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Popular Names 2012: Guess the Top 10 and win!

　　SEE THE WINNERS BELOW!!! 　　The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names 2012 will be revealed later this week — Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, according to the Social Security press office — and so in advance of that announcement, we’re asking YOU to predict: 　　What do you think will...

Jan 11, 2025

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2013 Baby Names: Predictions from the Nameberry 9

Jan 11, 2025

　　Today, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, finds some 2013 baby name predictions embedded in this week’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names. 　　As 2012 faded into 2013, the world welcomed many a new little life. Re-reading birth announcements, I was struck by something. 　　None of them received outlandish names, but every one of...

Baby Names: Once so hot, now so not

Jan 11, 2025

　　The history of baby names is littered with former stars that burned brightly for a decade or two, only to fade from view. 　　It’s hard to believe, from this vantage point, that Gladys or Edna ever made the Top 20, that names such as Harold or Larry were ever popular...

Hyperlocal Baby Names: What’s hot where you live?

Jan 11, 2025

　　Hyperlocal is a word you hear a lot today. There’s hyperlocal news and hyperlocal food, hyperlocal weather and hyperlocal — yeah, baby names. 　　What are the name trends where you live? Which popular names ring through every playground and crowd every class list? What kinds of names are considered cool,...

Baby Names Trend: Camilla, Willa, Priscilla–the new killer ‘illa’ names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Guest blogger Angela Mastrodonato, of Upswing Baby Names spots an impending baby names trend: names ending in ‘illa’ replacing the ubiquitous ‘ella’s. 　　When it comes to names, a small change can make a big impact. Ella-ending names have been loved for a while for their elaborate elegance. To find fresh alternatives,...

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Name Sage: Long and Lovely Girl Names

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30 Rare, Exotic, Gorgeous Girls’ Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Very feminine girls’ names that were unusual and exotic a generation or two ago have risen to the top of the US popularity lists: I’m looking at you, Isabella, Sophia, Olivia. 　　So what’s the parent to do who loves this kind of elaborate girls’ name but wants something a lot...

Blockbuster Baby Names: The Movie Girls of Summer

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in the US, and that means movies. 　　Not just any movies, either. The summer schedule is packed with potential blockbusters – as much romance and action and intrigue as you can stuff into two hours and a bucket...

Name Sage: English-Spanish Baby Names for a Daughter

Jan 11, 2025

　　Mary writes: 　　I am due in July with baby number two, a girl. My husband and I are having a difficult time agreeing on names. 　　We are looking at both English and Spanish baby names. My husband’s only condition is that it can be pronounced easily in both Spanish and...

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Tricky Last Names: What Goes with Lo?

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French Boys’ Names: From the Top 100 in France

Jan 11, 2025

　　French names are perennially popular in the US, but there is still a host of undiscovered gems on the French popularity list. So today, the boys follow the girls we looked at the other day: 10 of the best French boy names, all in France's Top 100, including some imported...

Unique Vintage Boy Names: Roscoe, Cosmo & Clive

Jan 11, 2025

　　Continuing our series on you-don’t-have-to-be-youneek-to-be-unique names, here are 25 unique vintage boy names that are hardly heard today. 　　Unlike vintage classics like William and James, most of these unique vintage boy names were in common use at one time but then slid into obscurity. See which ones you think are...

10 Great Super Bowl Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Todd Tarpley 　　Super Bowl LI (Super Bowl 51 for non-Romans) is here, and for those planning to have a baby–or just name one–during (or soon after) the game, we have the top 10 baby names for you. 　　First, a trivia tidbit: this is the first Super Bowl in history...

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

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How I Named My Babies: Nico Gianna & Jasper Graham

Jan 11, 2025

　　Alanna Shore, stay-at-home parent, and her husband Keith, artist and art director of Mikkeller Beer, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with their four children. 　　In May they welcomed their latest arrivals, twins named Nico Gianna and Jasper Graham. Here, Alanna shares the story of how she and Keith named their...

Pride Icon Names Celebrate Diversity

Jan 11, 2025

　　Happy Pride 2023! 　　Pride icon names celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the inspiring history behind the fight for equal rights. 　　It's more than half a century since the first Pride parades took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of the previous summer....

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 11, 2025

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

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M Baby Names: Initial of the future?

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A peek inside the Nameberry bubble

Jan 11, 2025

　　Middle names are entering a new era for 2023 and beyond. It’s almost imperative today that middle names be meaningful — whether they honor a relative, relate to a parent’s passion, or reflect an important family value. 　　But middle names today should also be fun. Parents are taking advantage of...

Name-alytics

Jan 11, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady, thenamefreak.com 　　I am so very excited to finally announce the release of my eBook! Name-alytics: An In-Depth Analysis of the Top 100 Names in the United States Since 1880, a project I have been working on for over a year now. I had the idea and started the...

Hot Baby Names: 20 choices heading for the top

Jan 11, 2025

　　What are the hottest baby names today, those zooming toward the top of the popularity list? 　　Identifying which names are moving fastest toward the top is an art, but there can also be some science to it. We asked the Wizard of Nameberry, our engineer Hugh Hunter, to plot the...

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30 Great Names You’re Not Using!

Jan 11, 2025

　　Looking for a cool name that's rare but not too out-there? You've come to the right place. 　　There are lots of reasons to choose an uncommon baby name. Maybe you hated being one of five Jessicas or Joshuas in your class, and don't want the same fate for your child......

Rare Names With Popular Nicknames

Jan 11, 2025

　　Have you ever known the excitement of meeting a Ben who is not Just Another Benjamin but is, in fact, Benedict? Or Nicki whose “secret” full name is Danika? If so, this list is for you. 　　Rare full names with familiar nicknames can be the best of both worlds, for...

Popular Twin Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Popular twin names used to appear on the Social Security top baby names site, but alas, no more. 　　But while there hasn’t been hard data on the top twin names in the US in over a decade, we can extrapolate from the 2010 twin names data to make some educated...

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How to Pick the Perfect Multilingual Name

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Jan 11, 2025

　　When I was a waitress, we had a trick to help indecisive customers make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. 　　If it was the main course that had them stumped, we asked, “Meat or fish?” 　　And if it was dessert, the question was “Fruit or chocolate?” 　　Now,...

Name Sage: Defining Classic Girl Names

Jan 11, 2025

　　Julie writes:We have two boys, Benjamin John, nn Benji, and William Henry, nn Will. Our third on the way is a girl and we are really struggling with her name. 　　For our boys, we quickly settled on classic names and used family names for the middles. There doesn’t seem to...

Name Sage: Honoring Grandma Elaine

Jan 11, 2025

　　Aviva writes:I’m expecting my first child. I was very close to my grandmother Elaine, who passed away, so I’d like to name my son after her. 　　For his first name, I’ve thought of Laine or Lane. Is there anything else I’m missing? 　　I’m leaning toward Laine right now but don’t...