Name Nerds Blog

 Here are some names to watch out for in the future! The names on this list had the largest increases in popularity from 2024 to 2025. Xalor...

The Social Security Administration released its list of the top baby names of 2025, and I have grouped them by spelling. Sophia is #1 again ...

 Recently I found a dataset (and you know how much I LOVE datasets!) from the UK Office of Statistics that details the top 100 baby names i...

 Happy Presidents' Day!  Presidential names have always been popular in the USA. According to the Social Security Name Database , In 202...

 Not every name has staying power. You probably know very few toddlers named Eustace or Irwin today, but there are still a few getting named...

 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was much more common to give children names that sound more like nicknames to us today. Many ...

In previous eras, girls' names ending in -ie were not unusual. Currently, and throughout the second half of the 20th century, it was mor...

 Are you looking for a name that is rare, but not unheard of? These are names that have gone extinct. That is, these names haven't appea...

 Do you want a name for your baby that has gone completely extinct? How about Myrtis? The youngest Myrtises are going to be 39 this year, an...

 Here are the changes in name popularity from 2023 to 2024 . The first sheet has the changes from names in 2023 to 2024. These are grouped b...