Baby Name Trends

Here are the Top 100 Most Popular Baby Names for 2016 on Nameberry, including Olivia as the new Number 1 for girls, Ezra retaining its crown on the boys’ list, and a rundown of the hottest baby names of the year.

9 boy and girl names that surfaced in 2016 and will move higher in 2017.

By Linda Rosenkrantz and Abby Sandel The Defining Event of 2016 may have been the presidential election, but the political names that hit the headlines –Donald?  Hillary? Bernard?– are unlikely to find themselves on many new baby birth certificates. And so for Nameberry’s Names of the Year we’ve looked beyond politics to other bold-faced names […]

Inspired by Valentina Angelina Jonas, Abby looks at some lovely romantic names for girls.

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.

Compare your predictions with Sophie’s for new babies of Armie Hammer, Kelsey Grammer, Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard and others due soon.

Middle names have become the ‘anything goes’ spot. If you’re looking for a single-syllable one, this long list is a great place to start looking.

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.

We have a winner! Plus several fabulous runners-up! It wasn’t an easy task choosing from the unbelievable number of name entries–well over five thousand! Thanks, Berries for being so creative!

What are the most likely names of kids entering kindergarten this year?

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.

Our search for pop culture name inspirations takes us down Memory Lane to the 1990s.

The spotlight today is on celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools, as we speculate on what unusual nature names they’ll pick for their Baby #5.

Sophie Kihm’s predictions for the next batch of starbaby names.

From Lily Grace to Onyx Solace, word names in several categories dominated this week’s birth announcements!

Olivia replaces Charlotte at the head of the girls popularity list for the first half of 2016, while Ezra holds onto the Number 1 spot for boys.

Meagan Burke has spotted a trend: lots of popular boy names ending in the vowel I.

Can a boy’s name be stylish and classic? Definitely! Here are nine names that are both.