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Top One Syllable Boy Names: Short but strong

　　One syllable boy names can be the perfect — or maybe the only — option if you need to balance a multi-syllabic surname or need a short connective middle name between an elongated first and last. Or maybe you simply like the directness and strength of that single-syllable name. And...

Jan 12, 2025

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Bold Boy Names: What Goes with Riggins?

Jan 12, 2025

　　Remember Riggins? His family is back for another boy name! Because if it’s difficult to decide whether or not to use an out-there name for a son, imagine what it’s like to name his brother! 　　Jocelyn writes: 　　I’m back for more advice! I previously questioned you on my family and...

Lost Latin Names Ready to Return: Aurelius to Octavius

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Andy Osterdahl, The Strangest Names in American Political History 　　Thanks to mass mega-phenomena like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, we’ve been exposed to lots of previously fusty-sounding ancient Latinate names, and some of them are beginning to sound more and more wearable as baby names—in fact several have landed...

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

Jan 12, 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...

Celebrity Baby Names: Hanson Baby #6

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Natalie Hanson 　　Claude Indiana Emmanuel Hanson is here! He joined us on a rainy December evening and we all fell instantly in love. Now that he has arrived I’m thrilled to share the story of his baby name with you all! 　　First, Claude. Claude is a name I’ve loved...

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How I Named My Baby: Leni Jean

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Olive or Olivia, Sophie or Sophia?

Jan 12, 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....

Inspirational Names of Forgotten Feminists

Jan 12, 2025

　　We’re all familiar with Harriet, Emmeline, Malala and Susan as famous women’s rights advocates and potential sources of inspirational feminist names. But what about the women who did amazing things but have slipped into obscurity? 　　If you’re looking for baby names with mountains of feminist cred that are a little...

Rose Alternatives: Fresh Twists on a Classic

Jan 12, 2025

　　Searching for alternatives to the classic girl name Rose? We've got a wealth of fresh options for you, ripe for the picking! 　　Timeless Classic Turned Middle Name of the MomentRomantic Rose has proved one of the most enduringly popular flower names for girls, peaking at #14 at the beginning of...

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The Best Boys’ Names: 10 great biblical choices

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Popular Boys’ Names: Top 100 Makeover

Jan 12, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　It was the Case of the Great Missing Baby Names Blog. 　　One of our most-read blogs of all time, a makeover of the top 100 most popular boys’ names, disappeared from our archive. We didn’t even notice it was gone until a Berry wrote...

20 Best Super Sleuth Names for Boys

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　A few months ago, we blogged about lady detectives, clueing you in to some fabulous names like Trixie, Temperance and Thursday, Loveday and Precious. Now it’s time to investigate their male counterparts—and there are some real doozies—drawn from a variety of genres– from early crime novels to...

Best Boys’ Names: 10 stylish selections

Jan 12, 2025

　　Our new book The Nameberry Guide to the Best Baby Names for Boys includes many different styles of great boys’ names — including, well, stylish ones. 　　Stylish might mean popular…but not necessarily. More precisely, it means names that strike the right fashion note for the times, that are in today,...

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Surprisingly International Baby Names

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Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

Jan 12, 2025

　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Jan 12, 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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What Will Be the Next Liam…and Sophia?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Lisa Spira 　　Before Liam became the second most popular baby name in the United States, as it has been since 2013, it was a lesser-known Irish short form of William. It was distinctively Irish. Today, however, Liam is so popular that it feels more “American” than anything else. 　　It’s...

Nine Rising Word Names: Fox, Clover and Stone

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　We’ve always loved word names. Just ask the Pilgrim parents who chose Faith and Hope, the early twentieth century Opals and Earls, or the children of the 80s named Amber and Crystal. 　　Word names have boomed in the 21st century. Some are revived from the past –...

The Hottest Trends in Baby Names Today

Jan 12, 2025

　　If you want to give your baby a name that transcends this decade, make sure it doesn’t start with Ad-, end with –ley, contain the letter x, or honor a star who suffered a tragic death. 　　That’s what we found when we analyzed the Social Security baby names data of...

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Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

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Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Jan 12, 2025

　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....

100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

Jan 12, 2025

　　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,...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 12, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Jan 12, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 12, 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 Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Jan 12, 2025

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...