Latest Baby Name News from Around the Globe
　　This week’s news includes the top names in the UK and France, names from past generations that need more love, and some of the reasons people don’t like their name. 　　What’s hot in England and WalesThe big excitement of the week, for anyone who loves British baby names, was the...
Jan 10, 2025
Scottish Baby Names: Most Popular in 2018
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New Top Baby Names in England and Wales Baby Name Battles and How to Solve Them Starbaby and Other Name News of the Week 12 Best Golden Globe Nominee Names Celebrity Baby Names: 10 years of starbabies Baby Name News of the Week 10th Anniversary: Nameberry Goes Global! Baby Names in the News: Solstice, Atom & Mickey
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Unique Baby Names: Tiger, Mojave and Renoir
Jan 10, 2025
　　This week’s news includes unique names inspired by the Tiger Woods victory plus what’s happening in places like California, Cornwall, Paris and other parts of the world. 　　Extra-special baby namesAll babies are special, but does a much longed-for baby need an extra-special, unique name? 　　That’s what happened for one British...
20 Unique Baby Names That Deserve More Love
Jan 10, 2025
　　If you could give just one largely unknown and under-appreciated baby name a big PR boost, what would you choose? 　　We recently stumbled across this intriguing thread topic from the Nameberry Forums, and it got us thinking… As wonderful and wide-ranging as the community here is, Nameberry can still be something...
Nickname Names: Birdie, Bobby and Bobby
Jan 10, 2025
　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes another starbaby Birdie, some nicely-named goats, and naming issues with siblings, cousins and pets. 　　Family nicknames: Birdie and BobbyIt looks like another Birdie is joining the flock! The chirpy vintage nickname is one that celebrities love perhaps a little more than average. Busy...
How Important to You is a Name’s Distinctiveness?
Jan 10, 2025
　　We all know that the official popularity rankings don’t tell us everything there is to know about how popular our favorite baby names really are… 　　First, there’s regional variation: a cursory glance at the state-by-state popularity charts will tell you that parents in Oregon who are looking for an uncommon...
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Oh, Susannah!
Oh, Susannah!
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The Mary Month of May
Jan 10, 2025
　　May, as any Catholic schoolchild can tell you, is the official month of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God.  Which might make Mary an appropriate name for a girl born this month, except after a 400 year run, Mary is more than ready for semi-retirement. 　　The good news is that...
Girly Baby Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s choice of the name Seraphina for their second daughter has put the spotlight on ultra-feminine names. Lots of syllables, ending in a vowel: Those are the classic earmarks of the girly baby names. 　　When I had my first — and as it turned out, my...
Poetic Baby Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　 Since April is National Poetry Month, this seems like a perfect time to look at some of the most poetic of baby names. We’ve already seen starbabies named Poet (Soleil Moon Frye), Sonnet (Forest Whitaker), Auden (Noah Wyle), Tennyson (Russell Crowe), and of course any number of Dylans (traceable back...
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Exploring the Meaning of Julian
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Brother Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　Choosing the right brother names involves striking the right balance. Ideally, brother names should be coordinated in a clear way — such as style or origin — but you want the names to be distinctive, so the brother set doesn’t feel too matchy. 　　Looking for brother names with similar style is...
Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide
Jan 10, 2025
　　Traditional boy names remain perennially popular with parents today, in spite of the broader trend towards ever more unique baby names for both sexes. 　　But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all traditional names for boys are popular. As well as the core classic boy names – like John, James and...
Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus
Jan 10, 2025
　　Love Gus as a short name for a boy, but not a fan of Augustus and related names like August and Augustine? 　　One option is to simply use Gus on its own. This vintage nickname is charming, no-nonsense, and you’ll never need to spell it out. It was popular in...
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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names
Jan 10, 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...
Gender-Bending Baby Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...
200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Jan 10, 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...
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How Millennial Is Your Name?
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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna
Jan 10, 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...
Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock
Jan 10, 2025
　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...
60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest
Jan 10, 2025
　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...
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Jan 10, 2025
　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...
New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　Jewish names are a diverse set, represented by Hebrew names, biblical names, Yiddish names, and gentile names that gained popularity among the American Jewish community. 　　A recent report by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion's Jewish Language Project reveals the most popular Jewish names in the US. This...
The Best of the Rarest Baby Names
Jan 10, 2025
　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...
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Jan 10, 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,...
What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name
Jan 10, 2025
　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...
The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup
Jan 10, 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...
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