Baby Name News

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?

It happens with names as it does with romance: Longtime loathing can suddenly, sometimes inexplicably, turn to love. Did it happen to you?

All names Theo are on the rise–Theodore and Theodora,Theo and Thea–and of course Theodore is the daddy of them all.

This week’s Nameberry 9 is dominated by the little starbaby with six names. Over the luna or just loony?

Do you give your pets people names? And how do your choices stack up to crazy celebrity pet names?

The names you voted the tops, from the Best Popular Name to the Best Unusual Choice, the Best Celebrity Baby Name to the Best Flower Name.

What are this week’s newsiest names? They’re all on the blue team, they’re all mainstream, but they’re all somewhat off today’s radar–such as Dean.

Nameberry’s top boys’ names for 2012 so far include lots of unconventional choices, celebrity-inspired names, and softer sounds.

Our Top 100 names for girls so far this year reflects ahead-of-its-time style, celebrity influence, and a new Number 1 name not likely to be used for babies.

This week’s newsiest names, from Bettina to Wilhelmina, Summer to Sybella.

The latest batch of new babyberry names–and more fantastic than ever!