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And the Next Big Baby Names Are….

　　What will the next popular baby names be? Lots of parents would love to know… and name experts love to guess! 　　If you’re naming a child, you might be interested in whether your favorite names are likely to rise in the next few years. Maybe you want to avoid anything...

Nov 23, 2024

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Top Telegraph Names of 2019 Released

Nov 23, 2024

　　Welcome to the world, Paloma Violet Sheherazade and Hippolyte Jean Simon! 　　British broadsheet newspaper The Telegraph is famed for its wonderful, whimsical, oh-so-British baby name announcements. There’s even a long-running Nameberry Forums thread dedicated to the subject. 　　The paper has recently released its list of the most popular baby names...

The Top Baby Names of 2019 Are Here!

Nov 23, 2024

　　The top baby names of 2019 are (finally!) here, and we have a brand-new Number 1 girl name! Olivia usurps Emma for the title of most popular name for girls, while reigning champ Liam stays in the top spot for boys. 　　Emma and Isabella each dropped a position, ranking at...

Santa Cancels Baby Name Christmas

Nov 23, 2024

　　For the first time in its 23-year history, the new official list of most popular baby names in the US won’t be delivered on time by the Social Security Administration. 　　Instead of the usual Friday-before-Mother’s Day unveiling of last year’s most popular names, the SSA posted a message on its...

Japan Announces New Top Baby Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　Japan’s top baby names for 2019 are Rin for girls and Ren for boys, according to a new list released by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. 　　Top Japanese Girl NamesRin — Pronounced REEN, Rin means “dignified” or “severe.” It’s considered unisex but is clearly much more popular for girls. 　　Himari — A nature...

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Anything Goes for Girls: Apple, Willow, Mia, and Cai

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Baby Names from Books: 6 choice choices for girls

Nov 23, 2024

　　by Anna Otto, Waltzing More Than Matilda 　　1. Arrietty 　　Arrietty Clock is a teenage “borrower” from Mary Norton’s classic children’s fantasy book series, The Borrowers. The borrowers are tiny people who live by “borrowing” everyday items from the Big People they call “human beans.” Because of the spirited Arrietty’s curiosity, she and...

Invented Names Past and Present: From Vanessa to Iridessa

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Angela Mastrodonato, Upswing Baby Names 　　With names, as with other subjects, once I learned my assumptions were wrong, I was put in my place. 　　Pre-kids, I was a name-snob who openly expressed disdain for invented names, grouping all invented names with experimental spellings, and modern word-play creations such as...

Movie Star Character Names: A salute to Shirley Temple and the roles she played

Nov 23, 2024

　　By Haley Sedgwick 　　As a child, I remember asking my mum for a videocassette that I had my eyes on in the grocery store. Any normal preschooler would be asking for some sort of cartoon, but not me. My passion was musicals, and one actress, who had blonde curls and...

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Bad Boy Names: Asking for Trouble?

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Hooray for Henry: The quirky classic that manages to stay cool

Nov 23, 2024

　　When Henry was chosen as the #1 favorite boy’s name on the collective 5-star lists of the nameberry community, I was somewhat surprised and yet somewhat not. Because in many ways Henry is the perfect boy’s name—as classic and historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it...

Baby Boy Names: Tough, Tender, Traditional, Trendy?

Nov 23, 2024

　　Boy names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold. 　　The trendiest boy names are not exactly feminine, or even androgynous, but are decidedly...

Naming Baby After an Old Boyfriend

Nov 23, 2024

　　Guest blogger Kathryn Livingston__, author of the essay collection All About Motherhood, knew you weren’t supposed to name a baby after an old boyfriend. But she couldn’t resist. 　　My first two babies—both boys—were easy enough to name, and my husband and I agreed that the names Aaron and Sam were...

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

Nov 23, 2024

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State

Nov 23, 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...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

Nov 23, 2024

　　Vintage surname names — it’s not an oxymoron! 　　Yes, we tend to think of surname names as a modern trend, and in many ways it is. The way we use surname names today is remarkably different from a century ago. 　　Historically, wealthy families passed down surnames as a way to authenticate...

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Berry Question of the Week: Are my favorite names becoming too popular?

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Baby Names 2012: Heard any new names lately?

Nov 23, 2024

　　For the new year, we thought it would be fun to ask you to post the new baby names 2012 you’ve heard or see lately, on babies or in movie credits or in the newspaper or even new choices you’ve encountered on Nameberry. 　　We think we’ve heard them all…..until we...

Trendy Baby Names: And why not?

Nov 23, 2024

　　For her round-up of the Nameberry 9 newsiest names this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel asks us to think about why we sometimes shy away from trendy baby names. 　　I’ve heard parents fret that they can’t use Harper now that the Beckhams have bestowed it on a daughter. Suggest that...

Guess Beyonce’s Baby Name!

Nov 23, 2024

　　NEWS FLASH! Beyoncé gave birth last night to a baby girl with husband Jay-Z and the name is reportedly Blue Ivy….or maybe Ivy Blue. Stay tuned for breaking baby name news…. 　　The Beyoncé Baby Name Watch is in full swing, with rumors (false) flying that the singer’s baby girl with producer...

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Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Nov 23, 2024

　　Looking for a niche source of rare baby names? Try the comeback kids of 2022. 　　These names were once used for babies in the US, but then vanished for decades. Just when you might think they were lost forever, they've re-appeared in the official baby name data for 2022. 　　The...

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Nov 23, 2024

　　When it comes to classic names, there are two stories we like to tell. Sometimes it’s that classics have been abandoned. Time to name your baby Chicago, Koala, or True, because nobody would dare call a kid Elizabeth or James in the year 2023. 　　The other story? Classic baby names...

Baby Names Before 1850

Nov 23, 2024

　　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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Nov 23, 2024

　　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...

Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 23, 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...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Nov 23, 2024

　　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...