Our hottest baby names are those we see attracting an outsized share of attention from expectant parents, based on number of views of our name pages for the first quarter of 2018 compared with the same period last year. 　　These hot names may not show up on the popularity lists….yet....

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　Each year, the Top 1000 names in the US are given to around 78% of boys and 69% of girls (in 2017 2,798,250 babies received a first name that ranked in the Top 1000). 　　While there is always a little movement in the Top 10 and Top...

　　By Esmeralda Rocha 　　We know how much the Nameberry community loves stats! So we thought you’d enjoy a bit of analysis as to how the US Top 100 compares with the Nameberry community’s Top 100. 　　First, a few basics: 　　In 2017, the US Top 100 and the Nameberry Top 100...

　　With French baby names, two clear trends have emerged: short, simple, two-syllable names and the return to vintage/ancient names. With a heavy preponderance of girl names ending with -a and the growing success of biblical names, there are many overlaps with U.S. trends. 　　French parents are also largely returning to...

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Esmeralda Rocha 　　The most popular baby names of 2018 on Nameberry are led by the two names that held the top spots at the end of 2017, Olivia and Atticus. 　　In second place, though, things get really interesting. Amara, the multicultural girls’ name with roots...

　　X, y, and z are the trendiest middle letters in baby names today. 　　X appears in the middle most often in boys’ names: all the Alex, Max, and Jaxon variations. 　　Y stands in for just about any other vowel, as in Londyn and Myles, and also can help clarify pronunciation...

　　by Emilia Lind 　　Maybe you have Polish heritage and want to give your child a baby name relating to Polish culture. Or maybe you’re simply interested in naming trends around the world. Here’s a list of the ten hottest names for boys and girls to give you some idea of...

　　By Eleanor Nickerson 　　What’s hot in England but still outliers in the US? 　　In many cases, England and America cross over on the lists of rising baby names. The likes of Theodore, Ezra, Evelyn, Willow, Violet, Bella, Luna and Clara are rising pretty equally in both countries. And, while England...

　　At Nameberry, we use a combination of data and cultural information to identify current baby name trends and predict future ones. So for our 10th anniversary, we undertook the massive project of comparing how many babies in the US were given which names 10 years ago compared with today. Then...

　　By Clare Green 　　“Mr and Mrs Smith of Townsville name their daughter Emma”…said no headline ever. 　　Millions of babies are named every year, but only a few of them ever make the news. When there’s something really unusual about a name, or its story, or the parents, or the world’s...

　　by Sophie Kihm 　　Do you find it easier to name girls or boys? Traditionally, the name pool for girls has been larger (although options for boys are ever increasing). For some, the plethora of choices for girls makes it easier to find a name they love, while for others the...

　　The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are having a baby! Yep, we’ve all been guessing it wouldn’t take long, and now that it’s confirmed, we can start speculating on the prospective royal baby names. 　　To Royal or not to Royal? 　　First there is the question of whether or not the...

　　By Clare Green 　　This week’s news includes super short baby names, football and hockey namesakes, Indigenous Canadian names, and British trends over the last 180 years. 　　Juicy name stories: Tobermory and PerstephanieWho loves an unusual naming story? We do. These parents’ stories in HuffPost are particularly juicy: you’ll find out...