Baby Name News

Name Nerds welcome! Kelli Brady digs deep into the popular names on the Social Security list and comes up with some interesting discoveries about their ups and downs.

News of the baby name world this week, from celebrity to state names, name popularity and upcoming twin starbabies.

What will the brother of Sid Biggs be names? And how about Serena Williams’ first child? Here are Sophie’s best bets.

This week it’s state and territory names, some cool name stories and popularity stats.

These maps show the most popular names in every state.

Nameberry’s original analysis of the Social Security data of 2016 versus 2006 identifies the names that have exploded in use over the past ten years and reveals the major baby name trends of the decade.

News from across the namescape on the biggest baby name week of the year!

Kelli Brady analyzes what the popularity list would look like if all the spellings of a name were combined.

Nameberry’s contest for guessing the new popular names on the Social Security list brought many good guesses and two big winners. Royalty for girls and Fox for boys came in strongest as first-time names on the list.

The most popular baby names of 2016 have been announced, and the list contains some major surprises.

As we eagerly await the new Top 1000 popularity list, Clare Bristow debuts her Baby Names News of the Week blog.

Best new baby boy names starting with B, from Bear to Beau to Bodhi

The new official most popular list is about to be released and we want you to guess what names will enter for the first time or make a return!

A wide variety of great new Nameberry choices this month from classics to creative, Ethan to Ensley.

A new category of baby names: 21st century romantic, as in Ciara’s choice of Sienna Princess.

The baby name Grover made news this week: could it and other similarly quirky vintage boy names like Roscoe and Rufus start to rise?

A rock and rap music festival of boy names from Indio to Sasha to Mac

The most popular names for baby girls have just been announced, and we are bringing you the top 25.

Sophie’s predictions for the forthcoming babies of celebrity dads Mark Zuckerberg, Oscar Isaac, Peter Dinklage and more.

The most mini of names, here are some two-letter names for boys and girls.

Inspirational names for your April baby.

All the celebrity babies born in March, including the new Cumberbatch boy and Tori Spelling’s 5th.

The latest birth announcements from the Nameberry Berries–Adia and Acre, Rafaela and Remy–and more.

As in the new Cumberbatch baby Hal, short, single-syllable names for boys are a rising trend.

British Baby Names blogger Eleanor Nickerson gives a fascinating rundown on the names used almost exclusively by the UK's upper classes.