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Baby Names that Bridge Generations: Allison and Kyle

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　One day I had an epiphany. I consider myself part of the “Mom Generation”. When I was in high school, I knew both a Debbie (short for Deborah) and an Allison. 　　Fast forward to 2014 and I would be surprised to see Deborah...

Nov 23, 2024

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Top Baby Names 2013: Noah the New Number 1!

Nov 23, 2024

　　Noah has unseated Jacob to become the new Number 1 name for boys – the first new top boys’ choice of the 21st century. 　　The boys’ side of the list claims all the hottest news, in a turnaround from the usual pattern in which girls’ names dominate the trend shifts. Liam...

Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　The other night a friend asked me what happens to kids with really strange names. Not made up names, or names with crazy spellings, he clarified. Names like Apple. Or Bartholomew. Names that make you do a double take when you spot them on the...

Unusual Vintage Names: Which might come back?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The folks at the Social Security Administration publish not only the thousand most popular names for every year dating back to 1880, but also the Top 200 names for every decade, making it possible to see broader patterns and trends. 　　I was scanning these decade lists to...

Starbaby News: The Jagger Dynasty, gender-bending and more

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Mick Jagger is a great-grandfather. 　　The frontman of the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band welcomed a new grandson and his first great-granddaughter a few months ago. Their names were just revealed last week. If you’re counting, that brings the Jagger progeny to seven children, five grandchildren,...

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Girl Baby Names: A Compromise Needed

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Kim and Kanye’s Baby Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Sweet Girl Names With New Style Power

Nov 23, 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...

Baby Naming Patterns: Can they be broken?

Nov 23, 2024

　　They’re naming daughter number three, and feeling backed into a corner. Is the pattern they’ve established unbreakable? Or do they have more options than they think? 　　Hanna writes: 　　I have a bit of a dilemma. My husband and I have backed ourselves into a corner with our older girls’ names,...

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Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide

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Brother Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...

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

Nov 23, 2024

　　Aiden and boy names that rhyme with it have been all the rage since around the year 2000. Have you ever wondered about the history of this name trend? Or what the most popular Aiden-names are today? 　　Join us for a dive into this wave of names that swept the...

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

Nov 23, 2024

　　Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear...

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Baby Names: The gender reshuffle

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Nov 23, 2024

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

10 Years, 10 Name Trends We Called

Nov 23, 2024

　　In 2008, shortly after Pam and I moved our shared baby name expertise from the book world into the virtual universe, we inaugurated a tradition of collaborating towards the end of every year on a blog of our predictions for the following year’s baby name trends, based on the cultural...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Nov 23, 2024

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

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These Names Are At Their Peak

Nov 23, 2024

　　Looking for a name everyone will love just as much as you do? You can’t go wrong with names at the top of their game. 　　Names that peaked in 2022, calculated in exclusive research and analysis by Nameberry, are baby names that rank higher in the USA than they have...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Nov 23, 2024

　　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,...

New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...

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Unusual Baby Names: Eclipse, Pancake and Pip

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2016 Baby Names: The Playground Analysis

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady 　　The 2016 SSA list of top baby names says that Noah and Emma are the number one names in the country. However, in your daily life, haven’t you heard more parents yelling out for Jackson or Sophia? To help explain this, the 2016 Playground Analysis is an...

Baby Name Popularity: Changing perceptions

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Clare Bristow 　　Popularity isn’t what it used to be. That’s something that’s said a lot in baby name discussions, usually to reassure parents that even if they choose one of the top names in the country, their child (probably) won’t be one of seven Emmas or Noahs in their...

Marvel Universe Movie Names: How influential are they?

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Joe Satran 　　Updated with names from Black Panther on March 5. 　　At the movie theater, we’re living in the Age of Marvel. It only took Black Panther three weeks to hit $500 million at the U.S. box office — faster than almost any other movie in history. Thor: Ragnarok, the previous entry in...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Nov 23, 2024

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Nov 23, 2024

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...

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...