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Top Baby Names 2018!

　　The top baby names of 2018 are in, with Emma and Liam continuing their reign as the Number 1 girl and boy names. 　　The top baby girl names remain exactly the same as last year in the first five places: Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella, and Sophia. 　　Among the most popular baby boy names,...

Nov 22, 2024

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2018 Most Popular Names: The Playground Analysis

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Scottish Baby Names: Most Popular in 2018

Nov 22, 2024

　　by Eleanor Nickerson, British Baby Names 　　Racing ahead of the rest of the UK when it comes to timely releasing its data, this week, Scotland published its full list of Scottish baby names registered in 2018. 　　Sticking with tradition, the Top 5 saw little change. Olivia remained in the #1...

Baby Name Battles and How to Solve Them

Nov 22, 2024

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes an Irish name you’ve probably never heard before, the most popular names in all four corners of the USA, and your most common baby naming conflicts solved. 　　Baby naming battlesThe thing about naming a baby is that it’s not just about names. It’s...

New Top French Baby Names

Nov 22, 2024

　　French baby names are just one feature of this week’s news. It also includes new popularity lists from several other countries, alternative ways to pick a baby name, and the ups and downs of sharing your name with someone famous. 　　French Baby Names and Other International Name NewsName data lovers:...

Unique Baby Names: Tiger, Mojave and Renoir

Nov 22, 2024

　　This week’s news includes unique names inspired by the Tiger Woods victory plus what’s happening in places like California, Cornwall, Paris and other parts of the world. 　　Extra-special baby namesAll babies are special, but does a much longed-for baby need an extra-special, unique name? 　　That’s what happened for one British...

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Nature Names for Girls

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30 Gorgeous Girl Names We Love

Nov 22, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Last year, we took a look at 28 names that our readers love. How do we know for sure? We’re lucky enough to have millions of visitors every month, and we maintain the Nameberry Top 1000 based on the most visited name pages. 　　Our Top 1000 looks an...

The Middle Name Riddle

Nov 22, 2024

　　Middle names are entering a new era for 2023 and beyond. It’s almost imperative today that middle names be meaningful — whether they honor a relative, relate to a parent’s passion, or reflect an important family value. 　　But middle names today should also be fun. Parents are taking advantage of...

9 Girl Names Inspired by Ines

Nov 22, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds waited months before sharing their daughter’s name – again! The family of four recently made their first public appearance, to celebrate dad’s new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Not long after, they made the big reveal. 　　Her name is Ines....

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Baby Boy Names: The long and short of it

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Preppy boys’ names ending with S: Ames, Keats, and Yates

Nov 22, 2024

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　There’s something about a name that ends with the letter s. 　　They’re preppy. Sometimes they sound plural or possessive. But they’re also fresh. In our age of Aiden and Asher, we’re not expecting to meet a kiddo with an s ending name. 　　I’m not...

Best Boys’ Names: 10 stylish selections

Nov 22, 2024

　　Our new book The Nameberry Guide to the Best Baby Names for Boys includes many different styles of great boys’ names — including, well, stylish ones. 　　Stylish might mean popular…but not necessarily. More precisely, it means names that strike the right fashion note for the times, that are in today,...

Name the All-Boy Quints!

Nov 22, 2024

　　All-boy quintuplets are very rare, so naming them is one of those name nerd fantasies that is unlikely ever to come true. 　　But we can dream, can’t we? 　　Over in our forums, there are nearly 500 pages of responses to the name game challenge to name a set of all-boy...

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Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around

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200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Nov 22, 2024

　　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...

The Top Unisex Names in Every US State

Nov 22, 2024

　　The most popular unisex names in the USA in 2022 were Logan, Avery, and Riley. But does that hold true across every state? 　　Well, sometimes. But as you might guess, each state has its own favorite unisex names. For some, it’s an occupational name like Parker or Sawyer. Other states...

America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Nov 22, 2024

　　Want to know the most popular unisex names? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. 　　Our definition of a unisex name is one that’s used for both girls and boys with a split of at least 90-10. (For the most popular names, there are always a few opposites recorded, like the...

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Baby Name Trends: Top Names of 2030?

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Nameberry Week in Review: January 16-24

Nov 22, 2024

　　Covering the week of January 16 to 24th, 　　Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog–brings you a roundup of the latest and juciest baby name news. 　　I’ll admit it: I obsessively read the Pottery Barn Kids catalog not for the color-coordinated, impossibly organized nurseries and playrooms, but for the names. They tend...

The Top 100 Names of All Time

Nov 22, 2024

　　Popular baby names change every year, but here we bring you the top names in the U.S. of all time — or at least since the government started keeping count. 　　A week or so ago, we presented to you Nephele‘s lists of the most popular baby names for each letter...

The Baby Namers’ Alphabet

Nov 22, 2024

　　A 　　A was the most popular first initial for girls’ names in 2009, the last year for which there are official US statistics, and the most popular first letter overall, with one in eight babies getting a name that starts with A. 　　B 　　Boys’ names were led by J names,...

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New Popular Irish Names Revealed

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The Top Baby Names A-Z

Nov 22, 2024

　　Baby names A-Z are a fascinating bunch, with the most popular name starting with every letter of the alphabet often different from what you'd expect. 　　You can probably guess the top girl name starting with O, and the top boy name that starts with L… they’re the current American number...

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

Nov 22, 2024

　　Do you know a lot of kids named Maeve and Rowan, Connor and Max? You might just live in the North East of the USA. 　　Behind the national data on the most popular baby names, each region has its own favorites, and the North East — here, the six states...

Baby Names Before 1850

Nov 22, 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...

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Test-Driving Your Baby Name

Nov 22, 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...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Nov 22, 2024

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Nov 22, 2024

　　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...