(NEXSTAR) – Sorry, Harry, Danielle, Ezra, and Alivia, you just aren’t that popular anymore – at least when it comes to baby names, that is. These names are ...

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 ...

America’s most-popular cat names for 2025 have been revealed. Cat names matter, not least to the cats themselves. In 2019, a study published in Scientific Reports found cats were even capable of ...

The American Kennel Club released its annual list of the most popular dog names, which continues the canines registered with the organization Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

You may start hearing the name Karen a lot less — but not because fewer irate women are demanding to “speak to the manager.” The maligned moniker is among 10 baby names that have seen a significant ...

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 ...

For most people, introductions are a fleeting formality, an exchange of names accomplished in seconds. However, for Laurence Watkins, this simple task becomes an extraordinary feat of endurance. To ...

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 ...