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Bye-bye, Meghan.  So long, Marisa.  Girl names leaving the Top 1000
Jan 10, 2025
  by Ren Williams   Many of the stories about the recent US Popular Names list focus on the names at the top and on the rise: the Sophias and Jacobs, Khaleesis and Jayceons of the baby name world.   But, just as some names go up, others must come down. The following...
Girl Baby Names: Something Old, Something New
Jan 10, 2025
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   The good news about naming a girl: the options are limitless.   The bad news about naming a girl: the options?  Limitless!  How do you choose?   In the US, around two-thirds of all newborn girls are given a Top 1000 name.  We play it safe with...
Modern Girls’ Names: Zhuri, Marlowe, and Vale
Jan 10, 2025
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   Is the way we name our daughters changing?   The way we name our sons in 2014 feels different.  For years we relied on Biblical favorites with a few hardy Germanic go-tos mixed in.  But since the 1990s, we’ve seen names like Tyler, Mason, and Jayden...
Adelaide or Adeline?
Jan 10, 2025
  By Brooke Cussans, Baby Name Pondering   Both Adelaide and Adeline are beautiful, classic sounding names that have been gaining popularity for the past decade. Although similar, they are also distinct enough that it’s very possible they would both appear on many people’s lists. So how do you choose if you are partial to both? Sometimes it helps...
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