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Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

　　Heroes and villains, famous and infamous, real life, big and small screen characters and the actors who played them—there’s a whole genre of cowboy names that have a certain swagger and western twang all their own. 　　Here are a dozen of the best: who they were and why we like...

Jan 13, 2025

Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV

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Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn

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Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week? 　　Me neither. 　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration. But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...

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Baby Name Fever: Is There A Cure?

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Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part I-Trailblazers

Jan 13, 2025

　　What could be a greater gift to bestow on your daughter than a name with a heroic namesake, someone with an inspiring story to add a layer of pride to your little girl’s feelings about her name–and give her great material for a school report? 　　The following is a list of...

Hate Your Name? Change It!

Jan 13, 2025

　　Guest blogge__r GRETA GOSS went through life as Peggy, a name she hated. And then one day she ran out of business cards. This blog originally appeared on More magazine’s site. 　　I’d always hated my name. When I was fourteen, I found a book in the library called “The History...

Place Names: New Destinations

Jan 13, 2025

　　Feeling that geographical names have become kind of ho-hum? It’s true that many people have tired of Paris and some of the over-visited names from the American West like Cheyenne, Sierra, Dakota and Dallas. But that’s no reason to write off the whole category—we can renew our passports and look...

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Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

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Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!!

Jan 13, 2025

　　The news is out–even if it hasn’t been formally announced–that the soon-to-arrive third Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck baby will be a boy. This provides us all with a perfect opportunity to display our sibset-crafting skills. 　　I think all will agree that the couple made gorgeous (and trend-setting) choices for...

Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous

Jan 13, 2025

　　It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). It turns out that quite a number of past (and...

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Unisex Baby Names: the new entries for 2013

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Modern Virtue Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Virtue names go way back. The Pilgrims brought them to Plymouth Rock. A handful of classics, like Grace and Hope, have almost always ranked in the US Top 1000. 　　But there’s a new kind of virtue name in vogue today: the modern virtue. These names are less...

Baby Name Trends: Sleek, simple, cool names

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Get Your Latest Baby Name News!

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes biblical rarities, celebrities’ unisex choices, classic names with meaning, and French names galore. 　　Neglected names from the Bible 　　It’s no secret that biblical names with an Old Testament (or Torah) feel are big right now. The top 100 is full of them, especially...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

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America's Next Top Baby Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Jan 13, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

Jan 13, 2025

　　And that’s a wrap on the celebrity names of 2023. This year saw a number of notable celebrity baby names, including Techno Mechanicus, Rocky Thirteen, and Louetta Isley. 　　In addition, many A-list celebrity babies were born in 2023, such as the unnamed babies of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and...

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Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa

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TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!

Jan 13, 2025

　　Today is officially Soap Opera Day (woo hoo!) and though this isn’t as big of a deal in the baby name world as it once was, with a lot fewer sudsers on TV than there were when soap operas were the main staple of daytime programming, we have to acknowledge...

Name Stories for Kids: For name-nerds-in-training!

Jan 13, 2025

　　There are countless books for kids with first names in their titles—from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Madeline to Fancy Nancy to Olivia—but there aren’t very many books for children about names, with scenarios revolving around such name issues as how they relate to identity, popularity, etc 　　I have found a...

Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?

Jan 13, 2025

　　Today’s QOW was inspired by a comment from jgirl525. 　　This week it’s a two-parter: 　　a. What’s your response when you meet someone who shares your own first name? Do you feel an instant kinship or do you feel more proprietary? If it’s a popular name, do you immediately start comparing nicknames...

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Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

Jan 13, 2025

　　Need an international name that works across different languages? It can be challenging, but here we share our tips and ideas to help you find a marvelously multilingual name that brings your family's cultures together. 　　If your family speaks multiple languages, you probably want your child to have a name...

Name Change Resources

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...