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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 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 25, 2014
Climbing further up on our family trees, let’s look at the names of our great-grandparents. Classic or antiquated, from near or far? And would you use any of them for a child today?
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 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 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?
Mar 16, 2014
It’s an almost-anything-goes week in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names–all the way from Alice to Buzz to Ferelith.
Mar 16, 2014
Kelli Brady continues her analysis of S-sound-beginning names’ popularity–this time looking at the boys. Do you have a favorite S name for boys?
Mar 10, 2014
Think you have to choose between names that are classic and those that are unusual? Here are more than 100 girls’ names that give you both.
Mar 9, 2014
Some eye-catching baby names in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week, many of them starting with the letter B–Bridget, Booker, Bijou and Bowie.
Mar 6, 2014
NameFreak!’s Kelli Brady applies her awesome analytic skills to the popularity of the varieties of girls’ name starting with the letter ‘S’.
Mar 5, 2014
The month of March brings with it a wide range of associations, from the birthstone Beryl to famous March-born babies Harriet, Knute and Tennessee, as described by Denise Potter.
Mar 3, 2014
The February Babyberry Report includes a Cecily and a Cormac, an Enid and an Ezeriah, plus two sets of twins.
Mar 2, 2014
Classic names with a twist are the subject of Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week–as in Miriana, Coralie and Adelina. Will any of them catch on?
Feb 26, 2014
There are the popular names like Sophia and Jacob. Then there are the stylish names: Adelaide and Atticus, Maisie and Silas. And then there is the style wave of names beyond that, which may sound avant garde, even outrageous, now, but which we predict will set the fashion of the future.
Feb 25, 2014
14 years ago this month, we waved goodbye to the lovable Charlie Brown gang. Now Denise Potter wonders here if these ten Peanuts’ names are ready for a revamp. Give a warm welcome back to Frieda, Linus, and Eudora!
Feb 24, 2014
Ev- names are everywhere, it seems, from classics Eve and Eva to contempos Everleigh and Everest. We’d call it a total trendlet.
Feb 23, 2014
Bodhi, Machs, Sid, Fianna–this installment of Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names of the week provides a perfect illustration of the immense variety found in today’s baby name landscape.
Feb 20, 2014
If you love the nickname Joe but don’t want to use Joseph, how about Joab or Jotham? Aurora Firth offers lots of cooler paths to common nicknames.
Feb 19, 2014
Why invent a unique baby name when some modern author may have already done it for you? Here are dozens of quirky literary character names, from Amaryllis to Zazie, Athens to Zoyd.
Feb 16, 2014
In this week’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names, Abby Sandel highlights some interesting international choices, such as Raphael and Ysabel, retro twins Ernest and Doris, and Simon Cowell’s baby name tribute to his dad, Eric.
Feb 13, 2014
By Lauren Apfel, Omnimom I wrote a post here not too long ago called Confessions of a Baby Name Snob, a funny post about how my sister and I name other people’s babies better than they do. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, this piece, but like all resonating humor there was more than a […]
Feb 12, 2014
In-between the well known and well used first and last names of the US Presidents, are some more subtly suggestive middles that could provide Presidents’ Day inspiration.
Feb 11, 2014
In the first of our two Presidents’ Day salutes, Kelli Brady analyzes the popularity of U.S. Presidents’ surnames over the years.
Feb 10, 2014
Welcome to the world of reality star baby names–Jaxie, Alena and a girl named Beau are all in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names this week.