In recent years, out-there, creative or trendy baby names were all the rage — now it seems like the classic, old-fashioned ones are popular again. According to Jennifer Moss, founder and CEO of ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 2011, demographic researchers across America realized something surprising: Census forms had a lot of spots ...

Once again, the most popular names for babies born in the United States are Liam and Olivia—2024 marks the sixth consecutive year both names topped the lists. The second most popular names, Emma and ...

Editor's note: BabyCenter has unveiled the baby names "heading for extinction" in 2026. See the list. Catherine, Jaden, Anne, Phillip, Jamal and Esteban are some of the names that we'll be seeing less ...

You may recognize 2024’s 20 most popular baby names — nearly all of them have appeared in the rankings before. Liam and Olivia were the most popular baby names in 2024, a position both names have held ...

Picking a baby name is a big decision. So some parents may be dismayed to find out that Gen Z has its own baby name list—ones they think sound like "old lady names." In a TikTok video, creator Kelley ...

Noah and Olivia topped the list of most popular names for babies for 2025 once again, with Liam and Oliver following closely behind in popularity for boys and Amelia and Sophie for girls, new data by ...

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A new study dove into the most popular pet names of 2025, and in the cat world, one name remained on top for a second consecutive year. TrustedHousesitters, a pet-sitting platform, gathered data from ...

Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study ...