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100 Best Cool Unusual Boy Names Now

　　Cool unusual boy names are the ones that give you that “Wish I’d thought of that first!” feeling. They’re names with genuine roots, straightforward spelling and pronunciation, in-step with current trends – but that barely anyone is using. 　　Read on for our brand new updated A-Z of the 100 best...

Dec 4, 2024

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How I Named My Baby: Magnus Gabriel Nicholas

Dec 4, 2024

　　Imogen Gater, a teacher, and Nick Gater, a carpenter, live in a tiny thatch cottage in North Dorset, England with their three children. Their youngest, a son named Magnus Gabriel Nicholas, arrived in August. 　　Here, Imogen shares how she and Nick chose the baby name Magnus for their little boy....

Choosing Vintage Boy Names

Dec 4, 2024

　　They’ve got the perfect name for a daughter, but if this baby is a boy? It’s a blank page. Let’s find some vintage boy names that work nicely with big sister Blythe Norah. 　　Hannah writes:I’ve been reading through all of your columns for inspiration and loving your suggestions. It seems...

How I Named My Baby: Eben Frank Dennis

Dec 4, 2024

　　Lily Whymark, a document controller, and Ryan Coulson, a design engineer, live in Kent, UK. They welcomed their first child, a son named Eben Frank Dennis Coulson, on July 13, 2020. 　　Here, Lily answer’s our questions about how she and Ryan named Eben. 　　When did you know you found “The...

Great Nicknames Shorten Classic Favorites

Dec 4, 2024

　　Great nicknames can transform a solid, distinguished classic into a cuddly name for a child – and still leave plenty of room to grow! Kalli and her family have used this strategy to name their daughters. Now let’s help them find an equally great nickname/formal name combination for a son....

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Silent Screen Actress Names: The Virgins and The Vamps

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Animated Baby Names for Girls

Dec 4, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling kept us guessing about their daughter’s name for weeks. But as Esmeralda Amada has gotten older, they’ve shared not only her name, but also their reasons for the choice. In a recent interview, they shared that the name appealed because it works...

The Orphans of Annie

Dec 4, 2024

　　By Meagan at TulipByAnyName 　　A “hard knock life” is so much sweeter with a great name! 　　Annie is a beloved musical that opened on Broadway in 1977. There have been many stage, film, and TV adaptations of this heart-warming rags-to-riches story. As a child, watching the 1982 film version, I...

Name Sage: Kim Kardashian Stole My Baby Name!

Dec 4, 2024

　　Missy writes: 　　We are expecting a girl in December. We thought we had the perfect name picked out for our little darling: Easton Brennan LastName. We loved that Easton is not expected for a girl and Brennan is my best friend’s last name. Our son Nash Anderson‘s middle name is...

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Ask the Name Sage: Is Peter a Problem?

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Kelly, Mackenzie, and Clare: Great reclaimed names for boys

Dec 4, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Girls have been borrowing from boys’ names for generations. Shirley and Ashley were once more common for men. Ditto Madison, Avery, and Harper. 　　It’s easy to fume about name theft. After all, conventional wisdom is that once a name is widely used for our daughters,...

The Brave New World of Boys’ Names: Zion, Dashiell, and Ocean

Dec 4, 2024

　　The way we name boys is changing, and that’s a good thing. 　　For years, parents played it safe when naming their sons. We were more likely to pass down family names, and less likely to choose something really different or novel. 　　Why? Maybe we worried that boys were more likely...

Ancient Baby Names: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Trajan

Dec 4, 2024

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The Roman Empire reigned for more than five hundred years, led by 140 different emperors. In modern times, though, with a couple of exceptions, the names of these august figures were considered far too august and imposing for a twentieth/twenty-first century kid. But the times they are...

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Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Dec 4, 2024

　　Total Bellas star Brie Bella, mother of three-year-old Birdie Joe and newborn Buddy Dessert, revealed she would have chosen the name Branch or Blossom for her child if she’d had a girl. “People thought I was crazy, but I thought Birdie and Branch would just be like the sweetest, cutest...

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

Dec 4, 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...

50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up

Dec 4, 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...

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Celebrity Baby Name Trends of 2023

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Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Dec 4, 2024

　　Cottagecore baby names are part of a recent aesthetic trend defined by an appreciation for romanticized rural life, according to The New York Times. Hobbies such as bread baking, embroidery, and mushroom foraging are among the wholesome, nostalgic elements of the cottagecore lifestyle. 　　Cottagecore names, too, evoke this bucolic way...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Dec 4, 2024

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

Ancient Names for Babies

Dec 4, 2024

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

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Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

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Classic Baby Names on the Rise

Dec 4, 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...

How Gen Z Is Your Name?

Dec 4, 2024

　　Gen Z names, the most popular names for babies born from 1997 to 2012, are led by Emily and Jacob, according to a new study by Nameberry. 　　The watchword for Generation Z names is diversity, according to Nameberry’s study, with 70% more names in general use for Zoomers than for...

Forgotten Names Making a Comeback

Dec 4, 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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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Dec 4, 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...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Dec 4, 2024

　　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...

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Dec 4, 2024

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...