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Unique Vintage Boy Names: Roscoe, Cosmo & Clive

　　Continuing our series on you-don’t-have-to-be-youneek-to-be-unique names, here are 25 unique vintage boy names that are hardly heard today. 　　Unlike vintage classics like William and James, most of these unique vintage boy names were in common use at one time but then slid into obscurity. See which ones you think are...

Apr 11, 2025

Traditional Boy Names: Frank, Walter, and George

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Short Boy Names: Hal, Heath and Hugh

Apr 11, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Do you like your boy names long or short? 　　For every Oliver and Sebastian, there’s a Leo and Kai. But lately celebrity birth announcements have trended towards the single-syllable. Benedict Cumberbatch named his son Hal, a little brother for Kit. Tori Spelling welcomed new baby Beau. We...

Coachella Boy Baby Names: Mac, Jai & Indio

Apr 11, 2025

　　by Abby Sandel 　　Another Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has just wrapped up. Every spring, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California transforms into a weekend-long music venue, the modern incarnation of Woodstock. 　　We’ve all heard of the 2017 headliners – Lady Gaga, stepping in for pregnant-with-twins Beyonce, Kendrick...

French Boys’ Names: From the Top 100 in France

Apr 11, 2025

　　French names are perennially popular in the US, but there is still a host of undiscovered gems on the French popularity list. So today, the boys follow the girls we looked at the other day: 10 of the best French boy names, all in France's Top 100, including some imported...

Presidents Day Baby Names: The Veeps

Apr 11, 2025

　　An FBF look back at some of the often-forgotten Vice Presidents’ names. 　　By Nick Turner 　　It’s no surprise that U.S. vice presidents don’t get a lot of respect in history books. The job doesn’t confer much actual power (unless the commander-in-chief comes to an untimely end), relegating most VPs to...

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Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular?

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Will This Baby Ever Get A Name?

Apr 11, 2025

　　Guest blogger Elizabeth Lindsay, aka nameberry’s very own Olivekit, was wracked with indecision over what to name her third baby girl — a dilemma followed closely by all her friends on nameberry’s message boards. The final name choice surprised everyone, even Olivekit herself. 　　Baby Ooh La La (what my two-and-a-half-year-old...

A Baby Named ….Seabiscuit?

Apr 11, 2025

　　Our guest blogger Marion Roach first wrote about her sister Margaret’s horse-inspired name on her blog [_She Said, She Said](http://thesisterproject.com/roach), part of the sisters’ joint site, The Sister Project. Margaret Roach, the former editor of “Martha Stewart Living”, also runs the site A Way To Garden._ 　　My family frequently names...

The Clementine Clique: Trendy names ending in ‘ine’

Apr 11, 2025

　　Here at nameberry, we’ve been known to scrutinize trends down to a single letter (are V names in?) or syllable (la-beginnings) or sound (oo), as in Talllulah. The other day, thinking about the names that are emerging as as among the hottest for girls right now, I suddenly realized that several...

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Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

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A Boy Named Chelsea

Apr 11, 2025

　　This guest blog by a guy named Chelsea lets us in on his gender-bender life experiences. 　　There’s nothing that unusual about being named after a place, except when that place name becomes one of the more popular names for girls during the 1990’s and you are a boy. That’s what happened to me. My...

Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back

Apr 11, 2025

　　I don’t you know if you’ve noticed a growing trendlet—at least among celebrities—for what we might call generic-boy-nickname-names. In other words, these aren’t specific short forms like Charlie or Archie, but ol- timey macho boy tags like Buddy and Buster. 　　In the recent past, we’ve seen Noel Gallagher’s Sonny, a...

Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

Apr 11, 2025

　　Maybe contemplating the name Rufus sparked my revelation. Or it might have hit me when I encountered an Otis. Whatever the inspiration, I suddenly realized that my most-loved boys’ names end in the letter s. Yep, almost all of them. 　　Amias? One of my all-time underappreciated favorites. 　　Amadeus and Miles? ...

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200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Apr 11, 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...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Apr 11, 2025

　　Want to know the most gender-neutral nonbinary baby names? Depending where you live, they could be anything from Amani to Zen. 　　The most nonbinary names in the US are different from the most popular unisex names (which usually lean male or female). Here we’re talking about names that strike a...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Apr 11, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

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These Names Are At Their Peak

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New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

Apr 11, 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...

What's a Classic Name?

Apr 11, 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...

Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Apr 11, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

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New International Names: A World Of Possibility

Apr 11, 2025

　　New international names are entering the American lexicon from around the world at an ever-faster pace, as parents look for names that connect to their countries of origin or ancestral heritage. 　　The boundaries of what we think of as “international” names are constantly changing. It’s beyond old-fashioned to divide the...

British Names That Never Crossed the Pond (But Should)

Apr 11, 2025

　　British names and American names are as different as they are alike. 　　For every name that’s popular on both sides of the Atlantic, there are just as many that are only common in one country. Parents in the US and England and Wales share four girl names and three boy...

80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

Apr 11, 2025

　　Ever since we started exploring and writing about baby names, Pam and I have been intrigued by the concept of sweet-spot names, those that fall in that perfect position of not being epidemically popular—so common that their distinctive images to be diluted—yet not extreme enough to raise eyebrows or cause...

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The Best Baby Name Advice

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Apr 11, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Apr 11, 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...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Apr 11, 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...