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　　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...

Apr 17, 2025

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Nicknamed Starbabies: Boys edition

Apr 17, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We recently looked at the nickname names celebs have been giving their daughters and of course there was an equal number of casual, colloquial names bestowed on their brothers. In the case of the boys, we see more mid-20th century monikers, including some that are pretty tough...

Memorial Day Names: Araminta to Zealous

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Though its current associations might run more to barbecues, picnics and parades, Memorial Day conjures up a load of historic references dating back to its post-Civil War origins, as well as some more contemporary traditions. 　　There are several blogs-worth of noteworthy Civil War generals’ names alone—Alpheus, Americus,...

Baby Name News: Hemingway, Gatsby, Ultra-Violet & Boston-Blu

Apr 17, 2025

　　This week’s news includes Scotland‘s new top names, for girls and boys, celebrity baby names inspired by a café and a golf course, a TV sibset like no other, and controversy over honor names. 　　Honor names: yea or nay?Where do you stand on names that honor someone? Are they a...

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

Apr 17, 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...

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Popular Girl Names: Lost in the La-Crowd

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14 Bewitching Girl Names for Halloween

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Witches have haunted the big and small screens forever and are a perfect source for Halloween baby names. And while most of them are evil, scary, hideously ugly (Snow White!), even seductively witchy, there are some that are more kid-friendly. There are also some softer, gentler witches...

Warrior Girl Names: Finding the Right Fit for a Fighter

Apr 17, 2025

　　Their new daughter will need surgery shortly after birth. Time to find a strong name with the right meaning to encourage their little fighter! 　　Kristen writes: 　　We recently found out we were having our third girl and we were absolutely thrilled. Of course, I immediately dug up the master list...

Girl Names: For International Women’s Day

Apr 17, 2025

　　Not only is March Women’s History Month, but today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. 　　So what better time than this to salute some of the women who are making history right now in the US political sphere? 　　When the 116th Congress recently convened, women made up almost a quarter...

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Flower Names for Boys Are Blooming

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Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide

Apr 17, 2025

　　Traditional boy names remain perennially popular with parents today, in spite of the broader trend towards ever more unique baby names for both sexes. 　　But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all traditional names for boys are popular. As well as the core classic boy names – like John, James and...

How I Named My Baby: Koda Florian

Apr 17, 2025

　　Cinthia, a surgical technologist, and Benjamin Shaver, who works in warehouse maintenance, live in Seattle, Washington with their son, Koda Florian. 　　Koda was born on December 8, 2022. Below, we speak with Cinthia about how she and Ben named their little boy. 　　Tell me Koda’s name story!I overwhelmed myself with...

I Named My Son Liam Before It Got Popular

Apr 17, 2025

　　Fifteen hours into labor, a new nurse came into our hospital room and gave us a cheerful hello. My husband and I looked away from the television. The 2010 Winter Olympics were on though neither of us were paying much attention. 　　Just after midnight, I’d woken up to my water...

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Apr 17, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

Apr 17, 2025

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Apr 17, 2025

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

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A Letter to Jacob and Sophia

Apr 17, 2025

　　Here, with the kind permission of writer Jonathan Anker, we’re reprinting his humorous take on the possible future effects of megapopular names; it appeared first on the hlntv.com site. 　　Dear Jacob and Sophia, 　　You should know that your mother and I spent the better part of both her pregnancies agonizing over...

Combo Names: When 1 plus 1 equals 1

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Reminiscent of fifties doo-wop songs and southern cotillions, combo names are finding their way back to baby name lists after a decades-long absence. 　　Combo names are two existing names combined to create one. They can also be called “smoosh names” or “mash-up names”...

Owen? Max? Lucy? Will They Ever Make the Top 10?

Apr 17, 2025

　　by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　These names could be your middle-aged neighbor or a kid in your child’s class. These names are all familiar. Most are traditional. Most are likable. Most are timeless. 　　And not one has ever made the top 10 on the Social Security list since...

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Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Apr 17, 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....

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Apr 17, 2025

　　When it comes to classic names, there are two stories we like to tell. Sometimes it’s that classics have been abandoned. Time to name your baby Chicago, Koala, or True, because nobody would dare call a kid Elizabeth or James in the year 2023. 　　The other story? Classic baby names...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Apr 17, 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

Apr 17, 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

Apr 17, 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...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Apr 17, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...