Browse our analysis articles on baby names.
Olivia Munn announced her daughter Méi June via surrogate. Reddit called it clumsy. The name actually does the inheritance work Munn's body could not.
Shōgun took 18 Emmys and held the line on Japanese surname-first order in subtitles. English-language coverage flipped it within hours of the wins. The history is older than this.
James Earl Jones died on September 9. The names he carried — Mufasa, Vader, Kunta Kinte — were never neutral. They were vessels for a specific gravitas.
Charli XCX's lime green album turned a spelling variant into a cultural unit of measure. The naming consequences will show up in next May's SSA release.
Paris 2024 turned the redemption arc into the dominant athletic story. Now naming data is following Simone Biles, Sha'Carri Richardson, and the second-act curve.