Nope, nothing. You could be excused for thinking otherwise, given headlines like these: “Baby Name Karen Falling in Popularity” — Fox News “No surprises there! Popularity of the name ‘Karen’ drops to its lowest since the 1930s” — Daily Mail “The Baby Name ‘Donald’ Continues To Decline In Popularity” — […]
Every year, new baby names arrive on the style scene. That means that every year, old baby names depart. It’s time to give the outgoing names their due. 21 names that had been staples of the US top-1000 popularity lists for over 30 years departed in 2019. A few of […]
The two biggest baby name stories of 2019 were more about substance than style. The top hitmakers—the late hip-hop artist Nipsey Hussle and the film The Hate U Give—made their marks across names as varied as Kross and Sekani, Ermias and Seven. In the process, they helped define a cultural […]
Who needs consonants? I can get you a six-letter, three-syllable name with just a single L—and you’ll love it. The baby name stats say so. This year’s fast-rising girls’ names prove that the age of “liquid names” is far from over. Half of the top 12 hottest names of the […]
Some baby names are from another country. These baby names are another country. And now we’ve put them on the map. 29 different country names were represented in last year’s U.S. baby name stats. A few are classic, familiar baby names that we may not even think of as geographic […]
It turns out that there is something all of America agrees on. We agree on girls’ names, more or less. The national #1 name, Olivia, ranks among the top 5 girls’ names in all 50 states. In fact, just 14 different names account for the full girls’ top 5 in […]
Introducing the brand-new ranking of the most popular baby names in the USA: BOYS GIRLS 1 Liam Olivia 2 Noah Emma 3 Oliver Ava 4 William Sophia 5 Elijah Isabella 6 James Charlotte 7 Benjamin Amelia 8 Lucas Mia 9 Mason Harper 10 Ethan Evelyn For the first time […]
Names are part of the culture of our times and our world—sometimes in surprising ways. For each of these pairs of name events and world events, can you guess which came first?
Britain’s Office for National Statistics has announced the most popular baby names in England and Wales for 2019. The #1 names are unchanged: Oliver and Olivia continue their joint reign as a matching set. The biggest development at the top of the charts is about name endings. The top 7 […]
Hurricanes have human names, and so I write about them. Over the past 15 years I’ve written about various storms and the baby name trends that followed. But now, for the first time, I truly understand the emotional impact of sharing a name with a storm. Hurricane Laura—Hurricane Me—is on […]
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