Imaginative Names for Girls: Aurora, Angelou, and Elle
　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　When it comes to naming a daughter, imagination reigns.  From Hollywood birth announcements to literary powerhouses, blog babies to the most random of name spottings, a great name can come from anywhere. 　　This week’s potential seismic name influence?  Disney’s big screen retelling of Sleeping Beauty....
Apr 17, 2025
Medievalizing a Name: Elizabeth to Elisende
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Let’s hear it for the Ola Names: Lola, Viola and Finola
Girl Baby Names: Something Old, Something New
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Buttoned-up Girls’ Names
Apr 17, 2025
　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　The trendiest girls’ names of recent years have been flowery and elaborate: Isabella and Sophia, Olivia and Arianna.  They end in vowels….and often begin with them too.  And if they’re not exotic confections, stylish girls’ names are often gender-and-tradition-confounding novelties such as Harper and Hadley and...
What’s your favorite flower name?
Apr 17, 2025
　　Flower names for girls never go out of style, and for good reason!  　　Flower names have a fresh femininity which has appealed to parents throughout the ages, but they can also make a meaningful choice.  　　Choosing a seasonal flower name can be a sweet way to connect your baby girl...
Bye-bye, Meghan.  So long, Marisa.  Girl names leaving the Top 1000
Apr 17, 2025
　　by Ren Williams 　　Many of the stories about the recent US Popular Names list focus on the names at the top and on the rise: the Sophias and Jacobs, Khaleesis and Jayceons of the baby name world. 　　But, just as some names go up, others must come down. The following...
The Long and the Short of Girl Names
Apr 17, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Do you prefer your girls’ names short and simple, or long and elaborate? 　　There’s no right answer, and plenty of parents shortlist Rose and Isabella, Blair and Ellington. 　　From just one syllable to seven or eight, this week’s high profile birth announcements proved that parents...
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Mom Names: The Names of Famous Mothers
Mom Names: The Names of Famous Mothers
Beyond Ava & Aiden is Born She Suggests Names, He Vetoes Them: Can This Couple Negotiate? Flower Fairy Names Baby Name Fever: Is There A Cure? Honoring A Grandmother By Reinventing Her Name Princess Names Nameberry Makeover: Renovating the Top Ten Girls’ Names WELSH NAMES: Beyond Gwyneth and Griffin
A Baby Named ….Seabiscuit?
Apr 17, 2025
　　Our guest blogger Marion Roach first wrote about her sister Margaret’s horse-inspired name on her blog [_She Said, She Said](http://thesisterproject.com/roach), part of the sisters’ joint site, The Sister Project.  Margaret Roach, the former editor of “Martha Stewart Living”, also runs the site A Way To Garden._ 　　My family frequently names...
The Clementine Clique: Trendy names ending in ‘ine’
Apr 17, 2025
　　Here at nameberry, we’ve been known to scrutinize trends down to a single letter (are V names in?) or syllable (la-beginnings) or sound (oo), as in Talllulah.  The other day, thinking about  the names that are emerging as as among the hottest for girls right now, I suddenly realized that several...
Finding New Names in Vintage Categories
Apr 17, 2025
　　Maybe there are certain kinds of names that you really like–flower or color names, say, or virtue names– but you’re reluctant to use one of the more obvious examples, the epidemically popular ones, attractive though they may be.  Well, there’s no reason you have to limit yourself to those few; more...
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Is Any Name Better than Theodore?
Is Any Name Better than Theodore?
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10 Names Going Back to the Boys
Apr 17, 2025
　　Gender and naming are two complicated subjects that become almost perilous once considered together. It may appear on the surface that we’ve entered a sort of gender-fluid golden age in which gender neutral names like Cameron, Elliot, Peyton, Quinn, and anything -son are equally accessible to boys and girls. It...
9 Stylish Classic Boy Names You Should Consider
Apr 17, 2025
　　By Abby Sandel 　　Looking for the middle ground between cool, edgy boy names like Axl, Legend, and Bodhi, and quiet traditionals like Michael, Joseph, and David? You’re in luck! There’s a crop of boy names that are bona fide classics, with history galore. And yet, they still feel stylish, even...
Trendy Boy names ending in i
Apr 17, 2025
　　By Meagan Burke 　　Since May, name enthusiasts around the world have been poring over the Social Security Administration’s list of the most popular names for 2015. Though the high-ranking boy’s names from last year are mostly classic, timeless choices; still a few new trends have emerged. In recent years we’ve...
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100 Unique Unisex Middle Names
100 Unique Unisex Middle Names
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The Most Nonbinary Names in Every State
Apr 17, 2025
　　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...
Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave
Apr 17, 2025
　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...
Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl
Apr 17, 2025
　　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...
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Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023
Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023
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Babyberries: Class of 2023!
Apr 17, 2025
　　As we finish off another year, it's time for the recap of Nameberry's newest arrivals born in 2023! 　　Birth announcements for 93 new Babyberries – 47 girls and 46 boys – were featured on our forums and Instagram over the past year. The warmest of welcomes to all of our littlest members! 　　Berry parents...
Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!
Apr 17, 2025
　　Christian names combine spirituality with style, conveying a faith-based message with contemporary sensibility. 　　These modern Christian names with an evangelical feel aren’t traditional biblical names, well-worn virtues, or even the old prophet names that are so popular nowadays. No, this is a fresh, 21st-century style of Christian names that shout...
What's a Classic Name?
Apr 17, 2025
　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...
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The Best of the Rarest Baby Names
The Best of the Rarest Baby Names
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Classic Baby Names on the Rise
Apr 17, 2025
　　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...
20 Chic French Names You Should Know About
Apr 17, 2025
　　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
Apr 17, 2025
　　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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Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous
Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous
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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name
Apr 17, 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...
How to Change Your Baby’s Name
Apr 17, 2025
　　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....
Test-Driving Your Baby Name
Apr 17, 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...
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