Expert guides, trends, and data-driven analysis on baby and pet names.
Ben Rice leads MLB with a 1.214 OPS in May 2026. His name tells its own story: Ben as a standalone has climbed from rank 286 to 134 in the SSA data over 15 years.
Eurovision 2026 is in Vienna. The city that produced Mozart, Empress Sissi, and the waltz is also a naming archive of elegant, underused names overdue for revival.
38% of top-100 dog names are also top-200 baby names. Henry, Oliver, Lucy — they work for both. Here's what the crossover data tells us about how we see our pets now.
Eurovision 2026 in Vienna brought 35 countries and a few genuinely great baby names. Ivy ranks the most name-worthy contestants for American parents considering their options.
Finnish names are short, vowel-clean, and almost impossible to mangle in English. Eurovision 2026 spotlight or not, here are the best Finnish baby names to know.
Fernando Mendoza is the first QB with a Spanish first name taken #1 overall in NFL Draft history. Our SSA data says the name is about to have a very good decade.
Nevaeh peaked at rank 25 in 2010. Klarity is 2025's fastest-rising invented spelling. What phonetic creativity tells us about who names are really for.
Dark academia and cottagecore aesthetics are powering an Old English naming revival. Edith has jumped 87 spots since 2015. Here are the names leading the charge.
Exotic pet owners name their animals with 2.4x more naming entropy than dog owners. Rabbits, ferrets, and parrots reveal something real about creative naming in 2026.
Mary ranked #1 for 66 years. Nora is at rank 22. Eve never left. What the names society codes as "maternal" reveal about how we want motherhood to look.
Mother's Day is the perfect time to think about naming traditions. Here's how to honor your mother's name — modernized variants, sound-shares, translations, and more.