Favorite Baby Names 2015

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Most Mondays, I write about nine baby names in the news. Over 51 weeks, that’s a grand total of 459 names. Celebrity birth announcements make up the lion’s share of entries, but blogger babies, fictional characters, and just plain great names make the lists, too. 　　It’s a...

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The Maiden Name Dilemma: Keep, Drop or Integrate?

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Laurie Scheuble 　　I have been working on marital naming research for 25 years. I study what names women choose when they marry and what surname they give their children. 　　Twenty-five years ago, I would have predicted that at least a quarter of women in the United States would keep...

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The 100 Best Baby Names Right Now

Jan 15, 2025

　　The 100 best movies, restaurants, novels, jobs, apps – the world is full of lists cataloging the premiere picks of all kinds of things. So why not, we thought, baby names? 　　The question we asked ourselves: If an expectant parent today were limited to only 100 choices from which to...

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B Baby Names in the News: Bowie, Brie, and Beyond

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　A is the stand-out star, the most popular first initial for girls’ names (hello, Ava and Amelia) and the second most popular for boys (I’m looking at you, Alexander and Aiden). 　　But what about B? Lately it’s the letter making baby name news. It’s nowhere near unseating...

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Hottest Baby Names 2016

Jan 15, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　What are the hottest baby names for the year ahead? 　　To find out, we looked at which names have attracted the most unique views of a total of more than six million visits to our name pages in the past 30 days. 　　Then we tracked which...

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Slightly Different Baby Names: Silas & Sylvie

Jan 15, 2025

　　It’s a common dilemma. You’ve always loved Liam, but now that you’re expecting, it’s a Top Ten favorite that feels very popular, indeed. Or the only name you and your partner agree on is Sophia – but you already know three! 　　Is there a strategy for finding slightly different baby...

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New Celebrity Baby Name Predictions

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　This month has seen some high profile pregnancy announcements. The Baldwins, Olivers, and Reynolds? How did we get so lucky? There’s no doubt that these babies will have interesting names, but what they are exactly, we can’t yet say. We might have to wait a few more...

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New Baby Names on the Rise

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Ready for a little bit of crystal ball-gazing about all things baby names? With the new US popularity data due out around Mother’s Day, it’s time for some predictions. 　　The new Top Ten gets an awful lot of attention, of course. Remember last year, when Charlotte entered...

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Guess the New Top 10 and Win!

Jan 15, 2025

　　The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2015 will be released by the Social Security Administration in a matter of days, and so in advance of the announcement, which we’re all awaiting with baited breath, we’re challenging you to predict which names will come out on top. 　　Will Noah be...

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Emma and Noah Top Baby Names List….Again

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Pamela Redmond Satran 　　The new Number 1 baby names in the US are….the old Number 1 baby names in the US. For the second year in a row, Emma and Noah top the official US baby names popularity list for 2015. 　　And the entire Top 10 stayed more the...

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Top Baby Names: What’s Popular Where?

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Emma and Noah are the new Number 1 baby names in the US, but are they the most popular names where you live? Emma was Number 1 in just 22 states, Noah at the top in only 13. Other states put rivals Olivia, Ava, and Sophia at the head of the class for girls, as...

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Celebrity Baby Names: Newest Predictions

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　The cycle of celebrity pregnancies never slows down. 2016 has been an especially fruitful year so far, with superstars like John Legend, Chelsea Clinton, Adam Levine, Blake Lively, and Ryan Gosling all growing their families. And we can’t forget the celebrities who might not be as well-known...

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Fastest Climbing Baby Names in Australia

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Anna Otto, WaltzingMoreThanMatilda 　　The Australian Top 100 just came out, not long after the US data. One small difference is that we count variant spellings as the same name, although only a few names with more than one dominant spelling actually make the Top 100. It’s interesting to see...

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