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Celebrity Babies: Latest starbaby name predictions

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Creating a coordinated sibset for celebrity babies and everyone else can be hard enough, but when the siblings in question are half-siblings, it’s even harder. A new partner means a new set of opinions and ideas to account for, so frequently sibset cohesion is a preference that...

Jan 12, 2025

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Celebrity Baby Names: Looking Ahead!

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

The New Top 10 Contest Winner

Jan 12, 2025

　　Congratulations to our Berry Amy, known in the comments as Orchid_Lover, who won our “Guess the New Top 10” contest! 　　Amy’s predictions for the Top 10 baby names of 2018 were as follows: 　　1. Emma 　　Noah 　　2. Olivia 　　Liam 　　3. Ava 　　William 　　4. Sophia 　　Oliver 　　5. Isabella 　　Benjamin 　　6. Charlotte...

The Long and Short of Baby Name News This Week

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes super short baby names, football and hockey namesakes, Indigenous Canadian names, and British trends over the last 180 years. 　　Juicy name stories: Tobermory and PerstephanieWho loves an unusual naming story? We do. These parents’ stories in HuffPost are particularly juicy: you’ll find out...

British Baby Name Trends of 2019

Jan 12, 2025

　　Happy New Year! As we move into the last year of the decade, here is a review of the most prevalent trends influencing British baby name trends. 　　COMEBACK AWARD: ADA 　　Ada has made a comeback in a big way in Britain in 2018, and it is little wonder why. On...

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Naming a Daughter – At Last!

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Flower Baby Names: A rose by any other name…

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Joanna Walker 　　In Romeo & Juliet, Juliet faces a dilemma– she has fallen in love with the son of her father’s sworn enemy: a Montague. Juliet famously asks: “What’s in a name?” She concludes that names are irrelevant and uses the garden rose to illustrate her point “That which...

Rare Girls’ Names of the 1940s: Avis, Marigold and Jinx

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Anna Otto, Waltzing More Than 　　Matilda 　　The most popular girls names of the 1940s were Margaret, Patricia, Judith, and Helen, but what were the least popular names? Here are ten names which were only chosen once in any year between 1944 and 1949 in South Australia, making them unique...

Best Botanical Baby Names

Jan 12, 2025

　　Botanical names have been beloved for many generations. We’re all familiar with Rose, Violet, and Lily, but the scientific (genus and species) names for plants are actually a gold mine for beautiful, unique baby names. Hundreds of thousands of plant species exist, so here are just a few lovely finds...

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Nameberry Picks: The 12 best ‘You-can-call-me-Al’ names

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Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition

Jan 12, 2025

　　Yesterday we did a rundown on the divide between the girls’ names that are stylish to the point where it feels like they must be popular and those that are actually, statistically widely used. It’s especially hard to distinguish when it comes to the names we see appearing so often in berry...

Nickname-Proof Boys’ Names: Ace, Holden, and Ford

Jan 12, 2025

　　This week, Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel finds boys’ names that are anything but traditional, and wonders if nickname-free is the new priority when naming a son. 　　Flip through on an old high school yearbook, and you’ll probably find pictures of William “Billy” Jones and Mary “Mimi” Smith. 　　For generations, there...

Animal Names: Cool bear baby names beyond Paddington and Pooh

Jan 12, 2025

　　What with the movie Ted, starring an outrageously potty-mouthed teddy bear, having been a box office sensation, and celebs giving their baby boys the actual first or middle name of Bear, this seems like a perfect time to think about Teddy and other fictional bear names for possible inspiration. 　　So,...

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Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

Jan 12, 2025

　　It’s hard to imagine Lauren, Lindsay, Madison and Sydney as anything other than girl names. But rewind 100 years and they were used mainly — or even exclusively — for boys. So were a lot of other names that are now more female. 　　Unisex names are rarely perfectly gender-balanced. They’re...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Jan 12, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...

200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Jan 12, 2025

　　Lovers of unique word names, put down your dictionaries! 　　We’ve found a better way to come up with truly original word names for babies: crowdsource it! We recently asked our brilliant Berry community to suggest cool new word name possibilities that no one’s thought of yet — and they didn’t...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

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Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

Jan 12, 2025

　　Old money names conjure the aspirational lifestyle provided by generational wealth — elite country clubs, prep schools, and holidays in the countryside. The old money aesthetic is being felt beyond baby names — this prep-rebrand is suddenly everywhere. 　　Fashion runways are filled with pleated skirts, penny loafers, and pearl necklaces. Americans...

Creative Family Names Honor Loved Ones

Jan 12, 2025

　　So long, Junior! Creative family names are a major modern name trend, replacing Jrs and IIIs on the birth certificate. 　　Two years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their daughter Lilibet Diana, honoring two of the most important women in Harry’s family. Lilibet pays homage to Harry's grandmother, Queen...

Cottagecore Baby Names Turn Back the Clock

Jan 12, 2025

　　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...

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10th Anniversary: Nameberry Goes Global!

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20 Unique Baby Names That Deserve More Love

Jan 12, 2025

　　If you could give just one largely unknown and under-appreciated baby name a big PR boost, what would you choose? 　　We recently stumbled across this intriguing thread topic from the Nameberry Forums, and it got us thinking… As wonderful and wide-ranging as the community here is, Nameberry can still be something...

How Important to You is a Name’s Distinctiveness?

Jan 12, 2025

　　We all know that the official popularity rankings don’t tell us everything there is to know about how popular our favorite baby names really are… 　　First, there’s regional variation: a cursory glance at the state-by-state popularity charts will tell you that parents in Oregon who are looking for an uncommon...

New Top Baby Names in England and Wales

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Eleanor Nickerson, British Baby Names 　　Today, the top baby names for England and Wales in 2017 have been released by the Office of National Statistics (yes, we get ours pretty late on, sadly). 　　And once again Oliver was top for English name for boys, for the fifth year, and Olivia remained...

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Help Jessica Alba Name Baby #3

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　Jessica Alba and Cash Warren are expecting their third child, and they have a strict set of requirements for this baby’s name. Jessica recently gave Jimmy Fallon the run-down, but I’ll summarize for you here: 　　First of all, the name has to be a word name that starts...

Who’s In Your Baby Name Squad?

Jan 12, 2025

　　Naming a baby — or a pet, fictional character or video game avatar — is a very personal process. What matters most is that you find one that resonates with some deep part of your soul. But that doesn’t mean that seeking it has to be a solitary act. 　　And...

Naming Rules from a 6-year-old Name Nerd

Jan 12, 2025

　　By Claire Shefchik 　　My parents have been in the same house for 25 years, and I’m not a famous enough writer (yet) that my personal papers have been auctioned off at Christie‘s. So when I got that inevitable command from my mother to “clear out your junk or else,” I...