Baby Name Popularity News

Here is some helpful baby name advice about how to counter some of the objections you might run into–accentuate the positive and remember that the bottom line is use the name you love!

When your favorite name is everybody’s favorite, do you move on or do you stick with it despite its popularity?

Unhappy with her common classic name, guest blogger Sarah Elizabeth searched for years to find the perfect permutation of her first and middle names. Here is her charming story.

If you’re seeing too many Madisons, Olivias, Penelopes and Harpers, Aimee Tafreshi has some suggestions for lesser used substitutes.

We’ve named nine girl names set to soar, now Abby does the same for the boys–from Axel to Wilder.

Some of Abby’s ideas of girls names that will really take off. Some surprises, too, like Zuri and Ruth.

When did you last see Chuck or Dick or Johnny on a birth certificate? Nick Turner charts the downward course of several vintage nickname names–including his own.

The Name Sage addresses the popularity puzzle, explaining how popular names aren’t as popular as you may think. Take the poll!

Joyce and Jonathan, Barb and Nancy–can this cool series bring those dated names back? Stranger Things have happened!

The loving element ‘Am’ has become a trending first syllable for girls, led by Amelia and Amelie.

Here are the Nameberry Picks of the most promising of the girls’ and boys’ names that increased by at least 100 points in the past year, from Achilles to Zelda.

How NOT to name the baby! Here are the most common mistakes baby namers make and how to avoid them.

Some fascinating examples of how some female movie stars have briefly propelled their names onto the popularity lists, from Debra to Piper to Nastassia.

Michael Phelps’ baby boy’s name Boomer is part of the recent morph from trendy n-ending names for boys to those ending in r. Here, Abby Sandel provides plenty of evidence.

After making us wait an agonzing extra three weeks this year, The Office of National Statistics has finally released the top names in England and Wales in 2015. Once again — unsurprisingly — Amelia and Oliver reign supreme among British names. This is Amelia‘s fifth and Oliver‘s third year in the number one spot. The Top […]

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Fresh vintage choices for girls are on the way, so move over, Amelia and Clara and make room for Vera, Cordelia and Louisa.

There’s a bumper crop of Lu/Lou names for girls. They range from the well-established to the fresh and stylish, from the names everyone is talking about to the names that no one has discovered – yet. Some of these are Parisian imports, others are native grown,

Sixty percent more babies now get gender neutral names than did ten years ago. Two big surprises: The fastest-rising names are those most evenly split between girls and boys. And the number of boys with unisex names is increasing fast. Read the numbers behind the trend.

There’s a whole range of more modern virtue names, from Ace to Serenity.

Here’s a new source of baby names–the babies and kids who’ve become stars on Instagram

Frankie and Charlie, Rory and Rhett–boyish nicknames for girls are gaining in popularity.

With another book in the series due out on July 31st, we take the time to review nineteen years of amazing Harry Potter appellations.

Nameberry Top 100 List + Starbabies = Names sharply on the rise

These lost boy names of a century ago have what it takes to be rediscovered now.