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Dad Names: Updates for Alpha Babes

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Babies born today are a part of Generation Alpha, which encompasses children born from 2010 to 2025. Their parents are Millennials, who were born from 1980-1996, the dawn of the digital age. 　　The trends in baby naming have shifted between these generations. Parents have become more adventurous...

Dec 11, 2024

Boy Names: Seeking something fresh

Sibsets: Finding a name for baby #3

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Seeking a Traditional but Modern Boy Name

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Old Man Names: What’s next?

Dec 11, 2024

　　Old man names are a perennially popular category among parents. There’s something so adorable about the juxtaposition of a fresh-faced baby boy and a vintage—perhaps even slightly dusty—baby name. 　　The names that qualify as old man names are always changing. As these names rise in popularity, they begin to be...

Boy Baby Names: 50 sweetest sweet-spot names

Dec 11, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　A large percentage of parents-to-be are looking for a name that is instantly recognizable yet distinctive, especially appealing and yet not overly popular—aka a sweet-spot name. Well, a readymade place to look for names that fit that perfect fitting in/standing out trope is in the very lower...

Surprise Name News of the Week: Archie Harrison

Dec 11, 2024

　　By Clare Green 　　What a week this is for baby name lovers! We’ve had some long-awaited announcements in this week’s name news, including a royal baby, and new popularity charts from several countries. And that’s just for starters: tomorrow we’re expecting the main course of the USA 2018 baby name...

New Royal Baby Name!

Dec 11, 2024

　　Archie! 　　If that name for the newborn son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made the bookies’ odds at all, it was down there with Boris and Keith and all the other ridiculous ideas. 　　Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. It’s kind of perfect. 　　Archie is both quintessentially British and quintessentially American,...

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Boys’ Names for Girls

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Strong Girl Names: Matilda, Fiona, Adair

Dec 11, 2024

　　Their daughter is facing surgery immediately after birth. Let’s help her mama find a strong name for this little warrior! 　　Ellen writes: 　　We recently found out that our baby girl has a rare condition that will require surgery and a NICU stay when she finally greets the world. 　　I’ve always...

Girl Names in Limbo: Can they escape?

Dec 11, 2024

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　They were once the belles of the ball. But then they gradually lost their luster and found themselves in baby name limbo. 　　Most of these girls’ names aren’t vintage enough to benefit from the 100-year rule. And many are recent enough to still bring up images of...

Poetic Baby Names: Madrigal, Calliope and Ode

Dec 11, 2024

　　March has World Poetry Day and April is Poetry Month, so this seems like a perfect time to turn to the topic of poetic baby names. 　　Of course one obvious source would be the many wonderful surnames of noted poets, such as Auden, Frost, Lorca, Emerson, Tennyson and Poe. 　　Another...

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Hot Baby Names: Max in the Spotlight

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Confessions of a Desperate Baby-Namer

Dec 11, 2024

　　Guest blogger Teresa Strasser, a comedy writer whose new blog is called Exploiting My Baby, is desperate for one good boys’ name for her son, due in October. How far will she go to find it? 　　I know from that stupidly catchy viral “Pregnant Women are Smug” song that pregnant...

Scottish Surnames: Beyond Campbell and Cameron

Dec 11, 2024

　　They’re not like those jaunty Irish surnames that kind of jump out and hit you in the face–no way you could see Finnegan or Donovan as anything else. But Scottish surnames, somewhat more subtly, have affected American nomenclature to a surprising degree. 　　Many Scottish names that could pass for Irish or...

Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Boys’ Names

Dec 11, 2024

　　Last week we unearthed twenty long lost literary girls’ names–some of which have rarely been used outside of books, plays and poetry– and now we turn to the boys’ equivalents. The diverse sources of these creative baby names range from Shakespeare to Stoppard– and be aware that, as before, the...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Dec 11, 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...

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America's Next Top Baby Names

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Ancient Names for Babies

Dec 11, 2024

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

These Names Are At Their Peak

Dec 11, 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...

Babyberries: Class of 2023!

Dec 11, 2024

　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2023! 　　Birth announcements for 93 new Babyberries – 47 girls and 46 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...

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How Gen Z Is Your Name?

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New Popular Irish Names Revealed

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...

Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

Dec 11, 2024

　　Baby name influencers don't set out to start name trends, but ultimately, their names go viral. 　　When it comes to influential names, there’s a formula for success. Whether the name is that of a celebrity or their child, it needs to be connected to someone who’s highly visible in the...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Dec 11, 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 Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

Dec 11, 2024

　　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...