GIRLS’ NAMES 2011: The Secret Popularity List
　　You may know Nameberry’s most popular girls’ names 2011: from Top 3 Charlotte, Violet, and Amelia down to Molly, Maya, and Mary. 　　You may even know our hottest girls’ names 2011, which include such celebrity-influenced picks as Pippa and Mila. 　　But we’ve got a quieter, less obvious, but potentially more...
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Vanishing Names: So long, Susan; Bye bye, Barbara
Nov 23, 2024
　　One of my favorite poems, for reasons that will soon be obvious, is called “Mourning the Dying American Female Names,” by Hunt Hawkins.  You can read the whole poem here, but I’ll give you a few choice lines: 　　Many names are almost gone: Gertrude, Myrtle, 　　Agnes, Bernice, Hortense, Edna, Doris,...
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Does one name have it all?
Nov 23, 2024
　　This week’s Berry Question of the Week comes from a Kansas mom named Amy, who is excitedly awaiting the arrival of a daughter to add to her trio of well named boys. Problem is, she’s waited so long to have a little girl that she feels the name she’s looking for can be...
Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations
Nov 23, 2024
　　In this era of boys’ or at least boyish names for girls, feminizations — classic feminine forms of male names such as Charlotte and Georgia — seem almost quaint.  Why not just name your daughter Charlie….or George? 　　Well, there are a lot of reasons.  And choosing a more traditional feminization...
Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar
Nov 23, 2024
　　The other day we offered eight fresh choices for boys, and now it’s the girls’ turn—girl names ranging from a rare botanical specimen to a nostalgic nickname to an undercrowded place name. 　　1–Acacia—This a a pretty and delicate botanical name that has hardly been heard in this country, though it...
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Baby Girl Names from Ancient Rome
Baby Girl Names from Ancient Rome
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Exotic Lite: Girls’ Edition
Nov 23, 2024
　　There are some names that are not quite English, or American, but not quite not English either.  These include international variations of classic English names – such as Katarina for Katherine – and names that are widely heard around the world but remain unusual in English-speaking countries. 　　The list below...
She Suggests Names, He Vetoes Them: Can This Couple Negotiate?
Nov 23, 2024
　　Lookydaddy.com’s Brian Sargent, today’s guest blogger, is the stay-at-home dad of now-four-year-old twin girls and a third-grader.  Those are his daughters, above. 　　My wife and I knew it would be tough to name twin girls, so we assigned ourselves jobs. My wife’s job was to suggest possible names for consideration....
Top English Girls’ Names: Who Are The Most Popular?
Nov 23, 2024
　　The top English girls’ names for the current year are listed on Nameberry here. You can also see popularity statistics for English names on the individual name pages. 　　English name standings have not been published consistently every year. At the beginning of 2009, the UK ‘s Office for National Statistics...
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Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques
Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques
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Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide
Nov 23, 2024
　　Traditional boy names remain perennially popular with parents today, in spite of the broader trend towards ever more unique baby names for both sexes. 　　But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all traditional names for boys are popular. As well as the core classic boy names – like John, James and...
How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique
Nov 23, 2024
　　Classic boy names are wonderful except for the fact that they’re so common. Yes, there have been many august Williams; sure, it’s a name resonant on your family tree; except, there are thousands (11,282, to be exact) of baby Williams out there. 　　But among the wonderful qualities of classic boy...
150+ European Baby Boy Names
Nov 23, 2024
　　European baby names have a long and illustrious history of use in the US. After all, many of the most popular boy names today – contemporary classics like Leo and Lucas, Mason and Mateo, Oliver and Owen – have European origins. 　　But there is so much cultural and linguistic variety...
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The Coolest Unisex Nature Names
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50 Rare Gender-Neutral Names Heating Up
Nov 23, 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...
Unisex Baby Names: But Are They Really?
Nov 23, 2024
　　Unisex names are attracting more and more attention for babies of both sexes – but “unisex” doesn’t always mean “gender-neutral”. 　　Unisex vs. Gender Neutral NamesNameberry generally defines unisex names as those given to the minority sex at least 10% of the time. But although those names may qualify as unisex...
Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl
Nov 23, 2024
　　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...
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Best New Baby Names in the Top 1000
Nov 23, 2024
　　America’s brand new top baby names are here! 　　And while there are some interesting developments at the top of the charts – like Luna ousting modern favorite Harper from the Top 10 for girls – it’s further down the hallowed Top 1000 list that you can really see the trends...
Top Nameberry Names Around the World Now
Nov 23, 2024
　　Ever wondered which names are popular with Nameberry visitors in your country? 　　Namberry's own popular names charts are updated monthly and show the names attracting the most attention from our site visitors in (almost) real time. They’re great for predicting which names might be about to take off – especially...
Top Baby Names 2022: The Playground Analysis
Nov 23, 2024
　　The most popular baby names in the US were recently revealed to be Liam and Olivia… again. But if you feel like you hear other names more often, there’s a good reason for that! 　　The baby name data released each year by the Social Security Administration lists variant spellings like Aiden and Aidan, Riley and...
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The Top Baby Names A-Z
The Top Baby Names A-Z
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Top Names in Each State Revealed!
Nov 23, 2024
　　Popular names by state can look very different from the national count. Find out which states' top names conform to the US popular names list and which go in a different direction. 　　Olivia and Liam held on to their titles as the most popular names in the United States for...
Baby Names Before 1850
Nov 23, 2024
　　Records on baby names only started in the US in 1880, and so getting an accurate read on names from the 1800s before this time can be difficult at best. 　　But researcher Douglas Galbi has compiled lists of baby names drawn from census records of the early 19th century. We...
100 Names That Deserve To Be Used More
Nov 23, 2024
　　We often cover rare and unique names — from creative modern inventions to unusual place and nature names. The names below are rare too, but with a difference. 　　You've almost certainly heard of them. (And so have your parents.) 　　Even if you don't know someone with them in real life,...
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It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name
It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name
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Unique Twin Names to Inspire
Nov 23, 2024
　　Unique twin names that feel well-matched but not too matchy can feel impossible to find. Naming twins is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges (and greatest pleasures) facing a baby namer – although our ultimate guide to twin names is a great place to start! 　　Many parents naming twins take...
20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask
Nov 23, 2024
　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...
Test-Driving Your Baby Name
Nov 23, 2024
　　When picking a name, it can be hard to find opportunities to test the name in a way that gauges the true ‘wearability’ of the name and the reactions it is likely to elicit. People’s abstract opinions of names (“no-one will ever be able to spell Aoife correctly”, “Harper is...
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