Baby Name News

This week’s Nameberry 9 includes both celebrity and civilian picks–current ones and future possibilities–from Eloise to Dex to Dinah.

What were the dozen most notable names of the year? They range from a Civil War president to a heroic Pakistani girl to a Korean pop sensation to the latest Bond girl.

Here are our picks of some of the best names that are familiar but not overly popular, distinctive but not outré. What other names are in your sweet spot?

Do you believe names convey class? And which names have the most of it?

British name expert Eleanor Nickerson looks into her crystal ball to predict the next big things on UK birth certificates. Will Eliza be the next Olivia?

Yes, there is other baby name news this week aside from the royal bump–and here it is.

What seems like the perfect baby name may not turn into a teen’s dream–as this guest blogger would discover.

Some daring girl choices in today’s Nameberry 9– but do they go too far?

Rylee may get better grades, but Ruth sounds smarter, doesn’t she? Here, some names with intellectual power.

What names have you heard or seen that will be new to us? Bring on your strangest, most obscure baby names to stump the masters.

This week’s Nameberry 9 includes some sweet girl revivals like Pearl and Miranda, and some bold boy choices like Rocky and Phaedra (!?).

Crazy love? Bring us your ugly, your awkward, your unpopular, or maybe your way too popular….

Anything goes when it comes to middle names today. Here, 100 unusual choices with modern meaning.

Most of this week’s newsiest names confirm Nameberry’s trend predictions…but how about Hephzibah??

There are some hidden treasures in the Scandinavian Book of Names–some of them made familiar via celebs. Stellan? Viggo?

Do you assume Jesse will be a bad boy and Margaret a good student? And is that fair?

Guest blogger Duana Taha forgot one important thing before she tied the knot: She shoulda worked out the baby names.

The pundits are predicting the future popularity of Sandra and her sisters–but do wrenching natural disasters really impact the popularity of names?

These new old nicknames can give a fresh spin to a classic name, distinguish your little girl from her namesake grandma, or set your Henry apart from the other five in his class.

The girl’s name you treasured….but then you had three boys. The name your spouse nixed, or that didn’t work with your surname. What are the names you loved but never got to use?

Wayne and Duane and Kent and Trent have been off on an extended surfin’ safari. Are we ready to welcome them back?

The theme of this week’s newsiest names is distinctive letters and sounds–as in Thiago, Ajax and Zane.

Do aristocratic titles really make upscale names–or is it quite the opposite?

Abby Sandel travels pretty far to find the exotic and exotically-named starbabies in this week’s Nameberry 9. How many of these names have you heard of?

There are some interesting names used in Australia and unknown here–Jonty? Zali? Kirrily?