Hottest Baby Names of 2017

Jan 15, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　What are the hottest baby names of 2017? Which baby names do we see getting hotter, cooler, trendier, and a lot more visible in the year ahead? 　　To find out, we measured which names clocked the greatest rise in page views in the first month of 2017 compared...

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Quirky Favorite Baby Names by State

Jan 15, 2025

　　Which quirky favorite baby names does YOUR state love above all others? We crunched the numbers and came up with these top names in each state — not the most popular in terms of sheer numbers, but the unusual, distinctive baby names that get an outsized amount of love in...

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Nine Rising Word Names: Fox, Clover and Stone

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　We’ve always loved word names. Just ask the Pilgrim parents who chose Faith and Hope, the early twentieth century Opals and Earls, or the children of the 80s named Amber and Crystal. 　　Word names have boomed in the 21st century. Some are revived from the past –...

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Popular Baby Names: Our predictions of next rising stars!

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　In just a few weeks, we’ll see the new popular baby names list for the US. The official list is always packed with surprises, as everything from pop music to sports stars influence what we name our children. Other names rise and fall without any obvious cultural...

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44 Names from 1917 You Should Use Now!

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　In the baby-name world there’s something called the 100-Year-Rule, the theory that it takes a century for names to be ready to make a comeback. That timeframe has shrunk considerably, with the resurgence of names from the fifties, sixties and even later, that is happening right now....

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What Will Be the Next Liam…and Sophia?

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Lisa Spira 　　Before Liam became the second most popular baby name in the United States, as it has been since 2013, it was a lesser-known Irish short form of William. It was distinctively Irish. Today, however, Liam is so popular that it feels more “American” than anything else. 　　It’s...

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CONTEST: Guess the Newest Names on the List

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　In just one more week, the US Social Security Administration will release the new Top 1000 list of popular baby names of 2016. It’s Mardi Gras meets the Super Bowl for name lovers, and we’ve all got our ideas about what the data will bring. 　　We’ve already...

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The Hottest Trends in Baby Names Today

Jan 15, 2025

　　If you want to give your baby a name that transcends this decade, make sure it doesn’t start with Ad-, end with –ley, contain the letter x, or honor a star who suffered a tragic death. 　　That’s what we found when we analyzed the Social Security baby names data of...

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Latest Starbaby Name Predictions!

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　Celebrities are the taste-makers of the baby name world. Sid and McCoy–two names that were on nobody’s radar screen–now have serious style cred thanks to the Biggs and Porter families. I would not be surprised to see McCoy break into the top 1000 for 2016 (which comes...

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The Most Popular Baby Names Of 2017… So Far

Jan 15, 2025

　　By the Editors of Nameberry 　　The Most Popular Baby Names of 2017 at the half-year mark are in. The big news, for a change, is with boys’ names, with Asher reclaiming the crown from Ezra at Number 1. 　　And there’s more hot news: Nearly a fifth of all boys’ names...

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Not Your Mama’s Baby Name!

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Clare Bristow 　　The names in the news this week probably aren’t ones you heard growing up. Some of them have exploded in popularity in the last decade or two. Others are still undiscovered, but would fit right into nurseries and playgrounds today. 　　Let’s take a look at some new...

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Celebrity Baby Names: What’s next?

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　Every family has its own traditions and values when it comes to naming their children, and that’s true of celebrities as well. Some, like Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, like the meanings of their children’s names to be packed with significance. Their daughters are named Honor and...

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Starbaby Names: The Latest Predictions

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Sophie Kihm 　　When it comes to naming siblings, families have different approaches. Some choose an obvious theme, like Coleen and Wayne Rooney, whose children are named Kai, Klay, and Kit. Others, like Lisa and Jack Osborne, don’t feel the need to have coordinating sibling names—one of their daughters has...

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