Colleen Slagen started building her baby name consultation business, Naming Bebe, after leaving her nursing job in 2022 Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

Baby names don’t just come from family trees anymore. They can come from binge-worthy shows, fandom group chats, and celebrity birth announcements. The main accolade they have in common? “Wait… that’s ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has been influencing music, fashion and cultural trends for over a decade — but could she also have a hand in the names parents choose for their babies? “Taylor Swift is ...

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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 ...

Stick to the classics or carve out a new name entirely? That is the question for 2025 parents to be in the era of influencer baby names. Oh, baby! How do you spell that? We’re babbling about baby ...

New York baby name trends stayed relatively consistent in 2024, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration. Liam was the most popular baby name in New York for the 10th ...

(NEXSTAR) – There were lots of Liams and Olivias born last year — but there were far more in Colorado and Florida than there were in Wisconsin and Wyoming. Liam and Olivia were the two most popular ...