Archive for the ‘Name my baby’ Category
Jan
31
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What are America’s favorite baby names? Not the top names on the Social Security list, not even Nameberry’s own favorites, but the most well-liked names chosen by popular opinion.
Recently we collaborated with Huffington Post Parents to create a brackets challenge, asking readers to vote for America’s favorite baby name. We picked the 16 contenders for each sex from the ranks of Nameberry favorites, pitting Henry against James, Scarlett vs. Charlotte, Hudson against River (how could we resist?).
Through a series of elimination rounds, thousands of parents voted for their favorites. And today we have the winners! Read on to find out which the finalists were, and the identity of America’s favorite baby...
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Jan
26
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Lorain County Moms
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Are there really any good unusual boys’ names left in the Bible? Old Testament names for boys have been fashionable for going on half a century now, from the 1960s Adam to the present day Asher. Could there possibly be any obscure-yet-usable choices left?
Hundreds of them, in fact. The Bible is so full of unusual boys’ names that the choices seem nearly infinite, and as a new generation moves from hoary to hottie, others that once seemed to strange to consider start to feel possible.
Here, a dozen unusual Biblical names for boys you might want to consider.
Addar, “mighty one.” The name of a son of Bela (a Biblical king, not the Twilight heroine), Addar might make a good substitute for Aidan or Asher.
Ara, “lion.” Ara...
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Jan
11
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Lorain County Moms
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Today we bring you Nameberry’s newest baby names, those we’ve encountered over the past weeks and added to the Nameberry database.
It may seem odd to some people that after 25 years of writing about names, there are still new baby names to discover. But as you Berries know, that’s one of the best things about names: No matter how long you study them, no matter how much you read about them, there are always new ones out there.
Some of these, of course, are invented names, more and more every year as parents reach harder to come up with an appellation that’s unique….or at least yooneek. Then there are those obscure names in the Old Testament or other ancient sources, names from around the world that haven’t...
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Jan
10
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Lorain County Moms
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Another New Year, another opportunity to test out the 100-year rule, a chance to look at the pop lists of 1912 to see if we can find some undiscovered gems to excavate and polish up.
Looking first at the boys’ 1912 top 10, we see that it consisted completely of gold-standard classics: John, William, James, Robert, Joseph, George, Charles, Edward, Frank and Thomas _ with William being the only one surviving on today’s top 10. But since boys (names) will be boys (names), and more consistent in general (at least until recently, anyway), most of those names are still very much in play.
For the girls, the list was a little more idiosyncratic and time-linked, encompassing classics and semi-classics that have moved in and out of fashion over...
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Jan
02
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Lorain County Moms
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This year for the first time we’ve calculated a list of top unisex names 2011 — names listed on Nameberry for both genders that are winning the highest number of page views.
Unisex name popularity is always tricky: Aren’t most parents searching for top names Harper and Quinn interested in those names for girls? We believe they are, and if those two names were counted in the girls’ tally, they’d rank among the Top 20.
But in fact, some parents are interested in Harper and Quinn as boys’ names, and many of the other names on this list _ Sawyer, Rory, and Riley, say _ may be considered equally for both genders, while choices such as Parker or River may be used more often for boys.
Here are the top unisex names...
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Dec
18
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Lorain County Moms
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It was quite a year for celebrity baby names, but then again, you could say that for every recent year. Some stars this year mined old-fashioned sources of inspiration, while others went wild with inventions of their own. Here, the Nameberry Awards for the best, the worst, the weirdest, and the wildest celebrity baby names of 2011.
The Nelson Eddy Memorial Award goes to …
REX HARRISON, son of Niki Taylor.
Rather than being tributes to bygone stars, these seem to be lucky — or unlucky — accidents. Celine Dion appears to have inadvertently saluted stiff 1930′s operetta star Nelson Eddy with the combined names of her twin boys, while Niki Taylor (possibly unknowingly) paid tribute to Rex Harrison, the star...
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Nov
25
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Lorain County Moms
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Here, the 12 hottest trends for baby names in 2012.
Biggest Big Picture Trend: Modern Hero Names
Mariah Carey did it perfectly when she named her daughter Monroe, a name that honored her heroine Marilyn Monroe in a distinctly modern, non-Blonde Bombshell way. Such surname names may honor heroes real or fictional, contemporary or historic, from the arts, sports, or the world stage, work for girls as well as boys. Other choices we’ve been hearing: Landry (as in football coach Tom), Gatsby (as in fictional hero The Great), and Palin (yes, as in her).
Trend Trying Hardest to Have It All: Same but Different Names
Popular names get popular for a reason: They capture the style of the times and...
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Nov
15
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Mike Myers’ recent choice of the name Spike for his infant son got me to thinking. Did other former SNL cast members make equally offbeat, out-of-the-box choices?
Saturday Night Live is at this point a certifiable institution. The show has now been around for 36 years, and over its long run has featured many of the funniest, most creative, offbeat comic talents in Americasome of whom have gone on to become so iconic that we’ve almost forgotten they were ever regulars on the show. As in Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Murray, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Martin Short and now-Senator Al “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough” Franken.
In fact, SNL has been around so long that...
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Nov
09
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Lorain County Moms
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The term Latin American, of course, takes in a number of countries and cultures, with both shared histories and trends, and distinctly individual ones. The names in Portuguese-speaking Brazil are, for example, quite different from those in the various Spanish-speaking cultures. Some currently popular names prove to be international favorites: right now, the biblical Benjamin is the top name in both Argentina and Chile, and the U.S. No 1, Jacob, is also found at No. 2 in Argentina.
Here are some attractive names gleaned from the available lists of recently or currently popular choices in some Latin American countries that might be unfamiliar in el Norte, but are still eminently adoptable.
Girls
Oct
24
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Lorain County Moms
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Cool baby names today may reference celebrities, sure, but more and more parents are looking to fictional characters for inspiration when naming their children.
Atticus
The names of author Harper Lee and all her characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus, Scout, even Radley have been taken up by the baby-naming public. It doesn’t hurt that Atticus it’s an ancient Roman name meaning “from Athens” Finch was judged the No. 1 movie hero of all time by the American Film Institute.
Darcy
Darcy, as in Mr., may be the ultimate Jane Austen hero name, but these days it’s enjoying a new turn in the sun as a name for girls, following in Emma’s footsteps as an...
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