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 

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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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The name Wiebe is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "war bright".

Zippy and energetic in sound with an spirited meaning, Wiebe likely started out as a diminutive of the Old English and Old Germanic names Wigberht and Wigbrand. Meaning "war bright",  "war torch", it ranked in the Top 500 in the Netherlands during the 2000s and early 2010s, it has been used as a given name since at least the 20th-century. 
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Notable bearers of the name include strongman Wiebe Nijenhuis, translator Wiebe Buddingh', painter Wiebe van der Zee, and footballer Wiebe Kooistra. 

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