Name News

Woah, that’s a big title! But I couldn’t condense it much more than that. As I’m sure you’ve already assumed from taking a peek at that title, today we’re talking about my opinions on names that sound the same, but belong to different genders (traditionally) and have different spellings. If your head’s still spinning, the most popular example of this phenomenon is Aaron and Erin, which may help anybody who’s tripping over my admittedly confusing wording. Anyway, I’m going to give my opinions on

Mandy and Taylor named their firstborn son “August,” an English name that means “Great” or “To Increase.” In her post, Mandy went into detail into why they chose this name. “It was last August when @taylordawesgoldsmith and I found out we were having a boy (it’s also Taylor’s birth month) and we always loved the name… so it was settled very early on in our book.”

The image Mandy used was of a blanket that had August’s name written on it. Turns out, the blanket was a sentimental gift. “For our anniversary in November, T gifted me with this blanket with the “A” (for Amanda) made from extra material from my wedding dress and “T” (for Taylor) from his wedding shirt. Felt like a very fitting amalgamation of our whole story. I can’t wait to pass this on to our sweet August one day.” Such a precious and meaningful gift to pass on to their son!

In August’s birth announcement, the This Is Us star referred to her son as “Gus,”

Nicknames are usually "short for" formal names. But some names are reversing the relationship.

The most contentious aspect for me when ordering a cup of coffee—until now, at least—has been the perpetual misspelling of my name on the side of the cup.

A baby boy called Ġanni is the first child to be officially named using Maltese fonts after an IT system change that recognises letters in the national language.
For the first time since the system was digitised, Maltese characters can be included in the public registry and on I

According to baby name site Nameberry, these are the real top 10 baby names in the country right now.

What were the most popular first letters for baby names in 2019? For girls, the most-used first letter was A, followed by E and M. The least-used first letter was U. For boys, the most-used first l…

Alternative spellings get a terrible reputation. They look ugly, wrong, too treighndee, unnatural, phonetically incorrect, and a wide variety of other unfortunate issues to name nerds and some parents. But today, I’ve gathered some gorgeous alternative spellings to fix all of your qualms with these variations. Classic, striking girl names spelled in cleaner, more sophisticated ways are abundant on this list, and I hope you agree. Feel free to put some of your favorite alternative spellings in th

A man laughed at his friend's baby name idea after saying he likes the name Jackson, but with different spelling and now he's not talking to him.

From the 2010 book Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision by Louis P. Masur: Peter Knobler, a writer for Crawdaddy, got an early listen [to “Born to Run̶…

Early in the 2010s, I published a list of the top debut names per year. In the middle of the 2010s, I published a list of the top one-hit wonder names per year and noted that four names made both l…

New upstart letter shifts are changing the way America spells its baby names, with a bold, assertive, high-Scrabble-value style. X and Z are the new creative “power letters.”

She wants to name the baby 'Arya' but make the spelling about a million times more complicated.

The name Mychal first appeared in the SSA’s baby name data in 1978, when it was suddenly given to nearly five dozen baby boys: 1981: 29 baby boys named Mychal1980: 26 baby boys named Mychal19…

Nameberry's Playground Analysis combines variant spellings to reveal the *real* top baby names of the year – with some big surprises!