by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Fifty years ago, a prime-time comedy launched on ABC. That show was Bewitched, and it put the name Samantha on the map. Here’s how the numbers pan out: 　　The year before the show, 1963, there were fewer than 100 born in the U.S....

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Popular names are popular for a reason: They’re attractive, fresh, feel right for the times. 　　Their only problem is that they’re, well, popular. 　　If you like a name that you’re starting to hear a bit too often, we’ve come up with more original substitutes that may...

　　The most popular British names A to Z might seem to be an absolute list, but not so fast. 　　Are Amelia and Alfie the most popular British A names? You would be forgiven for thinking so, but the answer depends on where you live. 　　Scots would say it’s Ava and...

　　By Aimee Reneau Tafreshi 　　Unusual names are becoming more, well, usual these days, especially for baby girls. Most parents are aware of the Top 1000 baby names, but what do you find when you look further down the list? Literary thousands of unusual baby names for girls and boys waiting...

　　There are the names that are well-liked on Nameberry: Imogen and Finn, Charlotte and Declan. 　　Then there are the baby names most popular in the US —  Sophia and Jacob, Isabella and Ethan — along with those that top the lists in other parts of the world, from Olivia and...

　　By Mark Edmond 　　What do August, Hannah, and Jules have in common?  It turns out that people with those names are more likely than others to be playwrights. 　　How about Casey, Vincent, and Roy?  They’re more apt to be plumbers. 　　At least that’s what our research at Verdant Labs shows. ...

　　By Lauren Johnson 　　My pregnant friend had settled on a name—Olive. And then she saw a baby announcement two weeks ago: “Meet Olive Louise,” it read. The announcement came from Facebook, and from a “friend” she has only seen once in 14 years, but she’s decided against the name for...

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　At the start of 2015, it’s interesting to look back a hundred years to see what was happening in the world of baby names. 　　The Baby Name Class of 1915 included several choices that are once again stylish: Evelyn, Alice, Florence, Lillian, and Rose for girls;...

　　By Abby Sandel, AppellationMountain 　　I know that Hollywood isn’t one great big playdate, with A-list moms and reality starlets alike pushing their designer strollers through the park together. There’s no reason to think that Blue Ivy Carter and Tennessee Toth will attend the same preschool, or that Tori Spelling and...

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Would you pay tens of thousands of dollars to have a crack team of experts develop a one-of-a-kind name for your baby? 　　If you’ve got the cash, a Swiss firm has assembled the creative linguists prepared to do just that.  It isn’t clear just how...

　　By Kelly McDonald 　　March is the month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, when snow is (finally, hopefully) melting, school vacations begin, and St. Patrick’s Day revelry takes place, and is also noteworthy for being Women’s History Month. Here are a variety of names...

　　Do you wish your own name was more unusual…or more popular? 　　The general trend of taste in baby names these days is toward the unusual — many of us are looking for names that will help our children stand out in the crowd. 　　This is borne out by statistics, in...

　　Everyone loves to look at the Social Security Database’s name list. We usually scroll to the top to see what won as the most popular names (for the record, it’s Noah and Sophia). But with everyone combing their brains for a unique name these days,it’s best to check the bottom...