The Baby Names Blog

1 written pieces on how the naming data actually behaves — what the rankings show, what they leave out, and how to read them when you are choosing.

How to Choose a Baby Name

Most name advice is someone else's taste dressed up as a rule. The useful part is narrower than that: a handful of questions worth answering before you commit, and a clear-eyed reading of what popularity data can and cannot tell you.

Looking for the numbers instead?

Every claim made here comes from the same official birth registration data the rest of the site is built from. Start with the yearly rankings for one place, or the trend reports for what has moved across all of them.