Names of the Future

Names of the Future

One of the most fun things about running nameberry, as opposed to being a visitor, is that you get to peer behind the scenes and see which names people are actually searching for.  Some of the most visited names on nameberry are ones you’d expect: Ava and Aidan, Lucy and Logan.  And then there are the stylish nameberry favorites as detailed in a recent blog: Beatrix, Penelope, Atticus.

But a bit further down on the list, we’re noticing less expected names that our visitors seem to be inordinately curious about.  These are the choices that are not on any popularity list – not even a sophisticated, fashion-forward one like nameberry’s – yet are attracting more than their share of attention.

Our conclusion?  These are names to watch.  It may be only the more adventurous baby namers who are actually using them at the moment, but we predict that in a decade, most will feel more familiar – perhaps way more familiar – than they do now.

These names of the future include:

Girls

ANAIS

ANASTASIA

ANNABEL

ANWEN

ARDEN

AURELIA

BRONWYN

BRYONY

CALLA

CALLIOPE

CARYS

CECELIA

CLEO

CORDELIA

DAPHNE

DELPHINE

DIXIE

EDITH

ELIANA

ELOISE

ESTELLE

EVER

FLEUR

GAIA

GREER

GRETA

HELENA

ISOLDE

JEMIMA

KETURAH

KIKI

LARK

LAVINIA

MAMIE

MILLA

MIRABELLA

NEVE

PERSEPHONE

PIPER

PIPPA

REMI

SASKIA

SELA

SLOANE

VERITY

VERONICA

WREN

Boys

ARCHER

BEAU

BECKETT

CALLUM

CALVIN

CASPIAN

CORMAC

DEXTER

ELLIOT

GAVIN

HUGO

KIERAN

LACHLAN

LENNON

OTTO

REMY

RUFUS

SILAS

STELLAN

XAVIER

****NEW NAMEBERRY FEATURE !  You can now add a poll to your posts and get other people’s opinions of your choices.  Just go to the Name Talk message boards, pick a section, hit Compose Post and voila!–you’ll see the polling option.

About the Author

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.