Somepeople search the top baby names to get ideas for what to name their babies, and some people search them to see what NOT to name their babies. To get started, here is the most recent official list of the top names for girls and boys in the US.
We've got thousands (upon thousands) of unique, rare, uncommon, and unusual names, including ancient treasures and modern inventions, international names and names drawn from nature, places, and words. Visit our central page for unique names to find a baby name that's as individual as your child.
Congratulations, it's a girl! To find a name for your daughter, visit our Baby Girl Names page for top girl names and unique girl names, classic names for girls and bold new female names. You can search girl names by letter, origin, and style. Here are the top girl names on Nameberry right now.
Congratulations, you're having a baby boy! To get all the latest news and information on naming your son today, visit our page for Baby Boy Names. You'll find popular boy names and unique boy names. You can search for boys' names by letter, origin, and style, browse the latest trends in boy names, and connect with other parents naming baby boys. Here are the top baby boy names right now.
Team Green? Learn the latest about unisex names on our main page for Gender Neutral Baby Names. You'll find the top unisex names for children, lots of kinds of unique gender neutral names, plus information on all the baby names are currently used more for girls, more for boys, or are true nonbinary names.
Baby name origins let you explore all the newborn names on Nameberry by country, language, or culture of origin to find the right name for your child. The links below are just the beginning: Click through to find the full list of baby name origins in our database.
We literally invented baby name lists, organizing names into lists by gender, origin, style, era, meaning, popularity, spelling -- any category you can imagine. Search hundreds of name lists organized by topic, including style, image, gender, birthday, and many more.
Maybe you want to start with a meaning that speaks to you and find a baby name that fits. Or you've already made your choice and you want to know what the name means. Here are some of the most popular lists of name meanings to help you find a meaningful baby's name.
The baby name experts at Nameberry can help you find the perfect name. Whether you need one name or are looking for someone to walk you through the entire baby naming process, private name consulting can help you make a choice you'll love forever.
Talk about baby name trends and choices with your fellow berries on our friendly forums. We have girl names forums and boy names forums, forums for players of baby name games and for birth announcements. Get baby name advice and join the Nameberry community.
Nameberry has created a range of unique name generators and quizzes. There's the deeply analytical Baby Name DNA, which tests your preferences in names and in life to create your unique naming profile and generate hundreds of names that match your individual DNA. And then there are a range of quizzes and generators just for fun. Here's a sampling.
Here at Nameberry, we believe that choosing the right name starts with understanding yourself -- your own style, values, history, all the individual qualities that make you you. That's why we created Zodiac Names, a unique method of finding the right name based on your astrological sign and that of your naming partner. How do you approach naming and how can you work most effectively with your partner to find the best name? What names have a natural appeal to you? Find the best names to choose for your sign.
Nameberry's Week-by-Week Pregnancy Guide has you covered, from TTC to the fourth trimester (wait, there's a fourth trimester?). We look at everything from medical signposts to useful gear to, yep, baby names.
After dying out as a popular name for Southern women a few decades ago, Charlotte has returned as a popular name in the most liberal states. This graph shows popularity in each state over time, with the states going from most conservative on the top to most liberal on the bottom.
The only time I ever saw a dead name return in fewer than 80 years is when it caught on with a totally different demographic (Jeremiah is another one of these, which after losing steam in the early nineties in the Northwest, has now gotten hot in the Deep South).
Genders also get jealous when the other has too popular a name. Each of the following names has had the other gender in the Top 1,000 during some stretch of the past (click on a name to see its history with the opposite gender).
You can obviously change any wording you see fit! Julia is our top girl name and Ronan is a contender for a baby boy. It hit me as I said them together that it sounds way too similar to Romeo and Juliet and it would personally stop me from using that sibling set. I am curious what others think?
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Want us to tackle your baby-naming problem? Email Swistle at Gmail dot com and tell me all about it. Include details such as finalist names, estimated arrival date, surname (or a name that sounds like the surname, for trying names out), names of your other children, names you've considered and rejected, names you'd use if the baby were the opposite sex, how many children you plan to have. But be sure you only send me information that's okay to post on the site---or specify which parts should not be posted.
I typically choose from questions submitted the previous week. The volume of emails we now receive means we can't answer all the questions. (Please don't re-send your question.) We tend to give priority to questions that (1) give a surname or a surname stand-in (like Neelsin for Neilson, or "it sounds like Donson, but with a J"), and (2) ask for help with a boy name OR a girl name, and (3) ask for help with a name for a USA baby (I don't know much at all about how names sound / seem / are used in other countries), and (4) address an issue not recently covered.
In the original post the author bemoans the lack of research assistants to perform his data extraction for a more complete analysis. Fortunately, in this era we have replaced human jobs with computers, and the data can be easily extracted using programming. This weekend I took the opportunity to learn how to scrape the social security data myself and do a more complete analysis of all of the names on record.
So, for each of the 4110 names that I collected, I calculated the relative risk going from one year to the next, all the way from 1880 to 2011. I then pulled out the names with the biggest percent drops from one year to the next.
What to name the newest member of the family? It can be a nerve-wracking decision for new parents. Something out of scripture? A favorite singer or film star? A sports player or a Disney character? Virginia parents are choosing diverse names for their newborns. Today, the Office of Vital Records in the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) unveils its lists of Top 15 baby names for children born in the commonwealth in 2023, perhaps providing some inspiration for stressed-out parents-to-be.
Topping the list of the most popular names for boys in 2023 was Liam, while Charlotte was the most popular for girls, as it was in 2022. In 2022, there were 95,583 babies born; while the numbers for 2023 are still being counted, the Office of Vital Records estimates there were a similar number of births last year.
The public may also access Office of Vital Records services through their local health district offices and Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) offices. Use this Health Department locator tool to find your local health department office; please call ahead to ensure your local office offers the services you need to access. Use this DMV office locator tool to find a DMV office near you; DMV offices are open for walk-ins and appointments.
Something weird happened about a year ago, and I became a baby name consultant. A couple of months before becoming a name consultant, I had no clue that such a job even existed. I had been creating content on TikTok leading up to my wedding, and one day posted outside my niche about my interest in baby names.
If I had joined TikTok with the goal of growing a name account and becoming a name consultant, here are the things that I would have done differently. This is based on my own experiences, and slightly catered to my interests (vintage names, and baby name data.)
I spent months doing video responses and having people get so mad at me for skipping them that I was so overwhelmed. Having an option that guarantees clients getting your 1:1 will cut 90% of the mean comments.
This journey has forced me to become more organized, the first few months were chaos. I have a Trello board, planner, and spreadsheet that is technically equally chaotic, but in a more manageable way. A goal in 2024 is to outsource and hire someone with a type A brain to design a system that will help me streamline things.
LET ME BE YOUR BIGGEST FAN! If you start a name TikTok or become a name consultant, I will be your biggest hype girl and #1 fan. There is room for more of us on TikTok, and the more of us who are doing this the more legitimacy this path gains from people on the outside looking in.
I'm Morgan - a blogger and content creator living in the Quad Cities. I've been documenting the exiting parts of my twenties - wedding planning, growing our family (through pets!), traveling, and building a career. Here you'll find travel guides, styling posts, and, if you hit that 'contact me' button - a new friend!
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