Name News

This fun interactive tool lets you visualize the popularity of different names in the United States from 1880 to 2020.

Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names in the Social Security Administration dataset. You can see the more gender-specific names at the edges and more gen…

Surprising revelations from graphs of French baby name popularity starting in the year 1600

Boys' names ending in -a used to be rare--but not anymore. Starting around 1970, the whole picture changed.

Comment on a baby naming forum with the news that you’re considering the name Lucas William 10 years ago, and you’ll most likely be met with a chorus of approval, with posters replying “Lovely name!” and “Aww, so handsome.” Comment that same message today, and you’ll be bombarded with a bunch of simultaneous variations

What do Harper, Harley, Eden and Emery have in common? They crossed the line from more male to more female. Here are more unisex baby names that switched.

This paper (published in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol 5, No 1 (2020) identified macro trends and phonological patterns of 348 million American baby names over 137 years from 1880 to 2017.

What's hot with the Scots, and unique names Scottish parents are using.

Baby names gain sudden popularity for various reasons. See how it’s changed over the years.

New figures from the state Department of Health Services show the names that were most popular a quarter century have all but disappeared from this year's Top 20 list.

Trends in naming can be classified in several ways, and over the course of 30 years, we can see that there have been several trends in the Norwegian naming material.

A couple decades ago, parents around the world held their new little bundles of joy. “We’ve settled on Jessica Anne!” They joyfully exclaimed to the nurse. “His name is Daniel Christopher,” They said to friends flocking to the newborn’s crib. “She’s called Jennifer Nicole,” The would smile up at beaming grandparents. The number one name for baby girls in 1992, when some of these now-parents were born, Ashley, made up 1.9% of all baby girls born in the US. Michael, the number one for boys, claime

Unless we're all willing to name our babies William and Elizabeth, we can - and should! - embrace names tied to an era.

Months ago I had this big idea to present to you a group of names to have always been in the top 1000. It was inspired by my post o