Apr 1, 2014
Baby Name Choice: Ryder– A name ahead of its time
Guest blogger Gay Cioffi devised her own strategy for narrowing down the infinite number of baby name choices–and the result was a name that proved to be ahead of its time.
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Apr 1, 2014
Pick a Boy-Girl Pair from the Top 1000
Let’s play another all-berry baby name game. Let’s say you only had one daughter and one son, and you had to choose their names from the same U.S. popularity rank. Which pair would you pick?
Mar 31, 2014
Baby Name News: March Babyberry Report–Elsbeth, Ernest & Escher
Wow! Some of our most creative names yet, from Dulcinea Tesla to Gable Juliette to Escher Reed Willem; and yet still–the two most popular Berrybaby names for March were the classic Jack and Peter.
Mar 30, 2014
Whimsical Nature Names: Some quirky animal and flower choices
Brooke Cussans offers some nature names you certainly won’t hear every day: which of them do you think are usable? Tigerlily? Wolfgang?
Mar 30, 2014
Sasha, Mars, and Wilburn: Strange names, or tomorrow’s Top 100?
This week, Abby Sandel considers the question of extreme unusual names–and how our perceptions of them might change over time. Any names that you once considered too weird to consider but seem perfectly acceptable now?
Mar 27, 2014
Celebrate Your Own Name Day!
You can celebrate your own name rather than a saint’s for your own personal Name Day– Anna Otto tells us how it’s done in her family and how it could be done in yours. Care to try it?
Mar 26, 2014
19 Signs You’ve Found the Right Baby Name
When you find the right baby name, it may be like meeting the person you want to share your life with: You just know. Or maybe you’ll know the match is right by one of these 19 signs of baby name perfection.
Mar 25, 2014
Baby Name Choice: Second thoughts on Laszlo?
Time magazine columnist Joel Stein thinks back on the decision of his boy’s name: Where does it stand now for him, his wife, and Laszlo himself?
Mar 25, 2014
What were your great-grandparents’ names?
Climbing further up on our family trees, let’s look at the names of our great-grandparents. Classic or antiquated, from near or far? And would you use any of them for a child today?
Mar 24, 2014
Norwegian Baby Names: Happy (belated) Birthday, Henrik Ibsen!
An interesting and varied selection of Scandinavian names can be found in the cast lists of the plays of classic Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, from Asta to Torvald.
Mar 23, 2014
The Power of Nice Names: Charlotte, Simon, and Vivianne
Names that strike just the right balance–what everyone would consider really ‘nice’ names–feature in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week. What do we call nice? Names like Charlotte, Miles, Simon and Nina.
Mar 23, 2014
Old Testament Baby Names: On choosing Job
When Rebekah Anderson decided to name her son Job — Job as in the Bible, not as in your everyday work — she got a lot of negative reactions. But the worst one of all was silence.
Mar 20, 2014
Choosing Baby Names: Sense vs sensibility
As a writer for LiveScience, Stephanie Pappas had read and analyzed all the name statistics and stories, but when it came to naming her own child…something else took over.
Mar 18, 2014
What’s your favorite classic girls’ name…and why?
Anne and Elizabeth, Charlotte and Alice — out of all the wonderful classic girls’ names, which do you love the best?
Mar 18, 2014
Alliterative Baby Names in Pop Culture: Luna Lovegood and Lucy Liu
Pop culture is filled with alliterative names, as in all these examples supplied by Brook Cussans. Some people like them for their snap and memorableness, others don’t. Where do you stand?
Mar 17, 2014
14 Signs Your Name Might Be Jennifer
During Jennifer’s 15-year reign at Number 1, nearly a million girls were given the name. Could one of them be you?
Mar 16, 2014
Eclectic Baby Names in the News: Buzz, Onni and Michelangelo
It’s an almost-anything-goes week in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 newsiest names–all the way from Alice to Buzz to Ferelith.
Mar 16, 2014
Baby Names for Boys: Popularity of “S” and “Sh” sounds
Kelli Brady continues her analysis of S-sound-beginning names’ popularity–this time looking at the boys. Do you have a favorite S name for boys?
Mar 13, 2014
Modern Classic Baby Names: Cecilia, Calvin and Colin
There are classic classics and then there are modern classics, which also can be divided into two different categories– an interesting distinction, as explained by Angela Mastrodonato.
Mar 12, 2014
Baby Name Letters: What’s your favorite O name?
Rising stars or international choices, classic picks or current hotties, there are names that start or end with the letter O to suit every taste. Which do you like the best?
Mar 10, 2014
100+ Classic Girls’ Names — below the Top 1000
Think you have to choose between names that are classic and those that are unusual? Here are more than 100 girls’ names that give you both.
Mar 9, 2014
Bold B-Names and Beyond: Booker, Bowie, Bridget and Bijou
Some eye-catching baby names in Abby Sandel’s Nameberry 9 this week, many of them starting with the letter B–Bridget, Booker, Bijou and Bowie.
Mar 9, 2014
Southern-Fried Baby Names: Rhett, Scarlett and Savannah
From Aimee Reneau Tafreshi, names that conjure up images of the American South–plus what names are currently most popular there.
Mar 6, 2014
S-Names for Girls: Popularity of “S” vs. “Sh” sounds
NameFreak!’s Kelli Brady applies her awesome analytic skills to the popularity of the varieties of girls’ name starting with the letter ‘S’.
Mar 5, 2014
The Names of March: Kennedy, Knute and Casimir
The month of March brings with it a wide range of associations, from the birthstone Beryl to famous March-born babies Harriet, Knute and Tennessee, as described by Denise Potter.