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Best New Names in the Top 1000

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　Each year, the Top 1000 names in the US are given to around 78% of boys and 69% of girls (in 2017 2,798,250 babies received a first name that ranked in the Top 1000). 　　While there is always a little movement in the Top 10 and Top...

Dec 28, 2024

Most Popular Names of 2018….so far

Baby Name News of the Decade

New Starbaby Name Predictions: What’s next?

Popularity, trends and a new baby Princess

X, Y, Z Take Middle Place Names Hot in England, Still Outliers Here Starbaby Name Predictions: Sibsets and Singletons The Decade’s Hottest Baby Name Trends Nameberry’s Unique Baby Name Trends Step-Sibling Sibsets: Starbaby predictions The Top Welsh Names in Wales Hottest Baby Names 2018

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The Long and Short of Baby Name News This Week

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes super short baby names, football and hockey namesakes, Indigenous Canadian names, and British trends over the last 180 years. 　　Juicy name stories: Tobermory and PerstephanieWho loves an unusual naming story? We do. These parents’ stories in HuffPost are particularly juicy: you’ll find out...

Great Anglo-American Baby Names for Harry and Meghan

Dec 28, 2024

　　The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are having a baby! Yep, we’ve all been guessing it wouldn’t take long, and now that it’s confirmed, we can start speculating on the prospective royal baby names. 　　To Royal or not to Royal? 　　First there is the question of whether or not the...

French Baby Names: Classics making a comeback

Dec 28, 2024

　　With French baby names, two clear trends have emerged: short, simple, two-syllable names and the return to vintage/ancient names. With a heavy preponderance of girl names ending with -a and the growing success of biblical names, there are many overlaps with U.S. trends. 　　French parents are also largely returning to...

The Hottest Baby Names in Poland Right Now

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Emilia Lind 　　Maybe you have Polish heritage and want to give your child a baby name relating to Polish culture. Or maybe you’re simply interested in naming trends around the world. Here’s a list of the ten hottest names for boys and girls to give you some idea of...

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Rare Nature Names for Girls

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Name Sage: Girlish Baby Names with Boyish Nicknames

Dec 28, 2024

　　Shae writes: 　　My wife and I are expecting our first daughter in early July and cannot lock in a name. 　　I love distinctively classic feminine names that have a touch of alternative, like Florence, Clementine, and Estelle. 　　My wife likes more “tomboy” names like Pippa, Hudson, and Quinn. None of...

The Reason I Didn’t Tell My Baby’s Unusual Name

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Ceilidhe Wynn 　　Our sincere thanks for permission to reprint this moving article which appeared recently on romper.com. 　　When you’re pregnant, it can often seem like your body, your baby, your decisions, your life are public domain. Everyone wants to touch your belly. Everyone wants to know what kind of genitalia...

Name Sage: English-Spanish Baby Names for a Daughter

Dec 28, 2024

　　Mary writes: 　　I am due in July with baby number two, a girl. My husband and I are having a difficult time agreeing on names. 　　We are looking at both English and Spanish baby names. My husband’s only condition is that it can be pronounced easily in both Spanish and...

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Jack, Jackson & Theodore: Who says it’s tough to name a boy?

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20 Best Super Sleuth Names for Boys

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　A few months ago, we blogged about lady detectives, clueing you in to some fabulous names like Trixie, Temperance and Thursday, Loveday and Precious. Now it’s time to investigate their male counterparts—and there are some real doozies—drawn from a variety of genres– from early crime novels to...

Best Boys’ Names: 10 stylish selections

Dec 28, 2024

　　Our new book The Nameberry Guide to the Best Baby Names for Boys includes many different styles of great boys’ names — including, well, stylish ones. 　　Stylish might mean popular…but not necessarily. More precisely, it means names that strike the right fashion note for the times, that are in today,...

Newest Boy Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Alaric to Zion

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We had that great bonanza of great girls’ names in Part One of this Quarterly Report yesterday, now here are the boys. This should once and for all put the kibosh on the idea that they aren’t as varied, interesting, copious and creative as their sisters’. Two...

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Dec 28, 2024

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Dec 28, 2024

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

Dec 28, 2024

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

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The Top Baby Names of 2019….so far

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Starbaby Predictions: First and middles

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　My latest starbaby predictions include some thoughts on middle names. 　　Celebrity baby middle names don’t get as much attention as first names, but they can be equally as exciting. Take Anne Hathaway’s son’s middle name, Rosebanks. It’s a portmanteau of two family names—a creative solution to honor...

Celebrity Names: April Starbaby Predictions

Dec 28, 2024

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　I’ve been the Name Guru to the Stars for a while now—long enough that I’m predicting the celebrity names for siblings of the babies I once made predictions for. 　　In the past, I forecasted the names of Michael Phelps, Alanis Morissette, Lauren Conrad, Miranda Kerr, and Daphne...

Baby Name Trends: and other news of the week

Dec 28, 2024

　　This week’s name news includes baby name trends, some stunning “sweet spot” celebrity baby names, the thorny issue of baby name theft, and a celebration of unique baby names of all shapes, sizes and sources. 　　Celebrity Baby NewsIt’s aaaaa… baby for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds! 　　Blake Lively and Ryan...

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What name do you hear waaaaaay too often?

101 Not-Too-Hot, Not-Too-Cold Baby Names International Baby Names: Top 100 Names from Outside the English-Speaking World New British Popularity List: Harry and Amelia still reign Pick a Boy-Girl Pair from the Top 1000 Australian Baby Names: Fastest Rising Top 100 Names–Aria, Penelope and Lincoln Your Favorite Names from the Top 100 Think naming one baby is tough? Try naming six…. One Hit Wonders: Beatrix, Baker & Boone

2013 Playground Analysis: How combined spellings change the rankings

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady, The Name Freak! 　　For a second year, I present the “real” Top 50 by combining the different spellings of each name. Because when you hear “Jacob!” on the playground, you have no idea how his name is spelled, but you know you hear the name a lot....

V Baby Names: Varied and vivid, from Velvet to Viggo

Dec 28, 2024

　　By Kelli Brady of NameFreak! 　　The letter V gives us relatively few usable names, but many of the ones it does give us are gems. From the queenly Victoria and the steady Vincent to the wonderfully rare Verity and the popular sound of Vander, V names are where it’s at!...

Popularity Prediction Contest: Guess the new Top 10! And now see the winners!

Dec 28, 2024

　　The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2013 will be released by the Social Security Administration any day now, and so in advance of the announcement, which we’re all awaiting with baited breath, we’re asking you to predict which names will come out on top. 　　Will Jacob‘s 14-year reign...

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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Name Change Resources

Dec 28, 2024

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Dec 28, 2024

　　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,...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 28, 2024

　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...