Baby Name News

Short, strong, and barely heard a generation ago, these are not your father’s or grandfather’s baby names.

Brooke Cussans scans the cheese case to find some interesting possibilities–such as Kiri and Colby–which don’t sound cheesy at all.

Cindy Crawford has a Presley, Kevin Nealon a Gable, Nicole Richie a little Harlow–what happens when current celebs honor movie and rock stars of the past.

A whole new world of intriguing nickname names from Wales opens up to us here, thanks to Eleanor Nickerson. Gwenno, anyone?

A wide variety of starbaby names appeared on the marquee in the month of July; here’s the full report from CaraMichelle.

Nameberry is full of wonderful old baby names just waiting to be rediscovered. Which do you nominate as ripest for revival?

Anna Otto analyzes the sometimes tricky concept of class in baby names from her Australian perspective. Wdyt? Do her assessments apply to the US as well? Do you think there are upper and lower-class names?

Our babyberry announcements for July–a variety of fabulous choices, from Antoinette to Zora, Augustine to Quentin.

How many usages does it take to bring a baby name to the top spot? Kelli Brady shows how drastically that number has decreased over time. (Or why you know so many grown Jennifers and no baby Noahs.)

In Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week: Mick Jagger becomes a grandfather AND a great-grandfather, a Lion lands in the middle spot, and Ezra is used for a girl!

Did you know that pink used to be reserved for boys and blue for girls? Lots of interesting ideas here from Nick Turner on the subject of color names for boys.

Here comes August! Denise Potter finds some notable names to celebrate this month –including those of Roman emperors, Arctic explorers and jazz musicians.

Guest blogger Elisabeth Waugaman looks at the history of African-American names, and in particular at the influence of slavery.

A car or a cottage, a cat or a cobra — what’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever named, what did you name it, and why?

Are you a Shakespeare buff but wouldn’t want to name your baby Othello or Ophelia? Here are 22 names of characters that don’t immediately call the Bard to mind.

Unique in art history, this family of artists–the Peales– used other great artists of the past as namesakes for their children.

Abby Sandel talks about what-you-see-is-what-you-get baby names, nickname names and no-nickname names.

There’s a certain romance to ancient place names…Alalia, Illyria, Thessaly…and Eleanor Nickerson has found some great ones.

If you’re shying away from these baby names because you believe they’re too popular, maybe you owe them a second look.

After you name you first girl Lincoln, where do you go from there for your next baby? Tara Ryazansky has some suggestions and asks for yours.

Other people love it and you don’t. Or you find it wonderful and can’t understand why the world doesn’t agree. What name do you just not get?

Have you noticed the sudden raft of boys’ names ending in ‘ett’–Beckett, Emmett, Everett–climbing on the popularity lists?

Abby Sandel explores the complications that can arise when naming a second child. Do siblings’ names have to match?

On a sojourn in France, K. M. Sheard gathered some interesting names–traditional French examples, more modern choices, and a few popular imports from other countries.

Of her six children, Tara Wood half-wonders if his more unusual name has set one of them apart.