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The Most Notable Names of 2013

　　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...

Jan 8, 2025

British Name Trends 2013:The Bees, the Evs and the Teds

Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou

Baby Names 2014: Which names do you think we’ll be hearing more of?

Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest

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

Jan 8, 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...

Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Tara Ryazansky 　　We all took guesses at what the British royal baby would be named. We brushed up on ‘K’ names to make bets at what Kimye would name their daughter. I haven’t thought much about celebrity baby names now that George and North are here though, but it...

French Baby Names: Trends and Predictions 2014

Jan 8, 2025

　　To check out the latest trends in French baby names, we turn once again to our go-to expert,_ _Stéphanie Rapoport, creator of the popular site [_meilleursprénoms.com](http://meilleursprenoms.com/) and author of L’Officiel des Prénoms 2014 . For anyone conversant in French, the site is filled with interesting lists, charts and analysis on French baby names...

Predicting 2014 Starbaby Names, Part 2

Jan 8, 2025

　　by Tara Ryazansky 　　It seems like I can’t check my email or stand in a grocery store line these days without being bombarded with images of pregnant celebrities. I’m not complaining though. A new pregnancy announcement means we can expect an interesting name announcement to be coming. But instead of...

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How I Named My Baby: Willamina Joy

Unraveling the Origins of Evelyn How I Named My Baby: Colibrí Meraki How I Named My Baby: Clover June Isobel Inspirational Names of Forgotten Feminists Best H Names for Girls How I Named My Baby: Larsen Jean How I Named My Baby: Adira Jane How I Named My Baby: Maudette Eve

200 Best Twin Girl Names 2023

Jan 8, 2025

　　What are the best twin girl names for 2023? 　　We've compiled our top 100 sets of twin girl names — that's 200 names! — with the right style, substance, and vibe for this year. 　　You can find twin girl names by style — cute twin girl names, badass twin girl names; names...

How I Named My Baby: Lucinda Maud

Jan 8, 2025

　　Rachel Ramirez, a museum curator, and Alex Hurtado, a logistics manager, live in Chicago with their two children: Alice Eloise and Lucinda Maud. 　　Their daughter Lucinda was born on June 4, 2021. Below, we chat with Rachel about how she and Alex named their little girl. 　　Tell me how you...

Model Names Reflect Diversity on the Runway

Jan 8, 2025

　　With the spring fashion shows in full swing — showing clothes for next fall, now that the winter has barely thawed — our thoughts turn to models. 　　We could care less about their figures or their style; what we’re interested in, of course, is model names. While Nameberry includes lists...

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Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

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Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition

Jan 8, 2025

　　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...

12 Boy Names That Deserve More Love

Jan 8, 2025

　　Looking for a boy name that feels both fashionable and original, that stands out for its rarity but fits with current trends? 　　Boy names are evolving at lightning speed right now, with parents more willing than ever to branch out from traditional choices and embrace individuality in their sons’ names...

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

Jan 8, 2025

　　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...

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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 8, 2025

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Jan 8, 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...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 8, 2025

　　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...

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US vs UK Baby Names 2016

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British Baby Name Trends 2017

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Eleanor Nickerson 　　It’s time once again to look back at the most prevalent trends that have influenced baby names in Britain in 2017. 　　HOT SOUNDS OF 2017: OR and WIL 　　For girls, the hottest vowel sound has been O this year in the UK, especially if it made up the...

44 Names from 1917 You Should Use Now!

Jan 8, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　In the baby-name world there’s something called the 100-Year-Rule, the theory that it takes a century for names to be ready to make a comeback. That timeframe has shrunk considerably, with the resurgence of names from the fifties, sixties and even later, that is happening right now....

Hottest Baby Names of 2017

Jan 8, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　What are the hottest baby names of 2017? Which baby names do we see getting hotter, cooler, trendier, and a lot more visible in the year ahead? 　　To find out, we measured which names clocked the greatest rise in page views in the first month of 2017 compared...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

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Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Jan 8, 2025

　　Looking for a niche source of rare baby names? Try the comeback kids of 2022. 　　These names were once used for babies in the US, but then vanished for decades. Just when you might think they were lost forever, they've re-appeared in the official baby name data for 2022. 　　The...

New Popular Irish Names Revealed

Jan 8, 2025

　　Good news for lovers of Irish baby names! The latest popular Irish names data for 2022 has just been released, and it’s a treasure trove of intriguing options from the Emerald Isle. 　　Happy St Patrick’s Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! 　　Top 10 Irish Girl Names 　　There has been a...

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Jan 8, 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...

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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Jan 8, 2025

　　Since parents today invest so much thought and effort into finding the right name for their child, we get a lot of queries asking for advice on what to name the baby, and we do try to accentuate the positive. 　　But we also find it incumbent upon us to point...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 8, 2025

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Jan 8, 2025

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...