Baby names | Name list - www.zdname.com

The Upside of Having an Unusual Name

　　by Addie Kugler-Lunt 　　The story of my name began as unconventionally as my birth. My mom was so convinced that she was going to have a boy, that she wove blue ribbons into the lace on the night gown she sewed for my birth. Since my parents were planning a...

Jan 10, 2025

Girls’ Baby Names: Stylish but Unusual Choices

Name Sage: English-Spanish Baby Names for a Daughter

Girl Scout Baby Names: Sweet names for girls

10 Centenarian Baby Names: Hester, Tressa & Lessie

21 Great Greek Baby Names for Girls Most Popular Vowel Names for Girls Name Sage: Can Laura Name Her Daughter Cora? Name Sage: Naming Kiddo #4 Name Sage: Reinventing Bernice Fresh Vintage Baby Names for Girls Name Sage: But what will we name a girl?!? Ten Lilting Hawaiian Names for Girls

Popular recommendations >

The Top Girl Names of All Time

Jan 10, 2025

　　Since the Social Security Administration began tallying the popularity of baby names, there have been —believe it or not—only ten girls’ names that managed to hit the top spot on the list. Some stayed on for decades—predating the SSA stats– while others only held the title for a couple of...

International Women’s Day Baby Names: Malala and Mirabai

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　For International Women’s Day on March 8, we celebrate a dozen women (and a dozen names) from around the globe. Some are still alive, some died millennia ago; some were activists, some were scientists, some were artists. All displayed a sense of courage and genius that we...

Pretty Baby Names: 9 Kinds of Names for Girls

Jan 10, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　What’s wrong with pretty? 　　Some weeks it seems like all of the newborn girls are being called James. Or Dashiel, Ryan, Wilder, Arlo, or Charlie, all names that appeared on celebrity girls’ birth announcements last year. 　　But pretty names for girls still carry the day. Nine of...

Name Sage: A Sister for Ellie, Tessa, and Drew

Jan 10, 2025

　　Jackie writes: 　　We’re expecting baby #4 in early February – it’s a girl! – and are totally stuck on a name. 　　We already have three children: Eleanor Casey, called Ellie, and then twins, Tessa Lillian and Drew Morris, named for my great-grandparents, Lillian and Morris. 　　This time around my husband...

Girl Names >

How To Break Through Baby Name Indecision

Oscar Names: Girls’ edition Great Names: All About Katherine Science Heroine Names: Inspiration from scientific barrier breakers June Names: June has arrived–or has it? New Top Names List: Share Your Predictions! Popular Girls’ Names: The Real Top 10 (or 12 or 13) Black History Names: Cultural heroines of the Harlem Renaissance Spy Girl Names: Real life femmes fatales

Baby Names 2010: Top 100 Girls’ Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　See the hottest names for 2011! 　　Baby names 2010, nameberry style, are a fascinating collection, with Charlotte still at the top of the list for girls. Seraphina and Olivia follow at numbers 2 and 3, as they did at the end of the first quarter. 　　Names making the biggest leap...

Top Baby Names 2010: 100 Most Popular Girls’ Names So Far

Jan 10, 2025

　　UPDATE!! Check out our final list of top baby names 2010 for girls. 　　Nameberry’s top baby names 2010 for girls are a mix of choices — Olivia, Sophia, Elizabeth, Ava, Isabella — that are also popular on the national count and more adventurous names, from Isla to Imogen to Iris,...

Two Celebs Chose Cosima

Jan 10, 2025

　　Is it a coincidence that Sofia Coppola and Claudia Schiffer both picked the same unusual (in the U.S. anyway) name for their baby daughters almost simultaneously—or is it a signal that it’s about to enter the mainstream? 　　Cosima (accent on the first syllable) derives from the Greek Kosmos, and refers to...

Boy Names >

Name Sage: Debating a Name Theft Dilemma

Baseball Names Hit It Out of the Park How I Named My Baby: Casper Jerome How I Named My Baby: Eben Frank Dennis Name Sage: Vintage Boy Names to Match Esme Princess Eugenie’s Baby Name Is Here How I Named My Baby: Magnus Gabriel Nicholas Cool Boy Names Stand Out Rare Classic Boy Names

How I Named My Baby: Atlas Lucian Vidar

Jan 10, 2025

　　3D artist and Boston-native Nila Latimore and Anders Latimore, a programmer, live in Sweden, Anders’s country of origin. On December 12, 2020, they welcomed a son named Atlas Lucian Vidar. 　　We spoke with Nila about cross-cultural style, Swedish name trends, and baby namingabroad. 　　How did you choose the name Atlas?We...

Dad Names Get a Reboot

Jan 10, 2025

　　Happy Fathers’ Day! Let’s freshen up those Dad Names. 　　Dad Names are boy names that peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. This means they’re most likely to belong to men in their twenties and thirties now: today’s new dads. 　　If you’re a first-time parent, you might not know many young...

Unique Unisex Names for Boys

Jan 10, 2025

　　We love discovering unique unisex names for boys. Want to see some of our favorites? 　　The names here are all below the Top 1000 names for boys in the USA, according to the most recent data. All are used for boys between 35—65% of the time, making them as close...

Unisex Names >

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names Unisex Names Across the Atlantic America's Top Unisex Names of 2022 Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really? 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Surprisingly International Baby Names Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl Gender-Bending Baby Names

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Jan 10, 2025

　　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....

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Jan 10, 2025

　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Jan 10, 2025

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

Trends & Predictions >

60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024 America's Next Top Baby Names Babyberries: Class of 2023! Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023 The Secret Meanings of Color Names Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones Ancient Names for Babies

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Jan 10, 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,...

How Millennial Is Your Name?

Jan 10, 2025

　　Millennial names define their generation. John and Mary were the Number 1 names for The Greatest Generation, Linda and Gary emblematic names of the Baby Boom, and now Jessica and Michael emerging as the top names for Millennials. 　　Nameberry tabulated the names of all babies born from 1982 until 2004,...

Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

Jan 10, 2025

　　Old money names conjure the aspirational lifestyle provided by generational wealth — elite country clubs, prep schools, and holidays in the countryside. The old money aesthetic is being felt beyond baby names — this prep-rebrand is suddenly everywhere. 　　Fashion runways are filled with pleated skirts, penny loafers, and pearl necklaces. Americans...

Name Popularity >

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

How Gen Z Is Your Name? Top Baby Name Influencers 2023 New Popular Irish Names Revealed Top Names in Each State Revealed! New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names Classic Baby Names on the Rise 100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Jan 10, 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...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 10, 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...

Baby Naming Advice >

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

How to Change Your Baby’s Name How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup Test-Driving Your Baby Name It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name Unique Twin Names to Inspire

The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...

Name Change Resources

Jan 10, 2025

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...

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

Jan 10, 2025

　　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...