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Top Boy Names 2012

　　Finn has taken over as Nameberry’s top boy name for 2012, claiming the Number 1 spot held last year by Asher. Former most popular boys’ name Henry drops to Number 3. 　　The names on our boys’ Top 10 remain the same as last year, except that Owen and Felix have...

Nov 25, 2024

Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned

Boys’ Names 2012: Nameberry’s Top 100

Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh

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

Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again Nameberry Picks: The 12 best ‘You-can-call-me-Al’ names Can’t Find A Name You Love? Maybe you’ve got BNDD Top Boy Names 2011 Would You Crowd-Source Your Baby’s Name? Classic Names: A trio of Theos Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices Celebrity Babies: Reese Witherspoon’s boy Tennessee James

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Cool Boy Names: The Nameberry 9

Nov 25, 2024

　　Just in case you’ve been agonizing about the lack of good names for boys, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel presents the case for cool boy names in this week’s The Nameberry 9. 　　Convinced there are no great names for boys? 　　Spend a few minutes on message boards and you’ll hear the laments. ...

Todd and Troy, Keith and Kent: Can those old surfer-boy names resurface?

Nov 25, 2024

　　After decades of classic Thomases and Timothys, Richards and Roberts, nothing sounded cooler in the sixties and seventies than a sleek, new, single-syllable name. I’m not talking about those that were just short-form nicknames like Josh and Jeff and Brad and Greg, or the inauthentic Hollywood-invented names like Rock or...

Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition

Nov 25, 2024

　　Yesterday we did a rundown on the divide between the girls’ names that are stylish to the point where it feels like they must be popular and those that are actually, statistically widely used. It’s especially hard to distinguish when it comes to the names we see appearing so often in berry...

To V or Not To V? Can this Mom break family tradition?

Nov 25, 2024

　　Megan , who lives just outside Philadelphia, is expecting her first boy after two little girls in June. Her daughters both have family names, but now her husband, Thomas IV, would like to continue the tradition of naming the boys in his family Thomas, making their son Thomas V. Problem...

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

Adelaide or Adeline? The Long and the Short of Girl Names The Two Aggies: Agatha and Agnes unbuttoned Modern Girls’ Names: Zhuri, Marlowe, and Vale Imaginative Names for Girls: Aurora, Angelou, and Elle Boy Names for Girls & New Names for Boys What’s your favorite classic girls’ name…and why? Bye-bye, Meghan. So long, Marisa. Girl names leaving the Top 1000

The Top Names of 2033: Girls edition–Charlotte Number 1

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Americans are more daring when it comes to naming daughters, and the numbers bear this out. 　　In 2013, just over 67% of girls born in the US received a Top 1000 name. Boys, on the other hand, received a Top 1000 name nearly 79% of...

Medievalizing a Name: Elizabeth to Elisende

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Names from the Middle Ages are fascinating. They’re often quite similar to those parents love today, but tend to be almost entirely overlooked. 　　Nameberry has long had the Coolator. I would call this the Medievalizer, except that sounds like a torture device. 　　Instead, this is...

Girl Baby Names: Something Old, Something New

Nov 25, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　The good news about naming a girl: the options are limitless. 　　The bad news about naming a girl: the options? Limitless! How do you choose? 　　In the US, around two-thirds of all newborn girls are given a Top 1000 name. We play it safe with...

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Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide

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Where To Find A Cool Vintage Boy Name

Nov 25, 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,...

Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Nov 25, 2024

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

Nov 25, 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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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Nov 25, 2024

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Nov 25, 2024

　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Nov 25, 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....

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Baby Name Trends - The Hottest Name Trends of 2022

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The Best Baby Names of 2022

Nov 25, 2024

　　What are the biggest baby names for 2022? The top choices we’re watching for the year ahead? 　　We’ve rounded up 50 baby names that hit all the hottest trend notes for 2022. These names combine all the right ingredients for success right now – blending a fashionable sound and style...

Will it be a Boy or a Girl?: Gender-predicting Old Wives Tales

Nov 25, 2024

　　Old wives’ tales are little more than super-circulated rumors. Never proven to be true, they’re sayings and adages that generations of women have passed down to one another regarding family health (“Eating carrots improves your vision”), safe parenting (“Wait an hour after eating before swimming”), and — most popularly —...

The Baby Names We're Totally Over

Nov 25, 2024

　　Looking for a cool, fresh baby name that’s ahead of the curve? You’d better avoid these ones. 　　All names rise and fall in popularity. Sometimes it’s dramatic, like sporty Shaquille, which went from off the charts to Top 200 and back again within seven years. Others move at glacial pace,...

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Top Names in Each State Revealed!

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Nov 25, 2024

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Nov 25, 2024

　　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...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Nov 25, 2024

　　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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Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Nov 25, 2024

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

Nov 25, 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...

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Nov 25, 2024

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...