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Baby Name Image: Seeking a glamorous Gertrude

　　By Mikita Brottman 　　“If you will call a dog Hervey,” said the English author Dr. Johnson, “I shall love him.” This quirky adage was meant to praise the unconventional Hervey family, whom Dr. Johnson found excellent company, but he also put his finger on an important truth, which is that...

Jan 15, 2025

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Starbabies 2014: The luscious and the ludicrous

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　2014 was another amazing year for starbaby names, with some of the most varied, at times contradictory trends, ranging from classics like Rosemary, Frances, Evelyn and Eric to gender-benders, oddball spellings, and words refigured as names. 　　Among the strongest trends of the year: more boys’ names borrowed...

On-Trend Celebrity Babies: Nova, Cy, and Etta

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　Do you remember those fifteen trend predictions for 2015 posted about a month ago? And the trend-spotting from the UK, courtesy of Elea? 　　It’s only been a few weeks, but it feels like high profile parents are following along. Recent birth announcements all reflect the...

The Royals are Coming: King, Prince and Princess

Jan 15, 2025

　　Will and Kate are expecting a prince or princess in 2015, but there could be thousands of royal births in the coming year. 　　Confused? 　　Nameberry’s 2015 trend report started with Defining Names – names that create a clear and powerful identity. 　　A great many of those identities are clad in...

Billy and Bob are Back in the Playground

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　The nickname-name trend is nothing new. Who among us hasn’t known a baby Max or Maggie or Sam or Ellie? Or even one of those with a whiff of vintage nostalgia, like Millie or Josie? 　　But lately there’s been a new twist on this phenomenon, especially seen...

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Top Girl Names 2011

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Stylish vs. Popular Names: Do you know the difference?

Jan 15, 2025

　　It’s easy to confuse popularity with stylishness. Many baby names feel “popular” when they’re merely stylish: We’re hearing them a lot, they’re in step with the baby name fashions, and we worry that if we choose them, our little Matilda is going to be one of many. 　　And perhaps if...

Berry Question of the Week: Help name baby #3!

Jan 15, 2025

　　Rachel, a mom of two from Grand Rapids, Michigan, is expecting her third child in March and is having trouble finding the right name. She writes: 　　“My four-year-old daughter is named Avery Grace. My two-year-old son is named Isaiah Joel. We are having a third and final baby, a girl,...

Nameberry Picks: The 12 best feminizations

Jan 15, 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...

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The Fitzes: Beyond Mr. Darcy, F. Scott and JFK

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Kelli Brady of NameFreak! 　　I am currently catching up on the show Scandal, which takes place in the US Capital and involves the highest political figures of the land. The fictitious president has one of the best character names I’ve ever heard: Fitzgerald Thomas Grant. He is called Fitz...

Retro Boy Names: The Motorcycle-Riding Poets

Jan 15, 2025

　　by Angela Mastrdonato of Upswing Baby Names 　　Boy names have inspired me lately. Here are some brilliant names with masculine swagger and a bit of 1960’s charm. If I were to write a novel with beatnik characters, these would be the names of the male characters. In my opinion they...

20 Best Super Sleuth Names for Boys

Jan 15, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　A few months ago, we blogged about lady detectives, clueing you in to some fabulous names like Trixie, Temperance and Thursday, Loveday and Precious. Now it’s time to investigate their male counterparts—and there are some real doozies—drawn from a variety of genres– from early crime novels to...

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Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

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Surprisingly International Baby Names

Jan 15, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 15, 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...

Gender Neutral Names Changing Direction

Jan 15, 2025

　　Gender neutral names are susceptible to the same shifts in popularity as traditionally gendered names, but these shifts can differ between the sexes. This makes it more interesting to examine the directions of unisex names, which fluctuate in girl-boy ratio from year to year. 　　Nameberry defines gender neutral names as...

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Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

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America's Next Top Baby Names

Jan 15, 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...

Ancient Names for Babies

Jan 15, 2025

　　Can the rise of ancient names for babies be credited to the prominence of Amelia, Zoe, Sebastian, and Atticus on international lists of popular names? 　　Or maybe it’s a reaction against all the new names and trends that have mushroomed over the past few decades, from word names to nature...

New Study Shows Climate Impact on Baby Names

Jan 15, 2025

　　Nature-related baby names are a huge trend across the board right now. But did you know that the climate actually influences the type of nature names American parents are choosing for their children? 　　A recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences analyzed over a century of baby names...

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New Popular Irish Names Revealed

Jan 15, 2025

　　Good news for lovers of Irish baby names! The latest popular Irish names data for 2022 has just been released, and it’s a treasure trove of intriguing options from the Emerald Isle. 　　Happy St Patrick’s Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! 　　Top 10 Irish Girl Names 　　There has been a...

The Best of the Rarest Baby Names

Jan 15, 2025

　　Baby namers desperate for truly undiscovered baby names have always begged us for our secret list of unique names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered. 　　The only problem was we didn’t have...

Presidential Names for Babies: Who's Winning?

Jan 15, 2025

　　Presidential baby names – the famous last names and, in a few cases, first names of America’s presidents – are more popular than ever in the US. The presidential connection may be more direct in some cases (Lincoln) than others (Taylor). 　　Naming a child for – or, in some cases,...

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Unique Twin Names to Inspire

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The Art of the (Baby Name) Breakup

Jan 15, 2025

　　You never forget your first breakup. 　　Benjamin – Ben – had so many attractive qualities. Strong yet sensitive, timeless and classic, with an easy likeability and appeal. 　　I wasn’t the only one who fell fast for his charms. Everywhere I went, people gushed about how much they loved Ben. At...

9 Timeless Rules for Naming Your Baby

Jan 15, 2025

　　On this 98-degree day, I’m doing the only chore that makes sense: cleaning the basement. That’s how, deep in a dusty box, between my now adult daughter’s kindergarten drawings and my ancient college essays, I found a draft of the proposal for our very first baby-naming book. 　　What struck me...

It’s Okay to Change Your Baby’s Name

Jan 15, 2025

　　Considering changing your baby's name? You're not alone! 　　A few weeks after their son's birth in February 2022, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott announced that they had changed their little boy's name. “That was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done in my life...I’m still like, ‘Did I make the...