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Unique Girl Names from Nature

　　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...

Dec 12, 2024

Dad’s Favorite Baby Name is Taken … by the Dog!

Unusual Vintage Names for Girls

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Modern Girl Names: Sleek and Rare

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Sweet Girl Names With New Style Power

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Joe Satran 　　Nice girls don’t always finish last — at least when it comes to baby names. 　　Sure, many newly fashionable girls’ names are either tomboyish (Avery, Harper, Brooklyn) or opulently feminine (Sophia and Isabella). But a countervailing trend is starting to emerge. In the past few years, girls’ names with a distinctly...

25 Unusual Names Inspired by Celebrities

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Unusual names attract attention for the stars who bear them and often inspire hundreds of baby namesakes. But which uniquely-named celebrities have the biggest influence on baby name trends? 　　Some celebrities here have already turned their rare monikers into baby name hits. Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams has propelled...

Girl Baby Names: A Compromise Needed

Dec 12, 2024

　　He’s all about Lorelei. She’s convinced there’s another name out there. But what goes well with Jackson, Scarlett, and Logan? 　　Becky writes: 　　My husband is stuck on a name I don’t love. 　　We have three kids: Jackson Owen, Scarlett Olivia, and Logan Orion. 　　Now we are expecting our 4th (and...

Trendy Celebrity Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Trendy celebrity baby names are kind of the golden mean of starbaby names. 　　We all love raising our eyebrows at “crazy” celebrity baby names, but for every one-of-a-kind starbaby name (looking at you, Rumi and Sir), there are dozens of mainstream ones that sit quietly in the background (hello, Ella...

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Muslim Baby Names Are Full of Meaning

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How I Named My Baby: Leni Jean

Dec 12, 2024

　　Hannah Lily Williams, a digital creator and Matt Graber, a digital producer, live in Joshua Tree, California with their four children: Jackson Henry, Wyatt Packard, Henry John Aaron, and Leni Jean. 　　Leni was born on October 12, 2022. Here, we talk to Hannah about her daughter's name story. 　　Tell me...

Fanciful Girl Names Go Over-the-Top

Dec 12, 2024

　　There’s never been a better time to give a daughter a fanciful, over-the-top name. Over the past few years, everyone has had to cut back and restrain themselves from life’s normal luxuries. But one place where you can still really go for it is with your child’s name. 　　Fanciful girl...

How I Named My Baby: Esme Virginia

Dec 12, 2024

　　Bailey Carroll, who works in healthcare technology, and Jon Wakelin, a strategy consultant, live in Lexington, Massachusetts with their two daughters: Louisa Wu "Lulu", and Esme Virginia Wu. 　　Esme was born on November 25, 2022. Below, we speak to Bailey about how she and Jon named their little girl. 　　Tell...

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

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Smart Boys’ Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Some parents want their babies to be beautiful, some put an upbeat disposition first, while others wish most for an intelligent child. 　　If you’re interested names that mean intelligence and wisdom, here are a range of choices for boys. (Of course there are wonderful choices in...

Saxon Names from TV’s ‘The Last Kingdom’

Dec 12, 2024

　　Viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have been enjoying the television show The Last Kingdom, based on novels by Bernard Cornwell. Set in the ninth century, it tells the story of the Danish invasion of what is now England, and the Saxon resistance. 　　A lot of the characters are...

Name Sage: A Brother for Ivan Lawrence

Dec 12, 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...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Dec 12, 2024

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Dec 12, 2024

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

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Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Dec 12, 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...

Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

Dec 12, 2024

　　Christian names combine spirituality with style, conveying a faith-based message with contemporary sensibility. 　　These modern Christian names with an evangelical feel aren’t traditional biblical names, well-worn virtues, or even the old prophet names that are so popular nowadays. No, this is a fresh, 21st-century style of Christian names that shout...

What's a Classic Name?

Dec 12, 2024

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

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The Top Baby Names A-Z

Dec 12, 2024

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Jewish names are a diverse set, represented by Hebrew names, biblical names, Yiddish names, and gentile names that gained popularity among the American Jewish community. 　　A recent report by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion's Jewish Language Project reveals the most popular Jewish names in the US. This...

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Dec 12, 2024

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Dec 12, 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...