Baby Name News

Could it be that baby namers are preferring villainous names to those of heroes?

This week’s news of starbabies, trends, and trivia tidbits from Clare Bristow.

Are you looking for a name starting with a particular letter? The Name Sage advises a family seeking a boy name starting with C or K.

Which particular period of name history are you most drawn to?

A new way to look at the Hundred Year Rule–it’s more like the Great Grandparents Rule, says Nancy Man.

The Clooney twins were this week’s big story, but Clare Bristow shares some other interesting stories.

Can their dog’s name be shared by their new baby? The Name Sage offers some alternatives.

A fabulous array of babyberry name announcements this month, from Evadne to Vera, Desmond to Truett!

Name Nerds welcome! Kelli Brady digs deep into the popular names on the Social Security list and comes up with some interesting discoveries about their ups and downs.

Warning: if you’re a mom you will absolutely recognize yourself in this video courtesy of momgame. The woman in the video is improv comedienne Lauren Wilson, who is–obviously–a mom. (A non-mom could never come up with this skit, and a non-mom would never understand it.) This is one of several hilarious videos she has produced […]

News of the baby name world this week, from celebrity to state names, name popularity and upcoming twin starbabies.

Yes, classics can be cool, and the Name Sage offers some examples for both girls and boys.

What will the brother of Sid Biggs be names? And how about Serena Williams’ first child? Here are Sophie’s best bets.

If you’re looking for a really, really unusual name for your daughter, here are 50 fabulous options in every conceivable category–long and short, vintage and modern, nature names and interesting imports.

This week it’s state and territory names, some cool name stories and popularity stats.

Sophie fatigue has set in, leaving this family stuck for a name for their third daughter. What goes well with Margot and Audrey? The Name Sage has some ideas.

With the approach of Ramadan, John Kelly takes a look at Arabic names that have found international approval, from Aaliyah to Jamal to Layla.

Crushed that Fox, Gus, and Shepherd made the Top 1,000 baby names list? Nameberry looks at the best unusual boy names, finding possibilities that fall far outside of the current most popular choices.

These maps show the most popular names in every state.

Nameberry’s original analysis of the Social Security data of 2016 versus 2006 identifies the names that have exploded in use over the past ten years and reveals the major baby name trends of the decade.

News from across the namescape on the biggest baby name week of the year!

Kelli Brady analyzes what the popularity list would look like if all the spellings of a name were combined.

Nameberry’s contest for guessing the new popular names on the Social Security list brought many good guesses and two big winners. Royalty for girls and Fox for boys came in strongest as first-time names on the list.

Well, I guess you’ve got to give them credit for being resourceful and trying to solve their own problems. However, I’m hoping that ten seconds after this video ended, an adult in the household walked ten feet to the dresser and got a second pacifier. It will save them several hundred thousand dollars in therapy […]

It’s June, so let’s celebrate dads–even dads like this one, who got so excited by a baseball that he seems to momentarily have forgotten that he has a child in tow. To be fair, lots of dads get excited when a home run ball is hit over a fence and they are close enough to […]