Nickname Names: Johnny be gone
　　By Nick Turner 　　There’s no record of a single newborn named Dick in the United States last year. 　　In fact, there hasn’t been a baby Dick recorded in the U.S. during the past decade. (It last popped up in the Social Security Administration databanks in 2005.) 　　This is no shock....
Jan 9, 2025
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Invent-a-Baby-Name Challenge Champs!
Jan 9, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Whew! 　　If we’ve ever had the slightest doubts about the creativity of the Nameberry community, they are hereby gone forever. 　　When we announced our latest Invent-a-Baby-Name challenge two weeks ago, we expected something like the healthy response we got last time—which was 222 entries. 　　This...
Nameberry’s Names of the Year 2016
Jan 9, 2025
　　By Linda Rosenkrantz and Abby Sandel 　　The Defining Event of 2016 may have been the presidential election, but the political names that hit the headlines –Donald?  Hillary? Bernard?– are unlikely to find themselves on many new baby birth certificates. And so for Nameberry’s Names of the Year we’ve looked beyond...
Coming Attractions: Latest starbaby predictions
Jan 9, 2025
　　By Sophie Kihm 　　New year, new celebrity pregnancy announcements! And boy did we start off with a bang. Zooey Deschanel, who is often credited with giving us the best baby name of 2015 (Elsie Otter!) is going to be a mom for the second time. Jill Duggar is also pregnant...
Popular Baby Names: Our predictions of next rising stars!
Jan 9, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel 　　In just a few weeks, we’ll see the new popular baby names list for the US. The official list is always packed with surprises, as everything from pop music to sports stars influence what we name our children. Other names rise and fall without any obvious cultural...
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A Girl Named Ellis
A Girl Named Ellis
Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations Top Girl Names 2011 Girl Detective Names: Trixie, Theolinda, Thursday and Tuppence Gender Shock! What to do when nature foils your naming plans? Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3! Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Does one name have it all? Vanishing Names: So long, Susan; Bye bye, Barbara The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora
Can you help this teenberry love her name?
Jan 9, 2025
　　Elaine, a young berry with what she feels to be an “old-lady name,” prefers to go by the sprightlier nickname, “Laney.” But she doesn’t love Laney either and so poses her dilemma to her fellow berries. Can she learn to love her name? Or is it time to start over...
Girls’ Names in Limbo: When can Kay come out to play?
Jan 9, 2025
　　We’ve all pretty much on board with the Hundred Year Rule that says it usually takes a full century for a name to shake off its musty image and start to sound fresh again. Which is why so many turn-of-the-last-century names have returned, names we don’t associate with any older person we have...
Classic Girls’ Names: All about Alice
Jan 9, 2025
　　With a number of classic names taking a downward turn these days, it’s nice to see that a few are going in the other direction—William, James, Charlotte –and one that we’re especially happy to see making a return: our featured name of the day, Alice. 　　Alice is unique among the...
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The Best Cool Undiscovered Boy Names
The Best Cool Undiscovered Boy Names
45+ Simple Yet Strong One-Syllable Boy Names How I Named My Baby: Casper Jerome Old Man Names Get a New Lease of Life How I Named My Baby: John Aidan Baby Name Wolf is Nameberry’s New #1! How I Named My Baby: Mercer Joaquin How I Named My Baby: Griffin Leo How I Named My Baby: Osric Theo Peregine
Scandinavian Boy Names Hit the Sweet Spot
Jan 9, 2025
　　Scandinavian boy names offer a rich pool of names that are deep-rooted but little-used and sometimes unknown in other parts of the world. 　　With a few exceptions, like Eric, Scandinavian names — focusing here on Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland — didn’t figure much in the American name landscape of...
15 Cool Country Boy Names For Your Little Cowboy
Jan 9, 2025
　　Country boy names capture the spirit of the American West: places and landscapes, cowboys and pioneers, and country music – including the names singers give their own children. 　　The country style embraces names from a wide range of origins, from nature to cities to the bible. They’re not traditional classics,...
How I Named My Baby: Hollis Benjamin Ash
Jan 9, 2025
　　Mandy and Courtney, who work in legal marketing, live in Athens, Pennsylvania with Courtney's daughter Mackenzi and their three sons — Magnus William Linden, Abbott Ivan Hawthorne, and Hollis Benjamin Ash. 　　Their latest addition, Hollis, was born on June 17, 2021. Here, Mandy tells us about nicknames, her and Courtney's...
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Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave
Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave
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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names
Jan 9, 2025
　　Unisex nature names blend two of the coolest categories of baby names right now, so it’s no wonder they’re attracting a lot of attention! 　　The top gender neutral names in the US include several nature-inspired options, and the natural world is also a wonderful place to look for unique unisex...
200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Jan 9, 2025
　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...
Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity
Jan 9, 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...
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The Top Names We're Watching for 2024
The Top Names We're Watching for 2024
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How Millennial Is Your Name?
Jan 9, 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,...
What's a Classic Name?
Jan 9, 2025
　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...
New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names
Jan 9, 2025
　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...
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How Gen Z Is Your Name?
How Gen Z Is Your Name?
New Popular Irish Names Revealed 5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name Rare Names With Popular Nicknames Top Baby Name Influencers 2023 Top Names in Each State Revealed! 50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East The Top Baby Names A-Z Baby Names Before 1850
Top Czech Names Follow International Trends
Jan 9, 2025
　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....
Classic Baby Names on the Rise
Jan 9, 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...
Forgotten Names Making a Comeback
Jan 9, 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...
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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names
Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names
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The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup
Jan 9, 2025
　　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...
Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort
Jan 9, 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...
Updating Popular 1950s Names
Jan 9, 2025
　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...
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