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Names Honoring Screen Icon Maureen O’Hara

　　By Meagan, A Tulip By Any Name 　　This weekend I was saddened to read that legendary actress Maureen O’Hara had passed away. Maureen O’Hara, born Maureen FitzSimons, was an iconic, fiery redhead with the face of an angel. Today I’d like to look back at the names of some memorable...

Silent Screen Actress Names: The Virgins and The Vamps

Name Sage: Reinventing Bernice

Ten Lilting Hawaiian Names for Girls

Name Sage: A Sister for Beatrice and Amelie

7 Fresh Word Name Rarities 28 Gorgeous Girls’ Names We Love The Top Girl Names of All Time Synchronized Sister Sibsets: How to make meaningful connections Name Sage: A name for a girl Junior’s sister Is Sailor the New Harper? Hot Girl Names Ending with R Name Sage: A Sister for Ellie, Tessa, and Drew Long, Lovely Names for Girls

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Most Popular Girls’ Names 2015

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Charlotte, the name of Britain’s baby princess and the newest entrant to the US Top 10, reigns as the new Number 1 girls’ name on Nameberry’s 2015 popularity list. 　　Charlotte takes over from Imogen as the most-viewed girls’ name on Nameberry, reclaiming the crown she held...

Sassy Double-Syllable Names for Girls

　　By Nick Turner 　　Anyone who watches panda videos online (and what kind of monster doesn’t?) knows that the animals often have names with repeating syllables: Bei Bei, Gao Gao, Lun Lun and so on. 　　This is a popular naming convention in China, where pandas originate, and it’s undeniably cute. In...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Beverly

　　Christina writes: 　　I’m just a few weeks away from my due date and my husband and I are having major naming blocks! With our first I knew her name before we were even married. My grandmother is Theresa and I knew Tessa would be the perfect way to honor that,...

Pretty Baby Names: 9 Kinds of Names for Girls

　　By Abby Sandel 　　What’s wrong with pretty? 　　Some weeks it seems like all of the newborn girls are being called James. Or Dashiel, Ryan, Wilder, Arlo, or Charlie, all names that appeared on celebrity girls’ birth announcements last year. 　　But pretty names for girls still carry the day. Nine of...

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Baby Name Nicknames: The ubiquitous Addie

Baby Name Nicknames: The ubiquitous Addie

Newest Girl Babyberries: The 3rd Quarterly Report of 2013, from Ada to Xanthe Sassy Short Girl Baby Names: Blythe, Blake, Blair Luna, Ozzie and Vernon: Bold Girls, Vintage Boys Baby Names Trend: I-Ending Girl Names To Keep An Eye On Kimye Kname Kraziness Your Favorite Literary Names for Girls Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far) Four Syllable Middle Names: Longer choices beyond Elizabeth

Great A Baby Names for Girls

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Heartbroken that Addison and Amelia are so popular? Did your best friend just name her daughter Aria Alexandra, stealing two of your long-time favorites? Never fear! Here are some of my favorite A names for girls – and none of them currently rank in...

North West: Behind Kim and Kanye’s baby name

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their newborn daughter North, and less than 24 hours after the announcement, all directional jokes have officially been cracked. 　　Although that won’t stop anyone from continuing to make them for the rest of little North...

Name the All-Girl Quints!

　　Naming all-girl quintuplets was one of my formative name nerd fantasies, inspired by the Dionne quintuplets of Canada, the first set of surviving quints and the only set of identical quints ever to survive, according to this list of quint facts. 　　Their names — Annette, Cecile, Emelie, Yvonne, and Marie...

