Baby Name
Olivia and Liam Are the Top Baby Names for a Sixth Straight Year America has been cranking out kids named Olivia and Liam for the better part of a decade now . . . The Social Security Administration released its annual baby names list for Mother’s Day. And for a sixth straight year, Olivia […]
Some parents spend MONTHS deliberating potential baby names. Others pull a name out of thin air the moment the baby arrives. But no matter how it happens, a chunk of parents want a RE-DO. In a new survey, 9% of mothers admit that they’ve regretted the name they gave their child. And 10% say their […]
A woman is standing firm in her decision to give her baby a traditional family name, Oisín, despite her sister-in-law using the same name for her child. The woman’s husband’s Irish heritage inspired the naming choice, and they had agreed on the name long before the sister-in-law’s pregnancy. Despite the sister-in-law’s objections, the woman went […]
This is helpful if you’re having a baby and AREN’T doing a gender reveal . . . A site called “Parenting by Number” poured through stats to find the most ANDROGYNOUS baby names that work for a boy OR a girl. Here’s their Top 10, which has had a pretty even split in recent years. […]
If these names sounds familiar, they should . . . The Social Security Administration released its annual list of the most popular baby names in the U.S. . . . and the top two AGAIN this year are Olivia and Liam. Olivia has been the top girls’ name five years running, and Liam has topped […]
Could your “normal” name be going EXTINCT? BabyCenter.com looked at names we think of as normal that are becoming much less common. Baby name trends always ebb and flow, so maybe they’ll be trendy again. But here are a few names that are plummeting in the rankings right now . . . 1. Brooke was […]
A baby website called My1stYears.com took 400 of the most popular baby names in the U.S., and had a linguistics expert whittle it down to the top 50 for boys and girls. But they didn’t rank them yet. To do that, they used data from a study in 2018 that looked at which types […]
Do you know the name your parents wanted to name you instead of the one you have? We’re sure it wasn’t “Buza”! A couple were having marital troubles when it came to naming their unborn child. The father is a traditional dude, with traditional values. He wanted the baby to have a name with a […]