News & features
May 17, 2017
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.
May 16, 2017
News from across the namescape on the biggest baby name week of the year!
May 15, 2017
Kelli Brady analyzes what the popularity list would look like if all the spellings of a name were combined.
May 14, 2017
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.
May 14, 2017
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 […]
May 13, 2017
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 […]
May 13, 2017
“Whoa, is that me??” That seems to be what this baby is saying after seeing herself on camera, seemingly for the first time. However, as one astute commenter noted on Reddit, when the baby puts the phone down, one can see that the picture on the phone is of a baby with glasses. In other […]
May 13, 2017
Want to meet the Pope? Here’s one way: dress up as Mini-Pope. That’s apparently what the parents of this baby were thinking. In any event, it seems to have had the desired outcome. One can see the Pope’s initial reaction as he throws his head back in laughter, as a member of his security team […]
May 11, 2017
The most popular baby names of 2016 have been announced, and the list contains some major surprises.
May 10, 2017
As we eagerly await the new Top 1000 popularity list, Clare Bristow debuts her Baby Names News of the Week blog.
May 8, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale–a distinguished novel and much talked-about TV series–offers a range of mostly classic baby name possibilities–from Lydia and Luke to Cora and June.
May 7, 2017
Best new baby boy names starting with B, from Bear to Beau to Bodhi
May 4, 2017
The new official most popular list is about to be released and we want you to guess what names will enter for the first time or make a return!
May 3, 2017
A wide variety of great new Nameberry choices this month from classics to creative, Ethan to Ensley.
May 2, 2017
Where’s the middle ground between mainstream favorites like Olivia and Ava and vintage picks like Dorothy and Cora?
Apr 30, 2017
A new category of baby names: 21st century romantic, as in Ciara’s choice of Sienna Princess.
Apr 27, 2017
Names that are super popular in France which could catch on here.
Apr 26, 2017
What’s the most unusual name on your family tree? And will it ever come back into style?
Apr 24, 2017
10 great names from the French popularity lists.
Apr 23, 2017
The baby name Grover made news this week: could it and other similarly quirky vintage boy names like Roscoe and Rufus start to rise?
Apr 20, 2017
Names like Liam and Sophia have become thoroughly integrated into American nomenclature. What’s next?
Apr 18, 2017
Taking a look at some of the more interesting international names of past Boston Marathon winners.
Apr 18, 2017
The Name Sage offers some sweet Southern choices -- Georgia, Delia and Clementine.
Apr 17, 2017
Some hidden treasures from the popularity list of a century ago, from Lula to Odessa to Wiley.
Apr 16, 2017
A rock and rap music festival of boy names from Indio to Sasha to Mac