Baby Names
Baby names are the overall focus of all the news and features on Nameberry. Our news stories cover the latest popular baby names, analysis of baby name trends, and news on baby girl names and baby boy names. We bring you all the news on baby names as it happens.
Wed Jun 11 2014
Short, Simple, Chic Baby Names
The chicest names in Europe are not the elaborate and obscure but short, simple, familiar names like these easy choices for both boys and girls.
Tue Jun 10 2014
What Name Theme Would You Choose?
If you had to give all your children names with the same theme, which theme would you choose? Names that start with Z or that have been used for royals, names from mythology or names from the circus, let’s blue-sky about name themes.
Tue Jun 10 2014
Baby Name Backlash: When your kid hates her name…
What to do when your daughter hates the name you lovingly chose for her? Mom Tara Wood is just waiting it out.
Mon Jun 09 2014
New Starbabies born in May: A Future, a Mercy, and two Rivers
This month’s new celebrity baby names range from Bruce Willis’s Evelyn to Kristin Cavallari’s Jaxon to Ciara and Future’s Future.
Sun Jun 08 2014
Popular Baby Name Sounds: Oliver, Leonor and Aria
In this week’s Nameberry 9 Newsiest Names, Abby Sandel adds the sounds of names to baby naming considerations, Do your favorites share sounds?
Thu Jun 05 2014
Medievalizing a Name: Elizabeth to Elisende
Want to de-modernize one of the Top 10 girls’ names? Abby Sandel offers some historic suggestions from the Middle Ages.
Wed Jun 04 2014
Babyberry Report for May: Hetty, Sullivan and Moon
An intriguing variety of birth announcements on Nameberry last month, from Amelie and Atticus to Roman and Ramona to Poet and Petra.
Tue Jun 03 2014
Oh no she didn’t!
What’s the most outrageous, insulting, crazy, ridiculous thing anyone has ever said to you about your child’s name…or your own?
Mon Jun 02 2014
Notable Names of June: Judy, Audie and Pearl
Denise Potter looks back through history to find notable names tied to the month of June, from ancient Rome to recent Hollywood.
Sun Jun 01 2014
Literary Baby Names: A tribute to Maya Angelou
Erin Waldron honors the late Maya Angelou with a list of names relating to her life and writings.
Sun Jun 01 2014
Imaginative Names for Girls: Aurora, Angelou, and Elle
Names from movies and myth, a tribute to a powerful poet…all feature in Abby Sandel’s 9 Newsiest Names of the Week.
Thu May 29 2014
Best Names Given to Only 5 Babies in 2013
Here are Dantea’s picks for the best names given to the fewest recorded numbers of babies What are yours?
Tue May 27 2014
Girls’ Name Hazel: Will a new movie make her the next Jennifer?
In the 70s, “Love Story” shot the name Jennifer into the stratosphere; Nick Turner wonders if “The Fault in Our Stars” could do the same for the already ascending Hazel.
Mon May 26 2014
The Today Show’s Savannah Guthrie’s Baby Name Musings
Expectant mom Savannah Guthrie muses on her own unusual name and why she won’t be announcing her baby’s name in advance. (And–ahem–just notice whose name book she’s perusing!)
Sun May 25 2014
Alijah Mary and Future Zahir: New Sources for Meaningful Names
There are a variety of new ways going far beyond Junior to honor a loved one, as seen in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newest names this week. Have you found one?
Sun May 25 2014
SOS: Help name this Berry’s imminent girl twins asap!
Time to put our collective heads together and help your fellow Berry find the perfect names for Twin Girl A and Twin Girl B. She’s set out all her rules, possibilities and predilections.
Thu May 22 2014
The Top Names of 2033: Girls edition–Charlotte Number 1
And now here’s the girls’ edition of Abby Sandel’s bold predictions for the Top 20 names of 2033, from Charlotte to Hadley.
Wed May 21 2014
Memorial Day Names 2014: 15 great Civil War hero names
Looking back on this Memorial Day to salute some of the historic, mostly heroic, Civil War generals–with names like Jubal, Zealous and Speed. Happy Memorial Day weekend!
Tue May 20 2014
Top Names of 2033: Boys edition
Abby Sandel goes out on a limb with a carefully reasoned forecast of the top names of 2033. Will Levi reach Number 1? Boys today, girls on Friday.
Tue May 20 2014
What’s Your Favorite Mythological Name?
Mythological names are newly stylish for modern babies. Which are your favorites, and would you give one to your child?
Mon May 19 2014
2013 Baby Names: The state of the States’ popularity
Yes, Noah was Number 1 across the land, but only in top place in three states. And Aria, Serenity, Jace and Gavin were Top 10 names…somewhere. Here, some of the more surprising State statistics.
Sun May 18 2014
Nile: Yes, Like The River
Her parents gave guest blogger Nile Cappello her unusual name–and she’s been grateful to them ever since. If you have one, how do you feel about your unusual name?
Sun May 18 2014
Unexpected Baby Names in the News: Buster, Neal and Finola
In this week’s Nameberry 9 Names in the News, Abby Sandel spots some unexpected choices, from Pepper to Paisley, Atlas to Apple.
Thu May 15 2014
Pairing Up the Most Unpopular Names of the Past: Orange & Leafy
Arika Okrent takes a look at the lower depths of the pop lists from 1880 to 1932, and makes some fascinatingly eccentric finds, pairing them into such couples as Orange and Leafy, and Okey and Erie.
Tue May 13 2014
I love that name BUT….
What name do you love love love, except for that big fat but that stands in the way of your ever using it?