Naming your baby isn’t exactly child’s play anymore. As the world prepares to welcome Gen Beta in 2025, the competition to give newborns names that set them apart — or even put them on the path to become billionaires — is hotter than ever, driving some anxious parents to hire pricey consultants to make sure they get … Read more
Picking the right baby name isn’t child’s play — and for one consultant there are many monikers that give her the “ick.” Colleen Slagen, a baby naming expert and mom-of-three, boldly dished on the naming conventions she finds cringy in a recent TikTok video that has drummed up debate online. To start, she decried sibling … Read more
Reading glasses, graying whiskers and male-pattern baldness — it’s the elderly vibe expecting parents want for their incoming little ladies. Old man monikers are all the rage amongst pregnant mommies and daddies gearing up to welcome daughters in 2025, thanks to the “My Best Friend’s Dad” baby naming trend. “I think we’ll start seeing more traditional … Read more
What’s in a name? A couple billion bucks — if you choose wisely. Brayden, Cayden and Jayden are today’s cool kids’ names for boys, for sure. But when it comes to attracting capital, kicking it old-school is the name of the game, according to a new study on billionaire baby names. Old-fashioned, biblical names are … Read more
Get ready for the Beta babies. Gen Alpha refers to babies born between 2010 and 2024 but, from the beginning of next year, tots welcomed into the world will be members of Gen Beta. Like each generation that came before them, Betas will have their own set of unique styles and behaviors. They’ll also have … Read more
What’s old is new again. Names once considered antiquated now have a shiny new allure, and one baby name expert predicts that some of the trendiest monikers next year will be old-fashioned favorites, such as Maple or Poppy. “Think Goldie, Birdie, Elsie, and Nelly,” Laura Wattenberg, the founder of Namerology, told Today. “It’s that throwback sound, … Read more
A woman called Marijuana Pepsi from birth says she’ll never change her name – even though she doesn’t smoke weed, or drink fizzy drinks or alcohol. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, 52, was given her name by her mom – who said the name would ‘take her around the world’ due to its originality. Growing up, Marijuana … Read more
A couple wanting to name their baby after an ancient king had the name rejected by a Brazilian court over fears their son would be bullied. Catarina and Danillo Prímola, from the city of Belo Horizonte, wanted to name their newborn son Piyé after the first black Egyptian pharaoh, who laid the foundations for the … Read more
A day care worker has shared a child’s name that she says is so bad, the girl’s grandma won’t use it. Posting in a Facebook group, she writes about her workplace: “Honestly most the kids had pretty normal names,” but then notes a name that is literally and metaphorically a crime. “Was the mom binging Breaking Bad?” The carer explains, “The grandma … Read more
It’s a … mistake! A new study conducted by BabyCenter revealed that nearly one in 10 parents say they wish they had chosen a different name for their child. Out of the 450 respondents, one mom revealed on the parenting site that she has “major regret” naming her daughter Cleo. The survey shows 1 in … Read more
Are these names very mindful and cutesy? In the wake of the “demure” trend taking over social media popularized by TikTokker Jools LeBron, parents are taking the fad one step further. They’re naming their newborns “Demure.” One new mom posted a TikTok video featuring her baby girl earlier this month, revealing that she had been named … Read more
A mom is having major regrets after confessing to her adult daughter the uninspiring inspiration behind her unusual first name. “I feel like I made bad choices because I just told my daughter how we came up with her name, and now she hates me,” the woman says on the Tragedeigh Reddit thread. “When I was 22, her dad … Read more
I’m a Gen X (1976!) so if you are too, this writer is empathetic to the shock of realizing we’re middle-aged. I’ll admit, though, that having an ethnic name always excludes it from appearing in lists like these, and that is some (cold) comfort at this stage of the game. Read on to see if your parents … Read more
What’s in a name? A few hundred bucks, if you’re an increasingly in-demand baby name consultant. Couples are no longer naming their precious offspring after loved ones, or casually flipping through books for inspiration. Instead, moms and dads who want to give their children any edge they can in an increasingly competitive world are paying … Read more
AI is taking over everything, from robocalls to baby names. A baby name expert revealed that parents are picking names ending in “ai” — but not for the reasons you think. Sophie Kihm, the editor-in-chief at Nameberry, which claims to be the world’s largest website devoted to baby names, recently shared the baby name trends … Read more
New Yorkers with newborns want to be part of that world. Parents from the Big Apple and beyond are taking deep dives “Under the Sea” for baby-name inspiration, popularly crowing their little ones “Ariel” — after the principal princess in the 1989 classic “The Little Mermaid” — per a June 2024 report. The study, commissioned … Read more
People are whining about the baby names they’ve supposedly claimed before they’re even expecting children — and their friends are over it. An unnamed future dad complained about the phenomenon in a Reddit thread sharing his experience. An unnamed man unloaded about his experience on Reddit. Getty Images/iStockphoto He claimed that his pregnant wife posted … Read more
A woman who refused to change her four-month-old baby’s name after a request from her sister-in-law was not wrong to hold her ground, said Reddit users in response to a social media post — and an expert told Fox News Digital that the sister-in-law was not entirely out of line for asking, either. “AITA for … Read more
They’ll be no singing “Happy Birthday” to little Myrtle any time soon. The once-buzzy baby name — along with Al, Bess, Cathy, Vern, Wally and more — is in the top 23 newborn names on the verge of virtual extinction. A foul fall from grace, the run-of-the-mill monikers were the bees knees during the Baby … Read more
Every parent wants the world to know how precious and unique their child is, and some of them turn to names to help. However, not all names are born equal, with some inadvertently backfiring as the child grows up. The same could be said for *Casey’s family friends, who decided to take an unusual (yet … Read more