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Ava, Sid, and Bodhi: The New Reality of Baby Naming
Jan 24, 2025
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   You’ll never guess the name that repeats in my son’s third grade.   It isn’t Alex.  Despite having a Top 20 name, he’s never had to share.  His friend Matthew is also one of one, and has been since kindergarten.  The same is true for Chloe...
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Baby Name Trendlet: Ev-starting names from Eve to Ever to Everest
Jan 24, 2025
  By Linda Rosenkrantz   For some time now we’ve been seeing a profusion of soft El-starting names, from Ella to Eleanor, Eloise, Elliot, Ellery, Elodie, et al.  And now we’ve begun to notice some of her stronger, sharper, Ev-starting cousins coming into the picture, ranging from the ancient Eve to the...
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The Next Baby Name Style Wave
Jan 24, 2025
  by Pamela Redmond Satran   You have only to look at the popularity lists to know which names are used most widely now.  There’s Sophia, Isabella, Emma, and Olivia for girls; Jacob, Mason, and Ethan for boys.  Which reminds us: Have you seen our new, searchable U.S. Top 1000 list?  It’s...
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Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou
Jan 24, 2025
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   Brian is your brother-in-law, Bill’s your uncle, and Barbara is your mom.  But could B be the new letter to watch for baby names?   Up until recently we were all mad for Aiden and Ava, Amelia and Alexander.  A was the most popular letter for...
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Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin
Jan 24, 2025
  by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names   Certain names seem as likely to be on children as on their parents, but are unimaginable on grandparents and great-grandparents.   These names are modern classics, names that have been highly ranked on the Social Security list for about 30-40 years, but were very...
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Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility
Jan 24, 2025
  By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science   When my husband announced the birth of our first child to my family last June, they were convinced, thanks to a bad cell phone connection, that we had named our daughter Tetra. My dad Googled the tropical fish, and my brother, who was wielding a...
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Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?
Jan 24, 2025
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   The other night a friend asked me what happens to kids with really strange names.  Not made up names, or names with crazy spellings, he clarified.  Names like Apple.  Or Bartholomew.  Names that make you do a double take when you spot them on the...
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Taking Stock of Baby Names: A novel approach
Jan 24, 2025
  By Nick Turner   Investors often rely on charts and technical analysis to decide whether to buy or sell a stock. That means they focus less on the fundamental qualities of the company (say, whether sales are growing or it has a good CEO), and instead concentrate on the movements of...
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Top Baby Names 2013: Noah the New Number 1!
Jan 24, 2025
  Noah has unseated Jacob to become the new Number 1 name for boys – the first new top boys’ choice of the 21st century.   The boys’ side of the list claims all the hottest news, in a turnaround from the usual pattern in which girls’ names dominate the trend shifts.  Liam...
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Short, Simple, Chic Baby Names
Jan 24, 2025
  When Americans think about chic European names, they tend to imagine the exotic, the elaborate, the intriguingly complicated and foreign.   Yet when Europeans think about chic names, they often these days mean the short and simple and sometimes even the Anglo-Saxon: Tom, Emma, Lou.  Think of them as the baby...
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Unusual Vintage Names: Which might come back?
Jan 24, 2025
  By Linda Rosenkrantz   The folks at the Social Security Administration publish not only the thousand most popular names for every year dating back to 1880, but also the Top 200 names for every decade, making it possible to see broader patterns and trends.   I was scanning these decade lists to...
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Baby Names that Bridge Generations: Allison and Kyle
Jan 24, 2025
  by Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names   One day I had an epiphany. I consider myself part of the “Mom Generation”. When I was in high school, I knew both a Debbie (short for Deborah) and an Allison.   Fast forward to 2014 and I would be surprised to see Deborah...
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The Most Popular Names Over Time
Jan 24, 2025
  By Kelli Brady, NameFreak!   Ever wonder which name has been given the most overall? Of course I have! To satisfy my curiosity on the matter, I totaled the raw numbers of all names ever recorded by the SSA since the data has been collected (1880). I must say the results...
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