Baby Names 2012: The third quarterly report of Nameberry newbies

So many lovely names and these are my particular favorites:

Agnes Eloise
Amity Maple
Cordelia Arliss
Daphne Blythe
Elizabeth Helena
Flora Beatriz Pearl
Ivy Jane
Mabel Mazarine
Mary Helen
Nora Charlotte
Opal Eleanor Bloom
Philippa Margaret
Philippa Margaret Rose
Primrose Penelope
Willa Helene
Winter Rosamund

Abram Vincent
Atticus North
Cato Bellamy Jay
Ezra Cecil
Hugo Thackeray Fox
Isaac Edward
Jack August Hopper
John Alexander E-Hon
Josias Alasdair Emmanuel
Julius Maxwell Reid
Theodore Ezra John
Tobin Azriel

Wow! Our nameberries chose STELLAR baby names. I am positively floored at these gorgeous combos. Congratulations to all!

My favorite combos:

Atticus North
Jude Revere
Phillipa Margaret Rose
Cordelia Arliss

Unexpected first names:

(b) Tobin, Shepard, Sterling, Macauley, Foster, Ari, Abram
(g) Agnes, Amity, Arrow, Trudy, Verti, Parker, Peri, Miette

Favorite middles across the board:

Hermione, Warfield, Night, Bellamy, Harvey, Ezra, Vincent, Sol, Bloom, Maple, Antoinette, Priscilla

I’m a little disheartened to see the wonderful Posy claimed as a nickname again instead of a fabulous first name! I’m still on the campaign to have it recognized more widely as a completely legitimate first name and not just a nickname!!

A fair bit of these are fantastic names, I only wish the naming parents loved nearby so I could meet some of these kiddos! (Tobin!
Amity! [is someone a Divergent fan? Lol] Story! Winter! Iris!! <3)

Just as many of them are nms, but I am picky and I know it, and those names that aren't my style are still wonderful. I love seeing the diversity, I hope it spills over into the non berry crowd!

Thanks so much for compiling this post!

Miette and Ruby are my twins:
@Danni Priscilla is my name and Jessica is my middle name. The floral middles are to give them a connection even with there different first names. Miette was just a favourite and my husband really wanted a Mia to me it just sounds too nicknamey.

Wow – so many wonderful names! Diana Sophie, Daphne Blythe, Maeve Elisabeth, Elliot James, Jack August Hopper, and Kellen Anthony caught my eye, amongst many others.:)

I like:
Amelie Winter Rose
Emmeline Amelia Story
Nora Charlotte
Lila Olive
Piper Jewel
Primrose Penelope
Wren Iris
Ivy Fae

Murphy Atticus
Jack August Hopper
Hugo Thackery Fox
Atticus North

But my favourites are still Jack, Hugo and Emmy the triplets! Amazing names!

Ava Reese
Ivy Jane
Abigail Grace
Ruby Sienna
Wren Iris
Louisa Claire
Luisa Wren
Clarissa Marie
(Siblings)
Rose Victoria
Lucia Grace
Penelope Jane
Scarlett Athena

Henry William Roscoe
Theodore Ezra John
Tobin Azriel
Jack August Hopper
Hugo Thackeray Fox
(Sibling)
Bodhi Lucian

I liked these names, especially Rose Victoria.

Oh, how I love these posts!

The Jack, Hugo, Emmeline sibset is definitely my favorite! Classic first, lovely spunky mn, then completely unexpected 2nd mn. Great!

I love siblings Elliot & Aaron, and also Theodore & Gwendolyn.

Dean Harold (& his sisters) have such sweet names.

Loved seeing Ari and Bellamy on boys

Um, you guys know about half of these babies are non-existent, right?

@Mei_Mei, After a combined 37 hours of labor for my boys, I assure you that Henry William Roscoe and Jack Champion are very much in existence.

I’m not doubting any one labor or mother. Its impossible to know, really. It’s more of a collective thing. Call me cynical.

There have been a few instances where fakes have been caught out, which is a shame as they can ruin things for other people.

ANYWAY!

There are some fabulous names here, my favourites are:

Amelie Winter Rose
Arrow Milena
Daphne Blythe** This one is my absolute favourite
Opal Eleanor Bloom

Atticus North
Foster Kingsley “Fox”

Clarissa Marie definitely exists.

This is quite a lovely collection of names, although like previous posters I wonder how many of these names belong to actual babies.

Lovely names. It is true, some may not belong to actual babies but it is nice thinking that real babies in the world are receiving nice names.

I love many of these names, but how perfect are the three sisters named Lily June, Elle Sofia, and Alice Paige?

I can assure you that my little Isaac Edward is real I am looking at his cute little mug as I type! His sister is calling him Ziggy and she is Eden/Edie Rose.

Mei_Mei, I don’t know about half being fake. I’d put it more like at one in five or one in six, with the likelihood of fakeness being significantly higher in birth announcements for multiples (maybe like one in three in those cases). I’m not calling anyone out, but there was one either twin or triplet announcement with very fanciful names where I was like, “is this for real?” so I went back and looked at the girl’s old posts and she definitely contradicted her story on herself and her family makeup multiple times. I’ve also seen people called out in the birth announcements for announcing the births of two separate sets of multiples a few months apart. So it’s not wrong to be skeptical!

