Baby Name News

Once in the Top 200, these names have fallen off the list completely. Which ones deserve to be revived? Otis? Viola? Freddie? Cast your votes!

Ultra-aspriational names rule on Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week, with celebrity choices Royal Reign, Pieta, Constantine, and Win.

Maya Reyes-Solano looks at some of the interesting international names representing their countries in the current World Cup games, from Alessio too Xabi.

What ever happened to Ward Cleaver, Al Bundy and Archie Bunker? They’re alive and well and living in New York, Massachusetts and Florida.

The chicest names in Europe are not the elaborate and obscure but short, simple, familiar names like these easy choices for both boys and girls.

If you had to give all your children names with the same theme, which theme would you choose? Names that start with Z or that have been used for royals, names from mythology or names from the circus, let’s blue-sky about name themes.

What to do when your daughter hates the name you lovingly chose for her? Mom Tara Wood is just waiting it out.

This month’s new celebrity baby names range from Bruce Willis’s Evelyn to Kristin Cavallari’s Jaxon to Ciara and Future’s Future.

In this week’s Nameberry 9 Newsiest Names, Abby Sandel adds the sounds of names to baby naming considerations, Do your favorites share sounds?

Want to de-modernize one of the Top 10 girls’ names? Abby Sandel offers some historic suggestions from the Middle Ages.

An intriguing variety of birth announcements on Nameberry last month, from Amelie and Atticus to Roman and Ramona to Poet and Petra.

What’s the most outrageous, insulting, crazy, ridiculous thing anyone has ever said to you about your child’s name…or your own?

Only a limited number of names entered the charts this year for both boys and girls. Brooke Cussans elucidates.

Denise Potter looks back through history to find notable names tied to the month of June, from ancient Rome to recent Hollywood.

Erin Waldron honors the late Maya Angelou with a list of names relating to her life and writings.

Names from movies and myth, a tribute to a powerful poet…all feature in Abby Sandel’s 9 Newsiest Names of the Week.

Here are Dantea’s picks for the best names given to the fewest recorded numbers of babies What are yours?

In the 70s, “Love Story” shot the name Jennifer into the stratosphere; Nick Turner wonders if “The Fault in Our Stars” could do the same for the already ascending Hazel.

Expectant mom Savannah Guthrie muses on her own unusual name and why she won’t be announcing her baby’s name in advance. (And–ahem–just notice whose name book she’s perusing!)

There are a variety of new ways going far beyond Junior to honor a loved one, as seen in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newest names this week. Have you found one?

Time to put our collective heads together and help your fellow Berry find the perfect names for Twin Girl A and Twin Girl B. She’s set out all her rules, possibilities and predilections.

And now here’s the girls’ edition of Abby Sandel’s bold predictions for the Top 20 names of 2033, from Charlotte to Hadley.

Looking back on this Memorial Day to salute some of the historic, mostly heroic, Civil War generals–with names like Jubal, Zealous and Speed. Happy Memorial Day weekend!

Abby Sandel goes out on a limb with a carefully reasoned forecast of the top names of 2033. Will Levi reach Number 1? Boys today, girls on Friday.

Mythological names are newly stylish for modern babies. Which are your favorites, and would you give one to your child?