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Baby Name News: Norse names, nicknames and more

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes gender-neutral names for boys, lots of creative nicknames, and inspiration from revolutionaries, Norse myth, and the internet. 　　Unisex names for boys 　　Sometimes it feels like when a name crosses genders, it tends to go more from the boys to the girls than the...

Dec 12, 2024

Newsy Names this Week: Aberdeen, Hercules and Via

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10 Years of Baby Names

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Naming Baldwin

Dec 12, 2024

　　by Benilde Little 　　There weren’t that many names that I considered giving my first-born. Even though I had amniocentesis, we didn’t find out the gender. My husband didn’t want to know and so I let him have his way. I really wanted a girl, but knew I’d be happy with...

Baby Name News: From fashion, sports and teentown

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes thoughts from teenagers about their names – popular and otherwise – fashionable cosmopolitan names, and some awesome alliteration. 　　Popular names: Emma and Sophia 　　Emma and Sophia are all grown up! Ok, not all of them – as we know, they were the first...

The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends

Dec 12, 2024

　　It used to just be one of those quirks reserved for the parents of future celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Taylor Swift, Hayden Panettiere and Blake Lively, but now giving baby girls a traditional boy name is on trend. 　　Evelyn, Mackenzie, Billie, Frankie, Addison, Tyler, Dylan,...

What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

Dec 12, 2024

　　There’s no two ways about it: unisex baby names are red hot right now! 　　The latest Top 100 lists for both boys and girls are peppered with gender neutral names, from once-unisex options now all but abandoned for one gender, like Evelyn and Madison, to names that are increasingly leaning...

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9 Glowing Girl Names: Brilliant and bright

Most Popular Baby Names of 2017 Boys’ Names for Girls Sunny Summer Solstice Names for Girls Marian Names Way Beyond Mary, Marie and Maria! The Most Popular Baby Names of the Future Girl Names: Long and Meaningful CONTEST: Guess the New Top 10s and Win! MayBerry Arrivals: Cecilia Lilac and Godric Nickleby

14 Bewitching Girl Names for Halloween

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Witches have haunted the big and small screens forever and are a perfect source for Halloween baby names. And while most of them are evil, scary, hideously ugly (Snow White!), even seductively witchy, there are some that are more kid-friendly. There are also some softer, gentler witches...

10 Years of Beautiful Babyberry Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　By Emma Waterhouse 　　A look back at a decade of brilliant baby names, Nameberry style! 　　It all started with V… 　　Way back in November 2008, we proudly shared the first ever Babyberry birth announcement: a little girl given the beautiful name Vera Adelaide. Her parents had fallen in love with...

Girl Names in Limbo: Can they escape?

Dec 12, 2024

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　They were once the belles of the ball. But then they gradually lost their luster and found themselves in baby name limbo. 　　Most of these girls’ names aren’t vintage enough to benefit from the 100-year rule. And many are recent enough to still bring up images of...

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Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Boys’ Names

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Famous Dad Names: Noteworthy Names of Some Famous Fathers

Dec 12, 2024

　　It’s Famous Dad Names time! For Mother’s Day we took a look at some of the more interesting names of the mothers of distinguished people, and now we do the same for the paternal parent. Once more, it turns out that an unusual number of past (and a few present)...

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

Dec 12, 2024

　　If you were to go solely by the tabloids, you might think that every celebrity’s baby boy was given the name of a New York borough or a Disney character or was his parents’ quirky Scrabble-letter invention. 　　Au contraire. 　　There is a very healthy segment of show biz parents who...

The New Boys’ Names 3: Ethnic Choices

Dec 12, 2024

　　Parents in search of names emblematic of a new masculine image for their sons are also looking toward ethnic choices unknown in the U.S. just a few years ago. 　　The inspiration? To some extent, it’s celebrities, from actors like Joaquin Phoenix to star dog trainer Cesar Millan to Heidi Klum’s...

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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

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Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Dec 12, 2024

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Dec 12, 2024

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

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60 Southern Baby Names With Charm And Style

Dec 12, 2024

　　What makes a Southern name? Just a unique blend of tradition and modern style. 　　Parents in the American South are famous for passing on family names to children, for example by repeating first names, or using mom's maiden name as a first name. This means that classics like John and...

The Secret Meanings of Color Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Color names, either flat-out color names like Blue or names with colorful meanings like Aurelia, are more and more popular. 　　But do you know the secret meanings behind the color behind that name you love? 　　Color-related meanings are drawn from a wide range of cultures and are often even older...

America's Next Top Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

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80 Great New Sweet Spot Names

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Popular Twin Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

Dec 12, 2024

　　Presidential baby names – the famous last names and, in a few cases, first names of America’s presidents – are more popular than ever in the US. The presidential connection may be more direct in some cases (Lincoln) than others (Taylor). 　　Naming a child for – or, in some cases,...

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Dec 12, 2024

　　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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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Dec 12, 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...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Dec 12, 2024

　　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...

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Dec 12, 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,...