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Brother Names: Finding a Middle Ground

Brother Names: Finding a Middle Ground

12 Ever-Cool Boy Names Family Name Drain: They’ve Used Them All! Cool Boy Names: They’re ending in R! Boy Baby Names: More great choices for #5 Wild Baby Names: Names with secret animal meanings Middle Name Danger Baby Names: Solving the Popularity Puzzle It’s Not Easy Being Donald

Influential Baby Names: Show Biz Boys

　　By Nancy Man, Nancy’s Baby Names 　　Idris, Benedict, Shia…several of today’s uniquely-named leading men are now influencing the U.S. baby name charts. But what about the male movie stars of bygone eras – did they have the same kind of impact? 　　Yes! Here are a dozen famous performers who influenced...

Boy Baby Names: The 12 Jazziest

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Parents have been plucking more and more baby name ideas from the worlds of pop and rock music—from Jagger to Lennon to Hendrix to Bowie—but there’s a whole universe of classic and modern jazz names that’s also rich with possibility. These include first names, surnames, and even...

Geek Chic Names for Boys

　　By Pamela Satran 　　Geek is chic, at least when it comes to boys’ names. Looking at classic boys’ names that lie below the Top 1000, a lot of them are sweetly geeky. These are not the obvious Cool Guy names like Nico and Shane; instead, they’re the names of the...

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Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Fall’s Biggest Name Trend: Econames

Vintage Surname Names Come Back Around Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham America's Top Unisex Names of 2022 Surprisingly International Baby Names 200 Unique Word Names You Won’t Find Anywhere Else Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Surnames That Make Great Unisex Baby Names

　　Surnames used as unisex baby names offer fresh, modern-sounding options that aren’t too tied to one gender. 　　Last names as first names are always in fashion. Some lean strongly to one gender, as we can see in the USA’s list of popular names. Harper and Avery are mostly given to...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

100 Unique Unisex Middle Names

　　What’s hot in the middle spot? Unique unisex middle names, of course! 　　With more and more unisex first names in circulation, you’d think that conventionally gendered middles would be holding firm, if only for practicality’s sake. And you’d be right – to a certain extent, at least. 　　Although the SSA...

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Trendy Baby Names: The trendiest of all time

Trendy Baby Names: The trendiest of all time

A Letter to Jacob and Sophia Hyperlocal Baby Names: What’s hot where you live? Dog Names: What’s cool, what’s smart, what’s hot, what’s not Are these the next ‘Twilight’ names? Popular Names 2012: Guess the Top 10 and win! Predicting Starbaby Names of 2014 1913 Baby Names: Does the hundred-year rule still rule? Unpopular Names: Which ugly ducklings grow up to be swans?

Baby Names 2012: The Best of the New

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Every year, a small number of new names manages to move onto the Top 1000 list for the first time ever. Sometimes this marks the beginning of a climb up the ladder, other times it’s a name that will linger in the nether regions, and sometimes it...

Popular Baby Names: The next top names

　　Popular baby names aren’t always replaced at the top by similar names, though sometimes it feels that way. Emily moves down, Emma moves up. Jason slips, while Jacob and Mason rise. 　　With the new US popularity list due out in less than a month, we thought it would be fun...

Trendy Names in the News: Maceo, Azura, and Knox:

　　By Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain 　　Styles change. 　　In hemlines and hairdos, in music and cuisine and baby names, too. 　　Once upon a time, Mildred was a Top Ten name in the US. Clarence, Connie, Randy, Dawn, Eugene, Norman, Norma, Crystal, Dustin, Myrtle, and Elmer have all ranked in the...

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50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

50 Names That Mean You Live in the North East

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5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

Top Names in Each State Revealed!

　　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...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

How Not To Name The Baby: Top 10 Baby-Naming Don’ts Updating Popular 1950s Names Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine How to Change Your Baby’s Name Test-Driving Your Baby Name How to Cope With Baby Name Regret The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

　　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,...

Unique Twin Names to Inspire

　　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...

How to Have More Fun Naming Your Baby

　　Choosing names for hypothetical babies is always fun — why do you think I got into this business? — but when you’re actually expecting, the pressure is on. Suddenly you’re faced with the very big task of naming an actual human being, which (often) requires you to collaborate with your...

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