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Your Favorite Literary Names for Boys

　　Last week we asked you to nominate your favorite literary names for girls and were flooded with wonderful ideas, from the expected Matilda and Eloise to intriguing names such as Remedios (from 100 Years of Solitude) to Adah (of The Poisonwood Bible). 　　And now it’s the boys’ turn. What are...

Jan 13, 2025

Retro Boy Names: The Motorcycle-Riding Poets

Boy Names: The Top 100 of 2013 (so far)

Memorable Memorial Day Names: Marcellus, Maxcy and Moonlight

Preppy boys’ names ending with S: Ames, Keats, and Yates

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Boys’ Names 2013: Soft new choices

Jan 13, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Sssssssssh, have you heard the secret? 　　There may be a lot of Wild and Wilder names around these days, but boys’ names are also going in a softer direction. 　　The sh sound is stylish — or should that be shtylish? — for baby boys’ names, introduced...

Goldilocks Classics for Boys: Holden, Noah, Wyatt and Beau

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　It’s been a great week for welcoming boys! 　　Eric Christian Olsen, Kate Levering, Fergie and Josh Duhamel have all brought home new sons. The parents have something in common besides making headlines. Their naming style might be called modern classic. 　　On Friday, Angela wrote...

Biblical Baby Names: Why Noah now?

Jan 13, 2025

　　It seems that just about every few decades since the 1940’s, one Old Testament patriarch name has entered the popularity list’s Top 5, some lingering longer than others. From the forties through the early eighties it was David, joined by Joshua in 1983, Daniel for the single year 1985, Jacob...

Boys’ Baby Names: They’re getting cooler all the time

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week in her Nameberry 9 blog, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel offers evidence that boys’ baby names are rapidly catching up with the girls’ in terms of creativity. 　　A few days ago, my daughter Clio announced that girls’ names are pretty, but boys’ names are awesome. 　　She also informed me...

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Top Baby Names of 2016 (so far)

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Name Sage: But what will we name a girl?!?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Laura writes: 　　We are expecting our first child in July, and I do not want to leave the hospital with Baby M! 　　My husband is a tad on the more traditional side when it comes to names, while I am more open. 　　Our last name is a German three-syllable beast...

Pretty Baby Names: 9 Kinds of Names for Girls

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　What’s wrong with pretty? 　　Some weeks it seems like all of the newborn girls are being called James. Or Dashiel, Ryan, Wilder, Arlo, or Charlie, all names that appeared on celebrity girls’ birth announcements last year. 　　But pretty names for girls still carry the day. Nine of...

International Women’s Day Baby Names: Malala and Mirabai

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　For International Women’s Day on March 8, we celebrate a dozen women (and a dozen names) from around the globe. Some are still alive, some died millennia ago; some were activists, some were scientists, some were artists. All displayed a sense of courage and genius that we...

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Celebrity Baby Names: The Un-Weirdly-Named Starbaby Boys

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Red Carpet Names: Boys’ Edition

Jan 13, 2025

　　On the eve of the Academy Awards, one of our favorite bloggers, Abby Sandel, creator of the always informative appellationmountain.net, has searched through the annals of Oscar history and come up with some great lists of award-worthy male winners’ names. 　　Many of today’s most popular names conjure up Hollywood at...

The Principles of Patronymics

Jan 13, 2025

　　Back when there was a very limited stockpot of names, and there might be, for example, two Roberts in a village who had to be distinguished from one another, they began to be identified by nicknames and by the names of their fathers: one would be known as Robert Will’s...

Hooray for Henry: The quirky classic that manages to stay cool

Jan 13, 2025

　　When Henry was chosen as the #1 favorite boy’s name on the collective 5-star lists of the nameberry community, I was somewhat surprised and yet somewhat not. Because in many ways Henry is the perfect boy’s name—as classic and historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it...

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The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Jan 13, 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...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Jan 13, 2025

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

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These Names Are At Their Peak

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Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Jan 13, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Jan 13, 2025

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

What's a Classic Name?

Jan 13, 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...

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Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

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100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More

Jan 13, 2025

　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Jan 13, 2025

　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....

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How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 13, 2025

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

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

Jan 13, 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...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Jan 13, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...