Name Nerds: When Did You Get Hooked on Names?

Question of the Week: How and when did you get interested in names?

When you were little, did you love getting new dolls just so you could name them?  Did you create large imaginary elaborately-named families?

As a teen, did you obsess about your future children’s names, writing various possibilities in the margins of your notebooks?

Or was it only until you were actually pregnant, when it became a realistic imperative, that you became hooked on names?

Did the internet escalate your interest into an obsession, finding a place where you could share thoughts and ideas with other name nerds?

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REMINDER: You can now add famous namesakes and pop culture references to any name in the database.

About the Author

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.

Introducing the Nameberry App

Nameberry App
Find your perfect baby name together with our new mobile app.
  • Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
  • Names you match on are saved to your shared list
  • Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
  • Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
  • Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.
Sign up to be notified when the app launches and to receive a discount on full access.
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Introducing the Nameberry App

Nameberry App
Find your perfect baby name together with our new mobile app.
  • Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
  • Names you match on are saved to your shared list
  • Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
  • Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
  • Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.
Sign up to be notified when the app launches and to receive a discount on full access.
Nameberry App Logo