Expert guides, trends, and data-driven analysis on baby names.
Mortimer is funny because it sounds upper-class. Brayden is funny because it sounds otherwise. Comedy naming exploits the same machinery that makes baby naming dangerous.
A is for dominant. K is for climbing. Q is barely hanging on. Here's the full letter-by-letter breakdown of what's trending in baby names right now.
One of you loves it. The other hates it. Welcome to one of the most universal pregnancy arguments. Here's how to get to yes without losing the relationship.
Netflix's Adolescence puts 13-year-old Jamie at the center of a fictional school murder. The show isn't killing the name. It is making the stewardship job harder.
That sinking feeling after you've announced the name — is it regret, or just new-parent nerves? Here's how to tell the difference, and what to do next.
Madison and Mason are coming back. Britney and Tiffany are not. Millennial nostalgia rewrites which 1990s names are safe to revive.
Margot, Beatrice, Adelaide: the quiet-luxury wave has hit saturation. Lieberson's pendulum is about to swing back toward unpolished.
Mikey Madison's Oscar win for Anora extends the androgynous-feminine naming pattern that was supposed to fade after 2015. The cycle has more legs than predicted.
Pope Francis is hospitalized. American Catholic-coded names have grown faster than evangelical names through the 2010s and 2020s. The names work without the practice.
City-specific Super Bowl naming spikes are real but understudied. Philadelphia's 2025 boys will register Saquon and Jalen. The math has rules.
Blue Ivy, North, Stormi, Apple, and the celebrity-baby cohort are growing up. The data shows their names aging better than predicted.
Sundance breakthrough actors predict SSA shifts two to four years out. The 2025 cohort signals which names will rise through 2027.