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　　By Joe Satran 　　Nice girls don’t always finish last — at least when it comes to baby names. 　　Sure, many newly fashionable girls’ names are either tomboyish (Avery, Harper, Brooklyn) or opulently feminine (Sophia and Isabella). But a countervailing trend is starting to emerge. In the past few years, girls’ names with a distinctly...

Apr 17, 2025

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A boy name trend now hot for the girls!

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The er suffix has always been popular for boy names, in part because it’s such a common one in occupational surname names like Cooper and Hunter. But for girls—not so much. Of course Jennifer was the behemoth of the 70s and 80s, and borrowed-from-the-boys Harper is now #10...

Modern Girl Names: Sleek and Rare

Apr 17, 2025

　　Modern girl names, simple and sleek yet rare and distinctive, provide a refreshing counterpoint to the elaborately feminine vintage names so popular for girls in recent years . 　　These lovely modern names for girls are standouts among the kree8tiv spellings and strange inventions that also rank among contemporary names. 　　Some...

Wonder Women Names: Strong names for girls

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Josh Murray 　　As the newest film in the DC Comics Cinematic Universe, Wonder Woman has recently been released to mass acclaim. Critics and fans have become enthralled by the strong female lead. Here are the names of other strong and independent women, some with those qualities embedded in their...

Sibling Names: Should They Share the Same Initial?

Apr 17, 2025

　　Update: Cora’s brother has a name! 　　They gave their first two daughters traditional, feminine A names. Should they stick with that style – and letter! – for sibling names or try something new if their next baby is a girl? 　　Holly writes: 　　My husband and I are happily expecting our...

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The Florodora Girls: Cora, Dora, Flora & Nora

Apr 17, 2025

　　There’s been a lot of berry-buzz lately around the names Cora, Flora and Dora, a nostalgic bevy of beauties we might call the Floradora girls. 　　If you’re wondering about the origins of the term, it dates back to Florodora, one of the first big Broadway musical hits of the twentieth...

Can you help this teenberry love her name?

Apr 17, 2025

　　Elaine, a young berry with what she feels to be an “old-lady name,” prefers to go by the sprightlier nickname, “Laney.” But she doesn’t love Laney either and so poses her dilemma to her fellow berries. Can she learn to love her name? Or is it time to start over...

New! First-Ever Berry Question of the Week

Apr 17, 2025

　　We’re turning around the Question of the Week format, so that you ask the questions of us and of the general Berry population. 　　Looking for advice on naming your baby? Negotiating a name problem with your partner or mother-in-law? Or simply have a larger name question you’d like to ask...

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Boys’ Names: This week’s newsiest picks, from Barnaby to Jasper to Ned

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To V or Not To V? Can this Mom break family tradition?

Apr 17, 2025

　　Megan , who lives just outside Philadelphia, is expecting her first boy after two little girls in June. Her daughters both have family names, but now her husband, Thomas IV, would like to continue the tradition of naming the boys in his family Thomas, making their son Thomas V. Problem...

Unusual Boys’ Names: 12 Fresh Biblical Choices

Apr 17, 2025

　　Are there really any good unusual boys’ names left in the Bible? Old Testament names for boys have been fashionable for going on half a century now, from the 1960s Adam to the present day Asher. Could there possibly be any obscure-yet-usable choices left? 　　Hundreds of them, in fact. The...

Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry!

Apr 17, 2025

　　Why does Henry consistently rank as one of the top two Nameberry favorite boys’ names? (Finn is the other one.) 　　Because in many ways Henry is the most perfect of the classic boys’ names—as historic as James and John and William –yet with a quirkier edge that makes it seem modern, and even hip. 　　Henry...

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The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

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Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Apr 17, 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...

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...

How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Apr 17, 2025

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

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What's a Classic Name?

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Apr 17, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

Apr 17, 2025

　　Which baby names will be on top in 2024? 　　If we're speaking literally, you can expect to see the same few names on the tippy-top of the charts — Olivia and Emma, Liam and Noah. But it's a lot more fun to look at the fastest-rising names — the choices rapidly...

America's Next Top Baby Names

Apr 17, 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...

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Baby Name News from Around the Globe

Apr 17, 2025

　　T__his week’s news includes the latest name data from Denmark, surprising stats from France, and a defense of the delightfully… well, ordinary. 　　What’s Hot with Danish Names? 　　Juhu! Denmark’s office for national statistics has released its annual baby name data for 2017! Here you can see the top 50 names...

Pop Culture Names Outside the Top 1000

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Josh Murray 　　We live in a world that is more connected than ever. World events influence politics, politics influences art, art influences culture, and it all influences the names we give our children. 　　In the twenty-first century, celebrities and other pop culture icons have played a large role in...

Name Popularity Countdown: The waiting game!

Apr 17, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes the final countdown to the 2017 name data, names inspired by Star Wars, country music and the Amazon, and fantastic four-letter names. 　　Your countdown to 2017’s top namesThis is not a drill: the US Social Security Administration will release the most popular baby...

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The Best Baby Name Advice

Apr 17, 2025

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

Apr 17, 2025

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Apr 17, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...