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Apr 16, 2014
The ancient Greek and Roman mythological deities had a lot in common, but one thing they did';t share was their names. Which do you prefer;Zeus or Jupiter? Artemis or Diana?
Apr 15, 2014
Guest blogger Brooke Cussans shows some different ways you can approach nature names, straight on (River, Rose) or more subtly (Daphne, Paloma).
Apr 15, 2014
List the five girls’ names you like best. They might include names you used for your daughter, names you plan to use, or just your five favorites.
Apr 14, 2014
These vintage nickname names have been off the U.S. Top 1000 list for 40 years or more. But many sound charming and baby-appropriate and may be due to rise again.
Apr 13, 2014
This week, Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 Newsiest Names features names that are unforgettable–in a good way: Sapphire, Sunday and Pemma.
Apr 10, 2014
Guest blogger and Nameberry mainstay Nephele serves up an expansive menu of Jewish names for Passover, along with some fascinating history.
Apr 9, 2014
Sometimes people live up to the image of their names: smart or serious, beautiful or cool, quiet or nerdy. And then there are those people who defy the expectations set by their names, like the 25 very cool famous folks here with notably uncool names.
Apr 8, 2014
Have you been teased about your name, and was it hurtful or affectionate? Have your children ever been teased about their names/
Apr 7, 2014
Do celebrity faves automatically become citizen faves? Not necessarily. Some cases in point: Clementine, Poppy, Dashiell.
Apr 6, 2014
In his attention-attracting and somewhat controversial book, “Parentology,” Dalton Conley talks about how and why he gave his children such unusual names, and here’s an excerpt on that subject. How far out would you be willing to go and what do you think of his theories?
Apr 6, 2014
This week, Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 Newsiest Names run the gamut from the way-off-the-grid to the classic–from Dreama Wildstar to James Hamilton.
Apr 2, 2014
April is a particularly rich month for finding historic namesakes: In her continuing monthly series, Denise Potter picks out some of the most significant–and inspirational. Which ones might inspire you?
Apr 1, 2014
Guest blogger Gay Cioffi devised her own strategy for narrowing down the infinite number of baby name choices–and the result was a name that proved to be ahead of its time.
Apr 1, 2014
Let’s play another all-berry baby name game. Let’s say you only had one daughter and one son, and you had to choose their names from the same U.S. popularity rank. Which pair would you pick?
Mar 31, 2014
Wow! Some of our most creative names yet, from Dulcinea Tesla to Gable Juliette to Escher Reed Willem; and yet still–the two most popular Berrybaby names for March were the classic Jack and Peter.
Mar 30, 2014
This week, Abby Sandel considers the question of extreme unusual names–and how our perceptions of them might change over time. Any names that you once considered too weird to consider but seem perfectly acceptable now?
Mar 27, 2014
You can celebrate your own name rather than a saint’s for your own personal Name Day– Anna Otto tells us how it’s done in her family and how it could be done in yours. Care to try it?
Mar 26, 2014
When you find the right baby name, it may be like meeting the person you want to share your life with: You just know. Or maybe you’ll know the match is right by one of these 19 signs of baby name perfection.
Mar 25, 2014
Time magazine columnist Joel Stein thinks back on the decision of his boy’s name: Where does it stand now for him, his wife, and Laszlo himself?
Mar 24, 2014
An interesting and varied selection of Scandinavian names can be found in the cast lists of the plays of classic Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, from Asta to Torvald.
Mar 23, 2014
Names that strike just the right balance–what everyone would consider really ‘nice’ names–feature in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week. What do we call nice? Names like Charlotte, Miles, Simon and Nina.
Mar 23, 2014
When Rebekah Anderson decided to name her son Job — Job as in the Bible, not as in your everyday work — she got a lot of negative reactions. But the worst one of all was silence.
Mar 20, 2014
As a writer for LiveScience, Stephanie Pappas had read and analyzed all the name statistics and stories, but when it came to naming her own child…something else took over.
Mar 18, 2014
Anne and Elizabeth, Charlotte and Alice — out of all the wonderful classic girls’ names, which do you love the best?
Mar 17, 2014
During Jennifer’s 15-year reign at Number 1, nearly a million girls were given the name. Could one of them be you?