The New Everyboy Names: Emmett, River, and Axel
　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　What’s the 2014 equivalent of the old phrase “Every Tom, Dick, and Harry?” 　　Every Aiden, Mason, and Jake? 　　Every Max, Zac, and Jackson? 　　The most popular names for boys used to hold steady for years.  In 1932, the ten most popular names for boys...
Nov 27, 2024
Jack, Jackson & Theodore: Who says it’s tough to name a boy?
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40+ Neglected Namesake Names–Boys’ edition
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Top 100 Boy Names of 2013
Nov 27, 2024
　　Asher is back on top!  The hot biblical name has reclaimed the crown as Number One boys’ name from Finn, which snatched it last year. 　　Declan, an Irish choice that flirted with the Number One spot on Nameberry throughout 2013, finished at Number Two. 　　Finn’s star may be flickering, but...
Honoring a beloved grandfather by taking his name
Nov 27, 2024
　　The following essay is re-published with the permission of its original author Robbie Blair. You can view the full essay here. 　　A name is not a small thing. I didn’t realize its full weight until I read Helen Keller‘s account of her genesis in the world of language and identity....
Nickname Names for Boys
Nov 27, 2024
　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　A friend of ours recently named his baby Jake.  Not Jacob, just Jake. 　　Why name the kid Jacob, he and his wife reasoned, when they weren’t really crazy about it and intended to call the little boy Jake all the time anyway? 　　Nickname names have become...
Boys Baby Names: The viable and the verboten
Nov 27, 2024
　　Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　A French film made its US debut this week.  What’s in a Name? takes us to a dinner party.  A happy couple announces that they’re expecting a son, and they’ve chosen a name. 　　Adolphe. 　　It’s as scandalous a choice in French as it...
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Zodiac Baby Names for Girls
Zodiac Baby Names for Girls
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Name Sage: But I Like All 42 Names!
Nov 27, 2024
　　Amy writes: 　　We are expecting our second little girl in the next few months. 　　We found the perfect name for our first daughter, Viviana Rose. We call her Viviana, Vivi and Viv. I love the nickname options. We also love that it’s classic with a twist so that it’s out...
Cool Word Names for Girls
Nov 27, 2024
　　By Abby Sandel 　　It was a good week for girls’ names. 　　Sure, there were some great birth announcements for boys, too. The late Christopher Reeve is now a grandfather. Daughter Alexandra Reeve and husband Garren Givens named their son Christopher Russel, after both grandfathers. Actors Tiffani Thiessen and Brady Smith...
Name Sage: A Sister for Rex
Nov 27, 2024
　　Livy writes: 　　We are expecting our second child, a daughter, in four weeks and we are completely stumped on girl names. We already have a son called Rex and his name was really the only one we could agree on but we both loved it; it fitted instantly. This time...
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Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names
Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names
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John Today, Gianni Tomorrow
Nov 27, 2024
　　Guest blogger SONIA TSURUOKA, who’s been interning at nameberry this month, examines the long rise and recent fall of the name John and the advent of its upstart cousins. 　　Pretty much everybody knows someone named John. 　　Backed by its rich history and plenty of timeless appeal, this all-time favorite enjoyed...
RIP, Ben: A Mom Mourns Her Once-Favorite Name
Nov 27, 2024
　　BENJAMIN – Laura Dunphy and her husband, Mike, are mourning the loss of the name Benjamin, which was terminated from their Baby Name List on Friday May 21, 2010, after a long and debilitating ailment. 　　Almost 11 years ago, Benjamin – as they called him, Ben – was the very...
Baby Boy Names: Tough, Tender, Traditional, Trendy?
Nov 27, 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...
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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic
Unisex Names Across the Atlantic
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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up
Nov 27, 2024
　　Gender neutral names are extremely fashionable right now – but that can pose a problem to parents looking for a cool but uncommon unisex baby name. 　　Familiar favorites such as River (Number 105 for boys in 2022, and Number 150 for girls) and Charlie (Number 178 for boys, Number 123...
Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity
Nov 27, 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...
America's Top Unisex Names of 2022
Nov 27, 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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Starbaby News: The Jagger Dynasty, gender-bending and more
Starbaby News: The Jagger Dynasty, gender-bending and more
Eclectic Naming Trends: Global, Gender-Neutral, Classic Billy and Bob are Back in the Playground From Mary to Isabella: Baby names get longer and longer Mythological Baby Names: They’re on the rise Twin name trends in this week’s baby names news M Baby Names: Initial of the future? Name-alytics Sibling Names: The latest from London
A peek inside the Nameberry bubble
Nov 27, 2024
　　Middle names are entering a new era for 2023 and beyond. It’s almost imperative today that middle names be meaningful — whether they honor a relative, relate to a parent’s passion, or reflect an important family value. 　　But middle names today should also be fun. Parents are taking advantage of...
The Most Popular Names Over Time
Nov 27, 2024
　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　Ever wonder which name has been given the most overall? Of course I have! To satisfy my curiosity on the matter, I totaled the raw numbers of all names ever recorded by the SSA since the data has been collected (1880). I must say the results...
Hot Baby Names: 20 choices heading for the top
Nov 27, 2024
　　What are the hottest baby names today, those zooming toward the top of the popularity list? 　　Identifying which names are moving fastest toward the top is an art, but there can also be some science to it.  We asked the Wizard of Nameberry, our engineer Hugh Hunter, to plot the...
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New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
New Study Determines the Top Jewish Names
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Top Czech Names Follow International Trends
Nov 27, 2024
　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....
Top Names in Each State Revealed!
Nov 27, 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...
Forgotten Names Making a Comeback
Nov 27, 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...
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How to Cope With Baby Name Regret
How to Cope With Baby Name Regret
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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name
Nov 27, 2024
　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...
20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask
Nov 27, 2024
　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...
Test-Driving Your Baby Name
Nov 27, 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...
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