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Bold Names for Girls

　　The news this week includes one notably conservative name for a royal baby boy, and several bold names for girls. 　　His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is just a week old. We’ve discussed his name – and the names the royals didn’t choose, or might be holding in reserve...

Jan 14, 2025

Pretty Girl Names

Rare Royal Girls’ Names: Christabel, Eugenie and Melita

Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far)

Your Favorite Literary Names for Girls

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Unusual Baby Names: 10 same-but-different girl names

Jan 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　It’s a common baby name dilemma: You love a name like Cora or Lila forever, holding it close as your own special secret choice, and then bang! Right when you’re finally in a position to use it, you discover it’s become a trendy new favorite, vaulting...

Creative Girls’ Names: Xia, Djena, and Geneva

Jan 14, 2025

　　The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Are we becoming more tolerant of creative names? 　　My kids’ friends and classmates are a diverse lot, and their names reflect it. There’s Seamus and Shivarama, a boy named Delaney and a girl called Jordan. Yes, we have Matthew and Sam...

North West: Behind Kim and Kanye’s baby name

Jan 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their newborn daughter North, and less than 24 hours after the announcement, all directional jokes have officially been cracked. 　　Although that won’t stop anyone from continuing to make them for the rest of little North...

Four Syllable Middle Names: Longer choices beyond Elizabeth

Jan 14, 2025

　　Some names are common in the middle but rarely used as first names. Others are common first names but hardly used in the middle. And then there are a lucky few that are popular first and middle names, such as Grace and James. But the ultimate double-threat is Elizabeth. 　　Elizabeth’s...

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Little Women Sets New Name Trends

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How I Named My Baby: Henrietta Beatrice

Jan 14, 2025

　　Emma and John Parker live in Santa Barbara, California with their two children. They welcomed their youngest on September 20, 2020 — a daughter named Henrietta Beatrice. 　　Here, we talk to Emma about how she and John chose the baby name Henrietta for their little girl. 　　How long did it...

Name Sage: Spirited Names Match Imogene

Jan 14, 2025

　　They love quirky, vintage picks with plenty of energy. Their first daughter’s name is Imogene Hazel May. Now Imogene is going to be a big sister, and they need a spirited name to match! 　　Jessie and Brian write:We’re expecting a baby girl soon and are completely stuck with names! I’ve...

Rare Girl Names Promise Sisterly Style

Jan 14, 2025

　　They’re looking for recognizable, rare girl names to go with big sister Delphine. 　　Michelle writes:My husband and I are due with our second daughter at the end of April and are still stumped on a name. 　　Our first daughter is called Delphine – which we love for being recognizable, but...

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Boys’ Names: Nameberry’s newsiest boys’ names this week

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Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names

Jan 14, 2025

　　I have a friend, a pretty quirky guy, who has one of those generic boys’ names: Bill. I was thinking recently what an advantage it is for Bill to be named Bill rather than something like Jasper or Jarvis, one of those boys’ names that’s his equal in quirkiness. Bill...

Top Boy Names 2011

Jan 14, 2025

　　Nameberry’s top boy names 2011 includes big news: Asher has leapfrogged over Henry and Finn, last year’s number one and two, to take the top spot. 　　The Nameberry popularity lists track which names attracted the most views on our site this year. Consider them a predictor of which names parents...

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry!

Jan 14, 2025

　　Why does Henry consistently rank as one of the top two Nameberry favorite boys’ names? (Finn is the other one.) 　　Because in many ways Henry is the most perfect of the classic boys’ names—as historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it seem modern, and even hip. 　　Henry...

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 14, 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...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 14, 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...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

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Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Jan 14, 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...

Astrology Names: The Ultimate Guide

Jan 14, 2025

　　Astrology names are inspired by the stars and planets, the four elements, and the symbols and characteristics connected to the zodiac signs. 　　Coinciding with the recent cultural obsession with astrology, we’ve observed a rise in names relating to the zodiac and all things celestial. 　　Millennials and Gen Z have taken...

Ancient Names for Babies

Jan 14, 2025

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

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British Names That Never Crossed the Pond (But Should)

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The Top Global Names Right Now

Jan 14, 2025

　　The popularity of baby names is usually country or even region-specific, with the top names in the US different from those in the UK, which are different again from those in Sweden or Spain. 　　But as the world gets smaller, there’s a growing cadre of names that rank highly on...

The Hottest Baby Names of 2020

Jan 14, 2025

　　These are the hottest baby names of 2020, and we’ve got the data to prove it. We looked at the viewer figures for all our name pages over the last month, compared it with the same period last year, and found which names had the biggest rise in views over...

Baby Names Before 1850

Jan 14, 2025

　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...

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How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

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Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Jan 14, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 14, 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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Jan 14, 2025

　　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...