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New! First-Ever Berry Question of the Week

　　We’re turning around the Question of the Week format, so that you ask the questions of us and of the general Berry population. 　　Looking for advice on naming your baby? Negotiating a name problem with your partner or mother-in-law? Or simply have a larger name question you’d like to ask...

Apr 14, 2025

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GIRLS’ NAMES 2011: The Secret Popularity List

Girls’ Names: 8 great ones under the radar

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Classic Girls’ Names: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Apr 14, 2025

　　I recently watched one of the seemingly countless Masterpiece Theater/BBC/theatrical versions of Jane Eyre, and I couldn’t help noticing how many times this particularly dreamy Rochester (Toby Stephens) repeated the heroine’s name, imbuing it each time with various shades of sweetness, sadness, passion, and more–and it made me fall in love...

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations

Apr 14, 2025

　　In this era of boys’ or at least boyish names for girls, feminizations — classic feminine forms of male names such as Charlotte and Georgia — seem almost quaint. Why not just name your daughter Charlie….or George? 　　Well, there are a lot of reasons. And choosing a more traditional feminization...

Top Girl Names 2011

Apr 14, 2025

　　Nameberry’s top girl names 2011 is our definitive look at which girls’ names attracted the most views on our site this year. 　　Think of it as a predictor for which names parents will choose for their baby girls in the future, rather than what they named their daughters last year....

Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls?

Apr 14, 2025

　　Today’s Question of the Week is a two-parter: 　　Last week we talked about naming styles for boys, now it’s the girls’ turn. 　　With girls’ names, there are even more style preference category possibilities. How would you characterize the names you like best? Girly girl, boyish, or truly gender neutral names? ...

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Too many Madisons? Met Enough Emmas? Over Olivia?

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Vintage Girl Names: 9 Fresh Ideas

Apr 14, 2025

　　Vintage girl names can make great choices for a daughter born today. They’re tied to the past, have plenty of great namesakes, and yet feel fresh and unexpected, too. 　　The only problem? Many of them are far more popular than you might expect. 　　Anna Chlumsky, the My Girl child star...

Lu-Girl Names Inspired by Paris

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　What’s popular in Paris? When it comes to French baby names, Lou rules. Louise has held the top girls’ spot for eight years running, while Louis is a Top Ten pick for boys. 　　That tracks with the trend reports French baby name site Meilleurs Prenom’s Stephanie Rapoport...

Popular Baby Names: 50 shooting stars

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　What are the most promising of the names rising in popularity? 　　This year 164 names—more girls’ than boys’ –made up the elite group of popular baby names that rose more than 100 places. (fyi: At the top for each gender were Riaan, with an increase of 1360...

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Kelly, Mackenzie, and Clare: Great reclaimed names for boys

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The ABCs of Boys’ Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran 　　Everything you need to know about boys’ baby names, from A to Z. 　　A 　　While A is the second most-popular first initial for boys’ names (and the most popular for girls’), the real news is the rise in both the letter a and the a sound...

Christmas Baby Names: Elf on the Shelf names

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Nick Turner 　　It’s the holiday season, which means eggnog, carols, twinkling lights and — for millions of American parents — remembering to move that damn elf around the house every night. 　　Yes, I’m talking about Elf on the Shelf, the Christmas tradition that feels like it’s been going on...

Classic Boys’ Names: What’s your favorite?

Apr 14, 2025

　　Last week we asked you to name your favorite classic name for girls; now it’s the boys’ turn. 　　What’s your favorite classic boys’ name? Do you prefer one of the classic classics such as James or William or a fashionable classic such as Henry or (thanks to England‘s young prince)...

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What are your favorite gender-neutral names?

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Modern Virtue Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel 　　Virtue names go way back. The Pilgrims brought them to Plymouth Rock. A handful of classics, like Grace and Hope, have almost always ranked in the US Top 1000. 　　But there’s a new kind of virtue name in vogue today: the modern virtue. These names are less...

10 Years of Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz 　　We launched Nameberry in October 2008, the same month the economy collapsed and a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president. 　　In that decade, 40 million babies were born in the US, and 235 million people viewed 1.5 billion pages of our...

Their Name is Nonbinary

Apr 14, 2025

　　Nonbinary names seem especially fitting in this Year of They, the pronoun named 2019’s Word of the Year by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster 　　The gender identity of many names is constantly shifting, but this elite group of nonbinary names is given near-equally to baby boys and baby girls. (Most names are...

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Modern Christian Names With Spirit and Style!

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Old Money Names That Will Make You Feel Rich

Apr 14, 2025

　　Old money names conjure the aspirational lifestyle provided by generational wealth — elite country clubs, prep schools, and holidays in the countryside. The old money aesthetic is being felt beyond baby names — this prep-rebrand is suddenly everywhere. 　　Fashion runways are filled with pleated skirts, penny loafers, and pearl necklaces. Americans...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Apr 14, 2025

　　Know a lot of babies named Vivian and Lincoln? You might just live in the Midwest. 　　We analyzed the most popular names by state to find which names are used more in the twelve core Midwestern states — that's Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...

America's Next Top Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　What are America's next top baby names, the future favorites that nobody is using today? 　　A few generations ago, in 1980, names like Luna and Luca, Kennedy and Maverick were shuffling along at the bottom of the charts. Today, they’re among the most popular namesUSA, each ranking within the Top...

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Names Meaning Red are Blazing Hot

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Japan Announces New Top Baby Names

Apr 14, 2025

　　Japan’s top baby names for 2019 are Rin for girls and Ren for boys, according to a new list released by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. 　　Top Japanese Girl NamesRin — Pronounced REEN, Rin means “dignified” or “severe.” It’s considered unisex but is clearly much more popular for girls. 　　Himari — A nature...

Unique Baby Names: Tiger, Mojave and Renoir

Apr 14, 2025

　　This week’s news includes unique names inspired by the Tiger Woods victory plus what’s happening in places like California, Cornwall, Paris and other parts of the world. 　　Extra-special baby namesAll babies are special, but does a much longed-for baby need an extra-special, unique name? 　　That’s what happened for one British...

Top British Baby Names: Some fun facts

Apr 14, 2025

　　This week’s news includes fun facts from the new top British baby names data, name inspiration from the football pitch to the pizza parlor, and an out-of-this-world naming challenge for the Teenberries out there… 　　Best of Top British Baby Names: making a splash across the pondOh frabjous day! The England...

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20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask

Apr 14, 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,...

Family Names Are Getting More Adventurous

Apr 14, 2025

　　Sure, Thanksgiving is about sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, but it’s also about family. That’s why, as we approach the holiday, our coverage of Thanksgiving baby names is focused this year not on Pilgrim names or turkey names but on the new style in family names. 　　Family names...

What the Name Sage Knows: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Child's Name

Apr 14, 2025

　　Nameberry has been happy to host Abby Sandel's Name Sage column and to bring our visitors her wise naming advice for several years now. Here, Abby's accumulated naming wisdom (so far). Thank you, Abby, for your wonderful column. 　　The act of choosing a name is deceptively simple. Just a few...