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Alternative Baby Names—Which Do You Like Better?
So this week, we’ve been spending time with an adorable girl named Charlie—but her formal name is Charlene, not the more popular Charlotte. (Charlene feels a little more unexpected, right?) So I...
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Baby Name Dilemma: A Great Name for Baby #3!
Reader Lindsay is having a tricky time finding a name for her third baby. I am in need of some assistance naming our baby boy (making his debut in January). I have a set of 3 year old twins named Noah...
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Throwback Thursday: 1950s Baby Names
It’s time to take the baby name time machine back to the era of poodle skirts and young Elvis. And while the baby name Elvis reached its peak back in 1957 (it was #312 then), the most popular names...
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Cool Name of the Week: Delphine
Anyone else watching this season of American Horror Story? I’m loving the witchy New Orleans crew, and I’m intrigued by the fact that they actually based one of the characters on a real-life person....
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Bewitching Halloween Baby Names for Girls
This really must be the season of the witch—there’s two great witchy new shows, The Witches of East End and American Horror Story: Coven—and now there’s even talk of a Charmed reboot. The cool thing is...
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Throwback Thursdays: 1890s Baby Names
This week, we’re taking Throwback Thursday way, way back in time, to the 1890s. We may no longer wear our hair up and our hemlines way down, but our current fashionable names bear a striking...
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Baby Name Dilemma: A Little Brother for Myles and Claire
It seems like finding a good name for the third child is a challenge for some readers—last month we helped Lindsay come up with a name for her third baby, and now Melissa’s having a hard time finding...
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Throwback Thursday: 1970s Baby Names
Were the 1970s long enough ago that the top names of the era deserve another look? Top girls’ names like Jennifer and Lisa may be a little too overdone to make a comeback now—and top boys’ names like...
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A New Parents.com Baby: Welcome Sophia Devora
We get pretty jazzed when someone from Parents.com welcomes a new baby into his or her family. And this week, we were thrilled to help Parents.com executive editor Michael Kress and his wife,...
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The Rise (And Fall?) of Celebrity Name Miley
It’s often hard to predict which pop culture names will inspire parents to choose them. I would have thought that Barack might have cracked the top 1000 after our 44th president, but no such luck. Only...
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Cool Name of the Week: Miles
You just need to say the words “Bat Kid” to me this week to bring me to tears. Just trying to explain it to my husband left me bawling, and I managed to even get him to tear up just by showing him some...
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Throwback Thursday: 1880s Baby Names
Today we’re heading back in time to the 1880s, the earliest time when we have actual statistics on the top baby names. Back then, we stuck with the basics—John and Mary dominated the charts. As we...
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Celebrity Baby Names: Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Baby Girl
It’s a girl for Jennifer Love Hewitt and her new husband, Brian Hallisay. And the pair gave their brand new daughter a perfectly apropos name for the season—Autumn James. Autumn is the most popular of...
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Frozen Baby Names
Disney’s latest princess tale comes courtesy of Hans Christian Andersen’s legendary tale, The Snow Queen. While they took quite a few liberties with the tale (no talking snowmen, from what I...
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Throwback Thursday: 1900s Baby Names
Today’s Throwback Thursday heads back to the turn of the 20th century, when many of the old-fashioned names that we’re loving now were in vogue. For girls, that meant names like Lillian, Grace, Rose...
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Baby Name Dilemma: An “R” Girls’ Name
Reader Kristin is already starting to line up baby names for a future daughter. Here’s her dilemma: We have a daughter Anna Reese, who we call Reese. We are planning to try again very soon and don’t...
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What’s the Coolest Name of the Year?
I picked 51 cool names of the week this year—everything from Dixon to Delphine. And some of the most talked-about names—like Holly Madison’s hippie Rainbow Aurora and the totally directional...
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Throwback Thursday: 1960s Baby Names
You might think hippie names like Rainbow and Sunshine were all the rage in the 1960s, but when it comes to the decade’s monikers, the old standards topped the charts. Michael and Lisa reigned for the...
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Downton Abbey Baby Names for Girls
On paper, Downton Abbey should be a must watch for me—so I don’t know why I’m coming so late to the game. British + Maggie Smith + drama + history = perfect show in my book. Plus, as a name nerd,...
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Throwback Thursday: 1940s Baby Names
The 1940s saw us enter—and win—a world war, then soldiers came home to start the biggest baby boom in U.S. history. The top names of the era are likely the names of your parents or your grandparents....
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