Baby Name Popularity News

An extraordinary number of names meaning red or red-haired–from Ruby to Rory to Flynn–are trending right now!

This week's name news includes new popularity lists from several other countries, alternative ways to pick a baby name, and the ups and downs of sharing your name with someone famous.

Popular baby names midway through 2019 include Isla and Archie at Number 1. Unique names such as Posie for girls and Cassian for boys also make the 2019 list of top names. International names including Axel and Aarav rank on Nameberry’s Top 100

What are the hottest place names for babies right now? Heating up are Holland for girls and HArlem for boys.

Here are the hottest word names of the year.

Some fabulous names are given to only a small number of babies–here is our pick of the best!

Not every state had Emma and Liam as #1. Let’s look at the variations!

Baby name news this week includes popular and unpopular names, teachers’ dilemmas, Psalm West–and much more.

The royal Archie leads the nickname names heading up the popularity ladder.

Some great new names made it onto the list this year for both girls and boys.

Kelli Brady’s highly anticipated annual analysis of the real baby name popularity of 2018–aka her Playground Analysis.

The Nameberry rankings of popular names is quite different from the Social Security list, and reflects baby name popularity of the future.

Congratulations to our Berry Amy, known in the comments as Orchid_Lover, who won our “Guess the New Top 10” contest! Amy’s predictions for the Top 10 baby names of 2018 were as follows: 1.     Emma Noah 2.     Olivia Liam 3.     Ava William 4.     Sophia Oliver 5.     Isabella Benjamin 6.     Charlotte Elijah 7.     Mia James 8.     […]

The Top Baby Names of 2018 in the US have been announced by the Social Security Administration.

Some long-awaited announcements in this week’s name news, including a royal baby, and new popularity charts from several countries!

If there ever was a holiday for baby namers, it would be the Friday before Mother’s Day. For this is the day that the Social Security Administration releases the data on the most popular baby names of the previous year. This Friday, May 10th, the official list of US Most Popular Names of 2018 will […]

How Millennial mom names can be transformed for the Alpha generation.

This week’s baby name news includes unique names from all over–from California to Cornwall.

This week’s name news includes international baby names popular in Japan, Hungary, Poland and the UK.

Eleanor Nickerson of Britishbabynames.com analyzes the newly released list of most popular Scottish baby names.

Nameberry’s Top 1000 baby names for 2019 include two new names at the top of the list. Posie is the most popular girl name and Milo is the top boy name.

Here are 50 rarely used girl names that we think fit right into the baby name sweet spot.

Is Lyla too much like other La-la names? See what the Name Sage thinks!

This week’s baby name news includes solutions to your most common naming dilemmas, an Irish name you’ve probably never heard before, the most popular names in all four corners of the USA, and more!

Here are 50 boy names that fall in to the sweet spot of fitting in, yet standing out.