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NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name

　　This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway. 　　Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week? 　　Me neither. 　　NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration. But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...

Jan 13, 2025

William and Kate’s First Baby Boy: Top Nameberry Picks

Nameberry Picks: Best Cowboy Names

Oscar Nominee Names: Nameberry Week in Review

Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

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A Boy Named Chelsea

Jan 13, 2025

　　This guest blog by a guy named Chelsea lets us in on his gender-bender life experiences. 　　There’s nothing that unusual about being named after a place, except when that place name becomes one of the more popular names for girls during the 1990’s and you are a boy. That’s what happened to me. My...

Nameberry Picks: 15 Fantastico Italian Boys’ Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Until recently, Italian names–particularly for boys– have rarely ventured outside their own neighborhoods, but lately we’ve seen several popping up in the celebrisphere—though usually, if not always, used by celebs with Italian roots. There have been at least four Mateo/Matteos, two Roccos, two Romeos, Annabeth Gish’s Enzo, Ricky Martin’s Valentino, and...

Nameberry Week in Review: Debut issue

Jan 13, 2025

　　As promised, here is our first Week in Review by Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog– bringing you a roundup of the latest baby name news of the week every Monday from hereon in. 　　Early January brought round-ups of The Most Popular Names of 2010, at least according to a...

How About Harvey? What About Walter?

Jan 13, 2025

　　The Nameberry Question of the Week: Would you name your baby boy Harvey or Stanley or any of the other up-and-coming oldies appearing on the recently released British pop list? 　　Is this another case where the Yanks will follow the Brits in baby-naming trends and revive such previously verboten Grandpa...

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Dad’s Favorite Baby Name is Taken … by the Dog!

Unusual Vintage Names for Girls Sibling Names: Should They Share the Same Initial? 25 Unusual Names Inspired by Celebrities Best Unusual Girl Names: Twyla, Thora, and Lake Trendy Celebrity Baby Names The Case for the Many-Nicknamed Name Modern Romance Girl Names: Sienna and Vienna Sibling Names: Stick with the theme?

TV Baby Names: Quirky new girl names from the new shows

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Every TV season brings its own few unique character names, some that make interesting baby names, some that are just weird curiosities. Lately we’ve had the Game of Thrones crew, and from the futuristic The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, Ofglen, Ofsamuel and Oferic stepped from the pages of...

Unique Girl Names from Nature

Jan 13, 2025

　　Unique girl names are a wide and varied group, bur perhaps the very best are drawn from nature. 　　If you love nature names for girls, you have a world of choices beyond the obvious River and Rose. 　　The girl names here live below the US Top 1000 baby names, yet...

Modern Girl Names: Sleek and Rare

Jan 13, 2025

　　Modern girl names, simple and sleek yet rare and distinctive, provide a refreshing counterpoint to the elaborately feminine vintage names so popular for girls in recent years . 　　These lovely modern names for girls are standouts among the kree8tiv spellings and strange inventions that also rank among contemporary names. 　　Some...

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Hot Baby Names: Max in the Spotlight

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Scottish Surnames: Beyond Campbell and Cameron

Jan 13, 2025

　　They’re not like those jaunty Irish surnames that kind of jump out and hit you in the face–no way you could see Finnegan or Donovan as anything else. But Scottish surnames, somewhat more subtly, have affected American nomenclature to a surprising degree. 　　Many Scottish names that could pass for Irish or...

Exotic Lite: Boys’ Edition

Jan 13, 2025

　　We recently looked at girls’ names popular around the world yet exotic-sounding in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries, and today we turn to the boys’ version of this kind of name. 　　If you’re looking for a name for your son that has an international flavor yet is not too...

Ooooops! Baby Name Mistakes

Jan 13, 2025

　　Novelist Christina Baker Kline, whose wonderful new book Bird in Hand comes out this week, writes about how even someone who names fictional people for a living can make mistakes when naming real live babies. Like when she named her three sons: Eli, his brother William, and his other brother...

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

Jan 13, 2025

　　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...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Jan 13, 2025

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

The Coolest Unisex Nature Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Unisex nature names blend two of the coolest categories of baby names right now, so it’s no wonder they’re attracting a lot of attention! 　　The top gender neutral names in the US include several nature-inspired options, and the natural world is also a wonderful place to look for unique unisex...

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70’s Baby Names: Beyond Tiffany & Todd

Enter the New Nameberry Contest!!! Newest Baby Names: Clara Is This Year’s Claire Favorite Name Too Popular? Here Are Some Fresh Substitutes Celebrity Baby Names: Brooklyn yes, Bronx no TV Character Names: Dynasty & Dallas Royal Baby Names: Hollywood’s Little Princes and Princesses Is Your Favorite Name More Popular Than You Think? GOODBYE, GLADYS?

L Names to Love

Jan 13, 2025

　　The J names had their day: Jennifer, Jason, Jessica. Then K was up, and we had lots of Kevins and Kaylas, Kaitlyns and Kyles. 　　What’s next? It just might be L’s turn. 　　Linda wrote about the delicious La-La names, from Lola to Lila to Lily, that are newly popular. And...

New York Baby Names: Big competition in the Big Apple

Jan 13, 2025

　　Ah, New York, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. And if you can name your baby here without needing therapy or Xanax, then I applaud you. 　　That’s because like everything else in NYC, baby naming is intense. If most people think naming children...

Top Names of 2008: Emma and Jacob Rule

Jan 13, 2025

　　The day every baby name addict waits for all year is finally here, as the Social Security Administration released its list of Top 1000 Boy and Girl Names this morning. To many people’s surprise–including a sizable number of our contest entrants–Emma leapfrogged over Isabella–last year’s #2– to become the most...

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People Names for Dogs

Jan 13, 2025

　　If dogs are the new babies, then baby names are the new dog names. 　　Proof that we think of our dogs as children: We give them names fit for human girls and boys. All of the most popular names for dogs these days can also be used for people. Or...

Which are the Most Popular State Names?

Jan 13, 2025

　　With city names like Brooklyn, Madison, and Charlotte getting popular, let’s expand to larger locations and consider the most popular names by state. So today, I’ll be looking at which United States’ names have made it into the 2014 Top 1000 baby names. Most of them go to the girls – only Dakota made it onto the...

A Different Kind of College Ranking

Jan 13, 2025

　　By Nick Turner 　　What are the best colleges in America? Well, you could consult rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and others. They’ll probably tell you the answer is Harvard or Princeton or some other predictable choice. 　　But in my view, no college is worth anything if people...

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Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

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Updating Popular 1950s Names

Jan 13, 2025

　　Today the 1950 United States Census has finally been made public, giving us a peek into the post-war lives of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It’s a treasure trove for name lovers and family history enthusiasts alike! 　　You may want to name your child after a family member born in the...

The Best Baby Name Advice

Jan 13, 2025

　　Over the many months of How I Named My Baby, our Berries have shared incredible tips and valuable insight on navigating the baby name process. 　　Here, the best baby name advice from our readers: 　　On where to begin:“Start off by asking your partner what names they don’t like! Are there any names...

Name Change Resources

Jan 13, 2025

　　We won't sugar coat it: the legal and administrative logistics of a name change — whether it's your own or your child's — can be overwhelming. To make your process easier, we've compiled a far-reaching collection of name change resources, organized by location. 　　In the United States, name changes are processed at...