Baby Name Trends News

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) has just released its provisional baby name data for 2019! As usual, it’s a gloriously eclectic mix of fashionable British favorites and gorgeous Gaelic gems.

Congratulations are in order for Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden, who announced the birth of their first daughter on Friday. And for those of us who love wild and wonderful celebrity baby names, their choice certainly doesn’t disappoint!

Nameberry’s exclusive count of the baby names that peaked in 2018 reveals favorites, trends, and names that will keep getting more popular.

The top baby names of 2019 on Nameberry feature Olivia and Milo at Number 1. Names making the biggest leaps up Nameberry’s 2019 popularity list are Frankie for baby girls and Acacius for baby boys.

Another year, another batch of utterly brilliant Babyberry names! So far this year, 175 new arrivals have been announced by our international community of friends and followers: 105 girls and 70 boys.

These are the 100 baby names for girls and boys most likely to define the next decade.

Seasonal baby names: would you consider using one? Each year, the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales releases a month-by-month breakdown of the Top 10 baby names for boys and girls. The boys’ side is more or less constant, and so is the girls’… for eleven months of the year, at least.

Nameberry analyzes the names on the Top 1000 at the turn of this decade vs. ten years ago and identifies the trends of the 2010s.

From (Baby) Yoda to Yara, a look at the pop culture-inspired names that have gone from zero to hero faster than you can say Khaleesi.

Gender-neutral names are getting so popular these days that we see dozens of rare and unique unisex picks finding new favor with parents. Lovers of unisex names can have trouble finding choices that aren’t overexposed, with familiar choices such as River (#197 for boys in 2018, and #244 for girls) and Rowan (#129 for boys, […]