Baby Name Trends

Six or seven years ago, before I retired from the newspaper racket, I wrote a feature piece on baby-naming trends in America ... the most popular boys’ names were, in order: James, Robert, John, William, Richard, David, Charles, Thomas, Michael and ...  

The names chosen by the celebrities for their children become the trend for the crowd to follow. As long as the parent is a celebrity, it follows suit for the baby as well. "Celebrity parents have a huge influence on baby name trends. As long as the names ...  

Name ... long after baby is born. Many of the tips that you learn in event planning courses will serve more than one purpose, e.g., increasing the feeling of community at an event and serving as a reminder of the event afterwards. These trends are just ...  

even if it is one of the hottest craft trends in the country. Nor am I going to name any of my future children Blue or Zuma. It has been a week in pop culture, from crafts to the Social Security Administration’s list of most popular baby names for 2011.  

Baby names in 2012 promise revolutionary new directions in the continuing and escalating search for meaning coupled with originality. That can be a hard bill to fill when it comes to baby names, pushing parents in 2012 to look to some fresh sources and ...  

Naming your baby can be stressful. Pressure to name children after family members, considering future bullying in school and not knowing what will suit your unborn baby makes choosing a name hard – how do you know Harry will suit him when you don’t yet ...  

WASHINGTON - May 14, 2012 (WPVI) -- Sophia is the new most popular baby name for girls, while Jacob is the top name for boys for the 13th straight year in a new list of popular baby names heavily influenced by religion and reality TV. Isabella, which had ...  

Americans get baby names from a lot of places -- religion, relatives and popular culture, said Laura Wattenberg, creator of the website, babynamewizard.com. She likened baby naming trends to "a fossil record of our culture." "It shows what we're ...  

Evan, Elizabeth, Rachel, Abigail and John all have something in common. They were born this spring at Fletcher Allen hospital in Burlington, Vt. Around the same time, a group of babies named Paislee, Liberty, Rykan and Scottlynn were all born in ...  

... of Aiden and similar-sounding boys' names appears to have more staying power than past male-name trends. More than a third of American baby boys now get names that end in N, making boys' names ending in N as common as girls' names ending in A.  

This may be the South, but Hollywood and the U.K. still hold sway in Georgia, according to the Social Security Administration. The state's top baby names for 2011 show a holdout from a long-gone sitcom and signs of a British invasion. Georgia ...  

An official list of the nation's top 10 baby names for 2011 is out from the Social Security Administration, and the following names did not make the cut: Bear Blu, Moroccan and Zuzu. Those celebrity-offspring names likely will remain one-of-a ...  

WASHINGTON -- Reality TV is giving birth to some of the most popular baby names. No, not Snooki. But Mason, as in Kourtney Kardashian's son, jumped 10 spots to become the second-most-popular name for newborn boys in 2011. The more traditional ...  

WASHINGTON — Reality TV is giving birth to some of the most popular baby names. No, not Snooki. But Mason, as in Kourtney Kardashian's son, jumped 10 spots to become the second most popular name for newborn boys in 2011. The more traditional ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sophia is the new most popular baby name for girls, while Jacob is the top name for boys for the 13th straight year in a new list of popular baby names in the U.S. heavily influenced by religion and reality TV. Isabella ...