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Articles by Linda Rosenkrantz
Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.
Tue Jun 26 2012
British Baby Names: Anglo-American Relations
What names are hot in the UK and not in the US, and vice versa? Here are some stats to pin them down.
Sun Jun 24 2012
Alternate Appellations: The names that might have been
Have you ever thought about how different your own or your child’s name might have been with a slight change in circumstances?
Wed Jun 20 2012
TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!
Once a prime inspiration for baby names, soap opera characters of the past have included such ahead-of-their time appellations as Ava and Lark, Holden and Hunter.
Tue Jun 19 2012
Unisex Names: Would you use one?
Would you name your daughter Elliot? Would you call your son Harper? Where do you stand on unisex names?
Sun Jun 17 2012
Creative Baby Names: Original but not outre
Django, Grover, Isabetta–this week’s Nameberry 9 consists of names that are unusual but still totally usable.
Wed Jun 13 2012
Literary Names: Fitzgerald names beyond the great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald came up with some amazing names for the characters in his novels and stories–here are some of the most notable.
Sun Jun 10 2012
Creative Baby Names: The Nameberry 9–Jubilee, Clover and Ralph
Inventive names have a long history–and they just keep on coming. Here are nine of the newsiest.
Tue Jun 05 2012
Question of the Week: The Starbaby Effect
Has a celebrity’s choice ever turned you onto– or off– a name? We’d love to know which one–and why!
Sun Jun 03 2012
1980’s Baby Names: Heavy Metal names still rock
Axel, Ace, Jett…many of today’s coolest names can be traced back to the glam rock headliners of the 1980’s.
Mon May 28 2012
The Nameberry Nine: The week’s newsiest names from Athena to Ysabeau
Wyatt and Gray for girls, a royal Athena, unusual names like Kindred and Lukensia–all in the baby name news this week.