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… other Kin/Ken names, or is Kinzee different enough to stand out?  I’m a sucker for Kinsey – as in Sue Grafton’s fictional detective, Kinsey Millhone, but I’m …

… what the nickname would be, but it has a cool sound. Loyal – I’m a sucker for word names and  I love this one as a first or middle. Gemini …

… chose family name Maxwell Drew for a daughter in 2012. But now Facebook entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have named their daughter Maxima, nicknamed Max. While there are …

… sometimes in cheek. Bonnet (@lesliemarion) Braverie (@eperdument) Candor (@17marisan) Cardigan (@lesliemarion) Elysian and Elysium (@lesliemarion / @jtucker) Etherea (@amf0224) Harvest (@lesliemarion) Julep (@lovelynames) Majolica (@lesliemarion) Medallion (@Meisch) Operetta (@Mega_Muffin) Prose …

… soap operas, and on Heroes, Alias, 90210, and Desperate Housewives; the birth name of Puck Puckerman on Glee is Noah. Noah has also been a low-keyed starbaby hit over …

… grandparents. What name did you hate to let go of? I’ve always been a sucker for the name India. I grew up on an Air Force base so our …

… tech panache. You also could try the middle-name approach with Bezos, Gates, Musk or Zuckerberg. Elon Musk, the founder of Telsa and SpaceX, has a first name that could …

… for a less-common spelling of Lennon. Hendrix Scott to Minnesota Wild hockey player Jason Zucker. Scott is Jason’s father’s name, and he said of Hendrix, “It’s …

The Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain Brooklyn is big in Sioux City. Jack remains #1 in Scotland, Jayden is #2 in California, and Liam is most popular in …

Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what …

How does she do it? Once again, CaraMichelle has managed to unearth the names of a prodigious number of celebrity births. Both Deschanel sisters gave birth in October, but it …

By Abby Sandel Let’s say you love old-fashioned girl names with a tailored quality. You’re all about names that topped the charts a century ago, but feel …

The singer Grimes announced her pregnancy (with entrepreneur Elon Musk) in January and ever since, the Internet has abounded with speculations and suggestions for their baby’s name. So let …

By Tiana Putric Sweetie, Angel, Dolly, Kitty, ‘amore’ (Spanish for ‘love’), ’petit chou’ (French for ‘little cabbage’), ‘moya golubushka’ (Russian for ‘my little dove’), ‘sonche’ (Macedonian for ‘sunshine’), and so …

By Joanna Walker Geoffrey Chaucer has been described as the father of English literature, so who better to turn to for name inspiration? Chaucer was writing in the Middle Ages …

It’s a fact: superhero baby names have never been cooler. Even without the meteoric resurgence of the Marvel film franchise over the past decade, superhero-inspired names encompass so …

Amanda writes: We are expecting our second child on February 16th, exactly two years after we welcomed our daughter, Evelina Viti. She goes by Lina. We chose not to find …

By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain Naming a boy has always been a little bit different. It isn’t harder, necessarily.  For some parents, settling on a son’s name is …

In 2008, shortly after Pam and I moved our shared baby name expertise from the book world into the virtual universe, we inaugurated a tradition of collaborating towards the end …

You know when you see a child (or a picture of one) and think, “Dang, that kid is cooler than I’ll ever be”? That’s how we feel when …

Nameberry 9 by Abby Sandel of Appellation Mountain Imagine that you were put in charge of names. Effective immediately, you are the recorder of all given names, and no newborn …