VSCO girls dominated pop culture in 2019. They popularized natural beauty products, told us all to save the turtles, and somehow even propelled Crocs back into fashion. 　　But unless you know Gen Z girls, you might not completely understand the concept of a VSCO girl. In fact, in Google’s report...

How I Named My Baby: Callahan Bay

Jan 8, 2025

　　Courtney Williams, a graduate student in behavioral analysis, and Steven Jackson, a locomotive engineer, live outside of Atlanta, Georgia with their daughter Callahan Bay. 　　Here, Courtney talks with us about how she and Steve chose the baby name Callahan for their little girl. 　　　　How long did it take you...

Name Guru to the Stars: Predicting the Seventh Hanson Baby Name

Jan 8, 2025

　　Natalie Hanson is a name-loving celebrity mom married to Taylor Hanson, lead singer of the band Hanson. She and Taylor have six children and are expecting their seventh baby at the end of this month. 　　Natalie is a dear friend of Nameberry, and we are thrilled to be hosting a...

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Boys Baby Names: The viable and the verboten

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The Origins of Owen

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Leslie McLean 　　I conceived Owen through donor insemination on a gorgeous early February night of great tenderness. His birthday would have been in October. 　　We can see him, a bit like Gilbert on Leave it to Beaver, a child version of Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. White blonde, serious, outdoorsy. A...

What’s your favorite classic boys’ name…and why?

Jan 8, 2025

　　Which classic boys’ name do you love the best? 　　Classic boys’ names encompass those that are traditionally popular such as John, William, and Thomas, along with classics fashionable today like Henry and Alexander. 　　And classic names for boys may also include biblical names such as Jacob and Joshua, along with...

Top Names of 2033: Boys edition

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Here’s the thing about baby name data: the Top 20 is actually kind of dull. 　　Not the names themselves, necessarily. In order to become one of the 20 most popular given names in the US for any particular year, a name has to be pretty...

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 8, 2025

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Jan 8, 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...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Jan 8, 2025

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

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These Names Are At Their Peak

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Jan 8, 2025

　　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...

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Jan 8, 2025

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Jan 8, 2025

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

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How Important to You is a Name’s Distinctiveness?

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The Top Baby Names in Every State

Jan 8, 2025

　　The most popular names by state can look very different from the national statistics. 　　The top baby names USA were once again Liam and Emma, but depending on where you live, you might not be able to relate. Emma took the top spot in only fifteen of the fifty states, while...

Place Names for Babies: The hot spots

Jan 8, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Place names for babies are a movable feast. We’ve traveled from London and Paris and Brittany to towns in New Jersey like Trenton and Camden and on to New York’s Brooklyn and even a starbaby boy named Bronx. 　　And at the same time there are the names that have...