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Super Name Sunday: Names From Super Bowl XLV

　　While the country’s attention will be focused on football this Super Bowl Sunday, some of us may be more interested in another aspect of the action: The crazy names of the players, of course! Nameberry’s new intern Robert Harclerode breaks down the most interesting names on both teams: 　　The Super...

Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

Top Boys Name For Each Letter: a 130-year survey

Irish Baby Names: Last Names First

How About Harvey? What About Walter?

Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back Boys’ Names: The Happy Ending William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn Boys’ Names Ins and Outs Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom A Boy Named Chelsea Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way

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Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

　　Heroes and villains, famous and infamous, real life, big and small screen characters and the actors who played them—there’s a whole genre of cowboy names that have a certain swagger and western twang all their own. 　　Here are a dozen of the best: who they were and why we like...

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week? 　　Me neither. 　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration. But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...

Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names

　　Until recently, Italian names–particularly for boys– have rarely ventured outside their own neighborhoods, but lately we’ve seen several popping up in the celebrisphere—though usually, if not always, used by celebs with Italian roots. There have been at least four Mateo/Matteos, two Roccos, two Romeos, Annabeth Gish’s Enzo, Ricky Martin’s Valentino, and...

Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

　　_Covering the week of January 25 to 31st, Abby Sandel– creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– unearths some treasures in the male Oscar nominee names announced this week._ 　　The list of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards came out last week. Even though the only category in which I’ve actually seen all the...

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Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition

Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition

Word Names for Babies: What’s in a word? Boys’ Names for Girls: A Key To Success? BALLERINA NAMES: Names for the Nutcracker Season Hate Your Name? Change It! Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part I-Trailblazers Heroine Names: Worthy Women with Notable Names, Part 2: Cultural Icons Name Shame Will This Baby Ever Get A Name?

Baby Names from Books: 20 Lost Literary Girls’ Names

　　Within the pages of books from all periods of literary history—from classical, metaphysical and Elizabethan poetry and plays to the Romantics and the Realists, right up to modern novels—can be found gems of names that have been lost to time, either because they’ve been identified with a singular character or simply...

The Lost Names of 1880

　　I was combing through the Top 1000 Names of 1880 the other day for another project (ah, the glamorous life of the baby name expert) and I was blown away by how many names on the list had been totally forgotten. I don’t mean just marginalized, like Ethel or Beulah,...

Nature Names: Will trees be the new flower names?

　　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...

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NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

BOYS’ NAMES 2011: The Underground Popularity List Cowboy Baby Names: This week’s Nameberry 9 Nameberry Challenge: Name Affleck baby #3!! Cowboy Names: Back in the saddle again Classic Boys’ Names: Let’s hear it for Henry! Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks A Boy Named Chelsea

Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn

　　When Presidents Day rolls around, on our site and others, a lot of attention is paid to the influential names of our past presidents—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Taylor, Truman, Lincoln, Kennedy et al—and sometimes the names of their wives and children as well. And so I thought that this year it...

Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous

　　It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). It turns out that quite a number of past (and...

Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

　　_Covering the week of January 25 to 31st, Abby Sandel– creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– unearths some treasures in the male Oscar nominee names announced this week._ 　　The list of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards came out last week. Even though the only category in which I’ve actually seen all the...

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What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

Gender-Bending Baby Names Baby Name News of the Week Newsy Names this Week: Aberdeen, Hercules and Via Modern Virtue Names Baby Names: The gender reshuffle Who gets to judge your baby’s name? Unisex Baby Names: the new entries for 2013 Unisex Names: Which names work best for both genders?

The Subconscious Bias of Unisex Baby Name Trends

　　It used to just be one of those quirks reserved for the parents of future celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Taylor Swift, Hayden Panettiere and Blake Lively, but now giving baby girls a traditional boy name is on trend. 　　Evelyn, Mackenzie, Billie, Frankie, Addison, Tyler, Dylan,...

10 Years of Baby Names

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We launched Nameberry in October 2008, the same month the economy collapsed and a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president. 　　In that decade, 40 million babies were born in the US, and 235 million people viewed 1.5 billion pages of our...

Get Your Latest Baby Name News!

　　By Clare Bristow 　　This week’s news includes biblical rarities, celebrities’ unisex choices, classic names with meaning, and French names galore. 　　Neglected names from the Bible 　　It’s no secret that biblical names with an Old Testament (or Torah) feel are big right now. The top 100 is full of them, especially...

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THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE

THE FOUR-GENERATION RULE

Latin Baby Names: Most influential choices TV Character Names: Dynasty & Dallas Taking Baby Names Seriously L Names to Love Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!! Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no Names of the Future GOODBYE, GLADYS?

Royal Baby Names: Hollywood’s Little Princes and Princesses

　　As reported in the not always reliable Star magazine, Nicole Richie, mother of Harlow Winter Kate, has at the top of her list of names for her baby-to-be Baron, inspired by Donald Trump’s little Barron. (Her other two published possibilities being Kypher and Martavious, about which I’ll restrain my comments). ...

New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple

　　Ah, New York, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And if you can name your baby here without needing therapy or Xanax, then I applaud you. 　　That’s because like everything else in NYC, baby naming is intense. If most people think naming children...

CAREFUL, KAL-EL; WATCH OUT WHIZDOM!

　　We all know how the media likes to jump on every new ‘weird’ starbaby name, predicting dire consequences down the road for the likes of poor little Moxie CrimeFighter, Pilot Inspektor, Bronx Mowgli, and Apple. Well, only time will tell how these kids will actually meet that particular challenge as...

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Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa

Latin American Names: los nombres del bebe con salsa

Favorite Baby Names: Your Personal Top 10? Popular Baby Names: Tops of the un-pops TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day! Top UK Baby Names: Olivia and Oliver head the list New Zealand Name Report Baby Names of 2011: Newest crop of babyberries The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1 British Baby Names: Tops of the pops

Popular baby names: The case for the common name

　　Today’s guest blogger Kristen, aka Swistle, confronts the question of popular baby names–and explains why it’s okay to use them. 　　More common than the name is this naming concern heard from parents: “We don’t want her to be one of five in every class.” 　　We know they don’t need to worry about...

The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?

　　In The Nameberry 9 blog this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, addresseses the question of “What is a ‘normal name?” 　　The news was filled with so-called normal names this week. But what defines a normal name? Is it a Top Ten choice that plenty of people your age share? Or...

British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations

　　Yesterday, to launch British Names Week on Nameberry, Eleanor Nickerson identified the five strongest current naming trends in the UK. 　　Today we zero in on the popularity of individual names on both sides of the Atlantic, seeing which names have shared success and which haven’t. 　　We Yanks sometimes tend to...

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

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

Name Change Resources How to Change Your Baby’s Name 9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby Updating Popular 1950s Names How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

　　Baby name regret — also known as baby name remorse — is a common source of shame among new parents. It allegedly affects between 10-20% of new parents, yet the perceived stigma deters many from sharing their feelings or stories. 　　Lately, celebrities have been opening up about their own experiences with baby...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...

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