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Name Sage: Baby Names for Another Boy

　　Becky writes: 　　My husband and I are expecting our third baby. We have a son, Jackson Owen, and daughter, Scarlett Olivia, and will have our final child this spring, another boy. 　　My husband loves Barrett, I just don’t. It sounds odd to me, and as my children point out rhymes...

Nov 23, 2024

Boys’ Baby Names: Popular but still cool

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Name Sage: A Brother for Ivan Lawrence

Nov 23, 2024

　　Jacqui writes: 　　I hope that you might be able to put some fresh eyes on a debate my husband and I are having about the name of our second child! 　　Our first is named Ivan Lawrence. I liked that Ivan is different, but not too different. I also liked the...

Active Verb Baby Names for Leap Year Babies

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Happy Leap Day! There are more than 10,000 babies born every day in the United States, and around 360,000 born worldwide. If you’re celebrating the birth of a child today, he’ll grow up with the rarest of birthdays. 　　It would be tempting to name your new leapling...

Romantic Baby Names for Boys: Valentino, Romeo and Rhett

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　St. Valentine’s day always brings to mind romantic baby name possibilities, but more often than not they’re of the female persuasion, usually lacy, multi-syllabic Victorian pretties like Arabella and Melissande. But hey–there are plenty of romantic names on the boys’s side as well, whether through sound, meaning,...

Name Sage: What’s the Boy Version of Violet?

Nov 23, 2024

　　Maria writes: 　　We are expecting a baby in July. We’re not finding out the gender – but that’s proving to be extremely difficult when it comes to names! 　　If it’s a girl, we have a list as long as my arm: Willow, Hazel, Lace, Maple, Olive, Violet, Eva, Sylvie/Sylvie, and...

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The Long and the Short of Girl Names

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SOS: Help name this Berry’s imminent girl twins asap!

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Hannah Young 　　I am name obsessed. When I am reading at bedtime to my eight-year old son, I will pause as we encounter new characters, “Hmm … Polly, that’s a good name isn’t it?” before he puts his fingers in his ears and begs for mercy, “Stop the naming madness,...

What makes a name a name?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, AppellationMountain 　　What makes a name real? 　　To think bigger, what makes a word real? That’s the question raised by English professor and language historian Anne Curzan in her TED talk. 　　They’re long-standing questions, but the speed of our modern age means that change happens fast. Imagine a...

Girls’ Name Hazel: Will a new movie make her the next Jennifer?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Nick Turner 　　In 1970, the novel Love Story captured America‘s imagination with the tale of a wealthy Harvard jock who meets a girl from the other side of the tracks. It was soon followed by a movie of the same name — a tear-jerker that became the top box-office draw...

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Aiden Names: the Rise And Fall of a Mega-Trend

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Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　The good news for lovers of vintage boy names is that they’ve never been cooler. 　　The bad news? Well... they’ve never been cooler. 　　That means it can feel increasingly difficult to find the perfect “I wish I’d thought of that first!” vintage boy name. You know: the sweet but strong,...

100+ Best Boy Names Ending in a Vowel

Nov 23, 2024

　　Boy names ending in a vowel (or a vowel sound) feel lively and distinctive, in an era where consonant names for boys – particularly those ending in N and R – have long dominated the list of popular names. 　　There are now five boy names ending in a vowel sound...

150+ European Baby Boy Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　European baby names have a long and illustrious history of use in the US. After all, many of the most popular boy names today – contemporary classics like Leo and Lucas, Mason and Mateo, Oliver and Owen – have European origins. 　　But there is so much cultural and linguistic variety...

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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

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Irish Baby Names 2018

Nov 23, 2024

　　Irish baby names only continue to get more popular in the US, with Liam, an Irish short form of William, at Number 2 on the boys’ list, all forms of Aiden continuing to be widely-used, and surname-names Riley and Kennedy popular for girls. 　　Other new Irish names increasing in style and...

Who gets to judge your baby’s name?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes boys with gemstone names, girls named after a car, sweet British nicknames, and lot of men named Paul. 　　Gendered jewel namesWhat’s your favorite gemstone name for a boy? Maybe you like traditional Jasper, or a modern unisex choice like Jet or Onyx…or Amber?...

What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

Nov 23, 2024

　　There’s no two ways about it: unisex baby names are red hot right now! 　　The latest Top 100 lists for both boys and girls are peppered with gender neutral names, from once-unisex options now all but abandoned for one gender, like Evelyn and Madison, to names that are increasingly leaning...

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America's Next Top Baby Names

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The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Nov 23, 2024

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

Ancient Names for Babies

Nov 23, 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...

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2016 Baby Names: The Playground Analysis

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What Are Your State’s Quirky Favorite Baby Names?

Nov 23, 2024

　　States have official songs and sandwiches. So how about quirky favorite baby names? 　　It turns out that certain boy and girl names, rare in the US, are over-represented in certain states. Our intrepid researcher looked at every name given to at least 100 babies in 2015. Then he calculated the...

Most Popular Scottish Baby Names Here and There

Nov 23, 2024

　　Last week we looked at Irish baby names. This week, we turn our attention to Scottish baby names. The new Scottish baby name statistics for 2016 were just released, making it the perfect moment to dive into the data. 　　While Irish names have been white hot in the US for...

Baby Name News of the Week

Nov 23, 2024

　　It’s been another week of new discoveries about favorite American names in 2016. 　　The big news was the release of the top names in every state. If you’re based in the US and concerned about the popularity of a name, you may want to know how it ranks in your...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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Updating Popular 1950s Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 23, 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...

How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

Nov 23, 2024

　　Baby name regret — also known as baby name remorse — is a common source of shame among new parents. It allegedly affects between 10-20% of new parents, yet the perceived stigma deters many from sharing their feelings or stories. 　　Lately, celebrities have been opening up about their own experiences with baby...