baby names

According to recent studies that have been done, I'm not alone in going with names that are older.

Picking a name for a baby can be tough, so maybe this study will help.

Parents on an eternal quest to give their little ones unique names are increasingly turning to celebrity monikers for inspiration. And it’s not the first time.

The Social Security Administration has come out with its annual list of the most popular baby names, and for the 13th straight year Jacob was the number one name for a boy. This is part of a broader trend toward names from the Old Testament (or possibly ‘Twilight‘), with Noah snagging the fifth spot and Elijah and Joshua at 13 and 14.

There are fans and then there are super fans. San Antonio couple John Paul and Crystal Dennison would appear to fall into the latter category, as the new parents have named their identical, newborn twin sons Tony Parker and Tim Duncan after the San Antonio Spurs’ superstars.

There was some confusion over what Beyonce and Jay-Z named their little bundle of joy, but in the end the couple went with the celebrity staple of choosing a non-traditional moniker, in this case calling her Blue Ivy Carter. In that spirit, we thought it’d be a good idea to suggest some potential baby names for celebrities to use when they welcome their own little Blue Ivy or Apple or whoever into

An Israeli couple recently named their newborn daughter "Like," as in, the button you press when you enjoy a post on the popular social media site Facebook. This is how the girl's father, Lior Adler, explained the name to the German press agency dpa: "If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today is one of the most famous icons in the world...