Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking 

, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the 

, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for 

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include 

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Sophie Kihm has been writing for Nameberry since 2015. She has contributed stories on the 

. Sophie is Nameberry’s resident Name Guru to the Stars, where she suggests names for celebrity babies. She also manages the Nameberry 

Sophie Kihm's articles on names have run on 

, and more. She has been quoted as a name expert by 

, and more. You can follow her personally on 

, or contact her at sophie@nameberry.com. Sophie lives in Chicago.

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The name Ub is a boy's name of Swedish, Danish, Norse origin meaning "wolf; unfriendly; city dwelller".

A rare option with just two letters, Ub is a diminutive of a diminutive name, notably borne by Ub Iwerks, an early collaborator of Walt Disney, a co-inventor of Mickey Mouse, and an award-winning animator. Derived from the Scandinavian Ubbe, it may have its roots in the Norse name Úlfr, meaning "wolf", the Norse word úfr meaning "unfriendly", or as a short form of the Latin names Urban and Urbanus, meaning "city dweller".
 
It is pronounced to rhyme with cub.

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