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Movie Star Character Names: A salute to Shirley Temple and the roles she played

　　By Haley Sedgwick 　　As a child, I remember asking my mum for a videocassette that I had my eyes on in the grocery store. Any normal preschooler would be asking for some sort of cartoon, but not me. My passion was musicals, and one actress, who had blonde curls and...

Apr 11, 2025

Anything Goes for Girls: Apple, Willow, Mia, and Cai

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S-Names for Girls: Popularity of “S” vs. “Sh” sounds

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Disney Princess Names: How influential are they really?

Apr 11, 2025

　　By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain 　　As the mother of a five year-old girl, Frozen was required viewing over the recent school holidays. Somewhere between the first appearance of talking snowman Olaf and the happy ending, I found myself musing about the popularity of Disney-princess names. 　　I’ve long thought that any...

What’s your favorite classic girls’ name…and why?

Apr 11, 2025

　　What’s your favorite classic girls’ name? 　　And by classic, we mean timeless choices such as Elizabeth, Sarah, and Margaret. 　　We also mean currently fashionable classics such as Charlotte and Alice. 　　In fact, when you tell us which classic girls’ name is your favorite, maybe you can also tell us why...

Your Top 5 Girl Names!

Apr 11, 2025

　　Let’s have some fun. 　　List your Top 5 girls’ names. In order if possible. With explanations for why you love them so much, if you like. 　　Your Top 5 might include names you’ve chosen for your own daughter or names you plan to use. Or it might just be a...

Let’s hear it for the Ola Names: Lola, Viola and Finola

Apr 11, 2025

　　By Linda Rosenkrantz 　　I’ve long loved Lola, and lately I’ve been crushing on Viola and Finola–which inspired me to take a look at what other ola names there are, and was pleased to find that there are lots of options, coming from several different ethnicities. As opposed to the diminutive ina-ending, ola‘s...

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Little Women Sets New Name Trends

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Traditional Girl Names with a Twist

Apr 11, 2025

　　Can Penelope’s sister have a name as short as Alice or Claire? More importantly, does this mom want her to? 　　Erin writes: 　　We are expecting our second girl and struggling to agree on a name! Our older daughter is Penelope Reese, and we absolutely love her name. 　　My husband is...

Artistic Baby Names for Girls: Saskia and Simonetta

Apr 11, 2025

　　by Annie New 　　Looking for an artistic baby name? 　　As an art history student, I spent three years studying the biographies, influences and techniques of artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Eduard Manet, and Rembrandt. But it’s the names of the people they painted that are also of interest to name...

23 Cool New TV Girl Names: Prairie and Peach

Apr 11, 2025

　　by Linda Rosenkrantz 　　Every TV season or so we scan the video landscape to see if any particularly interesting character names have popped up. And each time it becomes more and more daunting as the number of new and newish shows on network, cable and streaming platforms has gone through...

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How to Make Classic Boy Names Unique

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Boy Names: Some Popular Name Cliques

Apr 11, 2025

　　When a name gets popular, it’s rarely in isolation. 　　Both boy names and girl names tend to rise and fall in groups based on sound, image, association, or some combination thereof. Sometimes just a pair of names will attract attention, but often entire gangs of names will become fashionable at...

Traditional Boy Names: The Ultimate Guide

Apr 11, 2025

　　Traditional boy names remain perennially popular with parents today, in spite of the broader trend towards ever more unique baby names for both sexes. 　　But that doesn’t necessarily mean that all traditional names for boys are popular. As well as the core classic boy names – like John, James and...

Nickname Spotlight: Getting to Gus

Apr 11, 2025

　　Love Gus as a short name for a boy, but not a fan of Augustus and related names like August and Augustine? 　　One option is to simply use Gus on its own. This vintage nickname is charming, no-nonsense, and you’ll never need to spell it out. It was popular in...

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America's Top Unisex Names of 2022

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

Apr 11, 2025

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

Last Names as First Names: Welcome to the Next Wave

Apr 11, 2025

　　The great thing is that the pool of surnames is so large — and ever more diverse — that there are always more to discover. 　　Sure, they don’t all make good first names. I know families called Beer, Small and Bumstead, but I doubt any babies will get those as...

Unisex Names Across the Atlantic

Apr 11, 2025

　　Unisex baby names are increasingly appealing to parents. But which names are considered unisex, and which names are not, is a very subjective matter – one that is influenced by factors like a person’s past experience, age or location. 　　If you live in the United States of America, you can...

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The Secret Meanings of Color Names

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What's a Classic Name?

Apr 11, 2025

　　What makes a name classic? 　　Anyone who has done a quick search for names has likely come across a variety of lists of "classic names". While some names, such as John, Michael, and Mary, make consistent appearances on these lists, the other names are more variable. 　　So what is a...

How Millennial Is Your Name?

Apr 11, 2025

　　Millennial names define their generation. John and Mary were the Number 1 names for The Greatest Generation, Linda and Gary emblematic names of the Baby Boom, and now Jessica and Michael emerging as the top names for Millennials. 　　Nameberry tabulated the names of all babies born from 1982 until 2004,...

60 Names That Mean You Live in the Midwest

Apr 11, 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,...

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Top Baby Name Influencers 2023

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Popular Twin Names

Apr 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...

5 Easy Ways to Judge a Baby Name

Apr 11, 2025

　　Many of us spend an entire nine months — or even longer — weighing the relative merits of names for our babies. 　　But it’s possible to judge most names much more quickly than that, at least accurately enough to tell whether they belong on your shortlist. 　　Here, Nameberry’s top quick...

Top Czech Names Follow International Trends

Apr 11, 2025

　　This just in: the top Czech baby names for 2022! 　　The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe with a classic, self-contained naming culture. Traditional Czech names such as Vendula and Zdeněk have made the charts for decades, and proper Czech spellings are favored over streamlined international variations....

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How to Cope With Baby Name Regret

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

Apr 11, 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...

Rainbow Baby Names Honor and Comfort

Apr 11, 2025

　　Rainbow baby names — names for a child born after the loss of another — can be a way to mark a time of mixed emotions. Some parents find it helpful and meaningful to choose a name that both acknowledges the loss and celebrates new life, commemorating the past and...

Name Sage: Japanese-inspired Names for Raiden and Renzo's Sister

Apr 11, 2025

　　They're living in Japan, so their new daughter's name needs to bridge two cultures - just like brothers Raiden and Renzo. Plus, they're hoping for something that feels meaningful to their family. The Name Sage tries to check all the boxes! 　　Clarice writes:I'm really hoping you could help me out...