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Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia!

　　By Lauren Der 　　Olivia has been the second most popular girls’ name in the US for the two years running, and Golden Age Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland was one of the first people to bring it to prominence here decades ago. The last surviving star of Gone With the...

Nov 23, 2024

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Baby Name Patterns: To Keep Going or Break the Mold?

Nov 23, 2024

　　What do you do when you’ve created a baby name pattern, and now none of the names you love fits? Does your next baby break the mold, or does family unity carry the day? 　　Katie writes: 　　My due date is September 30 and we are expecting a girl, our fourth...

Poetic Baby Names for Girls: Ancient to modern inspiration

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　April is National Poetry Month—and before it comes to an end, we have to acknowledge the rich reserve of poetic namesake names that just keeps on giving. 　　We’ve talked before about the fact that —whether by destiny or serendipity—some of our most famous poets happen to have...

Name Sage: Girlish Baby Names with Boyish Nicknames

Nov 23, 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...

Name Sage: Long and Lovely Girl Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　After being a longtime local Name Sage, Eloise is now expecting her first child and wants a choice that will live up to her lifelong interest in names. Let’s help her find a spectacular combination for her daughter due this summer. 　　Eloise writes: 　　This is my first pregnancy, due late...

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He Says Shayla, She Says Cecilia: Help this couple agree on a baby name!

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Pretty Girl Names: This week’s Nameberry 9

Nov 23, 2024

　　Some pretty girl names–and a couple of attractive boys’ too–are highlighted by Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel for this week’s The Nameberry 9. 　　It was a good week for gorgeous girl names. From current favorites to up and coming possibilities, pop culture gave us a quartet of new daughters with noteworthy...

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations

Nov 23, 2024

　　In this era of boys’ or at least boyish names for girls, feminizations — classic feminine forms of male names such as Charlotte and Georgia — seem almost quaint. Why not just name your daughter Charlie….or George? 　　Well, there are a lot of reasons. And choosing a more traditional feminization...

Stylish vs. Popular Names: Do you know the difference?

Nov 23, 2024

　　It’s easy to confuse popularity with stylishness. Many baby names feel “popular” when they’re merely stylish: We’re hearing them a lot, they’re in step with the baby name fashions, and we worry that if we choose them, our little Matilda is going to be one of many. 　　And perhaps if...

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FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads

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Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back

Nov 23, 2024

　　I don’t you know if you’ve noticed a growing trendlet—at least among celebrities—for what we might call generic-boy-nickname-names. In other words, these aren’t specific short forms like Charlie or Archie, but ol- timey macho boy tags like Buddy and Buster. 　　In the recent past, we’ve seen Noel Gallagher’s Sonny, a...

Boys’ Names: Unusual, Stylish Picks

Nov 23, 2024

　　Looking for boys’ names that feel contemporary and stylish but that you won’t hear coming and going? Here are our picks of unusual boys’ names – used for fewer than 100 boys, but at least 50 (those borders were picked to keep the collection manageable) – that are in step...

Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

Nov 23, 2024

　　Yesterday we took a look at the girls’ names moving in and out of fashion and now we turn our attention to their brothers. 　　And here we find a somewhat different picture. 　　Overall, it confirms the fact that there is much greater consistency on the boys’ side of the fence, with...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Nov 23, 2024

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Nov 23, 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...

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Babyberries: Class of 2023!

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Ancient Names for Babies

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

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Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

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Top Names in Each State Revealed!

Nov 23, 2024

　　Popular names by state can look very different from the national count. Find out which states' top names conform to the US popular names list and which go in a different direction. 　　Olivia and Liam held on to their titles as the most popular names in the United States for...

20 Chic French Names You Should Know About

Nov 23, 2024

　　You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when we hear a lot of the most popular names in France. 　　I mean, imagine having a playdate with little Capucine or Timéo....

Popular Twin Names

Nov 23, 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...

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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

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What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

Nov 23, 2024

　　Baby name regret — also known as baby name remorse — is a common source of shame among new parents. It allegedly affects between 10-20% of new parents, yet the perceived stigma deters many from sharing their feelings or stories. 　　Lately, celebrities have been opening up about their own experiences with baby...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Nov 23, 2024

　　So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! 　　Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change....