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New York City Baby Names: 2009′s Most Popular List
Oct 6, 2024
  In honor of the release of the 2009 list of most popular New York City baby names, Nameberry’s newest intern, Deanna Cullen, presents to you some surprising top contenders that owe their ascension in the ranks to some serious star power.   New York City baby names are not so different...
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Nameberry Picks: 12 Most Modern Mythic Names
Oct 6, 2024
  Baby namers have started to dig deep back into ancient history and mythological names in their search for fresh and interesting choices.  Roman names like Atticus are rising up the charts, and the whole pantheon of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses is up for rediscovery—already there have been such starbaby...
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British Baby Names: Hot New Trends
Oct 6, 2024
  This was one of those delicious mornings when I allowed myself to dip into the recent British baby names in the London Telegraph birth announcements. As usual, they didn’t disappoint (can you tell that my speech has suddenly acquired a British cadence?) and I managed to pick up on some...
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Baby Name Popularity: How local is it?
Oct 6, 2024
  We look at the national name statistics and somehow start to  assume that Isabella and Jacob are the top names all across the country.  But then we look at the state stats and see that there very much still are local preferences.    For example, Carter, which is Number 50 nationally,...
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Name the Next Beckham Baby
Oct 6, 2024
  Question of the Week: What should David and Victoria Beckham name their fourth child?   So Posh and Becks are expecting a new member of their team this summer.  They’ve been both imaginative and trendsetting when choosing the names for their three boys: Brooklyn Joseph, Cruz David and Romeo James. Due...
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The Top 100 Names of All Time
Oct 6, 2024
  Popular baby names change every year, but here we bring you the top names in the U.S. of all time — or at least since the government started keeping count.   A week or so ago, we presented to you Nephele‘s lists of the most popular baby names for each letter...
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Nameberry Week in Review: January 16-24
Oct 6, 2024
  Covering the week of January 16 to 24th,   Abby Sandel–creator of the wonderful AppellationMountain blog–brings you a roundup of the latest and juciest baby name news.   I’ll admit it: I obsessively read the Pottery Barn Kids catalog not for the color-coordinated, impossibly organized nurseries and playrooms, but for the names.  They tend...
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The Baby Namers’ Alphabet
Oct 6, 2024
  A   A was the most popular first initial for girls’ names in 2009, the last year for which there are official US statistics, and the most popular first letter overall, with one in eight babies getting a name that starts with A.   B   Boys’ names were led by J names,...
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Baby Names 2011: The Hottest Choices in Every Category
Oct 6, 2024
  Click here for the new list of most popular names.What choices do we see leading the way for baby names 2011? Here, we look at some of the most popular categories for parents and pick out the specific names we predict we’ll be hearing much more of this year and...
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The Hottest Celebrity-Inspired Baby Names 2011
Oct 6, 2024
  We all know that the names of celebrities and their babies inspire real life baby names, but which celebrities’ names are the most influential right now?   To find out, we went behind the scenes at nameberry and looked at which names enjoyed the biggest bumps up in traffic at the...
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Israeli Baby Names
Oct 6, 2024
  To commemorate the Feast of Purim this weekend and the other major Jewish holidays coming up on the calendar, we turned to Israel-resident Hannah Katsman for an overview of current trends in Israeli baby names.   When Israelis are choosing names for their babies, they tend to focus on meaning as much as the sound of the name....
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70s Names Ready for Revival? Baby Brandon, anyone?
Oct 6, 2024
  Nameberry’s Question of the Week: What 70s to 80s name or names do you consider ready for revival?   Looking back over the popular names of two and three decades ago, are there any whose comeback time has come?   As a reminder:   The top girls’ names of the 1970s were Jennifer,...
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Baby Names 2012: Trend Predictions?
Oct 6, 2024
  Question of the Week: What do you foresee as the biggest name trends of 2012?   Looking into your crystal ball, what genres of names do you see rising in popularity?   Is there a particular style that will come to the fore?   Will names from some period of the past start to...
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