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Celebrity Baby Names: Looking Ahead!

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　As 2018 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year in celebrity baby names…and look ahead to baby names 2019. It was an exciting time—three (yes, three!) Kardashians babies were born this year, Chicago, Stormi, and True. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend named their...

Jan 12, 2025

Celebrity Baby Names: Coming Attractions!

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What Uncommon Names Do You Hear a Lot?

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International Baby Names: Hottest in the UK, Poland and Japan

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s international baby names news includes the boldest and Britishest celebrity boy names, and what’s hot in Poland, Hungary and Japan, plus the benefits of multi-nickname names. 　　Baby boy names: vintage and vivaciousInternational baby names news this week has seen boy name announcements from both sides...

Celebrity Names: April Starbaby Predictions

Jan 12, 2025

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　I’ve been the Name Guru to the Stars for a while now—long enough that I’m predicting the celebrity names for siblings of the babies I once made predictions for. 　　In the past, I forecasted the names of Michael Phelps, Alanis Morissette, Lauren Conrad, Miranda Kerr, and Daphne...

Your Most Surprising Future Top Baby Names?

Jan 12, 2025

　　We recently shared our predictions for the Top 10 baby names of 2028, based on statistical analysis of the annual Social Security data. 　　According to our projections, three new girl names and a whopping seven new boy names will be among those occupying the top spots in a decade’s time:...

New Starbaby Name Predictions: What’s next?

Jan 12, 2025

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Do you find it easier to name girls or boys? Traditionally, the name pool for girls has been larger (although options for boys are ever increasing). For some, the plethora of choices for girls makes it easier to find a name they love, while for others the...

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150+ European Baby Girl Names

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Feminizations Carry Girl Power

Jan 12, 2025

　　Looking for a girl name that honors a boy name? There are so many possibilities, whatever your style. 　　Feminizations are girl names that build on traditionally male names, or which have a masculine equivalent. They’re a varied group with lots of interesting options that are full of feminine spirit. 　　What...

How I Named My Baby: Esme Virginia

Jan 12, 2025

　　Bailey Carroll, who works in healthcare technology, and Jon Wakelin, a strategy consultant, live in Lexington, Massachusetts with their two daughters: Louisa Wu "Lulu", and Esme Virginia Wu. 　　Esme was born on November 25, 2022. Below, we speak to Bailey about how she and Jon named their little girl. 　　Tell...

How I Named My Baby: Zeraphyn Miu

Jan 12, 2025

　　Selina Hotaru Ng and Jeff Fan live in Singapore with their three children: sons Zenith Ryuu and Zephyr Haruu, and daughter Zeraphyn Miu. 　　Zeraphyn was born on December 4, 2022. Here, we speak with Selina about how she and Jeff named their little girl. 　　Tell me how you named Zeraphyn!We...

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The Trendy ‘ett’ Boys–from Beckett to Bennett to Jett

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Baby Name Ronan: One of these kids–and his name– is not like the others.

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Tara Wood 　　We have six kids–four girls and two boys. And while they are all different, most of them also have several common personality traits. They are mostly friendly, loving, even-tempered and overall agreeable. Most of them have relatively common names. They are : Juliette (Jules), Bella, Mia, Leo...

Baby Names for Boys: Popularity of “S” and “Sh” sounds

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady, NameFreak! 　　I previously compared the popularity of girl names that began with the “S” and “Sh” sounds. Here are the boys! 　　As I explained last week, to do this research, I used the S and Sh names with percentage of use above 0.01% since 1938*. This cutoff was...

Baby Name Choice: Second thoughts on Laszlo?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Joel Stein, columnist, Time magazine 　　We’ve had second thoughts. Specifically, my lovely wife Cassandra has had second thoughts that were my first thought. Levi, which she thought was trending too close to popularity and therefore rejected to my great disappointment, didn’t become so popular and she thinks it might...

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

Jan 12, 2025

　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Jan 12, 2025

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

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Future Starbaby Names: Predictions for the New Hammer and Grammer Babes

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Hottest Baby Names of 2017

Jan 12, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　What are the hottest baby names of 2017? Which baby names do we see getting hotter, cooler, trendier, and a lot more visible in the year ahead? 　　To find out, we measured which names clocked the greatest rise in page views in the first month of 2017 compared...

What Names are in the Stars for These Starbabies?

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　This month’s set of celebrity naming styles is very eclectic. There’s Katherine Heigl and her husband Josh, who loves honor names; Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who famously made Wyatt a unisex name; and Mira Pak and Terrence Howard, who create their own names. We’ll have to...

Nine Rising Word Names: Fox, Clover and Stone

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　We’ve always loved word names. Just ask the Pilgrim parents who chose Faith and Hope, the early twentieth century Opals and Earls, or the children of the 80s named Amber and Crystal. 　　Word names have boomed in the 21st century. Some are revived from the past –...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

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The Top Baby Names A-Z

Jan 12, 2025

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Jan 12, 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...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Jan 12, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts

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9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

How to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 12, 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....

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 12, 2025

　　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,...