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Great A Baby Names for Girls

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Heartbroken that Addison and Amelia are so popular? Did your best friend just name her daughter Aria Alexandra, stealing two of your long-time favorites? Never fear! Here are some of my favorite A names for girls – and none of them currently rank in...

Jan 5, 2025

Pretty Girl Names: This week’s Nameberry 9

Greek Names for Girls: 21 unexplored ancient treasures

Girls’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Top Girls’ Names of 2012

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Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On

Jan 5, 2025

　　Angela Mastrodonato, creator of the trend-watching blog Upswing Baby Names, will be a regular contributor to our Bonus Blog. Today she looks at girls’ names with a new twist at the end. 　　There’s one vowel that’s found at the end of seemingly every girl name. That vowel, of course, is...

Name the All-Girl Quints!

Jan 5, 2025

　　Naming all-girl quintuplets was one of my formative name nerd fantasies, inspired by the Dionne quintuplets of Canada, the first set of surviving quints and the only set of identical quints ever to survive, according to this list of quint facts. 　　Their names — Annette, Cecile, Emelie, Yvonne, and Marie...

Over-the-Luna About Baby Names

Jan 5, 2025

　　In the Nameberry 9 this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel takes on one of the world’s longest celebrity baby names, Rosalind A. A. A. F. Thurman-Busson aka Luna. 　　As summer slipped into fall, I was convinced we’d never learn the name of Uma Thurman’s new daughter. And then suddenly, there...

Unusual Girls’ Names: Lotus, Arrow, Pehr, and the rest of the Nameberry 9

Jan 5, 2025

　　Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain focuses this week on some bold and daringly unusual girls’ names that made baby name news. 　　Some weeks I’m astonished by the range of names we can choose for girls. 　　We love our children regardless of gender, but when it comes to talking baby names, many of...

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Name Sage: He hates my favorite name

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Best Botanical Baby Names

Jan 5, 2025

　　Botanical names have been beloved for many generations. We’re all familiar with Rose, Violet, and Lily, but the scientific (genus and species) names for plants are actually a gold mine for beautiful, unique baby names. Hundreds of thousands of plant species exist, so here are just a few lovely finds...

Quirky UK TV Actress Names

Jan 5, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Ever since I spotted the name Honeysuckle on the credits of the ITV series Foyle’s War, I have been riveted by the cast rolls at the end of other British shows. For if the characters on these comedies and dramas have good names, some of the actors—particularly...

Name Sage: But I Like All 42 Names!

Jan 5, 2025

　　Amy writes: 　　We are expecting our second little girl in the next few months. 　　We found the perfect name for our first daughter, Viviana Rose. We call her Viviana, Vivi and Viv. I love the nickname options. We also love that it’s classic with a twist so that it’s out...

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Would You Crowd-Source Your Baby’s Name?

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Memorable Memorial Day Names: Marcellus, Maxcy and Moonlight

Jan 5, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Before you fire up the barbie or pack up the picnic basket, why not take a minute to think about what Memorial Day memorializes. 　　The holiday—originally called Decoration Day—was first commemorated on May 30, 1868, not long after the Civil War had ended, and was given that...

Boys’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Jan 5, 2025

　　Now it’s the boys’ turn at the Top 100 list. These are the most popular names gauged by visitors to their pages so far in 2012. 　　As with the national list, the boys’ top names are more stable than the girls’ — though the Nameberry list is very different from...

Boys’ Names in Limbo: Is Roy ready to return? How about Howard?

Jan 5, 2025

　　Last week we took a look at the ladies in limbo, the girls’ names not old enough to fall under the Hundred Year Rule, but were most popular from the 1920s to the 1960s, to question whether any of them were eligible for resuscitation. 　　And now, as promised we perform the...

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A Girl Called Liam

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Jan 5, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes biblical rarities, celebrities’ unisex choices, classic names with meaning, and French names galore. 　　Neglected names from the Bible 　　It’s no secret that biblical names with an Old Testament (or Torah) feel are big right now. The top 100 is full of them, especially...

Unisex Names 2013: The top 20 (so far)

Jan 5, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Rowan has taken over from Quinn as the most popular unisex name on Nameberry. 　　Rowan attracted the most views of all the unisex names on the site, defined as names given to at least 10% of the minority gender. Rowan, a Scottish and Irish name meaning...

Naming Baldwin

Jan 5, 2025

　　by Benilde Little 　　There weren’t that many names that I considered giving my first-born. Even though I had amniocentesis, we didn’t find out the gender. My husband didn’t want to know and so I let him have his way. I really wanted a girl, but knew I’d be happy with...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

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America's Next Top Baby Names

Jan 5, 2025

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Jan 5, 2025

　　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...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Jan 5, 2025

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

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Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

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30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

Jan 5, 2025

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

Popular Twin Names

Jan 5, 2025

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Jan 5, 2025

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 5, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Jan 5, 2025

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Jan 5, 2025

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...