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Articles by Clare Green
Clare Green has been writing for Nameberry since 2015, covering everything from names peaking right now to feminist baby names, and keeping up-to-date with international baby name rankings. Her work has featured in publications such as The Independent and HuffPost. Clare has a background in linguistics and librarianship, and recently completed an MA dissertation researching names in multilingual families. She lives in England with her husband and son. You can reach her at clare@nameberry.com
Wed Oct 16 2019
Wonderful Word Names in this week’s name news
This week’s news includes wild word names, new Kardashian names, and how to deal with people asking what you’re calling your baby.
Wed Oct 09 2019
Celebrity Baby Names: Valentine and Valentina
This week’s news includes announcements from two 90s pop icons, girls’ names honoring men, and spelling and pronunciation quandaries.
Wed Oct 02 2019
Unisex Names: and other baby name news of the week
This week’s baby name news includes popular gender-neutral names, trends in South Africa, and what it’s like to share a name with someone famous.
Wed Sep 25 2019
Baby Name Trends: Names on the rise
This week’s news includes baby name trends, the fastest-rising names of the last five years, cute and clever nicknames for girls, and names you’ve never heard before from Scandinavia and South Africa.
Wed Sep 18 2019
International Baby Names: Indian, Austrian, and Irish
This week’s news includes the hottest names in Austria and other international baby names, the most popular names for college freshmen, and people who would name their kid after a latte.
Wed Sep 11 2019
New Celebrity Baby Names
This week’s news includes new celebrity baby names, a family with 10 boys, zingy Z names, and more Nigels than you’ve ever seen before!
Wed Aug 28 2019
Cool Word Names: Ace, Blaze and Allure
This week’s news includes high-impact word names, rarities for every letter of the alphabet, and an accidental triple honor name.
Wed Aug 21 2019
Unique Baby Names in the News
In the name news this week everything from top Swiss baby names to getting Grandma’s approval.
Mon Aug 19 2019
15 Stellar Astronomy Baby Names
Names related to astronomy, from Andromeda to Orion, are shooting to the stars.
Wed Aug 14 2019
Celebrity Baby Names
Celebrity baby names in this week’s news includes two very different boy names, and lots of stories about how names shape our identity…and maybe even the way we look!