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Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending

　　Maybe contemplating the name Rufus sparked my revelation. Or it might have hit me when I encountered an Otis. Whatever the inspiration, I suddenly realized that my most-loved boys’ names end in the letter s. Yep, almost all of them. 　　Amias? One of my all-time underappreciated favorites. 　　Amadeus and Miles? ...

Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way

Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

A Boy Named Chelsea Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review How About Harvey? What About Walter? Boys’ Names Ins and Outs Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

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Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

　　As promised, here is our first Week in Review by Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– bringing you a roundup of the latest baby name news of the week every Monday from hereon in. 　　Early January brought round-ups of The Most Popular Names of 2010, at least according to a...

Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names

　　Until recently, Italian names–particularly for boys– have rarely ventured outside their own neighborhoods, but lately we’ve seen several popping up in the celebrisphere—though usually, if not always, used by celebs with Italian roots. There have been at least four Mateo/Matteos, two Roccos, two Romeos, Annabeth Gish’s Enzo, Ricky Martin’s Valentino, and...

Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV

　　While the country’s attention will be focused on football this Super Bowl Sunday, some of us may be more interested in another aspect of the action: The crazy names of the players, of course! Nameberry’s new intern Robert Harclerode breaks down the most interesting names on both teams: 　　The Super...

Top Boys Name For Each Letter: a 130-year survey

　　Yesterday, we looked at the girls’ names, and today, as promised, it’s the boys’ turn. Again, we present the Top 10 baby names for every letter of the alphabet—from Anthony to Zecheriah—compiled by nameberry’s own Nephele. (The U.S. Social Security Administration’s complete names lists spanning a 130-year period were used in the tabulation...

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Name Shame

Unique Baby Names: Is there such a thing?? Nature Names: Will trees be the new flower names? Boys’ Names for Girls: A Key To Success? Goodbye Girls’ (Names) The Lost Names of 1880 Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part 2: Cultural Icons A Baby Named ….Seabiscuit? Word Names for Babies: What’s in a word?

Baby Name Fever: Is There A Cure?

　　Guest blogger 　　Jennifer Maselli finds herself nursing Baby Name Fever, and the only (elusive) cure is the perfect name. 　　Since finding out that our third and final child – due this fall – is a girl, I have become afflicted with something I like to call “Baby Name Fever.” I’ve...

BALLERINA NAMES: Names for the Nutcracker Season

　　One of the staples of the holiday season is The Nutcracker ballet, making this the perfect moment for balletomane Heather Stevenson‘s guest blog on the enchanted world of exotic ballerina names. 　　Many little girls proclaim that they want to be ballerinas when they grow up—most are drawn to the sequined tutus, the rhinestone...

Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition

　　There are some names that are not quite English, or American, but not quite not English either. These include international variations of classic English names – such as Katarina for Katherine – and names that are widely heard around the world but remain unusual in English-speaking countries. 　　The list below...

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BOYS’ NAMES 2011: The Underground Popularity List

BOYS’ NAMES 2011: The Underground Popularity List

Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry! NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV Cowboy Baby Names: This week’s Nameberry 9 Boys’ Names: Regular Guy Names

Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration

　　It’s Labor Day weekend, and so time once more to turn our attention to the original, pre-barbecue significance of the holiday and celebrate some hard-working occupational names. 　　We’re focusing on the more uncommon, fresher sounding examples, and those with less obvious meanings, so no Archer, Shepherd or Baker. The er-ending...

Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

　　The current popularity lists are full of Irish names that are also surname names—Ryan, Riley, Brody, Brady, Brennan, Connor, Keegan, and Quinn, to name just a few—and have been for quite some time. For the most part, they have been two- and occasionally one-syllable names; we’d like to suggest that...

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

　　This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel leads us into the jungle for some wild animal names. 　　Not so long ago, baby boys were named Jason and Kevin and Joshua, and a lynx was something we saw at the zoo on the kindergarten field trip. 　　Now a growing number of boys...

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10 Years of Baby Names

10 Years of Baby Names

Baby Names: The gender reshuffle The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends What are your favorite gender-neutral names? Newsy Names this Week: Aberdeen, Hercules and Via Most Popular, Most Unisex Baby Names Baby Name News: From fashion, sports and teentown Naming Baldwin Baby Name News: Norse names, nicknames and more

Irish Baby Names 2018

　　Irish baby names only continue to get more popular in the US, with Liam, an Irish short form of William, at Number 2 on the boys’ list, all forms of Aiden continuing to be widely-used, and surname-names Riley and Kennedy popular for girls. 　　Other new Irish names increasing in style and...

Baby Name Trends: Sleek, simple, cool names

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　People often ask us how we come up with our baby name trend predictions. 　　The short answer: It’s a mix of science and inspiration, with a dash of magic. 　　One of our major predictions for baby names 2015, for instance, was a trend toward short, simple...

Gender-Bending Baby Names

　　Gender-bending baby names are crossing conventional boundaries that define male and female names. Down at the very bottom of the Social Security extended list of baby names, among the hundreds of names given to only five babies in that particular year, are a few dozen names that have radically crossed...

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Latin Baby Names: Most influential choices

Latin Baby Names: Most influential choices

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Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!!

　　Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and to baby name fanatics that means one thing beyond cards and flowers: that the release date of the latest figures from the Social Security Administration is only a few weeks away. We’ll soon know whether or not Emily and Jacob have finally been overtaken...

New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple

　　Ah, New York, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And if you can name your baby here without needing therapy or Xanax, then I applaud you. 　　That’s because like everything else in NYC, baby naming is intense. If most people think naming children...

Favorite Name Too Popular? Here Are Some Fresh Substitutes

　　It’s become a truism that once a name gets too popular, no one wants to use it anymore. (Which reminds me of the famous Yogi Berra saying: Nobody goes to that place anymore. It’s too crowded.) 　　So what do they use instead? Often, a name that’s the same but different....

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Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era?

Vintage Baby Names: What’s your era?

The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1 International Faves: Top names across the globe Popular baby names: The case for the common name Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training! Irish Baby Names: What’s Hot Now The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name? How Popular is Too Popular? Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries

Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10?

　　Popular baby names are the Number 1 topic of the week, but today we thought we’d turn the tables and ask instead about favorite baby names. What are your personal Top 10 names for each gender? 　　The criteria: Those you love best, period. Put them in order, with Number 1...

Baby Names 2010: The Also-Rans

　　We’ve obviously been spending too much time in the depths of nameberry, checking out which names our visitors have been checking out. 　　And while Finn and Charlotte are the most-searched names for the first nine months of the year, and while we recently brought you our own nameberry Top 100...

British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations

　　Yesterday, to launch British Names Week on Nameberry, Eleanor Nickerson identified the five strongest current naming trends in the UK. 　　Today we zero in on the popularity of individual names on both sides of the Atlantic, seeing which names have shared success and which haven’t. 　　We Yanks sometimes tend to...

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How to Change Your Baby’s Name

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Unique Twin Names to Inspire Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine Test-Driving Your Baby Name How to Cope With Baby Name Regret The Best Baby Name Advice The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

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

　　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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

　　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...

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