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35 Names You’re Not Using (but maybe you should)

　　On a recent tour through Nameberry’s mysterious inner vault — think of it as a vast industrial basement jammed with gears and pipes, or maybe the endless stacks of a big city library, except instead of chemicals or books, it’s full of names — I came across a lot of...

Jan 13, 2025

Baby Names: A New Wave of “A” Names

Berry Question of the Week: Are my favorite names becoming too popular?

The Nameberry 9: Names with potential, from Adeline to Castle to Winslet

Baby Names 2012: The Hottest New Choices

Short and Sweet Baby Names: The Nameberry 9 Names with Oomph: That trendy oo sound Popular Names: Your 2011 predictions, please! New Baby Names: Debuts on the pop list, from Aleph to Zephyrus Popular Baby Names: Sophia, Jacob new Number 1s! Why is Alexandra up but Alexis down? British Baby Names Trends: 5 categories on the rise Trendy Baby Names: And why not?

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British Baby Names: New sibsets

Jan 13, 2025

　　It’s another morning with British baby names in the London Telegraph here, and this time I thought I’d focus on charming sibsets from the recent birth announcements. 　　I always love the slightly off-kilter (from the American perspective) British baby names plus the eccentric string of middle names. But including the...

Local Baby Names: What’s in in Indiana?

Jan 13, 2025

　　There was a time when we thought—rightly or wrongly– of regional names in terms of stereotypes—prim and proper appellations in New England, sweetly feminissima Southern belles, Tex-Mex cowboys out west. Now, though, it sometimes seems that baby names have become more and more homogeneous across the United States, but if we...

Middle Names 2012: The New Connectors

Jan 13, 2025

　　There are several hot trends in middle names 2012. 　　One is the Middle Name with Meaning — family surnames, place names, virtue names you might not use in first place but that make for distinctive middle names. 　　Another is using two middle names, often to honor family members. 　　And then...

Welcome Back!: Names back on the Top 1000

Jan 13, 2025

　　Just like Oz, Nameberry has a Wizard: Our engineer and partner Hugh Hunter. One of the wonderful things Hugh can do, besides creating the digital structure of the site and keeping it running, is to produce lists of names that meet certain statistical criteria: Names whose popularity peaked in 1937,...

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Classic Girl Names with Neat Nicknames

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CONTEST: Guess the New Top 10s and Win!

Jan 13, 2025

　　The wait is almost over! The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2017 will be released on twitter by the Social Security Administration on Friday, May 11 at 9:05 am ET 　　And so in advance of the imminent announcement, which of course we’re all awaiting with bated breath, we’re...

Kim and Kanye’s Baby Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are parents to a new baby girl who has been given the unexpected place-name Chicago. 　　Chicago, of course, makes a lot of sense as a choice for Kanye, who grew up in the Windy City and talks about it often. Kanye’s hit Homecoming includes the...

60 Highly Unusual Names Ready to Pop

Jan 13, 2025

　　Which unusual baby names today are most likely to be the hit names of the future? 　　We looked at Nameberry’s statistics for the past month versus the same period a year ago and put together this list of 60 names – 25 for girls, 25 for boys, and 10 unisex...

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More Neglected Nicknames for Boys

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Star Wars Baby Names for Boys

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　The first Star Wars movie debuted way back in 1977. If you’re welcoming a baby in 2016, chances are that you’ve never known a world without Luke and Leia, Han and Chewbacca, and, of course, the menacing Darth Vader. 　　Now there’s a new installment in movie theaters, the seventh...

We Named Kim & Kanye’s Baby!

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Kim and Kanye’s baby son was born this morning, and while lots of joke baby names have been thrown about, from Easton to South to Yeezus, the new parents have confessed that they are seriously stumped on finding a good name. 　　So we have some ideas...

9 Great Sports-Inspired Baby Name Stories

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　How far would you go to show your loyalty to your team? 　　You’ll buy season tickets, of course. Play the team’s signature song at your wedding reception? Maybe. Name your pet after a star player? Possibly. 　　But give your kiddo a name that clearly honors the team?...

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The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 13, 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...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 13, 2025

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

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January Birth Announcements: Caius, Cormac & Clementine

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Celebrity Baby Names: Our latest predictions!

Jan 13, 2025

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　A new year, a new crop of celebrity pregnancy announcements. We’re starting 2018 off right with some great ones! Queen Elizabeth is expecting a new great-grandchild (The current batch is illustrated, Mia Tindall holding the Queen‘s purse)__. Hugh Grant as well as Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines...

The Top Welsh Names in Wales

Jan 13, 2025

　　Many Welsh names have become staples in the English-speaking world, like Owen, Megan and Dylan. But which Welsh baby names are popular for Welsh parents? 　　A cursory glance at the top names in both England and Wales shows many of the same favourite choices, but, dig a little deeper, and...

Best New Names in the Top 1000

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　Each year, the Top 1000 names in the US are given to around 78% of boys and 69% of girls (in 2017 2,798,250 babies received a first name that ranked in the Top 1000). 　　While there is always a little movement in the Top 10 and Top...

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Baby Names in the News: Solstice, Atom & Mickey

Newsiest Names this Week: Eamon, Fabian and Florian Latest Baby Name News from Around the Globe Let’s Put Together Our Own Top 100! Top Names Around the World Celebrity Baby Names: 10 years of starbabies Starbaby and Other Name News of the Week Baby Name Battles and How to Solve Them New Top Baby Names in England and Wales

Scottish Baby Names: Announcements from Aberdeen

Jan 13, 2025

　　There’s something so undeniably intriguing about reading the local birth announcements in real time as they’re published in various places. We always relish our own monthly roundups, as well as our friend Eleanor Nickerson’s frequent feature on her British Baby Names site, which also encompasses some Irish and Scottish names. ...