Theodore Ezra John is definitely real! I’m feeding my sweet boy right now! This list has so many great names, and I love these quarterly reports, even if some of the names are not real

They are all fabulous names, but my favorites are:
Agnes Eloise
Amelia Belle Sophia
Amelie Winter Rose
Daphne Blythe
Diana Sophia
Felicity Elizabeth Louise
Louisa Claire
Philippa Margaret Rose
Atticus North
Ezra Cecil
Henry William Roscoe
Theodore Ezra John

Congrats everyone!

Felicity Elizabeth Louise is most certainly real. She just turned 3 months old today!

What on Earth would drive someone to make a fake birth announcement?? Not just a hypothetical question, can someone explain this?

Ive been lurking on nameberry for years. I think it usually starts innocuously enough– people interested in names naturally fantasize about the babies who will have them, and to be honest it’s much much easier to get attention when you claim you’re naming an actual child rather than just playing with combos or adding to your name list. So people claim a fake pregnancy and naming becomes a competitive sport.

There are a few ways to spot the fakes. Firstly, the incidence of multiples is WAY higher here than in the actual population. If people post birth announcements about multiples, esp. higher-order multiples like triplets, and there’s no mention of any NICU stay or other health issues, they’re usually fake. Secondly, family size: it’s the rare family nowadays that has more than three children. Four is uncommon, but five and up is really rare. If the naming style across multiple children (which should represent at least a decade of one’s life) remains cursively fixed– especially if the naming style is exactly the names that are frequently discussed on nameberry today, but never would have been 10-12 years ago, that’s a fake. Thirdly, in the US it is genuinely uncommon to have three given names. In the UK it happens more, but it’s considered very posh and a bit snobby. The incidence of 3+ given names is again much higher here, which can be partially explained by the fact that it’s a naming website and people will naturally have a great attachment to certain names. Lastly– in reality, children aren’t named in a vacuum. In reality, children receive family names, baby’s dad has a strong say, etc. in reality, a three-barreled given name where all choices are literary and ornate and nameberry darlings is a rare bird indeed.

That’s why naming threads where there’s literally no mention of due dates, or baby’s dad and his thoughts, or the necessity of including certain names that one doesn’t necessarily like to placate family, etc– those threads are usually the fakers.

We do try to keep our antennae out for the fakes, but a few inevitably probably do slip through. In terms of the three given names, don’t forget that a good number of our posters are not American.

Maeve Elisabeth is real. She’s snoozing away right now, as I’m looking at her. I don’t know how it got missed, but her brother’s name is Quinton Vladimir.

@blade Thank you so much for that explanation. I found it completely fascinating. I suppose in our look-at-me culture I shouldn’t be that shocked.

Nice summary Blade! My American boys have 2 middle names, and I was completely inspired by nameberry and the Telegraph birth announcements to do that, I bet I’m not the only one, so I’d guess nameberry has higher rates of two middle names than normal.

This is a gorgeous list of names, good job everybody! Not going to list my favorites because all of them are amazing! Some of the girls names make me so jealous! My favorite is Flynn William Warfield, brother to Dash, because they’re mine

Impressive list! I am liking Calder. Fits with our naming style.

Thank you, Linda, I appreciate the response. Any forum is going to have fakers, especially name forums! Comes with the territory. I just think it’s important that there be stated rules against it, with consequences If you are caught out (banned from forum). I guess I feel that environment of trust is desirable, so it’s nice to know that the issue of fakery/trolls is taken seriously, not ignored, brushed over or even rewarded.

Story Elise is real!! I’m fighting my exhaustion at this very moment waiting for her to wake up so I can nurse her.

On a positive note this list is amazing! It’s because of Nameberry and its fresh thinking followers that my husband and I put all our fears aside and named our daughter the name that fit her best! Keep up the good work Berries!!

So sad to see Cordelia getting so popular!

Gorgeous combos, glad to be a part of this list.

I can also confirm Wren Iris & Ivy Fae are definitely real and Scottish xx

Blade, well said!

My twins are real, Mia and Roo (Miette and Ruby)

I always look forward to these lists too, and not just because my son Josias Alasdair Emmanuel is on here this go round. (And he is definitely real with the colic to prove it *sigh*). Real or not, I enjoy perusing a good list of names so I do appreciate these. We chose 2 middle names for our son so that our older daughter (who’s nearly 7) could select one middle name all herself–she chose Emmanuel. The full story is listed in the Birth Announcement section. Also, being a nameophile and this being our last child (and, well, being a closet Times/Telegraph reader and BBC-watcher), the 3-name-thing seemed to fit a lot of criteria for us. I agree with what the poster above (Blade) writes for identifying fake birth announcements; it was very well thought out and well written. Congrats to all on their new little ones (or at the very least on some lovely names whether bestowed or not).

Oooooh!!! Flora Beatriz Pearl!! I love it!!! I might have to write a story about it!! Yes! And her siblings will be Andrea Desiree May and Joseph Axel Paul!! Ooooooh! This list is amazing!! I particularly love how matched sibsets and middle names are!

My fave sibsets are probably:
Leo and Max
Talulah and Clementine
Cordelia, Harry and Rose
By the way, don’t you also think that Bridget and Cormac are a really interesting sibset!!!!!

Absolutely adore twins – Primrose Penelope & Mabel Mazarine, made me see Mabel in a whole new light!

I assure you my little Amelie Winter Rose is very real, the also very real bags under my eyes are starting to fade now as she is 7 months x